I have to admit that I simply can't stand Hal. It started with merely disliking Mikey, but now I can't even stand to look at photos of the man.
I have a theory that we're just allergic to some people, and I think I'm allergic to Hal.
As for his constant "I'm straight" ... he just drives me nuts. I can't tell whether he's closeted, extremely homophobic or both.
But what did it for me as far as Hal was concerned was the comment he made about only dating slim women, because women who weren't slim were in some way spiritually impaired. I've forgotten the exact quote, but that was the gist of it. Honestly! Of all the ignorant unenlightened garbage. And in a country where women and young girls die of annorexia and other eating disorders, it's downright wicked to be putting stuff like that out there IMO.
Yuck!
I did read the story. I laughed out loud as soon as Guinness was mentioned. I'm of Irish descent, and I can't drink the stuff myself, so I really felt for poor Mikey. But I also had to laugh.
What you say about the characters is interesting, isn't it? But maybe the fact that Brian has let Mikey hang around all this time does mean that the wild side (if you like) still likes to know that there's something more settled around to fall back on sometimes. I'll have to think more about that.
As for now - it's Monday morning and I'm off to work.
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I have a theory that we're just allergic to some people, and I think I'm allergic to Hal.
As for his constant "I'm straight" ... he just drives me nuts. I can't tell whether he's closeted, extremely homophobic or both.
But what did it for me as far as Hal was concerned was the comment he made about only dating slim women, because women who weren't slim were in some way spiritually impaired. I've forgotten the exact quote, but that was the gist of it. Honestly! Of all the ignorant unenlightened garbage. And in a country where women and young girls die of annorexia and other eating disorders, it's downright wicked to be putting stuff like that out there IMO.
Yuck!
I did read the story. I laughed out loud as soon as Guinness was mentioned. I'm of Irish descent, and I can't drink the stuff myself, so I really felt for poor Mikey. But I also had to laugh.
What you say about the characters is interesting, isn't it? But maybe the fact that Brian has let Mikey hang around all this time does mean that the wild side (if you like) still likes to know that there's something more settled around to fall back on sometimes. I'll have to think more about that.
As for now - it's Monday morning and I'm off to work.
Have a good one.
W