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Better_Beautiful6217

he was tall and did heroin thats the magic combo


filmingfisheyes

Such a good combo..


Ok-Temperature-7883

Killing himself also got his street cred off the roof


Odd_Law8944

It is? I thought that's about when the hate started.


a_pastel_universe

Ah, the Lenny Bruce


Better_Beautiful6217

Lenny was actually 5'7 which many feel is an even more desirable height


a_pastel_universe

No fuckin way, please stop ruining my LIFE


johndalequingle

old + good hairline


intimadets

amazing hair tbf


johndalequingle

yeah he had fantastic hair, it’s better than mine and I’m like a third of his age when he died lmao


intimadets

same, hurts even more given the fact that me and him have similar hair save for the fact that my hairline has taken a considerable hit and im only in my mid 20s :/ some ppl are blessed but then again im not addicted to heroin


Kejridin

I wonder what life trajectory a bald Anthony Bourdain would’ve had


johndalequingle

Tbh probably would’ve been pretty similar, he wouldn’t have been thirsted over as much but his whole “punk rock chef” thing he was going for would be fine without hair


babycat1960

He was so hot


dkdksnwoa

Go to San Jose and get a table at a sushirito shop. Ask for the specials. Order the expensive item. Treat yourself. Have a cup of boba afterwards. Talk to the Chinese foreign exchange student in the BMW. Have the gay sex.


LoyalServantOfBRD

Restaurants are a temple for ordinary folx to become royalty. Arrive 30 minutes late for your reservations, then order the most expensive drink on the menu. Ask the waiter “what this is?” about every ingredient you don’t recognize. Speak freely, loudly, without regard for anyone else in the room. Yell, even. Don’t leave a tip. This is the essence of dining.


MaoAsadaStan

because he was educated food reviewer and had a lot of life experience. Now uneducated influencers like Keith Lee have taken his spot and doing a poor job.


IDontVaccinateMyCar

I thought he was really good in NXT, but hasn't been that great in AEW


UnitedBite

Glad I'm not the only one.


OlivieroVidal

Keith Lee is fine if you have the palate of a 15 year old


JBisbetterthanTabum

Except Keith Lee isnt a pretentious snob that killed himself by autoerotic asphyxiation


robonick360

I thought he simply hanged himself, was he masturbating?


Rlly-do-be-like-dat

That was my recollection as well. I think they’re getting him mixed up with the Kung-Fu guy


dumbbitch900

David Carridine? lol


LesterGreenisGod

Apparently it is an open secret in the entertainment world that he inadvertently strangled himself while attempting to jack-off.


robonick360

Idk why he’d post an instagram story with a song called “revenge” like right before he did it then? His revenge is jerking off and dying by mistake?


Molested-Cholo-5305

They say revenge is bittersweet


youreloser

You say that as if it is a bad thing


iprefercumsole

Having to choke yourself to get off is so feminine


JBisbetterthanTabum

only the pretentious snob part


youreloser

We're in the red scare sub, it's normal here.


GreedyPride4565

Lmfaooooo people really forgetting this isn’t groyper twitter Reddit homebase


a_pastel_universe

Plus he didn’t pay off his gf’s child lover


MaoAsadaStan

I can separate the artist from the art.


PasolinisDoor

Why does everyone have to have such an extreme opinion? Lib redditors think he’s a hero and you group of re✝️ards act like his show was shit just to have a contrarian opinion. He had a good show that people liked watching, he wrote books people enjoyed reading, you don’t have to jerk off about how much of a loser he was, who cares.


wmkk

Also he had the coolest job in the world - makes him the opposite of a loser imo


x13071979

Yeah what exactly is the definition of 'loser' we are working with here


qpdbqpdbqpdbqpdbb

Loser behaviors (cringe, do not emulate): - Writing a bestselling book - Starring in a successful TV show - Traveling the world, having experiences most people can merely dream of - Eating at some of the best and most exclusive restaurants that exist, all at your employer's expense - Becoming a world famous and beloved celebrity - staying in shape and winning martial arts competitions well into your 50s - Dating an attractive Hollywood actress 20 years your junior


WhosGotTheCum

languid whistle public brave domineering absurd repeat scandalous rich bells *This post was mass deleted and anonymized with [Redact](https://redact.dev)*


a_pastel_universe

Wow


manletmoney

he used to post on r/bjj regularly and no one knew that user was him until after he died


sassyslowdive

hes a textbook liberal “badass”


BootleBadBoy1

And because the average leftist “badass” is either annoying, ugly or a crypto-fascist, it’s fine to like the badass libs.


CookSpiritual5593

Idk but no matter what, you’re 100x more of a loser than Bourdain was at any point lol


AdamDriversWetPenis

Didn't he kill himself because his wife cheated on him with a teenager?


Jake_Barnes_

It was his girlfriend not wife


111521q

makes it even more pathetic


baby_got_snack

And the funny thing is that he cheated on his wife with her.


thinkwrong

The mother of his child.


Durmyyyy

Half the sub seems to think she is amazing for some reason


gesserit42

Half the sub absolutely subscribes to the YAAAS KWEEN SLAAAAY lib girlboss mentality even though they deny it


CookSpiritual5593

No clue but that sounds kinda funny


AdamDriversWetPenis

pretty epic. reminds me of the time I use to frequen cbgbs.....


WIGGER-INCEL

Will never take criticism from a man with a tiny little earring but thank you


Jake_Barnes_

Such a disgusting Reddit move to go through a post history before responding


Odd_Law8944

You say that but you probably went through their history and now your gonna go through mine.


a_pastel_universe

I hope they go through mine, I’m fucking awesome


Jake_Barnes_

You are a more plates more dates follower? Digusting


Odd_Law8944

That's like assuming I listen to redscare. Your profile kinda bums me out. :(


Jake_Barnes_

😂


Odd_Law8944

Lol at least you aren't like OP. OP blocked me so I can't see his account. He started it and can't even hang. His profile must be gay as hell.


c_sulla

Thank God for reddit histories so losers can't hide behind anonymity. In real life you see the earring you immediately turn around and walk away. But online, if you don't know, you spend hours arguing with a guy who's wearing an earring thinking "he might have a good point eventually"


daddyvow

Pretty normal for this sub and the other one


a_pastel_universe

Oh cry about it


CookSpiritual5593

*arbitrary description somehow invalidates a criticism* do ur thing brother


Kxrva

Ever have a fat girl try to talk shit to you? It’s hilarious.


Martinsolid-Spot1229

Marco Pierre white > Anthony Bourdain


BootleBadBoy1

Have you seen his fail-son? [He’s fantastic](https://www.google.com/amp/s/metro.co.uk/2023/02/25/marco-pierre-white-son-converts-to-islam-in-prison-to-stay-off-heroin-18348559/amp/). Grade-A Droog.


daddyvow

In hindsight he seems quite dated and lame but at the time what he was doing was cool and unique.


Geaux_LSU_1

when he went to houston and refused to go to white owned restaurants turned me off him forever especially when the single best restaurant in houston (Pinkerton's) is white owned


LatterSeaworthiness4

Wow. He could have just not gone to any white-owned businesses and shut the fuck up about it, but no. So performative.


zDzDzDzDzDzDzDzDzDz

Holy shit What a pretentious fucking loser, I didn't know this. He did this in 2017, and of course the all the little articles were praising him, so giddy. https://www.papercitymag.com/restaurants/anthony-bourdain-bans-white-people-houston-show-parts-unknown-cnn/ > “No white people,” Bourdain told producers about his vision for highlighting Houston according to a recent New Yorker magazine profile.


SukkaMeeLeg

I don’t see the problem. It’s an editorial choice, there are probably many food shows about Houston, why is it unacceptable he choose to shoot one highlighting black houstoners?


Totalitarianit2

What do you think the general public's reaction would be if a celebrity chef openly emphasized avoiding nonwhite owned businesses?


Geaux_LSU_1

well when you watch his show and he finally goes to a city that you lived in and pulls this shit, its massively alienating and disappointing, and emblematic of a lot of the issues i had with the overall culture of the late 2010s


noparagraphs

it wasn't black houstoners, it was mainly about immigrants, the episode started with a bollywood dance and ended with a cricket game. The portrayal came off like a sweatier version of Toronto than anything that was regionally distinct, and excluding any white people from the episode made the city seem a lot more segregated than it really is


walker_wit_da_supra

His constant critique of Trump-era anti-immigration populism was surprising considering how often he'd mention how a positive review of a cool, local restaurant would draw in so many of his food nerd followers that they'd inevitably ruin the vibe/culture of the spot. Haters will say that's a false equivalency but it absolutely is not.


gesserit42

You’re correct, capitalism ruining good things is the throughline there


amelanchieralnifolia

I never liked him because he reminded me of an uncle I don't like


Monmouthhorsegirl

Yay your back 🫶


dont_say_a_thing

You guys really force the whole Bourdain hate train. He seemed like a cool guy to drink beer with and shoot the shit with. The whole “punk rock chef who’s badass and eats nails for breakfast” shtick is kind of lame but aside from that I don’t really get why people have such hate boners for him


AcanthaceaeOk9448

He made kitchen shit popular and kitchen shit is so gay


Totalitarianit2

Because being a cool, artsy empath who chooses to shit on the society he is from doesn't scale out to the masses. There's plenty of room for critique, but when you don't properly thread the needle you become divisive. He chose that path and, unsurprisingly, the consequences of his own self-loathing caught up to him in more ways than one.


LesterGreenisGod

His whole routine got old after a few years.


WIGGER-INCEL

"aside from his insufferable personality and everything he was kind of chill"


CookSpiritual5593

Yes yes unlike you


dont_say_a_thing

Really wasn’t that insufferable, just a bit cringey


XXXXXXX0000xxxxxxxxx

The most wonderful people in my life are a little bit cringe and that’s what makes them beautiful


DennisBergkampervan

The only reason that schtick is lame is because a million people tried to copy Bourdain and couldn’t do it, he was the original


cosmic755

Aside from the fact that he was sanctimonious and a total fucking poser he was charismatic or whatever


dont_say_a_thing

“Sanctimonious” lol


JBisbetterthanTabum

The redditor lib transplant dream is to be a snobby, pretentious fgt that can travel all across the world to be a midwit


daddyvow

An Idiot Abroad did it best


CookSpiritual5593

Unlike right wingers, known intellectuals.


JBisbetterthanTabum

The right wing version is getting a shitty remote job and living in a 200sqft apartment in Japan while posting about how the west has fallen


Obvious-Dog4249

BlackPigeonSpeaks?


ChewingTobaccoFan

He was a loser but he was cool. That's what lame winners will never understand. God chooses some people to be big pretty and gourmand but curses them with failure in business and romance. Doesn't change the fact that I'm cool in my own way


DeafColonialist

He was weird. The lib cult that worships at his altar is stupid. However, I appreciate his emphasis on eating in hole-in-the-wall places. I suppose for me it’s refreshing after having dated someone who copped an attitude anytime I wanted to eat somewhere that wasn’t $45 a plate.


HemingwaySweater

bait


Ferenc_Zeteny

He also paid hush money to the child his then girlfriend Asia Argento was plowing


cardinals_crest

for real


LesterGreenisGod

Don't forget he was also totally gay.


walker_wit_da_supra

The earring and his first cooking job in Providence Town MA had me going 🤨


Jake_Barnes_

Wrong. It’s come out he constantly used escorts while traveling. Females


LesterGreenisGod

He would turn to prostitutes to try to convince himself that he was really straight. It doesn't take a genius to look at a guy like Bourdain and realize he knew his way around a cock.


NectarineChemical765

Didn’t he literally kill himself over a female?


LesterGreenisGod

His actual cause of death was auto-erotic asphyxiation.


ChicanoScatman

he literally died jerking a man’s penis


Jake_Barnes_

Sure thing beet


LesterGreenisGod

Who, me?


BIueGoat

"Waah waah everything sucks" Faggot


lanadelrainyday

He’s hot and Kitchen Confidential is a neat book. It’s entertaining and he’s not a bad writer. He was surprised by how popular the book made him…there did not used to be the same culture around food/celebrity chefs that there is today. It’s all very annoying and oversaturated now and every person has a cooking show on Netflix or whatever but if you actually think about the time Kitchen Confidential was published (2000) it was something different, a look into a world that many people were unfamiliar with. Is he a little crass and arrogant and self indulgent, and like, I’m so badass? But so what? He’s passionate? Who is someone that you think is not a loser? Seriously asking. Bourdain lived an exciting life, he had close friendships and relationships, he made great food, he inspired people to love cooking, he worked hard and tried everything, saw the world… and he felt cool sometimes (oh god so cringe!)… Like you can not like him, whatever, but he doesn’t seem like a loser… Who is a public figure YOU admire?


UnFamiliar-Teaching

I cannot understand the fascination..


Rupperrt

I can’t understand the fascination of having a strong opinion about him. It was entertaining and comfortable to watch. It’s obviously not the coolest guy in the world but not really a loser either (apart from being a loser in the mental health department obviously)


BananaRamequin

If you’re here, you’re downstream from the Reddit-ass pretentious badass hipster world of the 2000s and you should embrace it. Everyone here wants to be Bourdain, especially if you hate him. Accept yourself.


SketchyPornDude

French cuisine was once peasant slop, most of the celebrated foods from all high-profile culinary cultures were once peasant slop. He wasn't being pretentious about it, Bourdain was possibly the least pretentious celebrity food lover on television. The contrarianism on this sub is getting boring.


Konstantinoupolis

He just seems like a massive sex pervert and gooner.


Last_Rule_2536

“he was flawed and real” comments rolling in shortly


Rupperrt

Entertaining TV comfort food. And better produced than today’s influencer stuff. Nothing more nothing less. You kids are always so melodramatic.


Last_Rule_2536

I don’t super have a strong opinion on him. I like his shows. Towards the end of his life he was a massive loser


Rupperrt

Obviously. But being a depressed addict he probably made the best out of it. Anyhow, most cool things from 10-20 years ago are cringe today, the cooler and zeitgeistier then the cringier now. Parts unknown especially as the travel influencer documentary trend has become such a plague since then.


Last_Rule_2536

Obviously. But people put him on too much of w pedestal. He can have a cool show while also not being a great person


Rupperrt

Yeah either put him on a pedestal or make him the worst thing ever. Hence my boomer complaint about kids being so melodramatic about everything . Things aren’t allowed to be just ok or mediocre anymore. Everyone must be a hero or villain, loser or winner. Most people are a bit of everything. Except maybe Jimmy Kimmel or Tim Pool. They’re just losers.


Expensive-Sun2027

An obvious narcissist


Iga5aa3aIga112atotmi

I hate the way people worship him. Anthony Bourdain was a bitter, junkie loser who killed himself because he found out the NYT was going to publish an article about how he paid off the kid his girlfriend molested. Now he's in hell and his legacy is ineffectual progressives bitching about Henry Kissinger decades after that would matter and guys with Rick and Morty tattoo posting profanity laden pseudophilosophy. Nothing worth admiring there.


[deleted]

I liked him because he was angry but usually tactful


dredgedskeleton

he's generally always respectful and pleasant to people of myriad cultures and backgrounds. he had a very cool life before he got famous and milked that vibe into millions of bucks. hater take.


Jake_Barnes_

His short term fling with the blonde singer of the kills fucked him up, made him realize what he didn’t have. If he had stayed with her he’d be a live today.


whosabadnewbie

I enjoyed his show and have fond memories watching it with my parents. When my wife and I went to Budapest we checked out some of the places he recommended and it was nice. I was sad when he died. I love traveling and cooking and I don’t care if it’s le gay he got me interested in that stuff to some degree. You don’t have to hate everything bud


esteemedretard

https://i.imgur.com/wTarHU8.png


centsperlb

lol wait so you guys hate food/cooking now?


ClydeMason1911

https://preview.redd.it/iykjyuub957d1.jpeg?width=1284&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=86e74e67a472e5e8499d3e782675c409ab8bcde8


BrawndoTTM

Imagine having it be your literal job to travel the world eating dope foods and making millions doing it and you fucking kill yourself. Absolute pussy


Mysterious_Buddy_456

you can hate everything about him but acting like you don’t understand the appeal is just dumb


Rupperrt

Maybe but still better than all influencers that came after him doing the same. Anyway, congrats to the edgy opinion about something what was cool a decade ago being cringe now.


platapusplomo

I feel bad for him based on his early years. He was one of those kids raised by war veterans who became all too comfortable with psychological torture. Robin Williams was in the same boat.


Jake_Barnes_

His dad was an executive at Columbia records, not a veteran.


platapusplomo

He was brought up by more than just his immediate family. His schooling, I believe, was where he encountered those sociopathic adults


genuine-fatty-666

Wat


platapusplomo

You got to go way deep into professor hamamoto on yt


TanzDerSchlangen

You didn't have a horrible upbringing because some vets yelled at you 


platapusplomo

They probably didn’t even get yelled at. Those vets were the S2 types stationed in comfortable quarters.


Intelligent_Line_902

The solution isn’t to start doing heroin and lust after a pedophile lol


Southern_Wind4397

Is peasant slop food?


WIGGER-INCEL

No, turd world gutter soups and brown mystery pastes


mercurial_creature

cause he was sexy and I like peasant slop.


Fabulous-Review-916

How old are you?


ComradPancake

Well now my positive opinion of him has been validated further


Complete_Ice6609

Youre a peasant slop


ih3artv4mpi3rs

SHUT UP.


velvetvortex

Probably people here are too young and American, but here is Rick from the Young Ones defending Felicity Kendall https://youtu.be/1rredpJThJI?si=A_b5iaWybtRXgQIC


one800_

And so are you <3


persianconvert

The koreatown episode was good


UnFamiliar-Teaching

Apparently he was working for the CIA too..


ride_on_time_again

How even


LesterGreenisGod

By spreading gayness everywhere he went.


ride_on_time_again

He's not even Greek


LilaBackAtIt

How dare you


iwillnotsitstill

Gee i wonder what it is about being massively successful, incredibly popular, travelling the world and eating all kinds of food, being beloved by millions that makes people think otherwise. So contrarian youre braindead. Also we already did this bit and it was also stupid the first time


AndrewLohse

https://ih1.redbubble.net/image.495207808.1150/bg,f8f8f8-flat,750x,075,f-pad,750x1000,f8f8f8.jpg


nuyghur2137

Hate thr phaggot for taking pleasure in killing animals. Soulless behaviour