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| Gender | Male |
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| Industry | Communications or Media |
| Occupation | Freelance Satirical Polemicist |
| Introduction | Polite, accommodating, flexible, erudite and warm - are all ways in which people have described my twin brother. My name's Bren Tierney, I'm a native of the UK and find life and people endlessly enthralling - usually to the point of amusement. Here's where I write about it. |
| Interests | People, Satire, Comedy, Politics, The Media, Circumstances, History, Reading, Literature, the uses and abuses of Language, Philology, Etymology, Exchanging Views, Ideas, Thinking, Philosophy, The Difference, |
| Favorite movies | Anything by Sir David Lean, Martin Scorsese, Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger, Christopher Guest, Michael Mann, Bowfinger, This is Spinal Tap, Mutiny on the Bounty (1935), Mutiny on the Bounty (1962), Bounty, The Quiet Man, Fix Bayonets, Zoolander, The Pianist, And The Band Played On, The Usual Suspects, Harvey, Mr Smith Goes To Washington, Withnail & I, Some Like It Hot, The Longest Day, Gosford Park, Titanic, Minority Report, Hot Fuzz, Tremors, The Last of the Mohicans, Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo, Unforgiven, Kill Bill, Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back, The Hill, Galaxy Quest, In Which We Serve, Zulu, The Browning Version (1951), Goodbye Mr Chips (1939), |
| Favorite books | A mixture of both high brow and low rent: anything by Tom Sharpe, Simon Winchester, Andrew Anthony, Jeremy Clarkson, Will Self, Dorothy Parker, H. L. Mencken, Edward Lear, Don Paterson, Eric Partridge, Damian Thompson, Stephen Fry, Raymond Seitz, Bill Bryson, Chrisopher Andrew, Philip Roth, Bill Shudderstaff, Sebastian Faulks |