Parsnips, Buttered: How to baffle, bamboozle and boycott your way through modern life

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Life is hard. We are a bombarded generation: Facebook, billboards, Twitter, Instagram, taxes, newspapers, watches monitoring our sleep, apps that read our pulse, terrorism. …

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