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June LC Thread **Survivor White House Edition**

View Poll Results: Who will NOT survive the month of June?

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Jared Kushner

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Wilbur Ross

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Ben Carson

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06-08-2018 , 01:11 PM

#226

StimAbuser

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Damn huge fan of Bourdain. Seemed like a really awesome dude. Depression is some really scary stuff. He did seem like he lived an awesome, fun, fulfilling life.

06-08-2018 , 01:31 PM

#227

Oroku$aki

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Originally Posted by champstark

I don't think I can remember any kind of outpouring of this amount of kind remembrance for anyone as I have for Bourdain.

Robin Williams

06-08-2018 , 01:51 PM

#228

goofyballer

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Originally Posted by bobman0330

Here's a blog post about a paper that argues that the housing bubble is largely a fiction.

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We legally removed access to funding for a broad section of the market. That's a structural shock that changes the price level.

This sounds similar to how people were suggesting the Republican tax bill, through lowering the mortgage deduction, would hurt home values, yeah?

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Two-thirds of lending to FICO scores under 720 disappeared and more than half of lending in the 720-760 range disappeared. Above 760, originations continued roughly as they had before. To give you an idea of the scale, 2/3 of households are homeowners and the average US FICO score has been around 690 for the entire time.

What's the cause of this? Fannie and Freddie going down? Banks realizing how much they **** the bed?

06-08-2018 , 02:22 PM

#229

wheatrich

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Bourdain's gone I'm sure even right wingers will have sympathy and sorrow,

of course not--instead they're attacking the woman. Some things never change.

pro tip for dudes, don't kill yourself over a woman. (if indeed that was the case here)

06-08-2018 , 03:24 PM

#230

StimAbuser

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Originally Posted by wheatrich

He dealt with severe depression his whole life. The woman might have pushed him over the edge but it was definitely more complex than him just killing himself over her.

06-08-2018 , 03:40 PM

#231

DrChesspain

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Originally Posted by champstark

I don't think I can remember any kind of outpouring of this amount of kind remembrance for anyone as I have for Bourdain.

Dolores O'Riordan

06-08-2018 , 03:57 PM

#232

spaceman Bryce

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Originally Posted by dth123451

Best comment I've seen so far is that this is so devastating because he was who we all wanted to be. If he could sink to that place, what hope do the rest of us have?

Part of me felt that way about Kate spade. I def can see why Anthony would be an especially tragic loss for 2p2ers. I was also a fan of his book and political views. Rip.

06-08-2018 , 05:56 PM

#233

SuperUberBob

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Quote:

Originally Posted by champstark

thread

I don't think I can remember any kind of outpouring of this amount of kind remembrance for anyone as I have for Bourdain.

Chris Cornell

06-08-2018 , 07:38 PM

#234

pvn

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Quote:

Originally Posted by DrChesspain

Dolores O'Riordan

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Originally Posted by SuperUberBob

Chris Cornell

Come on, these weren't even close. Yes, both had overwhelmingly positive impacts on people but the volume of responses to their deaths were an order of magnitude smaller or more.

06-08-2018 , 07:45 PM

#235

dth123451

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For me it has a lot to do with him being a very relatable guy who had faced the demons and apparently everged victorious. It's ****ing scary.

06-08-2018 , 08:01 PM

#236

zikzak

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Facing demons and emerging victorious is a trite plot in bad fiction.

06-08-2018 , 08:08 PM

#237

dth123451

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Ok? When you're already depressed it's not exactly encouraging.

06-08-2018 , 08:29 PM

#238

TheDuker

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The New Yorker profiled Bourdain last year: Anthony Bourdain’s Moveable Feast

I never really saw his shows but he always stuck me as interesting and authentic. Surprised and sad to hear this news.

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All told, Bourdain has travelled to nearly a hundred countries and has filmed two hundred and forty-eight episodes, each a distinct exploration of the food and culture of a place. The secret ingredient of the show is the when-in-Rome avidity with which Bourdain partakes of indigenous custom and cuisine, whether he is pounding vodka before plunging into a frozen river outside St. Petersburg or spearing a fatted swine as the guest of honor at a jungle longhouse in Borneo. Like a great white shark, Bourdain tends to be photographed with his jaws wide open, on the verge of sinking his teeth into some tremulous delicacy. In Bourdain’s recollection, his original pitch for the series was, roughly, “I travel around the world, eat a lot of ****, and basically do whatever the **** I want.” The formula has proved improbably successful.

06-08-2018 , 08:51 PM

#239

zikzak

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Originally Posted by JayTeeMe

Kitchen Confidential is a ridiculously awesome book. If you haven't read it you need to remedy that immediately.

I'm x-posting this here from OOT for people who are unfamiliar or only slightly familiar with Bourdain. His TV shows were great. Really, really great, in fact. But that book, holy **** was that amazing.

06-08-2018 , 08:54 PM

#240

spaceman Bryce

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Originally Posted by microbet

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/ncna880926

Suicide rates have been going up and this probably misses a lot that are drug overdoses but no one knew it was intentional.

I saw this. What is funny to me is that in 1999 I was the most sensitive young 13 year old you have ever heard about with a very very high chance of suicide well above 50% and now in 2018 I’m a hardened adult with almost no chance of suicide so when I look at a chart like this part of me imagines a bunch of versions of me who weren’t mature enough to be a total ***** to their enemies. Shrugs.

06-08-2018 , 08:56 PM

#241

spaceman Bryce

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Originally Posted by zikzak

Yeah especially at the time, it spawned a number of kitchen confidential lites that diluted its punch.

06-08-2018 , 09:12 PM

#242

uDevil

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Here are rates over time. Haven't seen more up to date version.

06-08-2018 , 09:30 PM

#243

Oroku$aki

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Originally Posted by zikzak

Facing demons and emerging victorious is a trite plot in bad fiction.

Facing demons and going out like Willy Loman is where it's at.

06-08-2018 , 09:33 PM

#244

spaceman Bryce

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Originally Posted by uDevil

Here are rates over time. Haven't seen more up to date version.

We have enough data to show that many many males are dropping out of society. This is sad and not sure what the solution is. Me and Dvaut talked a bit about this one time.

06-08-2018 , 10:22 PM

#245

2/325Falcon

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Originally Posted by uDevil

Here are rates over time. Haven't seen more up to date version.

Thanks, Obama.

06-09-2018 , 12:04 AM

#246

ScreaminAsian

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06-09-2018 , 12:21 AM

#247

suzzer99

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Quote:

Originally Posted by uDevil

Here are rates over time. Haven't seen more up to date version.

Clearly women are just miserable in their new fancy lives with jobs and getting to choose their own sex partners.

Jordan Peterson is right, they're just not competent enough to know what they really want.

06-09-2018 , 12:53 AM

#248

Johnny Truant

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It’s really a case of fending off demons long enough for another cause of death to win. Hats off and love to all of us playing interference in that race. A lot of good days can take place in between, sometimes good decades.

06-09-2018 , 01:38 AM

#249

TeflonDawg

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Isn't there a conspiracy theory that Chester Bennington and Chris Cornell were both murdered? I just saw a conspiracy theory that Bourdain was murdered too.