Aussie wrote on Jun 9^th, 2018 at 8:48pm:


Do you get lessons on being a piece of shite, or does it come naturally?

Aussie, as deep as a teaspoon, and sharp as a beachball, killer combo.
His hobbies are kicking animals and making small children cry.

Aussie wrote on Jun 9^th, 2018 at 10:01pm:


His life to do with as he pleases. Sure, a bit selfish if you have immediate family but meh for friends. If he had something wrong with him and no immediate family it could be a well thought out choice. We don't have details so saying it is selfish is not well founded ATM.

Personal life

Bourdain married his high school girlfriend, Nancy Putkoski, in 1985, and they remained together for two decades, divorcing in 2005.[86] On April 20, 2007, he married Ottavia Busia, a mixed martial artist.[87][88][89] The couple's daughter, Ariane, was born in 2007.[88] Bourdain noted that having to be away from his wife and child for about 250 days a year working on his television shows became a strain.[90] Busia appeared in several episodes of No Reservations—notably the ones in Sardinia (her birthplace), Tuscany (in which she plays a disgruntled Italian diner), Rome, Rio de Janeiro, and Naples. The couple divorced amicably in 2016.[91][92] In 2017, Bourdain began dating Italian actress Asia Argento, whom he met when she appeared on the Rome episode of Parts Unknown.[93][94][95]

Bourdain practiced the martial art Brazilian jiu jitsu, earning a blue belt in August 2015.[96] He won gold at the IBJJF New York Spring International Open Championship 2016, in the Middleweight Master 5 (age 56 and older) division.[97]

Bourdain had been known for being an unrepentant drinker and smoker. In a nod to Bourdain's (at the time) two-pack-a-day cigarette habit, renowned chef Thomas Keller once served him a 20-course tasting menu which included a mid-meal "coffee and cigarette": a coffee custard infused with tobacco, together with a foie gras mousse.[98] Bourdain stopped cigarette smoking in the summer of 2007 for the sake of his daughter.[99]

A former user of cocaine, heroin, and LSD, in Kitchen Confidential he wrote of his experience in a trendy SoHo restaurant in 1981: "We were high all the time, sneaking off to the walk-in refrigerator at every opportunity to 'conceptualize.' Hardly a decision was made without drugs. Cannabis, methaqualone, cocaine, LSD, psilocybin mushrooms soaked in honey and used to sweeten tea, secobarbital, tuinal, amphetamine, codeine and, increasingly, heroin, which we'd send a Spanish-speaking busboy over to Alphabet City to get."[100]

Gordon wrote on Jun 9^th, 2018 at 10:28pm:


It's not easy to understand mental health issues. My wife has suffered from depression since the birth of our youngest son 23 years ago and I still don't get it. She thinks I'm a sociopath and it's true to a degree. My life's hurts have made me become a bit oblivious to the emotions of others and how they work. Some people harden htfu and others break. As one of those that just htfu I find it very hard to accommodate and empathise with those that break.

Setanta wrote on Jun 9^th, 2018 at 10:40pm:


I don't get it either,  but what I do get is a lot of different kinds of people kill themselves,  many we just can't imagine why.

So all there is to understand is there must be things going on that you or I just cant begin to fathom what's going on inside their head.

Agnes wrote on Jun 9^th, 2018 at 10:54pm:


Are you making excuses for those that top their kids there? Turn that around and look at it.