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Category: deep thoughts

  • Secondhand Transmission From a Distant World

    Everyone is an alien to someone. I’m in my late 20s. To anyone under the age of 18 today, I’m from a world they have never been to, and never will. A world we call the 1980s. It was inhabited by creatures with big curly hair that listened to cheesy pop music and grazed on…

  • Signing Off

    There is a lot of variety in how people sign off their emails. One that I find particularly hilarious is when someone writes something like “Regards” or “Thanks” or whatever, then a comma, then their name. For example: Hi Mike, You were right, it turns out I forgot to carry a decimal place. Looks like…

  • Love Crime

    You know those atheist bus signs in Toronto? Well it looks like someone has vandalized one of them…sorta. Um. Maybe I’m not fully understanding the author’s intention, but the sign (er, piece of paper) they put on top of the ad really isn’t at odds with the ad. It’s a bit ambiguous, scratching out “prob”…