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mars 13, 2007

In praise of the slacker-hipsters

Too true: Salon's Cary Tennis wants to know when we lost the troubled slacker as cultural icon.

Give yourself a break, my man. If you are depressed and have a drug problem or have a metabolic imbalance, then that's some serious stuff and you need medical care. But if you simply lack ambition, I take my hat off to you. The world is way too full already of overly ambitious fucks elbowing us out of the way on the streetcar.

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Den lite mer kliche-artade kommentaren är väl: "Life sucks...(in whining tone)"
Join the fucking club! I thought I was gonna be the starting center-fielder for the Boston Red Sox! Life sucks! Get a fucking Helmet!

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