As a longtime professional exaggerator, I have to laugh how flatschmucks try so hard to make their humdrum feel special in a way that just saps language of real highs and lows. Something unusual? "Insane!" Something good? "Amaaazing!" Something relatively common? "Iconic!" Busy place? "Vibrant!"

It's all those things "designed" for children by injecting bright clashing colors, as if that'll be enough to hide the cheap truth.

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