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SUNDAY, 29 SEPTEMBER 1996
Children are a blessing.
They're also why the remote is in the bin and your savings are in the past tense.
— Zack, unqualified
VERIFIEDUNHELPFUL
PREVIOUSLY, ON YOUR DECLINE
- Early access means you paid to watch someone not finish something. You do that…
- Quality family time: everyone on a different screen in the same room, harvested by…
- “Just one more game” of FIFA was the most dishonest sentence in the English…
- Listen to your body. It's asking for a biscuit and a lie-down. It's been…
- You're "chronically online". Chronic means long-term. You've been online so long your eyes have…
- "Let's take this offline" means "let's never speak of this again." That's also the…
- You spent £400 on an ergonomic chair. You sit on it like a frog.…
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