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http://blog.sashaweb.net/?p=42 - My thoughts on this

For those of you who don't know who this is, he's a humor writer who writes about drunken antics, and has way too many side stories about all the times he's had sex, which are probably exaggerated. He has a website, tuckermax.com

I read two of his books, and in the second one, he expressed total shock at the fact that all his fans were nerds. As someone who associates with Warhammer other players, I suspected that as soon as he started mentioning them. Dondrekhan had a lot of words for the fact that he was disappointed in his fans; they were though, parasitic posers, and I think that warrants disappointment to some extent.

The fact that Tucker Max is some sort of celebrity represents everything that I hate about humans.

See also: Honey Boo-Boo, Jersey Shore

I have never heard of this person before and I can't really, at this juncture, be bothered to look more into it, as he sounds incredibly boorish and unpleasant. If I want to hear comedy about being drunk and doing silly things there is still Dave Attell.

 Inquisitor Ehrenstein wrote:
Dondrekhan had a lot of words for the fact that he was disappointed in his fans; they were though, parasitic posers, and I think that warrants disappointment to some extent.

Tucker Max's persona exists in order to appeal to parasitic posers, and I suspect he's fully aware of that.

I’ve read the two books donkey-caves Finish First and Hilarity Ensues that are both about this one guy, Tucker Max, and a lot of hilarious antics that he generates. The two main topics are drunken antics and sex. I don’t really care about some guy’s published sex stories, and I’m suspicious of any dudes who are.

Do what now?

My favorite drunk and interesting personality is Anthony Bourdain.

I've read his first book and laughed my tail off. My interest in him stopped when he revealed he was with MTV to do his movie/show whatever which was also in the first book.

 dogma wrote:

 Inquisitor Ehrenstein wrote:
Dondrekhan had a lot of words for the fact that he was disappointed in his fans; they were though, parasitic posers, and I think that warrants disappointment to some extent.

Tucker Max's persona exists in order to appeal to parasitic posers, and I suspect he's fully aware of that.

He did admit to selling out and accepting his fans, but from his first encounter, he actually seemed like he was genuinely expecting them to be like him.

I do agree that most of the people who read his style are losers who want to be like him, and some people who are just in for the antics. I honestly cannot imagine anyone with a lifestyle like his actually wanting to read about him.


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 Ahtman wrote:
I have never heard of this person before and I can't really, at this juncture, be bothered to look more into it, as he sounds incredibly boorish and unpleasant. If I want to hear comedy about being drunk and doing silly things there is still Dave Attell.

I would probably think the same thing if I didn't find antics to have a lot of humor potential.

So you're saying that Dave Attell is good at telling stories about drunken antics?

If Tucker Max focused on just that, and didn't cross the line funny ***hole to douche bag, he'd probably be a lot funnier.

d-usa wrote:My favorite drunk and interesting personality is Anthony Bourdain.

Seconded.

I had never heard of Tucker Max so I googled him and read two stories.

Not impressed or entertained.

This guy is kind of the patron saint of douchebags. Us cool people (nerds) would stereotypically look up to him because he is well-manicured, witty, and popular. Not realizing it is all a carefully crafted persona, we would think it is naturally oozing out of him.

What we really don't know is that we need guys like him. They show themselves to be utter scumbags, letting us nerds actually be honest and be cool for being us, not fake.

 Inquisitor Ehrenstein wrote:
I would probably think the same thing if I didn't find antics to have a lot of humor potential.

Then you seem to misunderstand the problem. He is not being described in a way that makes it sound as if there is anything actually humorous about him or anything he does. Each time someone has described him it was almost always in a negative way. Reading posts that came up afterward still have followed that same essential form. Trying to sell him as the 'patron saint of douchebags' is a pretty sad selling point. If I wanted to read something that is only occasionally funny and written by some that doesn't like his audience I just come here to OT, or I just read my own writing.

 Inquisitor Ehrenstein wrote:

He did admit to selling out and accepting his fans, but from his first encounter, he actually seemed like he was genuinely expecting them to be like him.

The privileged sons of wealthy restaurateurs? I don't buy that, he may have been relatively disconnected from reality, but not so disconnected that he couldn't see the stories he was telling happened to be extraordinary.


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 Inquisitor Ehrenstein wrote:

I would probably think the same thing if I didn't find antics to have a lot of humor potential.

See, here's the thing. I'm not going to say my collegiate and early post-collegiate life was like what Tucker Max describes, but I know from personal experience what happens when a bunch of wealthy early 20-somethings with an air of self-importance descend on a club full of women that are, we'll say, easily taken in. As long as you're reasonably good looking, have some money to throw around, and show a degree of confidence the only thing standing between you and a one-night stand is you.

This isn't to say that the women in question have no agency, generally they're there for the express purpose of meeting men with money, but the point is that what Tucker Max does is directly promote that kind of culture. This unfortunately serves to motivate men who don't live that kind of lifestyle (ie. play that game) to prey upon naive and drunk girls by way of a false belief that it is somehow glamorous without really understanding the fundamental difference between their position, and one like Tucker Max's.

 Ahtman wrote:
If I wanted to read something that is only occasionally funny and written by some that doesn't like his audience I just come here to OT, or I just read my own writing.

Now that's the Dakka I love.

/slowclap

I'm guessing I should look into something by Anthony Bourdain?

Watch his show. Best one I've seen was when he was in South Korea and got smashed off Soju. Bad enough to have gone to a Kareoke(sp) bar.

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 azazel the cat wrote:

d-usa wrote:My favorite drunk and interesting personality is Anthony Bourdain.

Seconded.

And an hour after I typed this I got an email that he is doing a show in my city next month

He spells his name the wrong way round. His stories are pathetic, too. Or at least the one I read was. The most unfunny, made-up, boorish gak I've read in a very long time.

I laughed when he and his friends got a a guy to hang on the longest on the shocker grips arcade game.

 Manchu wrote:

 Ahtman wrote:
If I wanted to read something that is only occasionally funny and written by some that doesn't like his audience I just come here to OT, or I just read my own writing.

Now that's the Dakka I love.

/slowclap

I don't want to be off topic here, but I agree.

That post was solid gold.

I've read I hope the serve beer in hell (thats the same guy I'm pretty sure, the name bugged me the whole way through, I wouldn't forget). The one thing I remember is his 'death mix'. We thought it would be funny to try. It was. It was also possibly the most feral thing I've ever ingested, apart from king's cups.