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.

[donajimena]

There is a zumba instructor in my neck of the woods who calls herself 'the mad one' she's absolutely shite.

[zoemaguire]

Yes! See also people who Facebook inane fuckwittery like 'shout out if your kids don't wear ironed twinsets, you don't wash your floor eight times a day and you ARENT a perfect parent, but your ikkle pickles live in a house full of laughter and joy and delight.' Fuck off. Nobody remotely normal even aspires to your straw man stereotype of the perfect parent, and yeah, you are still boasting, sorry.

[PirateSmile]

Quite recently, in conversation, a few people told me i was "quirky.' I'm actually normal and pretty boring

[Itinerary]

"Bubbly" and "feisty" are sexist. You never hear a man described as those.

[Namechangingchameleon]

😂😂😂 zoe you're my new hero I hate that fuckery too!

[greenpurptraitor]

Oh, that quote about marilyn monroe about "love me at my worst" etc. she was not the most stable of people!

Re: online dating. The kind of guy who uses words like "fun! live life to the MAX! love fun positive people."

about 75% less good looking than in photo.

Sits on a first meet talking intensely about the time he went on holiday and did a bungee jump because that is on his list of Things He Does To Prove He Is Fun And Positive.

asks inappropriate personal questions and conversation very jerky and disjointed because that's what "fun people do".

next day, Mr Fun has written a slightly passive aggressive comment about women who are "quiet and dull"

[SinisterBumFacedCat]

"I'm like marmite, you either love me or hate me"

I hate you

[zoemaguire]

Sorry that sounded a bit of a random contribution about fb but the link in my head was that the kind of person who describes themselves as 'zany' tends ime to create this weird stepford image of what the rest of the world is like. Um, we are just as interesting as you (in fact, probably more so), we just don't need to advertise it to the entire world by dying our hair orange.

[Elledouble]

Oh and anyone who describes themselves as 'mad'. Oh hello there, it's me, Mad Jane!

No. You are ANNOYING Jane. Go away.

[Forgetmenotblue]

People who say "well I wasn't going to stand for that..." And then describe very minor cafe based complaint about lukewarm tea, as if they'd negotiated a war ending treaty and should be feted as a hero. They can fuck off.

My step MIL refers to herself, when telling an anecdote, in the third person. Bizarre. And peppers the anecdote with phrases like "as only I can". Usually referring to something run of the mill that everyone does (returns item at a shop, phones up query her electric bill etc). She thinks she is some trailblazing super woman. Bonkers.

[FelicityR313]

I would be a very outgoing and loudmouthed person. I have never found anyone in a team at work for example who hates me, because I am the one who ensures the quiet voices are heard. I've also had competition with fellow loud-mouths, but never with the quieter voices. I am the kind who silences the other loudmouth room for the quiet one to have their voice heard. I'm the one who will say 'Sylvia had something good to say on this earlier - what was that Sylvia?'.
The world needs loudmouths as much as it needs churchmice.
I will fight for all of my team. I need to fight for the loudmouths in my team in a different way to the quiet ones.

[SwedishEdith]

@ "I'm like marmite, you either love me or hate me"

I hate you

[afterthegoldrush]

Namechanging I know you like a good rake so you must be quirky .... I like a Christmas tree in an inverted funnel so I must be too....

[MistressDeeCee]

YANBU they should all fuck off to the planet of Very Far Away, alongside self-declared "nice" people. I saw this gem online the other day: "Im different. I walk to the beat of my own drum". Please do fuck off and take your drum with you.

[GooseberryRoolz]

Oh okay. I don't think I've met these people. Are they Hackney Hipsters?

[Lifeisgreaterthandeath]

Its really important that everyone is dull, otherwise Mars explodes or something.

[groovergirl]

"Different" lol. Monty Python said it best:

Brian: You don't need someone to follow. You are all individuals!
Crowd: Yes! We are all individuals!
Brian: You are all different!
Crowd: Yes! We are all different!
Lone voice: I'm not.

[EveryoneElsie]

Someone local did a range of T-shirts with one word emblazoned across the front. you could have Artist, Writer, Musician, Philospher.

Me and some mates did some that said 'Waster', 'Wanker', 'Drunk', 'Pretentious', 'Twat' and other choice words

[MattDillonsPants]

YANBU about most of it but YABU about eclectic. It's a word to describe diverse tastes.

Would you prefer "I have diverse tastes in music"?

Not liking a word is no reason to think anyone that uses it is an arse.

[greenpurptraitor]

omg! what am i like?!!

people who regularly post clips of themselves doing "crazy things" (most of these clips involve humblebragging).

aspiring to be Manic Pixie Dream Girl types -

and then "oh my god i'm so embarassed of this! aren't i self-depreceating and funny and original by putting this up? isn't it mortifying?"

(erm, no, no-one knew or cared till you tracked it down and took time to put it on Facebook)

or the travel anecdotes. "only i could have this random interlude with a melon seller in outer mongolia! what am i like?"

BORING. thats what you are like.

[ijustwannadance]

Yeh, but it's when they use it to describe things they shouldn't.

Eg, Oh look at my home and all my things, I have such eclectic taste.

No, your house is just full of random tat.

[MattDillonsPants]

WannaDance that's you projecting a certain idea onto the word though. It's a perfectly reasonable word to use in the way you describe.

[Namechangingchameleon]

mattdillon

I'm off to an 80s festival this summer.

I also listen to a lot of classical. Went to the RAH for an opera recital once. Saw more than one opera tbh over the years.

I also love Frank Sinatra and Dusty.

I will turn the radio up these days for Bruno Mars, One Direction and Carly Rae Jepsen.


So I could prob go with "eclectic" for myself but like a pp said, non pretentious wankers say, "I like all sorts" so I've never used that word.

It's cunty and anyone doing OLD needs to step away from the "eclectic" types 😂😂😂

[FirstWeTakeManhattan]

I think I'm vaguely irritated by anyone describing themselves generally really reasonable I know …only in the sense that I can make my own mind up, thanks. You don't need to tell me 'what' you are.

'I don't suffer fools gladly' is one that makes me grit my teeth very slightly.

[Dutchess61]

I consider myself as normal.

However if a bloke on POF states he has an "eclectic" taste in music I scroll on.