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TUESDAY, 17 MARCH 2009
2026 is the new 2016. Your knees did not get the memo. Your knees are getting different memos now, mostly from a specialist.
— Zack, unqualified
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PREVIOUSLY, ON YOUR DECLINE
- Your desk plant is the only thing in the office still growing. When you…
- Some meetings could have been an email. You'll spend four years of your one…
- Your resting heart rate is excellent. It's had nothing else to do.
- Every parent has a favourite child. It's whichever one isn't currently talking.
- Every subscription you forgot about still thinks of you monthly. That's more than your…
- Your startup is an app that replaces a phone call. With a waitlist, a…
- You swore you'd never sound like your parents. You just said "because I said…
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