Apparently, we are Jihadis

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Sharon Bowman

Sharon Bowman
"the jihadist movements of non-sulphured wines, green,under-ripe wines, low alcohol,insipid stuff promoted by the anti-pleasure police& ..... neo-anti-alcohol proponents has run its course as another extreme and useless movement few care about"

-Robert M. Parker, Jr. on Twitter.com, 4 hours ago
 
"Police" has such a monopoly-on-the-means-of-violence ring to it. We're more like the neighborhood watch.
 
originally posted by Sharon Bowman:
"the jihadist movements of jammy, über-ripe wines, gigantic alcohol, insipid, formless, burning stuff promoted by the drug-pushing self-styled hedonists & ..... nihilist/anti-intellectual proponents has run its course as another extreme and useless movement few care about"

-Robert M. Parker, Jr. on Twitter.com, 4 hours ago
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Fixed.
 
originally posted by SFJoe:
I think of myself as more of a Talib than a Jihadi.
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You've gotta work on the beard, old thing. Were I in possession of Photoshop, I'd attempt to demonstrate the idea for you.

Mark Lipton
(Personally, I consider myself more of a mujahideen)
 
"Please pull your seat over ma'am. Is that a Grateful Palate import you're drinking?"

"Why yes, I love Mollydooker Shiraz, it's one of my favorite..."

"I'm sorry ma'am. I'll have to confiscate that. You are enjoying it far too much. If I had less respect for the English language I'd charge you with drinking a hedonistic wine but for now I'll let you off with a warning and a glass of Chinon."
 
Well, jihad and mujaheddin of course come from the same root (√j-h-d). And oddly enough Parker unintentionally uses jihad correctly because its primary meaning isn't that of a religious fanatic but it means striving to do or be better. (There is of course the secondary use of jihad which is really only understandable in the context of the crusades which means a defensive war and this usage has been hijacked by some loonies.)
 
He's been using the pleasure police line for years now since first using it against a friend of mine on the Squire's Board. Goes hand in hand with his anti-flavor wine elite line.
 
originally posted by Jay Miller:
"Please pull your seat over ma'am. Is that a Grateful Palate import you're drinking?"

"Why yes, I love Mollydooker Shiraz, it's one of my favorite..."

"I'm sorry ma'am. I'll have to confiscate that. You are enjoying it far too much. If I had less respect for the English language I'd charge you with drinking a hedonistic wine but for now I'll let you off with a warning and a glass of Chinon."
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Take her in for re-grooving.
 
It so interesting.

I take his taste as sincere. I'm sure he really likes the things he purports to. Why am I not allowed to like 2010 Baudry?

I suppose the root of it is that he thinks his points are plugged into the Cosmic Signifier and anyone who has different taste is wrong.
 
originally posted by Kay Bixler:
Obviously we are getting under his skin.

Ha ha! He's insecure.
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The guy is totally insecure. He nees to tweet that points are still very important, that natural wines suck etc...

I somehow feel bad for him. He became such a caricature of himself it is not even funny anymore.
 
I'm looking at the NYT website, and I can just see the caption: "SFJoe seen here with suspect Arno Tronche in a photo from the social network site facebook."
 
originally posted by Arno Tronche:

I somehow feel bad for him. He became such a caricature of himself it is not even funny anymore.
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But I share that view. He's the broken old drunk on the barstool, raving about the whatever and the whosits.
 
originally posted by Lou Kessler:
It's terrible to be a has been in our societyI agree with my own title but from what I've been led to understand he is laughing in agony all the way to the bank.
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Money will not help. He needs hugs.
 
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