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ARCHIVED DEMOTIVATION
FRIDAY, 29 MAY 1998
Life is short.
A measurable chunk of it will be spent in the post office queue.
— Zack, unqualified
VERIFIEDUNHELPFUL
PREVIOUSLY, ON YOUR DECLINE
- "It's only Monday" is the most threatening sentence in English. It will be only…
- You received 40 fundraising texts today. Democracy needs $5 by midnight. Every midnight.
- Your friends' group chat went quiet. It didn't. They made a new one. Same…
- Some meetings could have been an email. You'll spend four years of your one…
- Your gym membership is the most expensive guilt you've ever bought. It renews automatically.…
- You said "it's giving" about your own life. It's giving overdraft. It's giving rent…
- You put "entrepreneur" in your bio. You've sold one pair of trainers on Vinted…
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