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March 24, 2006
Worstall Watch
Good Grief! I must be getting famous or something.
I have a stalker.
Right, I’m off to polish my ego.
Oh, and go and make some comments or something. Wouldn’t want him (her?) to get discouraged this early on.
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Hahaha! I can confirm it is not me. I have dropped in and given the chap a couple of hints and tips for how to survive in the watching game.
Posted by: dsquared | Mar 24, 2006 12:39:52 PM
If you look at the comments on the France post referred to I would suggest that "Ajay" is probably the name in the Cluedo envelope
Posted by: Mark T | Mar 24, 2006 1:08:34 PM
Is this an illustration of how powerful free-market bloggers like Tim have become, or is at an attempt to crush them before they become powerful?
(It's neither, I know, but that's not a very exciting thing to write).
Posted by: Boggy | Mar 24, 2006 1:26:20 PM
I have long described certain pundits as 'intellectual parasites'. They have nothing themselves to say on the public stage so they go around dogging the steps of those who have and who say it.
There is of course a key difference - where the public commentators can articulate a case with reason, the 'intellectual pasasite' cannot. This is because the parasites or 'stalkers' have no discernible cerebral functioning - so they can't figure it out for themselves.
Posted by: Peter C Glover | Mar 24, 2006 2:06:40 PM
The link posted on the Worstall Watch website is to the recent thread here on: French Economics, at:
http://timworstall.typepad.com/timworstall/2006/03/french_economic.html
Beware: Remember what happened to the Greenpeace flagship Rainbow Warrior in Auckland harbour in 1985?
"On 7 July 1985 the Rainbow Warrior, flagship of the Greenpeace Organisation, an international body concerned with conservation and environmental issues, arrived in Auckland and tied up at Marsden Wharf.
"On the night of 10 July 1985 disaster struck. Shortly before midnight two high explosive devices, attached to the hull of the Rainbow Warrior some time previously, detonated within the space of a few minutes. The force of the explosions was such that a hole eight feet in size was opened below the waterline at the engine room. The vessel sank within minutes."
http://www.police.govt.nz/operation/wharf/
Posted by: Bob B | Mar 24, 2006 2:15:04 PM
Odd to see the is being condemned, dismissed as a parasite and having his motives questioned already, all because he had the temerity to setting up a dissenting blog.
Some free speech is free-er than others, eh?
Posted by: N.I.B. | Mar 24, 2006 2:59:10 PM
no NIB - they have the freedom to set up a blog - i have the freedom to call them parasitic wankers if i wish to do so.
Posted by: JonT | Mar 24, 2006 3:07:36 PM
Why would you wish to do so, though? It's not like someone chips up and calls Tim a parasitic wanker every time he does a Polly or Krugman post, is it?
As I say, some free speech is free-er than others round these parts - so be careful which kind you try, because one of them gets you instantly dismissed as a 'parasitic wanker'.
Tim adds: Personally, I’m rather flattered by the attention.
Posted by: N.I.B. | Mar 24, 2006 3:27:10 PM
why i would wish to do so is immaterial - i am as entitled to my opinion as you are to yours - that's how free speech works. i may talk a load of bollocks but in the free exchange of ideas my arguments can be ridiculed...but i have the right to express an opinion.
Posted by: JonT | Mar 24, 2006 3:48:03 PM
I don't think anyone's questioning "Worstall Watch"'s right to exist.
Even allowing for the fact that it's early days, though, the fact that the blog seems mostly to consist of posts starting "Not much to report today" is hardly encouraging.
Posted by: Mr Eugenides | Mar 24, 2006 3:51:28 PM
What i am saying is, NIB, that criticism of worstall watch, whether merited or not is not censorship...it doesn't make him any less free to speak as he wishes.
commenters may have a whinge about the site, they may wish to praise it, but no one is demanding he shuts up now are they.
Posted by: JonT | Mar 24, 2006 3:53:37 PM
Just as an aside, there's no part of France and little of Spain that is west of Great Britain.
Posted by: MikeinAppalachia | Mar 24, 2006 4:02:35 PM
Oh I agree Jon.
However, I'm sure people will find the reaction to WW very informative - the fact that Tim took it in good grace wheras his commenters start throwing round phrases like 'parasite' and 'wankers' pretty much sums this place up.
Posted by: N.I.B. | Mar 24, 2006 4:08:05 PM
MikeinAppalachia: How about West of Lowestoft though?
Posted by: N.I.B. | Mar 24, 2006 4:15:26 PM
Guadeloupe (Département 971) is somewhat to the west of Great Britain.
(Sorry, couldn't resist.)
Posted by: Mark Holland | Mar 24, 2006 4:18:12 PM
Oooh having "a watch" is far cooler than having your site's name.com turned into a porn site.
Posted by: Andrew Ian Dodge | Mar 24, 2006 6:56:54 PM
Wow, I'm impressed. You know you've made it when someone starts a 'your-name-here watch' blog about you. This looks like it might be interesting.
Posted by: Davide Simonetti | Mar 25, 2006 4:32:19 AM
I used to have a watch site called "Drink-Soaked Popinjays for War". I don't know what they're doing these days.
Posted by: dsquared | Mar 26, 2006 3:14:44 PM
