Both girls are haughty and disdainful and insult their moms constantly ("nerd," "loser," "your hair smells like hamburger").
Dear [weight] loser, your life isn't better because you lost weight.
But if you find him constantly talking about what a loser your friend Jake is or asking you why you're even friends with a weirdo like Steve, then this is his way of saying he wished you were spending time with him instead.
Instead of having to hunt through websites and news feeds, Robinhood's cards display breaking financial news, the S&P 500 top gainers and losers, your portfolio's top gainers and losers, and updates about your bank transfers, scheduled and paid dividends, and orders.
Cheerfully," etc. Two weeks later, an envelope arrived, cream-colored with a gold-embossed "TRUMP" logo and, inside, my letter, returned, with a neatly written message from Trump in thick black uppercase letters: "MARK — YOU ARE A TOTAL LOSER — AND YOUR BOOK (AND WRITINGS) SUCKS!
"Ignore the losers, bring your A-game, your determination and your drive to the field and success will follow you," advised the budding management guru in his slight Russian accent.
How difficult to keep playing as if lions awaited the loser while your teammates longed for the buzzer.
Also, framed and hanging in my bedroom is a hand-scrawled message from Trump in which he informed me, "Mark — You are a total loser — and your book (and writings) sucks!
And, of course, the existential lamentations over what it means to be a Mets fan: a loser at your very core, someone who wears his team's inevitable, bumbling failures as a badge of honor in a last-ditch attempt at wielding control over a relationship that is, ultimately, cruel and capricious.
The message is to forget the state (unless you are a loser); resent your neighbour (he is probably a high earner masquerading as a low earner, to get that social flat you're subsidising with your taxes); and trust the market (where prices are created elegantly, neutrally, perfectly, like physics).
Being told you're a loser by your culture is a blow, whether it is true or not.
