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THURSDAY, 30 JANUARY 1997
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Three are jobs you'll never apply for, one's a recipe you'll never cook, and one is playing music from somewhere you can't find.
— Zack, unqualified
VERIFIEDUNHELPFUL
PREVIOUSLY, ON YOUR DECLINE
- Dating apps let you meet hundreds of people. All of them are "just seeing…
- You "don't do small talk". You also don't do big talk, phone calls, emails…
- True love is choosing the same person every day. They're choosing, daily, whether to…
- You said you'd "touch grass" this weekend. You took a photo of grass, posted…
- It's not a career ladder. It's a hamster wheel. The hamster has a LinkedIn…
- You reinstalled Pokémon Go to get your steps up. Eleven kilometres later you'd caught…
- You're not getting older. You're getting closer. That's worse.
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