my estranged brother speaks on eccentrics.
"So, soon I got chatting to this quirky girl and this wacky woman who were both quirky but with slightly different styles of quirkiness. You can’t really use the word quirky because basically it means ‘not boring’ doesn’t it. So I actually hate the word quirky. Anyone with a half decent sense of humour gets that label, just like somebody with an interest or a hobby that isn’t football gets ‘eccentric’ or a girl who has a lesbian experience and gets loud and annoying when she’s drunk gets the label ‘wild’. Wild girls are the most boring of all. Outside of the time they kissed a girl or flashed their tits at a cop, what have they got to talk about? I think nearly all girls have snogged another girl at one point so that’s why that song ‘I Kissed a Girl’ shits me. It’s like me making a song called ‘I Am A Man, Yet I Have Long Hair Which Is Unusual These Days’."
(apeloverage committed the vile act of onanism on, Fri 31 Oct 2008, 11:35, 3 replies)

I imagined this
being said aloud at breakneck speed, interrupted only by frantic drags on a cigarette.

At the end, I expected to read "So anyway, my name's apeloverage's brother, if you haven't guessed, I'm new to this whole speed-dating thing."
(LickOutTheJamsMotherfuckers!, Fri 31 Oct 2008, 11:50, closed)

Your brother seems to have an interesting outlook on life.
And he's right - nobody would have given a toss about "I Kissed A Girl" if it had been sung by a bloke.
(LongJohnBaldry, Fri 31 Oct 2008, 11:55, closed)

I suspect the market for that song and its ilk is teenage girls
who have yet to explore their sapphic inclinations. Let them be, I say, that we may witness, assimilate the image and spluff later.

You know you want to.
(bazmorningstar efil4nat3b, Fri 31 Oct 2008, 13:15, closed)