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Jul 4, 2023Β·edited Jul 4, 2023Liked by Bel Hawkins

My friends and I once rearranged the pictures at an Airbnb because it was annoying me that the 'Beach' sign with the arrow was NOT pointing towards the beach.

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Jul 4, 2023Liked by Bel Hawkins

I work with teenagers and just want to contribute that one of them recently has been staying with deadpan perfection in response to dire disruptions β€œlive laugh love this for us.” All live laugh love signs are now ironically hilarious by association, and I want to buy one and put it somewhere with grim vibes.

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Love laugh love content: https://youtube.com/shorts/diJR5x3l0Og?feature=share

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The preview picture in my notification bar of Magee eating that sausage was practically NSFW πŸ’€

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Have you ever listened to the podcast Maintenance Phase? They go deep on like history and effects of health fads, wellness trends etc and it's really really interesting. It makes me think about these newer trends a lot more than I used to! Bc looking back it's easy to be like 'oh yeah obviously x diet is terrible' but when you're living through it it's not always as clear

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About the France thing, I talked about it with my grandpa and he said the police shot Nahel because they stopped him and he drove away and the law permits police to shoot people if they do that? I still think the whole thing is fucked up but I think the context kind of gives the situation more layers? I guess? Still, i might be wrong about this, so please correct me if soo :)

Also, i completely agree with today's chime, there's something so awful but at the same time absolutely fascinating about that type of poster and i can't help but take a picture every time I see one.

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Wowee, awesome winner of the podcast! Are they up & running? Will you (have time/opportunity to?) Keep in touch with them? I'd love to hear the podcast xo

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My husband and I love to make jokes about "live laugh love" so now we're in a competition for who comes across a wall decal in the wild and puts it above our bed first. and I am DETERMINED. I thought I found it at the dollar store but nope. Our stipulation for this competition to make each other laugh is that we have to randomly come across it in a store in person and not search it out or order online, so apparently neither of us shop places that sell all these terrible signs hahaha

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I find these food trends on tiktok so interesting, especially how quickly hundreds of people on the app start doing the same thing and making videos about it. Almost makes me feel like there's more to it, that there's some sort of planned effort to do this for certain things? idk I find it so so weird the way people react to some of these trends

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