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I would be angry about it too, except no one who does that is in their right mind. No one else knows what the other guy has been through emotionally or what makes him get out of bed in the morning. Lot of people, who seemingly had everything to live for and lacked for nothing, have offed themselves, leaving everyone in their wake scratching their heads, wondering what signs they missed, what they could have done, desperate for answers that will never come. I think it's especially bad and selfish, given that AB had a young daughter and his elderly mother is still alive. I know nothing could make me off myself as long as my folks are around. The thought of what that would do to them makes it pretty easy for me to carry on, even if I did want to check out early. But it's pointless to overanalyze what made AB do it. Only he knows and he had to be in a mental place none of us knows about to get to that point.
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As I said on my original post, we never know what someone else is going through. Yes, he gave up the ghost but we may never know why. I suspect there is more to his story that we will never know.
As has been stated elsewhere, he was a heavy smoker and drinker in years past. We don't know that he wasn't given a terminal diagnosis, we don't know what his relationship status was, we don't know that this wasn't a relapse and we don't know if it may have been accidental (erotic asphyxiation). Perhaps we will know in the weeks or months down the road but in the meantime, we shouldn't rush to judgement about someone's character because of one 'mistake' they made when we don't know the circumstances behind it. |
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when i went to Singapore. wife and i got to wandering and we got lost. i blame the oppressive humidity. we sought shelter. we found an indoor food court..big surprise. no AC!
what i did find was a guy chopping chicken. it was Hananiese chicken. (sorry, i just butchered the spelling). it was cheap. like a US dollar. it was exactly how i imagine it if i had a choir of angels singing in my mouth. just belting out a note in perfect harmony. that meal effed me up..i will never look at chicken the same again. i was over in SE asia for a month. i never passed up that chicken if i found it. i saw a show with AB. he was walking around an enclosed food court..hmmm..looks like Singapore. hey! it is! he was gushing about the same guy that chopped up my chicken!! i wanted him to describe it as a choir of angels singing in his mouth..but he took it a different direction. he loved that meal as well!! i like to imagine it effed up chicken for him as well. |
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funny story.
i was in LA. Pasadena to be exact. i was driving along and i saw the sign. Hanianese chicken! SCREECH! illegal u-turn..boom found parking. the wait was long, wife was super annoyed. we ended up eating sitting at a sidewalk table. chicken was okay. what did blow my mind was the chinese girl sitting next to me. there was no possible way her skirt could be any shorter. my wife was kicking me under the table. laughing at me. i politely kept my eyes on the chicken. (on my plate) that girls skirt was just riding the ragged edge..begging for some extra gravity to hold down the hem to keep the girl covered. she was with this super handsome rich dude..porsche GT3 just with the best parking spot. LA is like bizarro land to me sometimes. that chicken..seriously. i need to move on. |
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Is that something they just aren't talking about or is it speculation? I think I'm going to agree with Val Kilmer on this one. |
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An excerpt from his inane rambling: Those of us that knew you are shocked and angry and angry and angry selfishly angry, for what you just did to us. Millions I should think. At least a million people like me who imagine they know you. For a guy who claims to have suffered from depression and studied it in detail, I think he still doesn't get it. |
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Bourdain didn't really give a crap about anything and we loved him for it. Years of heroin/etc took all the dopamine out of his brain and there was nothing left to give him pleasure. Traveling to the most exotic lands, eating the greatest of foods, sitting with the most famous people? Meh. He taught people how to go with the flow and be comfortable wherever. The few shows I've watched, always thought he was being a bit pretentious and not interested in the food. But maybe that was just the on-screen persona. |
I don't know how you could've ever watched one of his shows and concluded that he didn't have any interest in the food.
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it's official. PPOT can and will debate anything.
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FWIW, he is recovering from some strange cancer right now himself. He was on a popular radio show last week and his voice was unrecognizable; I thought he was doing some strange impression or act but apparently his tongue is so swollen that he can barely talk. FWIW, I’ve experienced suicide w someone very close to me recently and I think that we need to give people wide latitude w their reaction to it. It’s quite common for people to have varying responses to it, including responses that may seem inappropriate to you or me. It’s evident on this thread and others in the past when someone in the news does this. There is an absolute suicide epidemic happening in the U.S. right now w rates skyrocketing everywhere. Vet rates are bonkers but it’s also up by double digits over 10 years in 49 out of 50 states. We need to address it as a public health issue. CDC stats on suicide: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2018/06/07/u-s-suicide-rates-rise-sharply-across-the-country-new-report-shows/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.2e4cca143722 |
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I said that the wrong way java.
He didn't dive into every plate yum yum yum loving it stuff face more stuff face piggy loving it repeat repeat repeat every episode like cool punkrock camero dude. He didn't over-analyze molecular structures like the square glasses german. (which I like) He didn't over-dramatize and aggrandize himself as some living god personality on earth who can make anything 'better'. He didn't buzz though recipes and get over with like most tv chefs. He was more about the total experience iirc. About smelling the flowers and absorbing everything around instead of just doing it. |
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Thanks for the honest, insightful quote............. took some self confidence given it goes against the whiny, forgiving, co-dependent, apologists here...... Guy was a douche and went out like a douche. |
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Through my 20's and into my 30's my best friend and I were inseparable. We worked together, we hung out together, constantly. Rarely did anyone see one of us without the other. Then we were involved in an accident at work and we got burned. He got the worst of it with numerous skin grafts, I got out of it a little luckier than he did but it still sucked. After that he changed and we started to drift apart. Someone said I changed. Dunno about that. A few years later he killed himself and it makes me angry just thinking about it. It was a horrible thing for him to do and I do not forgive him for it. That's what I agree with Kilmer about. Suicide is selfish and a coward's way out and I do not entertain excuses for it or accept rationalization of it. The act deserves contempt and those who do it or think about doing should be treated accordingly. It's wrong, all the way through. Wrong wrong wrong. There is no excuse for it, None. You suck it up and deal with it, you live life and that's all there is to it! http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1528744063.jpg |
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Next time you're down in the San Gabriel Valley Come on down to Savoy, still one of my favorite places for hainan chicken. Their sauces are the best too! |
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