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.

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Heh, neither of those origins are very complimentary!

Met a social worker once who described himself as one of "the beautiful people". Personally I thought he was a pretentious twat.

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Totes hilaire!
Posting on the wrong thread hun, you're right one!!!

MrsDeVere, the hipster policemen makes me laugh tbh - that the 'alternative' and self-proclaimed non-conformists are being crowd controlled by someone who looks exactly like them!
Not so edgy now eh, hipster twats!

The "alternative" crowd always make me laugh.

There's a pub in town that's ALWAYS been popular with Goths and "alternative" types. I try and avoid as much as possible cos I'm 44 and jaded with pubs because mainly I go in there and laugh at the people who think they're so edgy but they're just the latest generation of the same old crowd who have been going there for at least the last 30 years.

When I did OLD, mostly on OKC, there would be men who would have War-and-Peace length lists of music, films and tv shows they liked. As if defining yourself through cultural references doesn't make you the adult equivalent of the tragic fourteen year old upyourownarse phase we all went through, and most of us got over. See also: asking you what kind of music you like on a first date, and filing you under notcool if you said the wrong thing.

Paxillin !

I'm mystified at people describing themselves as anything really. I agree with someone up thread who said that it's very hard to imagine how other people perceive you. I always think I'm pretty invisible but who knows?

There's a pub in town that's ALWAYS been popular with Goths and "alternative" types.

Same here and I went in it last night for the first time in about 15 years. It was all but empty save a couple of very drunk guys that looked about 13 years old. The pub had undergone a sort of Lloyd Llewelyn Bowen makeover. I think the two are related.

I'm a dreamy, creative type, I simply don't see those mundane tasks= lazy sod, can't be asked to pull their weight pothead

We have the same pub in the town I'm from. Has been the same since the 70s. Full of people who are "individuals" just like all their friends.

Surely thinking you're edgy is the perogative of youth. You can't resent that

No, but you can when the edgy youth is 35!

That would be all of Hoxton and Shoreditch then.

Just remembered something which made me laugh.

My Dad once described me as having a "bohemian lifestyle". I'm a middle aged civil servant.

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Plato already knew who these people where 2400 years ago and called them out for the pretentious artistic fascist they are... Most try and sell their quackery as some sort of deep wisdom.

There are many words that could be used to describe me - some flattering and some not. But bohemian is not one of them!

Can I just ask the collective opinion of someone who tries to fit in, but is perceived by others as, when being nice, 'quirky', or when being rude 'weird'?

Because I've often found people who are into alternative culture are interested in it because they don't quite 'fit in' in the mainstream, for whatever reason.

It's not about being quirky, panda, it's about labelling yourself and others.

Reminds me of those "alternative" teenagers you used to see wearing those t-shirts that said "You laugh because I'm different. I laugh because you're all the same". Only there'd be twenty of them wearing it.

Elle, that's the sort of thing that amuses me too.

YABU. I'm quirky - I have AS. It's just a fact. Why be so mean?

Well, if you're going around telling people "I'm Lottielou and I'm quirky!" ... it might be a good idea not to.

Did you read the thread Lottie?

Add to that people with "eclectic" music tastes

I have done that. Basically it means I have a lot of music by indie and Americana musicians most of whom don't trouble the charts and most of whom are white , a large selection of classical music and no one who has been on a talent show.