to think that mumsnet are a bunch of Guardian-reading, laptop-wielding harpies

[lordtobyyoung]

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God he is a dull old fart tis he not? Obviously hit a bit of a dry spell.....

I think it's quite funny really!

Guardian reading, laptop wielding harpies? You make it sound like a bad thing.

Wouldn't be seen dead reading the bloody guardian hee hee! I agree find him a tad annoying......

Doesn't sound bad to me.

Toby Young, for example...

It used to be .. Now any old riffraff has joined. That's out of date.

Pah ha ha ha ha ha!

I have to say, I am a MN and I find his article insightful, funny and to the point

I do not fall into that archetype but I see where he gets it for sure.

The comments are priceless.

Unless they're actually serious, in which case they're bloody terrifying.

In fairnes I would say he was spot on. He also said he was married to one. He also said he follows the education section. So don't see the fuss really.

And I love the Guardian, the only paper I read religiously.

Toby Young? Thank fuck he doesn't like us. We'd be doing something wrong if he did.

What a highly original piece of writing!

I'm pretty damn positive that there are lots of newsworthy stories out there if he got his head out of his arse.

Yes, and..........?

Heheh- another thread here too!

How to Lose Friends and Alienate People indeed.

He must love it really. To go to the bother of reading and quoting so much of it.

He forgot the Sunday Times.

So if it was the Mumsnet election, and we are all Guardian-reading lefties, why are the Tories in power ?!

I'm on a desktop.

He's right though, we don't represent the 'squeezed middle' or whatever guff is being made up this week. There is a much wider demographic.

I do read the Guardian though. But I haven't got any wings.

I live in Royal Wootton Bassett and am very proud to do so. And I'm on MN. So ner.

Gruniad reader avec laptop here.

What's wrong with that, Toby, eh? Eh?

[aome and have a go if you think you're hard enough]

Bizarre article, even more bizarre comments.

Can we get some mumsnetter from Wootton Bassett to write to him, so we can get a picture of him eating his hat? And I mean a proper mumsnetter: a SAHM graduate living in a Victorian house, reading the Guardian, and unable to squeeze into her skinny jeans.