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ARCHIVED DEMOTIVATION
WEDNESDAY, 28 OCTOBER 2009
You said you're "booked and busy".
Booked for a dentist you'll cancel. Busy rewatching a show you've already seen four times.
— Zack, unqualified
VERIFIEDUNHELPFUL
PREVIOUSLY, ON YOUR DECLINE
- No pain, no gain. You chose neither. Your heart has noted it in your…
- Your alarm didn't wake you. The dread did. It doesn't have a snooze button.
- Someone laminated an "Acceptable Behaviour" poster for the office kitchen. It will still be…
- You asked the chatbot if you were a good parent. It said "absolutely" before…
- Your chatbot calls every one of your ideas "a really insightful question". Zack has…
- Every relationship has a honeymoon period. Yours was the walk from the bar to…
- You "don't do small talk". You also don't do big talk, phone calls, emails…
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