Category: ENGLISH
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Reels
Lazo got reprimanded for being on Instagram. ‘People are truly productive for about 2-3 hours a day’. ‘How to respond to ghosting’, ’23 ways to retire by 40’. He thought, ‘you should take your supplements consistently or not at all’. Otherwise, remember that your grandfather had none of those pills,…
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Smiths Crisps
In the 1920s, a man named Frank Smith created Salt n’ Shake. To avoid having salt shakers stolen by pub customers, he invented a packet of potato crisps with a tiny salt sachet inside. You can still find them in supermarkets, now made by Walkers. He did not revolutionise manufactured…
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Candlelighter Anna
Sometimes you look at a person in a uniform and think ‘Was this bishop born to be a bishop?’, ‘Did the police life choose him?’. Anna chose the church life once and it’s been choosing her since. The manual work of maintaining a church exempts her from the spiritual grind.…
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A day with Lazo I
Lazo wakes up at 6:45 and skips his morning routine. He was watching the interview of a Japanese animator describing a scene. ‘Droplets lift off the character’s skin and glisten to form a silver ring of scorching hot aura’. His attention span cut right there because the surgical precision of…
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Greek hair salons
Stylists succumb to requests for the same Playmobil hairstyle, even if Jesus won’t tell them apart in church later on.
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“It’s the climate, stupid.”
With or without wind, Greece is the country of couch forestry experts, bribery, unregulated construction, a convoluted land title system, pseudo-academic agronomy, budget cuts to fire services and forest protection, deflective party politics and myopic media coverage.
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Mix 4: Jell-like savior
Running as fast as he can to an exit, stepping on his laces, rushing past a woman his mum knows, tripping on the penultimate step, getting hissed at by a bunch of gypsy kittens. He stops and gives his hot palm to the wall.
Folding Laundry 