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Tim Dowling, for example, is a twat

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Robespierre · 17/05/2009 16:28

..who writes moderately entertaining columns about his personal life in The Guardian. Yesterday's was about the perils of self-googling, and in particular of an episode of self-googling which returned the text 'Tim Dowling for example is a twat'

Where did he find that humbling line?? On mumsnet of course!

In the article he claims to have given up self-googling, but we know that isn't true, don't we.

Shall we give him a few more personal insights? I think he is less of a twat than Jon Ronson and he doesn't have a whiney voice.

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LadyGlencoraPalliser · 17/05/2009 16:32

I quite like him. But he will never know because he is never going to google himself again.

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BitOfFun · 17/05/2009 16:32

I quite like him actually- but i haven't read the Guardian regularly in a few years, so perhaps he's got more twatty of late...

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cornsilk · 17/05/2009 16:33

Let's all do one!

Chris Moyles, for example, is a twat.

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Robespierre · 17/05/2009 16:36

It was a poster called auntieitaly who called him a twat on the thread I linked to, and here is his response in his column:

"I have decided I no longer need to begin my day by finding out that in the intervening 24 hours someone somewhere felt the need to type the words, "Tim Dowling, for example, is a twat." I'm not upset that people think I'm a twat. I'm aware that this is a commonly held opinion, if not a distinct school of thought. It's the casual insertion of "for example" that really hurts. I'm not just a twat to that person. I'm the twat you name when you need an example."

So auntyitaly you are famous.

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LadyGlencoraPalliser · 17/05/2009 16:37

Incidentally, if you should by any chance Google Tim Dowling, the suggested searches include:
Tim Dowling unfunny 261 results
Tim Dowling still unreadable 532 results
I bet that makes him feel better.
And either he is a mumsnetter or he actually googled "Tim Dowling twat" because he would never have found that thread otherwise.

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BitOfFun · 17/05/2009 16:40

I love cornsilk's suggestion...I am really struggling to work up enough ire about anyone though, I need longer to think

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cornsilk · 17/05/2009 16:42

Oh come on Bit of Fun it's easy!

Jonathan Ross, for example, is a twat.

See?

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pointydog · 17/05/2009 16:42

lol. That's tickled me. Excellent quote to find.

I, however, do not know who Tim Dowling is

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Robespierre · 17/05/2009 16:43

ooh LadyG, he must be a mumsnetter then. Hooray.

I think that damning with faint praise is the best way to go, humiliation-wise. He is kinda funny, without any big laughs or fundamental truths about the human condition.

On the plus side, he hasn't sent his wife on to mumsnet to stick up for him. And,he sits at home all day with his dog next to him, pissing about on the internet instead of working. Which gives me an example of someone like me who is nonetheless a functioning economic unit.

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smallorange · 17/05/2009 16:44

I think Tim Dowling is a good columnist.

Jonathan Ross, however, is a twat.

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cornsilk · 17/05/2009 16:44

Give it time Robespierre. Has anyone sent their mum on yet?

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pointydog · 17/05/2009 16:45

I like Jonathan Ross for he is entertaining

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TheCrackFox · 17/05/2009 16:45

Cornsilk you completely right about Chris Moyles - he a twat - and that is me being polite.

I haven't read the Gruniard for years so don't really have an opinion on Tim Dowling. However, if the majority of Mumsnet think he is a twat, then he must be a twat.

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HolyGuacamole · 17/05/2009 16:46

I'll second that cornsilk.

Chris Martin - twat, good at playing the piano but far too 'right on'.

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pointydog · 17/05/2009 16:49

Martin and Moyles, twats

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TheCrackFox · 17/05/2009 16:50

Bono - twat

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cornsilk · 17/05/2009 16:51

Bono is King twat.

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IwoulddoDrWho · 17/05/2009 16:52

Tim Dowling definitely not a twat. Hope you find that too.

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BitOfFun · 17/05/2009 16:54

Eamonn Holmes , for example, is a twat. That one works, doesn't it?

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georgimama · 17/05/2009 16:55

He hasn't sent his imaginary friend publisher on to defend him either (unlike some columists that could be mentioned), so you have to give him that.

I wonder if the twat train thread is still in archive? It might have been posted in chat in which case it is gone.

Jim Davidson is a twat. Bono is a twat too. And Bob Geldof, although not as big a one as his ridiculous daughter.

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TheCrackFox · 17/05/2009 16:55

Jeremy Kyle = twat

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IwoulddoDrWho · 17/05/2009 16:57

Cheryl Cole, for example, is a twat.

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BitOfFun · 17/05/2009 17:00

Derek Acorah, for example, is a twat.

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pointydog · 17/05/2009 17:00

oh yes, derek acora, lol

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pointydog · 17/05/2009 17:01

gillian mckeith, for example, is a twat

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