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.

[ChiefChocolateTester]

YADNBU.

If a person happens to genuinely be zany/mad/original they never seem to feel the need to say it. They just naturally like that and probably don't even realise.

Anyone who intentionally uses those words to describe themselves = twat/cockwomble/fucking-pain-in-the-arse.

My friend's sister lived in India for two years, lives in "unusual" living accommodation, has decided to become vegetarian and a Buddhist. All fine, except she does it all so self-consciously and to obviously be different, that it becomes an agonising cliché. Luckily I've known her for a million years and I retain hope that she'll grow out of being an attention seeker. Her sister/my friend, holds out no such hope and wants to push her under a fucking bus

[ChiefChocolateTester]

Ooh, and idiots that whitter on about seizing the day - fuck off, I might think about seizing it when I've finished watching Netflix box sets and eating chocolate. In the meantime, sod off!

[SolidGoldBrass]

Particularly when what they actually mean is 'I am completely unreliable, will borrow money and never repay it, break or lose any of your valuable possessions that you put within my reach, phone you at 3am to either wail and cry about all the homeless mosquitos in the world or announce that you have just taken an E and know all the secrets of the world, embarrass your children, or shit myself at your dinner party and insist that it's a political statement'.

[ChiefChocolateTester]

Solid - you've met my mate's sister as well, I see

[MartinaJ]

I've an eclectic music taste you twat! And I have a totally random cat. VVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVBU, ts!

[Andylion]

My step MIL refers to herself, when telling an anecdote, in the third person.
Isn't there an MN poster who posts in the third person? The first time I read one of her/his posts I was very confused.

[dylsmimi]

People who say 'oh you know me I just say it like it is' - yes I know you and you are just fucking rude think before you speak like everyone else does!

[VertigoNun]

Seeing nobody else did it.

I'm mavericky, I am.

[VertigoNun]

Zombie posts in the third person.

[VertigoNun]

I think of Dobbie from Harry Potter when zombie posts.

[GarlicShake]

I'm with First. There's thing thing in psychology called 'defining'. It's usually used to describe an abusive tactic - where someone tells you what you are and it's rarely a compliment - but it's pretty dysfunctional however it's used. Nobody is one single quality all the time, and it's weird to set out your stall that way. Says rather too much about your lack of self-awareness and the demands you will make on everyone you meet.

Anyway, I came here as Token Old Poster to add YOUNG to the list of sins! Young people don't need to say they're young. Therefore it's only said by sad twats whose pathetic self-delusion will define the interaction (which I won't be having with them!)

[MrsTerryPratchett]

Garlic I call it the Posh Spice Effect. When you have to say it, it isn't true.

[GarlicShake]

Ha! Perfect, MrsTP

[dizzytomato]

I think it's been at least 20 years since anyone's asked me what musuc i like. I'd be shocked if anyone cared.

I know someone who is "bonkers me" she's fucking annoying and dull as dishwater, and no we're not friends. So YANBU.

All the people I know that are actually quirky /bonkers/crazy/kooky are actually under the impression that they are 100% normal and would be really offended to be labelled as a misfit.

[dizzytomato]

I think of Yoda.

[NerrSnerr]

I have a friend who once asked at a bar if they have any eclectic beers. For fucks sake, just order a peroni and get on with it.

As for me, I'm as mad as a box of frogs me.

[Ememem84]

I work with one.

Instantly took a dislike to her when she introduced herself with " oh you'll get used to me, I'm a bit random a bit mad"

[Ememem84]

Turns out she's just really arrogant. And annoying.

[rollonthesummer]

Yes-there were lots of people at university that described themselves as zany/whacky/mad/off the wall. It mostly meant they were annoying.


I hate it when people say, 'I say it how it is, me!' and are horribly rude to people in the guise of being blunt and straightforward.

[Kennington]

Yes manic pixie dream girl types were popular when I was a student

And a little alcohol and ambulances had to be called because they had drunk too much
It was just an attention seeking thing but was quite painful to watch. It is when people don't grow out of it that it becomes annoying.

[soapboxqueen]

roll I entirely agree. I hate people who say they 'always speak the truth' or don't 'pussy foot around'. What they mean is, they are rude and obnoxious.

[Twunk]

Someone called me odd recently (and others agreed with a little too much enthusiasm) and I was mortally offended - so obviously that makes me one of the genuinely odd people. But now I've said that I'm not. So now I'm confused.

I think I am perfectly sane by the way, and terrifyingly normal. Really my life is quite dull and devoid of anything but the lowest level of quirkiness.

[SqueegyBeckinheim]

Doesn't almost everyone have eclectic taste in music? The only people I've ever met who exclusively listen to one kind of music are Very Serious classical muso types and old metal heads, the latter probably being too deaf to hear anything else.

There's always a women on Come Dine With Me who describes herself as bubbly. This always translates as shrill and loud after a glass of wine.