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DAILY DEMOTIVATION
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ARCHIVED DEMOTIVATION
SATURDAY, 1 FEBRUARY 1997
Parenting is ten percent love
and ninety percent asking where the other shoe is. Then they leave and take both.
— Zack, unqualified
VERIFIEDUNHELPFUL
PREVIOUSLY, ON YOUR DECLINE
- Abs are made in the kitchen. So are toasties. The toasties are undefeated.
- You have 47 tabs open. Three are jobs you'll never apply for, one's a…
- 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…
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