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ARCHIVED DEMOTIVATION
WEDNESDAY, 30 DECEMBER 1992
Parenting is ten percent love
and ninety percent asking where the other shoe is. Then they leave and take both.
— Zack, unqualified
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PREVIOUSLY, ON YOUR DECLINE
- Skipping your daily coffee won't buy you a house. Nothing will. Have the coffee.
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- Someone laminated an "Acceptable Behaviour" poster for the office kitchen. It will still be…
- You're ageing like a fine wine. Expensive, slightly sour, best kept in the dark,…
- Every relationship has a honeymoon period. Yours was the walk from the bar to…
- They're taking time away from social media. You know because they posted about it…
- Ghostlighting is when someone disappears for eight weeks and comes back with "you've been…
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