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.

Oh definitely - looking at you man I know in his 30s with a yoda rucksack saying 'I'm just a bit mad me!' and my brothers GF aged 29 who identifies as 'kooky' and wears a furry hat which is a fake lions head. Yawn.

And MN can be a dreadful source of this poster 'shoots from the hip, tells it like it is, calls a spade a spade' as if it's some kind of admirable 'real' quality when actually, the poster is rude and unpleasant.

I love that show Girls. I don't kno if they are taking the P or if they really are so achingly hip. I hope it's the former. The new baby is called Sample. Hysterical.

What is a catholic taste in music? I've always wondered. I used to think it was just liking hymns

I would include the "I'm not being funny but...".

I hate the fuckers.

BeautyQueen It's another word for eclectic and nowt to do with hymns! :D

^adjective :
including a wide variety of things; all-embracing.
"her tastes are pretty catholic"
synonyms: diverse, diversified, wide, broad, broad-based, eclectic, indiscriminate.^

greenpurptraitor

I've just looked at the ManicPixieDream Girl Twitter thing - it's v funny!

I cannot stand ManicPixieDream types

Everybody thinks they have eclectic music tastes. I hear them on Pop Master or Steve Wright's Non Stop Shit Oldies with their "ooh I like a bit of everything me". And it turns out they like popular stuff. Popular opera. Popular musicals. Probably pop music from 6 different decades. But nothing remarkably disparate.

I await an unassuming chap who doesn't describe his music tastes but requests non stop oldies of acid trance, thrash metal, Peruvian yodelling and kazoo classics. He can be described as eclectic. Not self proclaimed Radio 2 zany types.

My music taste is NOT eclectic btw. It's quite narrow tbh.

I love all you boring bastards!

"Uhhh I'm a socially anxious, people hating arsehole. I like scowling at strangers, being at home and eating my body weight in cheese. I can often be found crying for no apparent reason. Making friends seems to be the worst thing ever because they want to ask me questions like 'how would you describe yourself' .......

Ah so you know me

I haven't RTFT but I'm totally behind you. Also 'it could only happen to me'. I had an accident that required a visit to A&E and stitches in my head and the friend that took me said it could only happen to HER (about my accident and need for assistance). I wonder what happened to her- disappeared up her own arsehole I suspect.

In my experience, people who really are eccentric/funny/quirky think of themselves as totally normal.

Can I add any statement/announcement/mn post that begins with 'Am I the only person…'

Because odds on, you're not, are you?

And it's usually followed by some boring shit like 'who likes to eat nutella on toast in THEIR ONESIE? Followed by a shite pic of said 'only person' in their soddingly 'cute' onesie eating bloody toast.

Oh, I have another one! I once knew a girl who called herself "a social butterfly" with no sense of irony whatsoever. I don't think she realised it isn't a complimentary term...

Add to that people with "eclectic" music tastes.

And those who are self-proclaimedly 'feisty'. It's generally a euphemism for 'obnoxious'.

How is 'social butterfly' a bad thing?

Surely it just means sociable and not cliquey, able to flit between different social groups & settings?

Yy to people who describe themselves as 'telling it like it is' or 'blunt speaking' are invariably rude. They also tend to get very offended when on the receiving end of other people's blunt speaking!

fourquenelles: I have catholic music tastes. Am I OK?

I too have catholic music tastes - I like anything by the Pope! (Boom-tish!)

Once went to corporate training course with lots of people who didn't know each other. At the start we all had to introduce ourselves with an alliterative adjective that described ourselves before our name. Those who described themselves as "Crazy Kate", "Mad Mike" or similar were the most annoying, opinionated, attention seekers on the course.

If I ever meet a woman who describes herself as 'bubbly' I always think 'really annoying and false'.

If I ever meet a woman who describes herself as 'bubbly' I always think 'really annoying and false'.

I immediately think 'thick and irritating'

Ruthy - that too.

Felt a bit upset when I saw this thread. I have 3 kids all with varying degrees of ASD (autistic spectrum disorder) One of the words we , as well as several friends I know with similar kids, often use when talking about our kids is - quirky. It's a way I suppose of trying to accept our kids in a world where they don't seem to fit in. They see the world differently and can do the most odd things.... Being able to have a laugh sometimes about their quirky behaviour and not letting it get us down but accepting everyone as an equal human being with value is important to me. We are all different and unique and we need to be tolerant of others. In the old days, we would have called it eccentric, maybe...
Sorry if I'm being boring on a fun post, but it just touched a raw nerve with me!

'Eclectic' is a much over used/mis-used word. If I read about one more chi chi gift shop or fashion emporium that describes its stock as eclectic I'll commit some sort of violent crime. Ditto all the people with loud assessments of their eclecticism and all the self proclaimed zany, fun, mad bores.

like7, I would refer to people as quirky as you have described.

I think it's more about the mundanely, overwhelmingly quite conventional people that refer to themselves as 'quirky' as a way to point out how unlike everyone else they are (in their own opinion).

Like7 Would your children describe themselves as quirky though? Surely they just see themselves as normal?

It's annoying when people who are actually dull and boring describe themselves as mad and quirky because they think it makes them more interesting as they are. That doesn't mean that people who are actually different are bad.

Incidentally I know a guy who is an unintentional hipster but he doesn't annoy me because, unlike actual hipsters, he does things because he enjoys them rather than for the image. And he doesn't look down on people who are normal and boring.