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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.

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smee · 18/05/2009 20:12

TD is funny, but not as much once you're read him week in week out. Not his fault. must be v. hard to do. Jon Ronson though is never funny. Should be put into a locked room with Julie Myserson for dribbling out his son's childhood in an oh-so-cutesy PFB way. Gah..

ramonaquimby · 18/05/2009 19:59

but he's not funny
at all

he is Trying To Be Droll in ironic kind of fashion

but comes across as a Twat
never read his stuff, or jon ronson (whatever name is)

KingRolo · 18/05/2009 19:55

Who's betting Tim's column next Saturday will be about starting this MN twat thread?

Tim, if you are reading, thanks for providing the inspiration for one of the all time classic snort-tea-all-over-the-keyboard Mumsnet threads!

crocdundee · 18/05/2009 19:49

Cheryl Cole is a lollipop shaped twat.

Pies Morgan is an absolute twat.

Top Twat: Upsy Daisy - insists we watch her dance, 'sings' through her megaphone hurting the Pontipines' ears, shame on her.

This is better than therapy!

cornsilk · 18/05/2009 19:41

I googled him before and there are sites devoted to his twattery. It's almost a cult.

Megglevache · 18/05/2009 19:34

Bono- God of twats...

cornsilk · 18/05/2009 19:13

Can we add Muse and Coldplay?

Hassled · 18/05/2009 19:12

If we're going for Prog Rock twats, can I throw in all of Pink Floyd? They were uber twats. That fucking Wall song. And Dark Side of the Twattish Moon - only twats could have written that.

Vulgar · 18/05/2009 18:36

I'm also lol at Hawkwind.

Maybe they can be in a special section of "1970's prog rock twats"

HolyGuacamole · 18/05/2009 18:25

ROFL at Mark Twat

screamingabdab · 18/05/2009 18:18

Yes, partner of Kerry Katona (Mark Twat, I believe he is called)- nasty piece of work.

HolyGuacamole · 18/05/2009 18:15

Oh Kerry Katona, yes twat. And that partner of hers, he is a gold digging chavtwat.

screamingabdab · 18/05/2009 18:13

jut very vulnerable ?????

screamingabdab · 18/05/2009 18:12

lol @ "Hawkwind"

I have to disagree about Kerry Katona. She is jut very vulnerable and ill-advised

DamonBradleylovesPippi · 18/05/2009 18:12

I like Tim Dowling very much.

I have got a couple of cutting from his articles pinned on my magnetic board in the kitchen: one about the wife having been nice to everybody at work and feel the need to rant the minute she walks through the door and another about the wife again complaining the place was a shamble for a piece of lego on the floor or smthing. Very much this family albeit role reversed.
If it wasn't for his articles and the family section I wouldn't bother buying the sat guradian anymore tbh.

Jux · 18/05/2009 18:05

I think Kerry Katona is a twat.
And Morrissey.
Oh, and Hawkwind (I'm not sure where that came from, but they are)

Tinker · 18/05/2009 18:01

Oh, I meant to start a thread with this title as well when I read it. Or just incorporate this phrase in lots of threads randomly. Ha ha

Merrylegs · 18/05/2009 17:58

Tim Dowling wrote a piece about his dog and cat following him around the house all day, just staring at him, that made me SNORT with laughter. Coz I have a dog that does that. Why does he do that? What does he WANT from me?

Are we allowed to do women?

Coz that Carol Voldermort Vorderman, for example....

wiggletastic · 18/05/2009 17:44

Ooooh, Bella, do you think he might have noticed? Probably not, I'm sure Jeremy would never Google himself, as unlike Tim Dowling, he is not a twat.

screamingabdab · 18/05/2009 17:38

I think that Jonathan Ross behaves like a twat sometimes on his TV show - a little creepy with the ladies - but he is brilliant on the radio.

ladyhelenatealltheeggs · 18/05/2009 17:38

Nick knowles, for example, is a twat. Makes my skin crawl. Twat.

IwoulddoDrWho · 18/05/2009 17:32

No you can't have Simon Cowell and Jonothan Ross, or even Tim Dowling for that matter because they are not twats. They have a sense of humour and a certain self-awareness and they are just acting like twats. Apparently they make a lot of money (maybe not Tim Dowling on that last one.)

They make me laugh anyway.

fleacircus · 18/05/2009 17:24

I like Tim Dowling. But the basic brief for his Guardian column does appear to be 'describe incidents in which you have behaved like a twat', which may account for it.

CowWatcher · 18/05/2009 17:21

Simon Cowell, for example is a twat. Not sure if we'd done him yet....

EffieGadsby · 18/05/2009 17:20

I'm coming very late to the party with an Alain de Botton, for example, is a twat. A not-half-as-clever-as-he-thinks-he-is twat at that.

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