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Tim Dowling, for example, is a twat

488 replies

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.

OP posts:
stuffitlllama · 17/05/2009 20:09

nicky campbell is a good example of the patronising twat

pointydog · 17/05/2009 20:09

I don't know rayner either. I'd like to see his goatee

pointydog · 17/05/2009 20:09

Evan, that's it! He's lovely.

If you're a pal of Peston, wonk, ask him what the fuck is wrong with his intonation and his pauses in sentences.

policywonk · 17/05/2009 20:08

pointy, you mean Paul Mason. Good blog (Idle Scrawl).

policywonk · 17/05/2009 20:08

Robert Peston is very nice

BitOfFun · 17/05/2009 20:07

Moondog - love the goatee image...

stuffitlllama · 17/05/2009 20:07

pointy ..evan davies? he is not any kind of twat

pointydog · 17/05/2009 20:06

right, I've googled. Yes! Peston is a fine example of a twat.

Who's the northern bloke, then? The good one?

stuffitlllama · 17/05/2009 20:06

Jeremy Vine is not that much of a twat

Nicky Campbell is a big twat, a really big twat

NorbertDentressangle · 17/05/2009 20:05

There are more twats than I care to mention (or, indeed, have time to list) but Tim Dowling isn't one of them.

I think I have a bit of a soft spot for him but can't quite work out why.

pointydog · 17/05/2009 20:05

Ainsley Harriot, for example, is a twat. He really is.

TheCrackFox · 17/05/2009 20:04

RP almost gets off on the fact that we will all be living in yurts and looking for food in the rubbish dump this time next year.

moondog · 17/05/2009 20:04

at Pointy

Ponders · 17/05/2009 20:04

Barney thing on Go For It, for example, is twat

moondog · 17/05/2009 20:04

Jay Rayner and all his guff about 'accurately seasoned' antelope testicles gets my blood pressure soaring.

I'd like to swing him aronud by his ridiculous goattee and then let go.

stuffitlllama · 17/05/2009 20:04

lol @Bono=king twat

pointydog · 17/05/2009 20:03

hang on, I get confused. Is Peston the northern one, with the real northern accent? If so, he's good.

There's another economics bloke with a nothing accent and terrible intonation and he is a twat. Wjat is his name?

Ponders · 17/05/2009 20:02

But RP gets so small-boy excited about the financial world collapsing around our ears , and I can't stand his voice & delivery.

Always wish I had a remote for the radio when he comes on.

pointydog · 17/05/2009 20:02

peston's ok, he's ok.

paul mckenna, for example, is a twat.

David Blane, for example, is a twat.

TheCrackFox · 17/05/2009 20:01

Jeremy Vine, for example, is a twat.

northernrefugee39 · 17/05/2009 20:01

Jay Raynor?
Attractive?
Disturbing indeed

northernrefugee39 · 17/05/2009 20:00

Oh- I quite rate Robert Peston.
His voice is twatty though.

Hassled · 17/05/2009 20:00

Jay Raynor, for example, is a twat.

(I do find him disturbingly attractive though. I'm not proud.)

screamingabdab · 17/05/2009 19:59

Oh yes, Paul McCartney has sad Twat Hair, a sure sign of an ageing rocker twat

northernrefugee39 · 17/05/2009 19:59

Macca is a twat for sure! He dyes his hair ffs.
But he wrote good songs.
Wrote.
Lennon was not a twat.

Prince Charles- so twat.
And his spawn- megamega twats

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