Normal people do not listen to radio 3 on an evening,therefore,by definition, we are all eccentric ?

No,

Old fogie ? Moi ?

I think,on reflection, everyone is just different and as long as your not hurting anyone else, that is ok.

So who is an oblate spheroid then?

We all have quirks and life would be dull without them but many of the things posted here are just examples of how people differ from the average. Listening to classical music is not eccentric, neither is not having a driving licence, much as Ron pointed out. Going back to the original posting, I wonder whether it was simply that the behaviour seemed antisocial rather than eccentric.

But to be truly eccentric you have to be one of those who doesn't have to work for a living or be in the sort of job from which you are not going to be dismissed for unusual behaviour (composers such as Satie spring to mind). If you're working on a factory production line with a foreman continually checking up on you, there's no room for eccentricity.

No, the eccentrics were often those with plenty of money and time, or else they were people such as 19th-century vicars, for whom respect from the community came naturally and who lived in well-furnished vicarages with little to do except on Sundays; or else they were schoolmasters from 40 years ago or more, again who didn't have to work so hard at winning respect as their present-day counterparts, and whose audience were children - I wonder how differently they might have behaved if a number of adults were watching them. That is not an exhaustive list of eccentric occupations, of course!

Oh dear, this all sounds rather cynical. Ah well then: vive la difference, or something like that.