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TUESDAY, 29 SEPTEMBER 2009
Your gym membership is the most expensive guilt you've ever bought.
It renews automatically. So does the guilt.
— Zack, unqualified
VERIFIEDUNHELPFUL
PREVIOUSLY, ON YOUR DECLINE
- Remember when you stayed up late on purpose? Now you're up at 3am because…
- You're "chronically online". Chronic means long-term. You've been online so long your eyes have…
- Wildflowering means letting the relationship grow naturally, with no timeline. It has the growth…
- Hard work pays off eventually. It's paying off right now. Your boss just bought…
- You call it "quiet quitting". Your manager calls it "the same as before". Nobody…
- You've rewritten that text nine times to sound like you didn't care. It's been…
- You reinstalled Pokémon Go to get your steps up. Eleven kilometres later you'd caught…
THE CALENDAR OF DESPAIR
Newsletter / Issue No. 445
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