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Tim Dowling held up at passport control
« on: May 07, 2011, 04:46:02 PM »
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Re: Tim Dowling held up at passport control
« Reply #1 on: May 07, 2011, 07:01:06 PM »
He "moved to the UK" in 1990 at the age of 27, according to Wikipedia. I always enjoy his Guardian pieces.

This amused me

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"Your accent goes really American when you're freaking out," the youngest one [of his children] says. He performs an unkind impersonation of me being obsequious in the face of authority.



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Re: Tim Dowling held up at passport control
« Reply #2 on: May 07, 2011, 07:33:20 PM »
It sounds like he got really lucky, all things considered!
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Re: Tim Dowling held up at passport control
« Reply #3 on: May 07, 2011, 08:28:46 PM »
Quote from: aimlesstraveler on May 07, 2011, 07:33:20 PM
It sounds like he got really lucky, all things considered!

He got a column out of it, too. I wonder if the immigration people had heard of him?
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Re: Tim Dowling held up at passport control
« Reply #4 on: May 07, 2011, 10:19:45 PM »
I knew someone would post about this!
His column is very amusing. Unlike Lucy Mangan, who I think is a waste of paper, but my in laws love her...so it must be a generational thing!

But you know, I always carry my old passport around with me and not once in 12 years have I ever been asked to show it!
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Re: Tim Dowling held up at passport control
« Reply #5 on: May 07, 2011, 10:50:03 PM »
Quote from: racheeeee on May 07, 2011, 10:19:45 PM
Unlike Lucy Mangan, who I think is a waste of paper

The thing about Mangan is that while she is a confessed grammar nazi (educated in Catford and Cambridge) she does this thing where she constantly mentions that her father is a bloke and throws in obvious working class snippets to sort of get a 'street' feel - "you lot", "down the pub".  Kinda slipping in and out of it.
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Re: Tim Dowling held up at passport control
« Reply #6 on: May 08, 2011, 12:04:14 PM »
I love his column, always laugh out loud at life kinda thing.
Thanks for sharing this!
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