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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:
Noonki · 17/05/2009 18:30

northern

IwoulddoDrWho · 17/05/2009 18:31

I think Jeremy Clarkson would be offended if he wasn't on the list.

but Liam Gallagher, for example, is a twat.

TrillianAstra · 17/05/2009 18:34

1: WHy do you call it the Grauniad?

2: He says "To the several people who have lately Twittered, to no one in particular, their suspicions that I may have composed my own Wikipedia entry: you are wrong." - isn't the point of twittering that you do it 'to no-one in particular'?

screamingabdab · 17/05/2009 18:35

Jeremy "and here are those all-important DNA results" Kyle is twat-tastic

Allegedly

screamingabdab · 17/05/2009 18:37

BitOfFun Family section, Saturday Guardian

screamingabdab · 17/05/2009 18:38

Trillian 1) Because the Guardian is notorious for its spelling mistakes

BitOfFun · 17/05/2009 18:42

Would that be the Family Section noted on mumsnet for its smugtwattery then?

screamingabdab · 17/05/2009 18:44

Oh Bitof I missed that. (i was too busy constructing a Swallow and Amazons type tree house in the back garden and baking my own cakes)

DorotheaPlenticlew · 17/05/2009 18:45

Michael Winner, for example, is a twat.

DorotheaPlenticlew · 17/05/2009 18:46

Paul Daniels, for example, is a twat.

GivePeasAChance · 17/05/2009 18:47

Tim Dowling is a good example of a twat, however I do like his line "I'm the twat you name when you need an example." That makes him slightly less of a twat.

Gordon Ramsey is a good example of a twat.

Agree, Piers Morgan is a good example of a twat.

Rod Liddle is a twat

Jeffrey Archer is a twat

Hazel Bleers is queen twat

I really like this "find an example of a twat game "

DorotheaPlenticlew · 17/05/2009 18:47

Jimmy Carr, for example, is a twat. And there ends my trilogy

BitOfFun · 17/05/2009 18:48

< snurk >

GivePeasAChance · 17/05/2009 18:54

Paul McCartney, 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

PeppermintPatty · 17/05/2009 18:56

Robert Kilroy Silk, for example, is a twat

BeatrixRotter · 17/05/2009 18:56

I must join

Chris de Burgh

Phil Collins

are 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.

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

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.

northernrefugee39 · 17/05/2009 19:07

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

Robespierre · 17/05/2009 19:08

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

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northernrefugee39 · 17/05/2009 19:09

Lembik Opek is twatanormous

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.

wiggletastic · 17/05/2009 19:26

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