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CNN's Anthony Bourdain dead at 61[W:228]

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Enjoyed his show greatly.

I don't think there wasn't any food he wouldn't try. And he wouldn't just nibble at some foreign dish he would just shove it down.

Will miss him and the show. I guess he truly is at Parts Unknown.
 
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Rest in peace.
 
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iLOL
The thing you are using to interpret someone else's posts, is in need of calibration.

Your grammar is in need of calibration.
 
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Your grammar is in need of calibration.
Hilarious.
Get that thing calibrated.
 
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There isn't a person alive who isn't deserving of criticism for something. It's how and when that criticism is delivered that I'm talking about.
There is no light to be seen here.
The timing is appropriate.
He is deserving of criticism whether or not he died.
Maybe folks should recognize that and left the voiced opinion as it was instead of continuing this absurd topic deflection.
 
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Hilarious.
Get that thing calibrated.

This brain knows when to use a comma.
 
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This brain knows when to use a comma.
As you were told.
Get that thing calibrated.
 
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A great wit and acerbic critic is gone, and yet the peons are already spitting on his corpse.
 

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This entire sad episode reminds me of how I felt when I heard Robin Williams had checked out on his own. It just so hard for a person like me - average working class stiff - to understand how somebody who supposedly had it all.... money, fame, access to anything they wanted.... could make a decision that life was bad that they had to leave it. Its just completely beyond my comprehension.

I wonder if he had health problems?

There was talk that when his latest marriage fell apart it hit him really hard. Maybe that was a factor?

The part of his shows that I loved the most was where he would go into a four star restaurant and eat a meal that cost over $200 and then rip the place a new one from their faults and phoniness and then he would go to somebody home in a working class neighborhood where a chubby 70 year old grandmother would serve him Polish stuffed cabbage and he acted like it was the best meal he ever ate and than her profusely in the most honest display of true gratitude he could muster.

Last Sunday, I happened to watch an old---3 or 4 years ago--- episode of his CNN show.
AB has always been a thin guy, but he was noticeably bulkier and looked a lot less weathered in that particular episode as compared to his newer shows.

What a guy!

Yeah, seemed like a good guy and an intelligent man.
RIP
 
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His story about working on Cape Cod as a lowly peon and watching the chef bang the bride at a wedding reception in the back where the trash was kept is a classic. He said there on the spot he decided to be a chef.

The old adage about the restaurant business is a bad joke: how you get a restaurant worth a million dollars? - Start out with five million dollars.

Yep, remembered the one with the newly wed bride taking one from the team.. and the claws the veterans in the kitchen had. The one owner who kept the guarantees for pots and pans... his breakthrough to learning to love food with oysters on a boat with his family in France, his and his brother’s ordering steak haché regularly beforehand.. It was a great read.
 
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I sometimes watched his shows and often it was entertaining, he will be missed but sadly suicide takes too many people. Last week the 31 year old sister of our queen was found dead due to suicide.

Depression is a silent and mostly hidden disease where the true level of depression someone was living with is often just found out when it is too late.
 
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Where did you see that he was suffering from depression?

http://www.tmz.com/2018/06/08/anthony-bourdain-dead-talked-depression-parts-unknown/

ANTHONY BOURDAIN
TALKED DEPRESSION IN 'PARTS UNKNOWN'
... 'I Feel Very Isolated'

revealed he suffered from depression during a 2016 episode of 'Parts Unknown' -- in which he said something as simple as a bad burger could send him into a downward spiral.

Bourdain addressed the issue while visiting Argentina -- a country that fascinated him because it embraced psychoanalysis and mental health treatment.

The episode featured several scenes of Bourdain speaking with his therapist and addressing real issues in his life. And, even though it seems like a joke at first, it becomes clear he's not kidding around.

When asked what brought him into the office, Bourdain says ... "I will find myself in an airport, for instance, and I'll order an airport hamburger. It's an insignificant thing, it's a small thing, it's a hamburger, but it's not a good one. Suddenly I look at the hamburger and I find myself in a spiral of depression that can last for days."

He goes on to explain how he often feels alone.

"I feel kind of like a freak and I feel very isolated. I communicate for a living but I'm terrible at communicating with people I care about."

The episode ended with Bourdain saying he has positive moments too.

"There's the evil cheeseburger that sets me off. Suddenly I'm super depressed for days. It's like that with the good stuff too. I have a couple of happy minutes there where I'm thinking, life is pretty good."

Wouldn't be surprised to find out later that he may have been bipolar to some degree as it is a disease that has often been associated with 'creative' people.
 
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It really is amazing how common suicide is.

Or is it becoming more common?

How can we know so little about the signs?

RIP
 
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Not really appropriate.


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Why? Just because someone is dead does not mean people can not write they do not like someone. Especially in a breaking news thread IMHO. Now if it were a thread celebrating that person (sort of a memorial thread to that person) it would be inappropriate. And I don't like to agree with this person but for once he is not wrong.:shock:

When Trump dies (which he will, no way he will live to 120 or beyond) I too will say that I did not like the guy or his politics. When Michael Jackson died I also thought I like his music but did not like the person.

When a mother died her 2 children wrote in her obituary that:

"She passed away on May 31, 2018 in Springfield and will now face judgement. She will not be missed by Gina and Jay, and they understand that this world is a better place without her."
 
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Suicide is such a selfish act. Im pretty sure Bourdain had a young daughter too

Shows how little you know about suicide or depression.
 
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I enjoyed his shows. It is sad how many people are committing suicide.

I wonder if the rate is really going up or are they just being recorded as suicide now. I know years ago a lot of suicides were written up as natural causes. I had friends that committed suicide and it was years later that the truth actually came out.

Either way we need to address the problem of mental illness if we want to stop the deaths. It is not the gun, the rope, the pills, or any other thing that they use to kill themselves that is the problem. Until we treat mental illness the same as physical illness I expect the death toll will continue. One day we will accept the idea that mental illness is the root cause of most crime, suicides, and killings. Only after we identify and acknowledge the true cause can we start to fix things.

The key is for people not to see the term mental as meaning something other than physical. But I have debated people here who insist that mental is not physical. All illnesses and conditions have physical causes and bases.
 
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Suicide is such a selfish act. Im pretty sure Bourdain had a young daughter too

There is nothing selfish about suicide. It is more selfish to want someone to keep living in pain for your own needs.
 
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Suicide is such a selfish act. Im pretty sure Bourdain had a young daughter too
Selfishness has nothing to do with it. You never know what’s going on inside someone’s brain and depression is a serious condition.
 
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Thanks for sharing, I can now get through my day.

You are welcome.

If you want an admiration fest there exists a [RIP] topic. You can always go there.
 
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You are welcome.

If you want an admiration fest there exists a [RIP] topic. You can always go there.
It’s a safe bet that you don’t have many friends and probably don’t really even like yourself. Go shove off.
 
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It’s a safe bet that you don’t have many friends and probably don’t really even like yourself. Go shove off.
Besides you not knowing what you are talking about ...
iLOL This isn't about me or what you think of me.

It is about that mentally defective douchebag Bordain.

Like I said, if you want an admiration fest, there exists a [RIP] thread.
 
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