Ex-pat kiwi's live all around the world. Some go large and head off to foreign lands like Europe, Canada or England. Some other kiwi's prefer to not stretch themselves quite so far and so they jump the ditch to the land of the long time exiled crowd. Mike aka @elpieso is one of those tweeps who lives just across the way.
Somehow or another I pushed the follow button on twitter and my timeline just hasn't been quite the same since. Mike is (pardon the language) a real good bastard. A salt of the earth type guy who has an immense and acute sense of humor that'll keep you laughing.
He tweets things as he sees them and he won't apologize if you don't like it or see things differently. That's not to say that he doesn't enjoy a good debate or argument - just don't expect to win! And to be honest he has bugger all twitter followers. But the number of followers he has (or doesn't have) is not related to his tweets. It's more about the fact that he is still pretty fresh to the twitter game and he doesn't waste his time following celebs or people who suck..
@elpieso doesn't sit at the other end of twitter waiting for you either. If he tweets you then you're in luck. If he doesn't tweet you then I wouldn't worry about it too much. That's just his way of saying - your tweets suck. That's probably because he is out on the road somewhere in his truck tail-gating some poor old lady who is driving well below the speed limit.
So when he does actually have twitter on what does he actually tweet about? Let's have a look -
"730am. I want tacos." <-- that's deep right there.
"Laying on the couch ripping on fatties on tv.
"Marco Pierre White can read me bedtime stories any night of the week
But behind all that bollocks up he is actually a really nice guy and a dad who has a real life and real issues to work through -
"That moment when your eldest daughter tells you she doesn't want you to leave because it makes her sad and she wants to stay with you :-("
And I also need to mention his way better half @mashysaurate. Who must have the patience of a saint to not only tweet Mike but actually live with him too. Either that or her love for Metallica gets her through.
So if you want to follow someone who will occasionally tweet you and give you a good winding up then Mike is your man. He is out of the box, doesn't conform and will most likely at some stage or another really piss you off. But hey - isn't that what friends are for?
I am going to let @elpieso have the final word and then you can decide whether or not you are going to push the follow button-
"Heckler, sarcastic, father, truckie. If you don't like what I tweet, don't follow me. If you like what I tweet, send money."
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