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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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Grammaticus · 17/05/2009 17:54

Tim Dowling - how does his wife put up with him?

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Robespierre · 17/05/2009 17:50

I actually do like Tim Dowling's Permachat column in the Graun. My first MN name, SixKindsOfCrisis, was in honour of that column, which really captures the delicious inanity of internet chat.

So Tim Dowling, for example, is quite good at mickey-taking the whole business of interchat.

On the other hand, he recently contributed a very boring few seconds to a very boring R4 programme about 'looking on the bright side' or some such tosh.

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BitOfFun · 17/05/2009 17:47

I just googled "twat of tyhe year 2009" and found a tirade of abuse against a young singer called Steve Appleton.

If he ever googles himself, I'm sure he'll be thrilled to find that someone in cyberspace thinks that

"If Chesney Hawkes was the dick-shaped shadow on the wall of the Platonic cave, Steve Appleton is that dick itself: a dick not meant for human eyes."

The world wide web is an odd place at times

wiggletastic · 17/05/2009 17:44

Well, it goes without saying really that they are mostly twats (cheats, liars, fraudsters, greedy lying thieves..... )

policywonk · 17/05/2009 17:42

I can't think of any twats who aren't MPs at the moment...

wiggletastic · 17/05/2009 17:42

Well, that's hardly a surprise BoF.

Noonki · 17/05/2009 17:40

richard bacon is also fairly high on the twat scale

Noonki · 17/05/2009 17:39

northern - you are very right about is hair

BitOfFun · 17/05/2009 17:39

If you google "biggest twat on television", you get this man...

Noonki · 17/05/2009 17:38

geri halliwell is a twat

northernrefugee39 · 17/05/2009 17:36

Alex James is a twat, His hair is twatastic

northernrefugee39 · 17/05/2009 17:36

Dom Joly is a twat

BitOfFun · 17/05/2009 17:33

Here is the article. He is indeed rather funny, plonk

wiggletastic · 17/05/2009 17:31

I have never actually heard of Tim Dowling, I assume he is very low down on the celebrity scale?

BitOfFun · 17/05/2009 17:27
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HuffwardlyRudge · 17/05/2009 17:27

Tim Dowling, for example, is someone I've never actually heard of.

HuffwardlyRudge · 17/05/2009 17:24

David Walliams, for example, is a twat.

georgimama · 17/05/2009 17:24

Miaow BoF!

policywonk · 17/05/2009 17:23

I love Tim Dowling. I think he's very funny and comes across as a good guy (he did a live chat a while back and was very unstuffy).

BitOfFun · 17/05/2009 17:22

Tim Dowling is alright if you like that sort of thing.

wiggletastic · 17/05/2009 17:19

Derek Acorah is utterly twat-tastic

Michael Winner is too.

georgimama · 17/05/2009 17:19

Poor bugger, now he's being damned with faint praise instead - "moderately amusing" "quite like".

Shall we do some more damning with faint praise? Tis always fun.

northernrefugee39 · 17/05/2009 17:17

But only "quite"

northernrefugee39 · 17/05/2009 17:17

I quite like Tim Dowling.

georgimama · 17/05/2009 17:15

I don't think I saw that specific "possession", he is something of a one trick pony and has done it more than once. I also dearly love the interventions of "Sam" his Ethiopian (if memory serves correctly) spirit guide.

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