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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:
moondog · 17/05/2009 20:04

at Pointy

TheCrackFox · 17/05/2009 20:04

RP almost gets off on the fact that we will all be living in yurts and looking for food in the rubbish dump this time next year.

pointydog · 17/05/2009 20:05

Ainsley Harriot, for example, is a twat. He really is.

NorbertDentressangle · 17/05/2009 20:05

There are more twats than I care to mention (or, indeed, have time to list) but Tim Dowling isn't one of them.

I think I have a bit of a soft spot for him but can't quite work out why.

stuffitlllama · 17/05/2009 20:06

Jeremy Vine is not that much of a twat

Nicky Campbell is a big twat, a really big twat

pointydog · 17/05/2009 20:06

right, I've googled. Yes! Peston is a fine example of a twat.

Who's the northern bloke, then? The good one?

stuffitlllama · 17/05/2009 20:07

pointy ..evan davies? he is not any kind of twat

BitOfFun · 17/05/2009 20:07

Moondog - love the goatee image...

policywonk · 17/05/2009 20:08

Robert Peston is very nice

policywonk · 17/05/2009 20:08

pointy, you mean Paul Mason. Good blog (Idle Scrawl).

pointydog · 17/05/2009 20:09

Evan, that's it! He's lovely.

If you're a pal of Peston, wonk, ask him what the fuck is wrong with his intonation and his pauses in sentences.

pointydog · 17/05/2009 20:09

I don't know rayner either. I'd like to see his goatee

stuffitlllama · 17/05/2009 20:09

nicky campbell is a good example of the patronising twat

pointydog · 17/05/2009 20:10

argh! Not Evan. No no.

Paul Mason, thank you, wonk. He is good.

Hassled · 17/05/2009 20:10

Evan Davies is not a twat but he does scare the children. He looks like some mutant offspring of the devil.

(or is that Jay Raynor?)

stuffitlllama · 17/05/2009 20:10

somebody agree with me about nicky campbell

tell me I don't shudder alone

Ponders · 17/05/2009 20:11

wonk, RP may be the kindest & loveliest bloke in the whole of the BBC but he gets over-excited about financial disaster & his delivery stinks.

Get him off to psychotherapy & elocution, there's a love.

pointydog · 17/05/2009 20:11

Evan has the ears.

pointydog · 17/05/2009 20:11

Mason is just a bit spongey

Ponders · 17/05/2009 20:11

Nicky Campbell is the twattiest of twats, llama

stuffitlllama · 17/05/2009 20:12

and the grin

TheCrackFox · 17/05/2009 20:12

Nicky Campbell is a twat. You are not alone stuffitlllama.

pointydog · 17/05/2009 20:12

I am not terribly familiar with nicky campbell, stuff, but I beleive you

stuffitlllama · 17/05/2009 20:13

thank you ponders

every time i hear his voice i want to say

oh shut up you big TWAT

BitOfFun · 17/05/2009 20:13

Oh yes, stuffit, you are quite right.

I can't believe that at the beginning of this thread I couldn't think of a single twat. Now I realize they are everywhere