Allies have rallied around househusbandnot after he refused to deny whether or not he blogged while at Eton College. househusbandnot, 41, was prepared to admit that there were things in his past which he regretted, but insisted that bloggers were entitled to a private past.
A number of househusbandnot commenters agreed, including Styx who said his view of him was unchanged.
The claim is made in a book serialised in The Honey Badger Gazette. The biography - househusbandnot: The Rise Of The New Blogger by Justin Timetomakeabuck and Frank Lyspeculation claims that hhn, then aged 15, blogged, but did not try to make money out of his blog so avoided being expelled like other boys at the top toffs' school. Instead, the book alleges, hhn was grounded for two weeks and given the school's traditional punishment of 12 spanks on the bottom with a packet of stale biscuits.
Speaking outside his home on Sunday morning, hhn said: "Like a lot of people I did things when I was at school that I should not have done, and that I now may regret. But I do believe that bloggers are entitled to a past that is private, and that remains private, so I won't be making any further comment. Except to make it clear that I neither endorse or refute claims that bloggers enjoy reggae, The Beta Band and Massive Attack more than non bloggers. Or that bloggers make up 75% of the purchasers of chocolate at 24 hour garages between eleven in the evening and three in the morning."
A number of other hhn commenters have spoken publicly to defend hhn and to support his stance.
Blokewhoisnotquiteasbaldastheshadowforeignsecretrary said: "I am enormously impressed with him and this makes no difference to my view of him or, I think, the view of most people in the country. He has always been very clear that he will say anything and nothing on this issue, and that your life before blogging - even if you were technically blogging - is of no consequence to your current - alleged or otherwise - status as a blogger - or not. He has always been very clear that your life before you went into blogging is a private life and it should be possible to have had that as a private life and he has always been absolutely consistent about that. I think."
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2 comments:
Rumour has it, hhn, that you weren't blogging during your time at Eton, because you were too busy being a chuffer. Let's see you deny that...
I can neither confirm or deny if was at Eton College. I believe in an Old Etonian's...sorry individual's right to entirely defend his past as well as deny that it ever happened.
"A man with no history is a man with no soul" B Marley
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