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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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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'.

toomuchpicknmix · 17/05/2009 19:32

glad someone noted that Bono is King Twat

Owen Wilson is a twat too

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!

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'.

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

TheCrackFox · 17/05/2009 19:49

Prince Charles, 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 19:53

Madonna, for example, 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.

nickytwotimes · 17/05/2009 19:55

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

GOrdon Ramsay 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

BitOfFun · 17/05/2009 19:56

Crackfox, your ones are spot-on

Noel Edmonds, for example, is a twat.

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.

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

screamingabdab · 17/05/2009 19:59

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

Hassled · 17/05/2009 20:00

Jay Raynor, for example, is a twat.

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

northernrefugee39 · 17/05/2009 20:00

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

northernrefugee39 · 17/05/2009 20:01

Jay Raynor?
Attractive?
Disturbing indeed

TheCrackFox · 17/05/2009 20:01

Jeremy Vine, for example, is a twat.

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.

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 20:03

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?

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stuffitlllama · 17/05/2009 20:04

lol @Bono=king 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.

Ponders · 17/05/2009 20:04

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

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