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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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Hassled · 17/05/2009 19:56

Actually on reflection I probably like Mrs Dowling more. She appears to be both long-suffering and hard-nosed, if that's possible.

BitOfFun · 17/05/2009 19:56

Crackfox, your ones are spot-on

Noel Edmonds, for example, is a twat.

Ponders · 17/05/2009 19:55

I like Tim Dowling & don't think he is a twat at all (unlike Jon Ronson, for example, who is quite definitely a twat)

Robert Peston, for example, is a twat

nickytwotimes · 17/05/2009 19:55

Tim Dowling, for example, is not a twat at all.

GOrdon Ramsay is a twat.

Hassled · 17/05/2009 19:55

Ah now I wondered if he'd found that quote on MN .

I lurve Tim Dowling. He did a bookclub chat for us (MN) and was good fun.

Tim Dowling, for example, is not a twat.

TheCrackFox · 17/05/2009 19:53

Madonna, for example, is a twat.

moondog · 17/05/2009 19:52

PM is a twat, much as it pains me to say it.
And he's getting worse.

TheCrackFox · 17/05/2009 19:49

Prince Charles, for example, is a twat.

BitOfFun · 17/05/2009 19:49

I'm sorry, but Paul McCartney is an über-twat...all that pouting and eyelash batting at his age, like he thinks he's still 1962 cute. Vain and deluded fool, no wonder Mucca saw him coming

moondog · 17/05/2009 19:41

Ah sorry, he is on Most HAUNTED.
my friend is columnist for Telegraph and wrote article on being in a haunted house in Edinburghwith him now I think of it and some other 'investigators'.

moondog · 17/05/2009 19:39

God, how hilarious.
Who is this derek Acorah chap? he osunds like brilliant value for money. What programme is he on. This bit has had me nearly ingest a very long thing piece of asparagus

'Derek Acora is the charlatan medium on "Most Haunted". A few years ago there was an episode where he was in a hotel (now luxury flats) near our house. He was going on about how a maid had been raped and murdered in this room, allegedly in 1800. A subtitle flashed up "this room was built in 1952". Classic.

Also love the Chesney Hawkes penile shadow thing.

Oh, and Tim Dowling is indeed an uber twat.Yet another rueful column penned by nitwit who is invariably photographed rocking on his Converse trainers and applying hand to hear in y'know rueful style.

Enough already!

toomuchpicknmix · 17/05/2009 19:32

glad someone noted that Bono is King Twat

Owen Wilson is a twat too

OMaLittle · 17/05/2009 19:28

Tim Dowling I like. I've even been known to use '[X has] gone all Tim Dowling' in conversation (but usually as a cunning ruse to root out fellow Guardian readers in suspiciously Tory surroundings.

Is David Walliams a twat? I liked him on Desert Island Discs (although he came across as slightly stalkerish, re Natalie Imbruglia, Katy Carmichael (she's my ex), Kate Beckinsale, Katy Carmichael (did I mention she's my ex and I like totally loved her and still do)).

Cheryl Cole is GORGEOUS. And a twat. I particularly noticed when she announced with her simper-face on that she and Ashley 'dornated all oor presents to charity'.

wiggletastic · 17/05/2009 19:26

Marco Pierre White - so utterly twatorrific (he makes my skin crawl - urghhhh)

OMaLittle · 17/05/2009 19:23

Now, don't go and call me a Twat Defender, because I'm not going to defend any ACTUAL twats, but Paul McCartney is not a twat. Someone else I think is also a non-twat but I am forgetful.

Gordon Ramsay is a huge twat. Graham Norton is a twat. Alex James is a cavernous twat.

northernrefugee39 · 17/05/2009 19:09

Lembik Opek is twatanormous

Original poster
Robespierre · 17/05/2009 19:08

The Speaker of the House of Commons, for example, is a twat.

OP posts:
northernrefugee39 · 17/05/2009 19:07

Oh- I thought it was just broadsheet columists...
Katie Hopkins is a twat

squeaver · 17/05/2009 19:04

I think Tim Dowling's ok.

But Amanda Holden is the twat to end all twats. And, I'm sure, an obsessive self-googler.

screamingabdab · 17/05/2009 18:59

PeppermintPatty

Oh yes, Robert Kilroy-Silk is the emperor of all twats

Noel Edmonds (and indeed, anyone who appears on that programme where they all open boxes and hug each other and think there's something mystical going on and it's not just based on pure chance) are ALL twats

pointydog · 17/05/2009 18:58

bill turnbull, for example, is a twat.

The faces he pulls on his breakfast tv programme are mincey as.

BeatrixRotter · 17/05/2009 18:56

I must join

Chris de Burgh

Phil Collins

are TWATS

PeppermintPatty · 17/05/2009 18:56

Robert Kilroy Silk, for example, is a twat

screamingabdab · 17/05/2009 18:55

Ooh I've got twats coming out of my ears now :

John Humphries
John Barrowman
That bird who used to present Ten Years Younger
Alex James (again)
Jeremy Vine
David Dickinson
David Milliband

GivePeasAChance · 17/05/2009 18:54

Paul McCartney, for example, is a twat

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