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ARCHIVED DEMOTIVATION
TUESDAY, 18 OCTOBER 1988
Parenthood is a long journey
from "mama" to "can you send money" to them choosing your care home.
— Zack, unqualified
VERIFIEDUNHELPFUL
PREVIOUSLY, ON YOUR DECLINE
- You negotiated your broadband bill down by $3 a month. The call took 94…
- The in-office lunch is optional. The man with the clipboard and no sandwich is…
- Love yourself first. Someone has to, and nobody else applied.
- You've rewritten that text nine times to sound like you didn't care. It's been…
- Your inbox reached zero once. The server was down. You were briefly free and…
- "We should get dinner sometime" is a beautiful promise. One of you will die…
- Growing old is mandatory. Growing up was optional. You ticked "later". This is later.…
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Newsletter / Issue No. 446
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