Alt: GIF of a woman with a loud-but-delightful shirt on a bad date. She's nodding with her eyebrows raised, her eyes squinting, and her mouth pursed in a pained smile. Seated across from her (his face hidden by the camera angle) is a man talking (inanely and incessantly, one presumes). The caption: "[Screaming Internally]"

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Alt: GIF of a disembodied hand cracking the caramelized top layer of a crème brûlée with a spoon. (I say "disembodied" because only the hand is visible and I wouldn't presume to say whether or not the hand is attached to a whole body.) Note that in the proper spelling of crème brûlée, two of the four e's have accent marks and two do not.

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