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[froodle]

Oh, I almost forgot! Is there a secret rule somewhere that says that to be a good policeman/private detective/person who finds out stuff about people that people don't want people to know about, you have to have a drinking problem? I'm not talking about Ye Olde Detectives, obviously, but modern ones always seem to have a problem with alcohol. Jimmy McNulty, Charlie Parker, Sam Vimes... I'd like to see a crime story where the main SUPER DETECTIVE OF WONDERMENT had some other vice. Like, maybe he had to kick puppies constantly, and if there were no puppies for him to kick he got really angry and started muggling old ladies to steal their puppies and kick them, or pawning his wifes jewellery to pay for puppies to kick. Man, that would be awesome. Stupid puppies.

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[queenofthorns.livejournal.com]

Heh! Well, I don't know who they other people you're talking about are, but it is an actual statistic that cops (at least in the US, which is all I've read about) drink a LOT and many of them are alcoholics (and also, smokers) and if you read any memoir about being a cop, there will be quite a lot of drinking involved. So, it's not that Jimmy drinks because he's the super-detective; he drinks because that's what ALL of the cops do (so does Bunk, so do a bunch of the much-less-good cops on the show!)

[froodle]

Yeah, but Bunk doesn't let it ruin his marriage (except nearly that one time with the pink dressing gown) and the others are Herc and Carver and nobody cares about them.

[queenofthorns.livejournal.com]

Uh, well, I don't want to spoil you because I'm not quite sure where you are in the series, but even in the first series, I think it's made clear that it's not the drinking that ruined McNutty's marriage, but the sleeping around (which, yes, is sometimes a corollary of the drinking.) And the ruined marriages are sadly also kind of a fact of cops' lives too, so ... I guess what I'm trying to say is that I don't think McNulty is actually a stereotypical character, but that's just my view on the subject.

[froodle]

I've seen up to the end of season two, and oh my God, who takes care of Wee-Bays fish? I totally missed that the first time 'round, but with him in jail for ever and ever and ever, amen, and Dee not only in jail for twenty years but also dead of Stringerness, won't somebody think of the fishies?!

[queenofthorns.livejournal.com]

Hee! I SO love that scene when Dee thinks that WeeBey is going to kill him and all he wants is for Dee to look after the fishies!! Alas, poor D!!

[froodle]

I know, and then later he's down at the pit with the little bag of fish food and Bodie et al are mocking him for it and he's like, SHUT UP CARING FOR FISHIES IS MY DIVINE RIGHT!

[miriglum.livejournal.com]

On a complete tangent, did you know that in Victorian England (aka, back in the YORE), you were twice as likely to go stir-hopping-slashin-crazy if you were a hackney cab driver than any other proffesion. Because their brains were constantly being shaken apparently. Unless you were a woman, of course, but that hardly counts as a proffession

Thus ends my attempt at sceince.

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Of course, this is probably a big internet no-no, but since this does not constitute the actual address where I live, so much as a named pigeon hole where post is slotted, dropped and occasionally crammed, I don't really care how many weirdos know it. I think hate mail might be *rather amusing*.

[froodle]

If you get tracked down, kidnapped, eaten and your skin turned into a rather smart casual jacket, I am not responsible. Unless you have anything I might consider worth stealing, then it probably was me.