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To think that people who call themselves "quirky", "kooky" or "random" should fuck off?

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Namechangingchameleon · 13/04/2016 22:46

Add to that people with "eclectic" music tastes.

Fuckers, all of them.

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NeedACleverNN · 13/04/2016 22:47

What about hipsters?

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SmilingHappyBeaver · 13/04/2016 22:48

YANBU. Along with people who tell you "I'm mad me!" and yet they are always really, really dull.

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SquidgeyMidgey · 13/04/2016 22:48

YANBU at all. Calling yourself that is middle-aged attention seeking in my experience.

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NeedACleverNN · 13/04/2016 22:48

Or beatniks?!

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AnotherEffingOrangeRevel · 13/04/2016 22:49

Yup. Zany fuckers, often with stupidly high maintenance hairstyles.
YANBU.

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soapboxqueen · 13/04/2016 22:51

YANBU include people who call themselves 'crazy' or 'wild'

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Buxtonstill · 13/04/2016 22:52

Add to that, adults who refer to themselves or others as 'cool' or dudes. Or address a group of people as 'hey guys'
Cockwombles.

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tabulahrasa · 13/04/2016 22:52

Is that people who have eclectic music tastes, or people who tell you they have?

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SquidgeyMidgey · 13/04/2016 22:55

Normal people just say they like a bit of everything. Only the attention seeking fuck boring cockwombles say it's eclectic.

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Itinerary · 13/04/2016 22:55

YABU. I find it more annoying when people describe themselves in pretentious terms, name-dropping and so on. A bit of quirkiness doesn't bother me at all.

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Namechangingchameleon · 13/04/2016 22:55

People who tell me their music tastes are eclectic. When I was OLD 4 years ago (married now) it was all over the place. Usually the men that said it looked like they needed a good wash.

All the above examples are also valid! Attention seeking fucks. They'll also post all profound bollocks on Facebook non stop and proclaim themselves vegan (nothing wrong with full on vegans) and be munching a bacon sandwich within a week.

Twats, it's narcissistic bollocks!

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GooseberryRoolz · 13/04/2016 22:56

Confused

TAAT?

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Canyouforgiveher · 13/04/2016 22:57

And for those of us in the US add "maverick" Mind you I'd love to hear someone say "I'm mavericky me!"

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sooperdooper · 13/04/2016 22:57

Yanbu, dull fuckwits the lot of them, usually spotted wearing a jester hat at a festival because they're so 'wacky'

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MadamDeathstare · 13/04/2016 22:58

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Namechangingchameleon · 13/04/2016 22:58

Real quirkiness doesn't bother me at all itinerary everyone is a little quirky sometimes I suppose!

But if you go round proclaiming it as your entire personality then you're a twat!

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Elledouble · 13/04/2016 22:59

Oh god yes. Wearing anything with a moustache print, saying words at random ("badger! Ooh I'm mad, me!"), buying shit made out of cassettes or vinyl records. Fuck. Right. Off.

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Namechangingchameleon · 13/04/2016 23:00

Not a TAAT gooseberry based on a rant I had with a friend today about these types.

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MrsTerryPratchett · 13/04/2016 23:06

The wonderful MrTerryPratchett said, "I would like it to be clearly understood that this book is not wacky. Only dumb redheads in fifties' sitcoms are wacky. No, it's not zany, either." Add those two.

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QueenArseClangers · 13/04/2016 23:33

I hate all that shite.

Also, why is 'bubbly' just a polite way of saying 'a bit fat but smiles' Confused

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Andylion · 13/04/2016 23:34

Years ago I had a friend who painted the floor of her new house pink. She made a great fuss about telling everyone that she had done this. "I know, a pink floor. I'm just crazy that way." It was then that I realised that she was an attention seeker. We are no longer friends.

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SuburbanRhonda · 13/04/2016 23:36

I don't think I've ever met anyone who describes themself as any of those things. Is it an internet dating thing?

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EverySongbirdSays · 13/04/2016 23:41

I have a wide-ranging taste in music and I believe the correct description for that is eclectic ( ie I own current chart pop, rap country, rock, alternative, sixties, fifties, seventies, soundtracks,opera, classical and more) but it's too often misused by people (hipster cunts) who in fact have a niche taste based on what the NME has told them to like.

All your other points YANBU and YANBU for misuse of eclectic

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Newmamatobe · 13/04/2016 23:44

If MN had a "like" button I would for sure select this thread :)

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FasterThanASnakeAndAMongoose · 13/04/2016 23:46

People who describe themselves as random. As adjectives go, I think it should be a capital offence to describe anything animate as random.

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