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For kids who are reading-challenged, have short attention-span, or who think in fragments of complete thoughts (or maybe those who just use their thumbs to communicate with a phone keypad).
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I got bored reading them (and I'm an avid reader with a pretty good attention-span); it seems like a lot of mental effort to be a scheming, lying, manipulating parasite.
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Increase attention-span and decrease frustration level
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Selma, Alabama - In today's short attention-span world, people have less time to eat meals; hence, fast-food.
Mark C. Miller: Pray Faster: New Drive-Through Church Mark C. Miller 2012
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He is most definitely not camera-shy, but he has the attention-span of a knat.
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Right now, I choose to blame Generation Why (Or Gen Y, or the Echo Boomers, or what the hell ever you want to call people born in the '80s and' 90s), and would like nothing more than to give the whole instant-gratification seeking, peer-oriented lot of them a good attention-span enema.
I'll remember what strawberries tasted like. sovay 2008
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MR: Thank you on behalf of the attention-span challenged.
Mike Ragogna: HuffPost Review : Court Yard Hounds, Plus a Conversation With CYH's Emily Robison & Martie Maguire Mike Ragogna 2010
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MR: Thank you on behalf of the attention-span challenged.
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MR: Thank you on behalf of the attention-span challenged.
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Or how the short life-span of electronics -- not to mention the short attention-span of consumers -- contributes to the City of Dead Computers in some other unseen region of the world.
Aileen Kwun: All-You-Can-Consume Media, One Byte At A Time 2009
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