Originally Posted by Prison Bitch:
He was going thru some things
Because the rest of us aren't. We all just coast thru life. He had to deal with things
The point is he didn't deal with things. He bailed. Loser move. There are so many ways to get help. Hopefully his daughter is able to not be all fucked up cause her dad was the suck. [Reply]
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Another way of putting it is that Anthony Bourdain built his career on the telling of truth. The son of a French father and an American mother (Gladys Bourdain, writing as G. S. Bourdain, was a writer and a copy editor at the Times), he was a novelist before he became an essayist, but, even in the realm of fiction—as in his series of sardonic crime thrillers, including the novels “Bone in the Throat” and “Gone Bamboo”—he evinced a fascination with how people lived within and around their ill behaviors. “Guys who wake up every morning, brush their teeth, shower, shave, then go to work at the serious business of committing felonies,” he wrote in “A Life of Crime,” an essay in his collection “Medium Raw.” “These are the characters who continue to dominate my reverie.” In crime there’s not just transgression, there’s clarity: being in the conspiracy, knowing the inner workings of the machine, seeing what’s really going on. This was the engine that powered “Don’t Eat Before Reading This,” Bourdain’s 1999 New Yorker story that stripped the elegant window dressing from the world of high-end restaurants—the article that, in short order, evolved into his blockbuster 2000 memoir, “Kitchen Confidential.”
An octogenarian columnist who’d written a review about a new Olive Garden in her small city was ripped to shreds by pretentious assholes in the food blogging community and beyond.
Anthony Bourdain flew her to New York for a meal at Per Se. Then he wrote the forward to her book.
Originally Posted by BigRedChief:
Just because they are not a fashion designer or on TV...................
22 Veterans commit suicide every day. Every single day.
If only they could be badasses like HonestRacist. Those losers.
I mean shit, it's not like they weren't sick or anything. Just losers. I'm sure he's so damn cool and good that he'll go up to troops and tell them some of their fallen comrades are pussies. [Reply]
Originally Posted by HonestChieffan:
The point is he didn't deal with things. He bailed. Loser move. There are so many ways to get help. Hopefully his daughter is able to not be all fucked up cause her dad was the suck.
Originally Posted by BryanBusby:
If only they could be badasses like HonestRacist. Those losers.
I mean shit, it's not like they weren't sick or anything. Just losers. I'm sure he's so damn cool and good that he'll go up to troops and tell them some of their fallen comrades are pussies.
Yeah, lets see him kill innocent women and children inadvertently thinking they were the enemy. Laughing with your close friend and then he's dead and you have his brains and blood all over yourself. Survivors guilt and so on and so on.
Almost every single person that I worked alongside was special forces. They had either lost an arm, leg, been wounded or were having PTSD. The military was keeping them in my safe but busy environment while they were getting treated.
I've never been in war but I've seen what it does to some of the biggest bad asses in the whole world up close and personal. Judging them as weak is an insult. They were causalities of war and are heroes. [Reply]
Originally Posted by stevieray:
why are we comparing combat vets to a tv personality?
I wasn't. I was just using this thread to publicize and inform people how many vets commit suicide every day. I don't think most people are aware of high that number is. And according to my rep comments, people didn't know. Talking about vets and finding ways to help them is sort of my thing.
I stated from the start that soldiers killing themselves from the trauma of war is way way different than celebrities killing themselves. I'll step out of the thread now. [Reply]
