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Originally Posted by Seraphim

I agree with the original poster.

I cannot agree with this post:



I think this is extremely patronising and even insulting. (Not that I am offended, but I'm just saying). Being menopausal does not change someone's personality and it isn't even close to being an adequate excuse for Linda Nolan's sour bitching, spiteful conduct and manipulative behaviour. That over-the-top fake melt-down she had just because of the mention of Frank Carson's dressingroom was pathetic. Yes, we feel sorry that she's had a tough time and has lost her husband, but she felt strong enough to challenge Jim at every opportunity she got and to try to create new opportunities if none came up. Her husband broke the law years ago so it couldn't have come as a shock to her. She was just laying it on thick for sympathy.
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Jim has basically kept his mouth shut until now out of respect for the dead and Linda's feelings, but Linda basically opened the door to the comment during that huge scene she created in the garden beforehand. She brought the whole thing on herself, and I haven't an ounce of sympathy for her. She has probably been bitching about people and creating drama and friction since she was at school.

And as for Jim being miserable.. I'm a fun-loving party animal, and I've have been utterly miserable if I'd been Jim. Every time he walked into the bedroom there was a trio of women like MacBeth's witches, bitching about him. Every time he opened his mouth, she was onto him like a heat-seeking missile. Every time he tried to crack a joke, it got taken the wrong way. No wonder he was grumpy. Yeah, on this one occasion he seems to have tried to wriggle out of responsibility for her being so upset - he probably didn't anticipate her having such an over-the-top response, so he's trying to limit the damage. I have total sympathy for him. No-one is perfect. Most people I know, including myself, would not have coped so well under the same circumstances. I'd have spent most of my time hiding in the toilet, then eventually would have cracked and told her what I thought of her loudly and at length.

I disagree with your reasoning entirely. Making Jim Davidson out to be a poor vulnerable man at the mercy of a women is laughable.
The only problem he has is that he can't use his fists to shut her up so therefore he can't deal with her. He's a coward, like all wife beaters.