Wanted to share my (angry) email to RPjnr's site re treatment from the (im) moderater!
Since MS convenes a forum on your site and it consistently breaches the right to free speech & expression, I have decided to commence a class action against your website. A significant number of Australian participants have had their views suppressed via the Squires kindergarten for kids wine notice board and it is a joke – tell the boys to grow up and accept criticism where it is deserved. The wine public in the States has many years to have the awareness of the Australian wine public. Little MS had to have a go ‘I bet I have tasted more Aus. wine than you….’ What a Wanker, I mean really, can’t you find someone with a degree of self esteem? (and by the way, if he has tasted over 2000 Oz wines, he is right!).
Not only does MS suppress any view with which he remotely disagrees, he seems to do so to up to 90% of posterÂ’s from Australia. Now there is a hoard of well funded Australian wine enthusiasts sick of the massive chip on each of MS shoulderÂ’s and we feel it is necessary to move to allow our view to be represented.
Why do you allow Australians to be ignored and our view disallowed by such an immature, ignorant bigot?
Hi Adam - you may well be right, but I'm sure I speak for the great majority of Oz winos & forumites - who gives a sh*t what Marc Squires etc do or say - we're big boys now, and there's a whole wonderful world of Australian and other wine to explore, without needing anyone's approval or agreement.
It's hot, cool off and get into some sparkling shiraz
Do what I and Ric did, get banned early and only visit very occasionally to have a laugh or a good shake of the head at the attitudes displayed, the lack of simple logic and verbal diarrohea that some people generate. As Mark S said, Who cares? It's another of those "Life's too short to..." situations.
Cheers Brian Life's too short to drink white wine and red wine is better for you too! :-)
Adam-MS met RJP back in the early days on a computer system in the US called Prodigy. Once MS saw Parker's arse, he started kissing it and has continued for years. Even back then, if anyone dared to be critical of Parker, MS was there like Pavlov's dog, protecting his master. His reward-Parker gave him the BB on erobertparker.com
Tolerate dissent? not MS or any of the Parker sychophants.
I predict you will be ignored by Parker. He has this mean streak and once he puts you in the "enemy" camp, there is no escape. (Welcome to an ever growing club!)
I am prepared to shake hands and act like a grown up - it won't chnage my life, but like all people, he should be careful of those he treads on on the way up the ladder......take it easy Bob.
(can you recommend best value for $ Pinot & Cabernet from the states with the focus on quality rather than price?)
I'd love to post on the eBob boards re Parker's "integrity" - have a nice little story about him during his last trip to Australia - but who can really be bothered? I'm warmed by the fact that I'll outlive him by a few decades and his all-powerful ability to get yanks with big wallets to jack up prices of good Aussie wines will cease in my lifetime.
Interesting that people are speaking as wine lovers seeing their favourite wines go through the roof on pricing - rather than patriotic australians applauding the fact that an american is encouraging other americans to buy more australian products at higher prices.
George Krashos wrote:I'd love to post on the eBob boards re Parker's "integrity" - have a nice little story about him during his last trip to Australia - but who can really be bothered? I'm warmed by the fact that I'll outlive him by a few decades and his all-powerful ability to get yanks with big wallets to jack up prices of good Aussie wines will cease in my lifetime.
-- George Krashos
...and what's going to happen if you get brain cancer BEFORE he dies? Will he be on your mind in your last moments on Earth? Please post here if this happens,
the BB public has the right to know.
Crow wrote:Always at least one flip side to each story eh? Rarely all positive without negative & vice versa?
yes, and vice versa. I was banned from squires board and this forced me to LEARN things about wine instead of pissing about it. And I did learn some, something what would never happen if I stayed there and continue unproductive piss.
I posted my gratitude and I mean every word of it,
finding diamond in a pile of shit is an art form.
Gavin is a sweetheart and far from being a fanatic. Pluralism strives on non US based boards. My compadres, "the yanks" in general just can't live with opinions different to theirs and take every opinion which is different from their own as a personal insult on integrity of their spouses.
Neither Europeans, not Australians do that. Thanks God!
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...and what's going to happen if you get brain cancer BEFORE he dies? Will he be on your mind in your last moments on Earth? Please post here if this happens,
the BB public has the right to know.[/quote]
Never fear, I'll make sure to e-mail you personally Serge as soon as I get brain cancer. It was hyperbole, man, take it easy. It was an over-the-top way of saying that Parker's influence won't last forever and a reflection of the fact that I'll likely never drink Three Rivers shiraz but would have had more than several bottles in my cellar by now if he'd never reviewed the dang thing. The thing that makes me grin most is the amount of oaked-up, high alcohol juice that is being made by Australian winemakers solely for the US market/palate. Better you than us.
George, sorry, didn't mean to offend you. I use Parker's scores as much as I would use his toothbrush. PLEASE don't get cancer, I was hyperbolizing too!
