Why does it not surprise me to learn that Nick is one of those guitar-owning tools who thinks EVERYONE wants to hear him play? You know the kind - they drag it along to every gathering and subject everyone to tortured renditions of Stairway To Heaven.
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The mind boggles
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Didnāt he write a song, for his wife or his parents again maybe, or host some backyard jamboree highlighting the acoustic guitar styling of one Maestro, most recently playing at Elvisā own Graceland?
I bet his neighbors love him.
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Thatās right - Iād forgotten he took the guitar on a tour of Graceland. Heās probably far from the first to do so; extremism among the Elvis faithful isnāt rare.
Heyā¦I heard The Who wanted him to audition to take Pete Townshendās place but Nick didnāt want to spend all that time touring away from his family. And he met David Gilmour once and Gilmour was blown away by this kid soaking up all of his knowledge.
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How about if you say it repeatedly? 
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I have a cousin like this, every gaseous emission is a joy to partake in, every happening is epic (good and bad), and their bad luck (say, having to pay for their own college education) is a crutch for eternity.
Parents who entertain this celebration of the achievement of āaverageā in their children handicap them, horribly.
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He shows how seriously privileged he is and how much he grew up in a bubble if he thinks that what he overcame was remarkable or heroic. He shows how few people, and how narrow a type of people, he knows when he repeatedly says he doesnāt know anyone who could overcome difficulties like he did.
People just in America lost everything (and not b/c they started some hair-brained door-to-door beef selling business) and DIDNāT HAVE PARENTS OR INLAWS TO EASILY MOVE IN WITH SO THEY COULD LIVE SAFELY AND COMFORTABLY WITHOUT BEING ABLE TO ACTUALLY AFFORD TO DO SO ON THEIR OWN. And thatās saying nothing of people who overcome vast obstacles outside the US and itās first world infrastructure and resources.
He seems to know no such people. He knows no one who doesnāt have family and family money to fall back on. He knows no one who has overcome obstacles far greater and not self-inflicted like, say, debilitating medical issues, unspeakable abuse, or flight from violence and war. He thinks overcoming his own shortcomings like losing his business and running back to mummy and daddy is actually an accomplishment, and one that no one he knows could possibly have overcome under the same circumstance? Who are these incapable milquetoasts he surrounds himself with? Literally every single mother I know overcomes more on the daily than all his āchallengesā put together, times 10 if they are of colour or recently arrived in their country of residence. The self indulgence and lack of awareness are stunning.
Itās also interesting that he describes himself as Type A, daring, optimistic, resilient, and with an āindomitable spiritā (cringe!), yet at the same time wants us to believe he was diagnosed with PTSD (from what, pray tell, after such an idyllic childhood and life?) and that he almost took his own life b/c bathrobe-wearing, basement-dwelling, middle-aged female losers on the internet pointed out where he was being untruthful about his credentials?
How does any of that make sense when put together?
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It doesnāt, of course. Except that he HAS had a charmed life and his optimism is due to the good luck and hard work of others. His parents, extended family, etc. You notice he never says he reached out to any friends with his own troubles or to check on how they were faring.
His ego is so large he has satellites in orbit around it (wife, children, the world at large). They certainly donāt exist or matter to him otherwise.
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He claimed he teaches clinics all over the world. Is there any evidence at all that heās even travelled overseas as a tourist, let alone on training business? Has he even done the self-referential Italian-American tourist trip to Italy?
I mean, honestly, to be so impressed by what he āovercameā strongly suggests he doesnāt know other countries exist. Of course, like his Dear Leader, he probably considers all other countries āshit holesā soā¦
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He does probably know such people. But he is simply delusional enough that to him anything he has experienced is worse than anything they could ever experience.
Look at how he explains his riding and everything else in his world. No one has life as hard as him and no one is as amazing as he is.
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True, true. Plus, heās so self-involved he wouldnāt notice the suffering of anyone else anyway.
Too busy bleating on about and puffing up himself, his family, and his āaccomplishmentsā.
Speaking of, though that plaque is not as bad as most of his writing, it shows the telltale grammar of the Maestro.
Ugh.
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Pain Olympics and to him, he has swept the field.
rolls eyes
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I feel bad for him in a way. I admit that I cannot wrap my head around someone like this and maybe that is why I keep following these threads.
I canāt imagine being so upset at what someone wrote on the internet that I would write a book refuting it.
Eventually liars are exposed. Didnāt he learn that?
I learned that when I was young. Maybe it is really hard to learn that as an adult?
He is fairly disconnected from reality.
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I saw this on Facebook and it totally made me think of NPās cooking advice and restaurant reviews.
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Looks tastier than Nickās risotto recipe. The one that uses MINUTE RICE!
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From the blogā¦
"There arenāt many who can continue to reinvent themselvesā¦
Enough said. Heās nothing if not inventive.
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Is that what they call it nowadays? A āunique sense of self-confidenceā? 
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Yes but itās pronounced narcissism lol
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Iām still trying to process a 40-year old man having a tantrum and accusing people of cheating on Call of Duty, simply because theyāre scoring higher.
I grew out of that by the time I was, oh, seven or eight.
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