Robert Parker Attacked On His Own Site
February 3, 2010 in United States by BurgundyStreet
If you want to have a good laugh, then you MUST go visit Mark Squire’s Bulletin Board on the eBob Forum. It basically is a group of wine collectors (lawyers, dentists, and psychiatrists) who take themselves extremely seriously, and believe the number of postings they contribute to the forum might one day correlate to the size of their dick. I’ve often found myself laughing hysterically at their avatars, quotes, and general “digital-toughness” that they exude while they try to type bitch slappings at each other about….. really, nothing. Bottom line: you’ve never seen a group of people with soooooooooo much time on their hands. These men are clearly ignoring their wives, but by the sound of their useless rants, their wives might appreciate the free time themselves.
However, on certain occasions these group of wannabe thugs actually stir things up, and make some news like last months Vinfolio issue that all started on the forum. But this is a rare occasion. Robert Parker should have known better than to get started in with these guys. Parker recently defended his rating of a ‘97 Harlan that he gave a 100 points, and dubbed it “legendary”. But he did it in a very “controversial” tone, that really pissed EVERYONE off. Read the thread here. Why was anyone surprised though? Robert Parker is an emperor in the world of wine, and he is finding it harder and harder to deal with the liberties, and power that the internet is giving a casual wine drinker, let alone many collectors and wine “experts” that now have a voice in that damned forum of his. He hates bloggers, and combine that with the state of the publishing industry, and i don’t know how this guy sleeps at night anymore since the internet is slowly killing his business.
The solution was never to get involved on the thread to begin with. Parker should let those suck asses keep discussing how much of an ass he is, but never get involved! Parker’s comments just further inflamed the thread, and made it much more amusing. I couldn’t believe these guys were jumping all over him like that. Embarassing. This would have been like Napoleon discussing and justifying his past war decisions with a cook or private 1st class! (which he did at Elba)
WOW! Looks like it really hurts that Parker is (or was) such a big success.
Wine is about personal taste and it is interesting to look into someone else comments on a specific wine. Many, many times I don’t agree with Parker, Jay Miller, OZ Clark, Jancis Robinson, Hugh Johnson, etc, etc. Even though they might believe they are absolutely right (and they ALL actually are because is a matter of their taste!) I would never think about of writing about them in such an offensive way just because I like or dislike one specific wine more. It just makes me wonder…
‘It basically is a group of wine collectors (lawyers, dentists, and psychiatrists) who take themselves extremely seriously, and believe the number of postings (or articles) they contribute to the forum (or BurgundyStreet) might one day correlate to the size of their dick.”
And you think you are doing something different?
Anyone, (and I mean anyone) with a true love of wine and an understanding of the fundamental methodology of wine tasting realizes that he or she has grasp something very special and self gratifying beyond description. Tastes are so subjective to the individual that anyone with even a small degree of common sense realizes that wasting even a nanosecond of ones life worrying much less caring what a bunch of pompous asses may or may not think about a certain wine is something that we mere mortals rarely give a fleeting thought to.
1. I don’t worry about the size of my dick.
2. Well said Russ.
3. I don’t worry about the size of my dick.
4. Touche Will!
Your crude and vulgar generalizations of everyone who uses the Parker forum can only be summed up as ignorant.
Bryce