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

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Add to that people with "eclectic" music tastes.

Fuckers, all of them.

What about hipsters?

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

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

Or beatniks?!

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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!

TAAT?

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

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

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!

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.

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

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.

I hate all that shite.

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

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.

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

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

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

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