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

[Namechangingchameleon]

Add to that people with "eclectic" music tastes.

Fuckers, all of them.

[DerelictDaughter]

Also 'I am not a very nice person' - have heard that a couple of times in life and laughed it off or put it down to insecurity. But no. That one's a proper warning.

[LikeDylanInTheMovies]

Also 'I am not a very nice person'

Which means 'I am giving myself a free-pass for all forms of atrocious behaviour and generally treating everyone who crosses my path like shite on the sole of my shoe. What's more, don't even think about blaming me or expect me to answer for the consequences of my actions because I warned you beforehand.'

[paxillin]

There was a whole thread recently full of people lamenting how they didn't fit in

I went to a Goth party once, the whole club was full of identical non-fitter-inners .

[NewLife4Me]

I use all these terms and my music collection stands at well over 1000 cds, it's pretty eclectic.
I have children who are quirky, kooky or random.
One of them is all 3.

People who use boring Po face words all the time have no sense of adventure and are pretty unimaginative.
People who don't like unconventional types are boring, those who object are not only boring but jealous too.

[paxillin]

Nobody said unconventional people are bad, NewLife4Me, nor are quirky ones. Really quirky people tend to be quite unaware or at least unconcerned and don't describe themselves this way.

People who do are often very conventional and try a bit too hard. (see David Brent)

[MangoMoon]

I love unconventional people in the main.

What I tire of very quickly is legions of unconventional clones who seem to all shun conformity in exactly the same way, wearing exactly the same clothes, with exactly the same 'kooky' hair.

[NewLife4Me]

mango

Your description is conventional to me, if they all do and wear the same. I see your point.

I know nobody said they didn't like unconventional, i added that as it usually crops up on hated word lists somewhere.

So seriously, what would you use instead of those words.
My dd is all 3 of them and I don't know other words to describe her.
She is totally random, no rhyme or reason. She is quirky as she has her own way of doing things that just doesn't conform, and is a bit strange really.
I couldn't think of nicer words to describe her or her behaviour that didn't sound mean, horrible or a put down.

[MangoMoon]

My purely personal opinion (quite a few people said the same), is that people described by other people as quirky/kooky etc generally are.

It's when people describe themselves as those things that it's usually not the case IYSWIM.

[NewLife4Me]

mango

Phew, thanks. I thought everyone I met must have thought I was a twat or something

I sort of get it really. If you have to shout about how something you are, you probably aren't really.

I should rtft too, it might help.

[MangoMoon]

See, now I think you might be a bit kooky New
(Which is obvs fine as someone other than you described you as such )