Gen X Nostalgia and Commentary

Here's What's Bugging Me Lately

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Anne Niederkorn
Aug 27, 2025
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  1. The use of the word “girlies”. If you are an influencer, and you start out your sales pitch by saying something like, “Where my gym girlies at?” or “Where my small breasted girlies at?” I will instantly block you for life. Who actually talks like this? Is this relatable? No. Please stop this foolishness.

  2. When a stranger’s long hair touches me. More specifically, let’s say I’m standing in line at the grocery store, and a girl (it’s usually a teenage girl, to be honest) with very long hair is standing a bit too close to me. She then does a big dramatic sweeping hair toss, and those long locks brush right Over. My. Bare. Arm. (Insert image of someone cringing here.)

    The same goes for someone’s hair falling over the back of their airplane seat and into my personal space. It’s usually never nice, clean, well-kempt hair. It’s usually this:

    (I realize this is an aggressively large photo, but I wanted to put you in my shoes as this was my view for most of my flight. It wasn’t pleasant.)

  3. People putting onions on my sandwich/taco/salad.

          p.s. I am very pleased with myself because I made this meme all by myself. 
          p.p.s. Don't you just love Jason Bateman? I wish he was my friend.

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