Come Off It, Mr Marr!

Andrew Marr said [at the Cheltenham Literary Festival]

A lot of bloggers seem to be socially inadequate, pimpled, single, slightly seedy, bald, cauliflower-nosed, young men sitting in their mother’s basements and ranting.They are very angry people.

OK – the country is full of very angry people. Many of us are angry people at times. Some of us are angry and drunk.

But the so-called citizen journalism is the spewings and rantings of very drunk people late at night. (…)  Terrible things are said on line because they are anonymous. People say things on line that they wouldn’t dream of saying in person

Oh dear – poor chap – he is obviously reading the wrong blogs!

I am not sure he should have made those comments about ‘pimpled, bald, cauliflower-nosed young men’ – he is risking a lot of comeback about balding sticky-out-eared middle aged men! My ears stick out, I was once described as ‘looking like a taxi with the doors open’ – but comments about personal appearance are generally off-limits in the blogs I read. And although I occasionally blog very late at night [admittedly that is when I rant the most, online] I would never blog whilst drunk!

I admit I don’t really like anonymous blogs – although I do understand why some of my friends choose not to be too easily identified.

I think that the majority of blogs which I read are written by people aged 30+, many of them involved in the Church, and many are  married.

I remember back in the days of A level statistics, a survey with the added information “These figures have been broken down by age, religion, and sex” Now if Andrew Marr had said that about the people who blog…