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THURSDAY, 7 JULY 2005
Being a parent means eating cold crusts standing up and calling it dinner.
You'll eat standing up for eighteen years. Then sit down and forget how.
— Zack, unqualified
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PREVIOUSLY, ON YOUR DECLINE
- Your gym membership is the most expensive guilt you've ever bought. It renews automatically.…
- Your chatbot calls every one of your ideas "a really insightful question". Zack has…
- You "romanticise studying". You've filmed it, lit it and soundtracked it. You haven't studied.
- "It's only Monday" is the most threatening sentence in English. It will be only…
- The light at the end of the tunnel is someone asking, "Can you see…
- Everything happens for a reason. The reason is you. It's always been you.
- You call it "quiet quitting". Your manager calls it "the same as before". Nobody…
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