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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:
stuffitlllama · 17/05/2009 20:14

thank you all

i can move on to Chiles now

Ponders · 17/05/2009 20:15

And he does those awful posey stern photos for Watchdog (who are getting rid, aren't they?? Good news! )

TheCrackFox · 17/05/2009 20:16

I read in the papers that Nicky Campbell is being replace by Anne Robinson.

Anne Robinson, for example, is a twat.

BitOfFun · 17/05/2009 20:16

Yes, Chiles too, but only on the One Show. He is ok on You've Been Fired.

Sharon Osbourne, for example, is a twat.

HolyGuacamole · 17/05/2009 20:16

Oh this thread is hilarious

Paul McCartney is uber twat-tastic. He gets forgiven as he is the nations sweetheart but he is still a twat.

Gordon Ramsay - defo twat.

Jamie Oliver - twat. With all his mockney mockney-ness.

cherryblossoms · 17/05/2009 20:17

Evan Davies, for example, is the the point where "twat" meets it anti-matter!!!!

Hands off my Evan.

(Yes. I know. It is inappropriate - even wrong. But such are the mysteries of human desire.)

pointydog · 17/05/2009 20:17

indeed, robinson. Big twat

HolyGuacamole · 17/05/2009 20:18

Oh yes and I only realised Bono was a twat when he royally kissed Gwen Stefano's belly when she was pregnant at some awards thingamybobber. Twat.

pointydog · 17/05/2009 20:19

No! Not Oliver, holy, hell's bells.

I'll just repeat what cherry said: "(Yes. I know. It is inappropriate - even wrong. But such are the mysteries of human desire.)"

Ponders · 17/05/2009 20:21

Jamie is not, for example, a twat (unlike many many sleb chefs)

TheCrackFox · 17/05/2009 20:21

Evan Davies should be a twat but he defies the laws of twattery.

Ponders · 17/05/2009 20:23

Is he the gay pixie?

pointydog · 17/05/2009 20:23

lol crack

Hassled · 17/05/2009 20:23

I'm starting to believe that John Humphries, for example, is a bit of a twat. He just annoys me these days.

policywonk · 17/05/2009 20:24

I'm not mates with Pesto, I just met him at the G20 (did I mention I went to the G20?) and he was really very nice - offered me his chair and everything. And was happy to shoot the breeze with a completely random woman while waiting for an interview, and gave a good impression of being interested in what she had to say. Just thought he came across as a good egg.

Agree his delivery is a bit grating though.

TheCrackFox · 17/05/2009 20:25

John Humphries has recently converted to twaterry.

stuffitlllama · 17/05/2009 20:26

hassled you are not wrong, as a twat might say

Ponders · 17/05/2009 20:26

Not that recently

stuffitlllama · 17/05/2009 20:27

Bono's twattery had a lovely moment when his hat flew first class transatlantic

JaceyBee · 17/05/2009 20:27

Nicky Campbell is twateriffic. The (vaguely) middle class Jeremy Kyle. If not worse.

Pointy and Noonki you are also spot on, McKeith and Halliwell are a disgrace to our gender.

James Blunt, for example, is a twat.

wiggletastic · 17/05/2009 20:28

Tom Cruise - small, weird and a twat

(particularly when pontificating about why women with PND should not take anti-ds - arrgh - wtf does he know about it - twat!)

NorbertDentressangle · 17/05/2009 20:29

No, Evan Davies is not a twat.

His nickname within the BBC is apparently "tinsel tits" as he has a nipple pierced

stuffitlllama · 17/05/2009 20:29

J Ross is the epitome of a twat, he is like a parody of himself

he personifies the twat dynamic

TheCrackFox · 17/05/2009 20:31

Nicky Hambleton Jones is a nasty twat.

BitOfFun · 17/05/2009 20:31

Who's that Brighton would-be MP doctor that guests on The Wright Stuff? Now he takes twattery to a new dimension...