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SATURDAY, 24 SEPTEMBER 2016
You call your mum "for advice".
You call her for the Netflix password.
— Zack, unqualified
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PREVIOUSLY, ON YOUR DECLINE
- Your boss hasn't taken a sick day in ten years. He has, however, given…
- Kids grow up so fast. Except between 5pm and bedtime, when time stops and…
- Loud budgeting is telling everyone you can't afford brunch. Quiet budgeting is going anyway,…
- Inside every older person is a younger person. The younger person is furious about…
- The light at the end of the tunnel is someone asking, "Can you see…
- Your startup is a chatbot that tells customers they're right. Investors loved it. The…
- Your inbox reached zero once. The server was down. You were briefly free and…
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