My husband has this friend. They've been friends from high school so I'd say the friendship is a good decade-plus old. It's fairly obvious that neither H's friend nor I have anything in common, so we generally just ignore each other. I'm happy when H gets to hang out with the friend, but I see no need to make him or myself uncomfortable. Therefore we don't know each other very well, though I get to hear the stories and other whathaveyou that he does in his spare time, which is immense as the guy has no job and no interest in getting one. There is his drinking/chemical problem, his contempt for anything female unless it's putting out for him, and his lack of any personal social skills (scratching his crotch in public, picking his nose, etc.). I'm not sure why they're friends except that the friend has gotten more...eccentric, to put it nicely...since high school.
But the wanker-friend just crapped about me all over H's blog (sorry, no linky-linky; H wouldn't like it). He made incorrect assumptions about my upbringing and personal philosophy, mainly as concerns religion and science. First they were wrong; second they were insulting; and third I was never even part of any discussion; I just got dragged in. If I'd taken part in the discussion, if I'd given a false or otherwise off-balance opinion, I could take criticism. But I said and did nothing and got smeared.
I hate him. I always have but it has intensified. What a complete bastard.
/rant.
