About us
This site was born on a horrible day when the founder, TMHOgirl, was quite literally tearing her hair out, OK, minor exaggeration, but almost tearing her hair out.
Quiz for one – how many times can we use a sentence that incorporates *tearing + hair + out* in this section? Answer may or may not be found in the FAQ section.
Apparently we are a nation of opinionated moaners, whiners and wannabe writers… whatever (*said of course with the universally recognized whatever hand signal, head turned to the left hand side in shocked indignation and rolling of the eye balls to the right hand side.*)
Tearingmyhairout.com (TMHO) is a website which combines featured articles, including current affairs, with members' diary entries venting, ranting and moaning about their angers or frustrations, or anything they want to write about. No topic is too controversial (OK maybe writing about your passionate love affair with your goat may be OK as long as you don't have sexual relations with the said goat), and we will not shy away from those topics that affect all of us but which people just pretend they do not exist.
This is our opportunity to claim back our right to moan, whine, whinge, our right to claim back the world, to claim free speech, to find or lose our voices, instead of tearing our hair out (we think we are really clever for getting that in the sentence but of course you are grossly unimpressed). Anyway, as we were saying before we were interrupted by our inert cleverness, this is our opportunity to let out all our frustrations, annoyance, irritation (do you think the last three words mean the same??), amazement, and occasionally if we have happy thoughts or something fun and cheerful to share with the world, our chance to shout about it!
Yes we can! We ♥ Barack Obama.
Meet the team
Founder and featured writer
THMOgirl
OK, so you know that our founder is of the female specie. Is that enough information to be getting on with? Some will say yes, but of course you may not agree. TMHOgirl is truly grateful for wonderful family and friends, and is especially thankful for a partner who is her best friend, who loves her unconditionally, and allows her to indulge in all her whims.
Chief Technical Officer and featured writer
Alexp
Alexp, the IT and marketing guru, is cool, calm, collected and never ever loses his temper, (not his self description, he is far too modest). He designed the site and sorts out all technicalities. Alexp has a degree in law from Oxford university and over a decade's work experience in marketing and publishing. In addition to his work on TMHO, he also looks after a few other websites.
For web design and marketing, you can contact Alexp at his website which is www.arpwebdesign.co.uk.
Featured writer
TMHOBlogger
TMHOblogger has the splendid job of letting it all hang out, warts and all. She will be blogging about her life, job, love life or lack of, and of course her equally dubious friends, work colleagues and family. Sssh…her secrets are safe with us.
Featured writer
Serenebeauty
Serenebeauty describes herself as a "dickless alpha male" and those in close quarters will know that she is all woman and then some. She's a talented and a hapless (but keep it the closet) romantic. She is gifted with common sense, logic, analysis, humour and of course, life. She likes to write about injustice for those who are challenged as well as blogging about her life with previous partners, Rusty and TS to name but a few. She thinks that what is good for the gander is equally good for the geese.
Featured writer
Scarlett
Scarlett is a Northern lass transplanted into the inhospitable South East after nearly a decade working overseas. Previous jobs have included teaching, proofreading for a local paper and putting jam in doughnuts. She currently subsists by inflicting CBT, soup and her opinions on the unsuspecting and is living happily ever after with a very lovely Viking.
Featured writer
Jo AKA Acegirl
Jo is one of those special people who truly combine stunning beauty and brain, with a kind and generous soul (our description, not hers). She is a chilled out chick who loves what life has to offer and believes her family and friends mean the world to her and make her the person she is today. She is open, happy, funny, thoughtful and loves to make her friends feel good about themselves, something she says they do for her too. She cherishes friendship and says that you cannot beat the feeling of knowing that someone knows you and loves you just the way you are. She also feels incredibly blessed to have the most supportive parents and brother a girl could wish for, it is their unwavering support in her ability to achieve, which has led to her wanting to extend that love and support to others.
Jo studied Biochemistry and Pharmacology at University and after graduating, she was accepted on a studentship to study for a PhD in Biochemistry. After leaving experimental research behind she left the UK for warmer climes travelling around Australasia and South East Asia and on returning to the UK, she decided to combine her love of science and writing and pursued a career as a scientific editor and writer.
She is passionate about travel and music and believes that the world is an amazingly beautiful and diverse place and so many of us fail to discover it. Her aim is to discover as much as is possible in this lifetime. For Jo, her second passion is music which she believes is a powerful memory and mood trigger. Song lyrics can cut straight to the core and music is something she could never do without.
So what brings the multi-talented Jo to tearingmyhairout.com? She is here mainly because of her love for writing. She finds it such a cathartic process and it really helps to de-stress her mind in this ever increasingly stressful world. She either sits and types or actually do it the old fashion way, by taking pen to paper and she just finds the words flow and she is totally in another world, completely taken over by the words coming from the depths of her emotions.
Well, some people say that Jo has a flare for the English language, others say she is full of sh*t. You can decide for yourself by checking out her posts as Acegirl:)
More about the team
We are currently feeling shy and hiding under a thorn-less rose bush because we are obviously so clever and the world is not quite ready to deal with such amazing specimen of the human race as us, and yes, we are human beings.
If however, you have a seriously legitimate reason for wanting to chat or meet with us, feel free to drop us a line or two. However, please note that being so clever, we are so incredibly busy and under such demand by the entire universe and will endeavor to get back to you as soon as we can.
Please also note that we are occasionally too busy to respond to emails because we are busy washing our hair or busy tearing our hair out.
For Media inquiries, advertising or simply to get in touch, please contact us at:
If you are super rich ££$$££ (or maybe just a little rich £$£) and want to share your wealth a little bit by giving us huge amounts of money or just a little bit of money (as we are not too proud to beg and are always exceedingly grateful), with no strings attached (or just a tiny string), your kindness will be hugely appreciated. Please contact us on:
Iwanttogiveyoutonsofmoney@tearingmyhairout.com
Featured writers
We have featured writers who are very important and extremely clever people who are highly committed to our site and write regularly for us just for the fun of it.
If you would like to be considered as a featured writer (sorry but we are too poor to pay but will write glowing references…) contact us with your ideas and tell us a little about you.
Contributing writers
You must become a member of TMHO to post comments or submit a diary entry. Membership is free of charge and our members are our contributing writers. Our contributing writers consist of anyone of the homo sapiens variety (other species may be considered), from anywhere in the universe, mostly from the UK and US, who can string a sentence together and like us are self deluded enough to think that they have something to write about that anyone would give a shit about reading or just want to feel better by letting it all out instead of tearing their hair out (ha, another clever use of our name! How is the quiz going?).
If you would like to discuss a diary written by one of the contributing writers (that is, someone unknown to us, in a location unknown to us, somewhere in the universe), please do not contact us because obviously we didn't write the diary and can't possibly discuss the thoughts of entirely random people we don't even know.
Quiz for one. How many did you count?