Comments on: Time to get back in the saddle again http://thebestjudge.com/2009/11/14/time-to-get-back-on-the-saddle-again/ "Allow me to be the best judge of that" Mon, 28 May 2012 11:10:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Branko http://thebestjudge.com/2009/11/14/time-to-get-back-on-the-saddle-again/#comment-424 Sat, 06 Feb 2010 17:22:11 +0000 http://thebestjudge.com/?p=767#comment-424 hey Nick,
if id be a mere moron, i’d presume you are right, if i would pay attention to idiots who think i’m annoying, i’d killed myself long time ago
i don’t know where from you get the ideas reflected in you massage ; and the (uninvited) offensiveness?
as for the drinks in bars and pubs i actually NEVER had a need to complain (as i said, once i would have complained i did not have time to) – i am prone to think of myself a reasonable patron – i drink a lot, smoke a lot, and i tip freqentley (I believe that drinking out is under-priced in Australia – in fact, i probably tipped at least a $2 o r 3 for the drinks in question), so do my friends
i got thrown out for not being happy with my drink, trying to drink it, unsuccessfully, and for rising my complaint to the “bar manager level”
the same security guys, who let me in over the cues in the Shift, have witnessed me being thrown out, without causing any public incident (sic!)
btw, the bar manager have invited me (quite privately!!!) to come over (having no time to talk in the Shift) as if i am a piece of shit…
Nick, have a good time anywhere you go (including the Saddle bar, which i really like ) and don’t bother being rude to people you don’t know; and don’t worry about their problems – i’m sure you have enough problems of your own.
cheers
b

]]> By: Nick http://thebestjudge.com/2009/11/14/time-to-get-back-on-the-saddle-again/#comment-423 Sat, 06 Feb 2010 13:18:23 +0000 http://thebestjudge.com/?p=767#comment-423 If I was the manager I’d want you to leave. You sound like the most annoying patron they’ve had. Buy a bottle of your favourite scotch and the soda you like, take it home and have a scotch drinking party with your straight friend.

]]> By: judgeg http://thebestjudge.com/2009/11/14/time-to-get-back-on-the-saddle-again/#comment-403 Thu, 07 Jan 2010 20:50:31 +0000 http://thebestjudge.com/?p=767#comment-403 I can’t change it this end. I think you’re supposed to choose it each time you make a comment. Oh well, it’s not a big deal.

]]> By: Branko http://thebestjudge.com/2009/11/14/time-to-get-back-on-the-saddle-again/#comment-402 Thu, 07 Jan 2010 13:24:04 +0000 http://thebestjudge.com/?p=767#comment-402 why do i get this “berserk” faces as an icon next my postings (and how canone chaqnge it?) – aside the 1st one (when i was really not just puzzled but pissed off ‘majorly’ ), i think i’m quite cool about the whole affair (not happy but not berserk either…) – i can’t, myself, fix the fact that i have been thrown out for objecting to a taste of my drink, and ON top of it, not being happy with defensive ‘explanations’ – but i’m in no way hyped up about it …

]]> By: Branko http://thebestjudge.com/2009/11/14/time-to-get-back-on-the-saddle-again/#comment-399 Fri, 01 Jan 2010 12:33:44 +0000 http://thebestjudge.com/?p=767#comment-399 i never had a bad time there – how could one in 4- 5 times there altogether, and i really like the place too- but if i would ever publicly humiliate someone, asking them to leave my place, even using a pointing finger (!!) (so that bouncers on the street can see it, and ask you “what have you done??”) i would SURELY NOT expect to see them back …
what good will you see in Mark’s posting? i see just more defensiveness, despite me originally saying that it was in good part my fault – did he say “oh shit, i should have instructed my staff to replace drinks if customers complain, wouldn’t come to this”? no. all he has noticed is that i “didn’t say” that the ice has melted, and that we were not told not to come again, just to leave, just then…
this is still my “dinner or drinks conversation” everybody agrees with you (even i see i have to somehow get over it; f … the fact that the drinks were not right. it happens) but none of the people who think i should go back have actually seen the finger pointing, or rather marshalling, OUT!

]]> By: judgeg http://thebestjudge.com/2009/11/14/time-to-get-back-on-the-saddle-again/#comment-398 Fri, 01 Jan 2010 11:25:51 +0000 http://thebestjudge.com/?p=767#comment-398 I think you should give the Saddle Bar another try. There’s obviously good will there from the bar manager. Sometimes a bad experience can be just a one-off thing. Give it another go, with a fresh attitude and clean slate, and see if you have a better time.

]]> By: Branko http://thebestjudge.com/2009/11/14/time-to-get-back-on-the-saddle-again/#comment-397 Thu, 31 Dec 2009 20:59:10 +0000 http://thebestjudge.com/?p=767#comment-397 sorry, there are a few typos, just to fix an important one:
“and that it was my to reject the offer” should be “and that it was my fault to reject the offer”

]]> By: Branko http://thebestjudge.com/2009/11/14/time-to-get-back-on-the-saddle-again/#comment-395 Thu, 31 Dec 2009 09:25:22 +0000 http://thebestjudge.com/?p=767#comment-395 Mark,
if you had read what i say mare carefully… i say:

“…a friend of mine and I complained about the taste of our scotch – I had a scotch and soda, my friend straight. first I briefly complained to the bartender who appeared young and indecisive, then I took it (5-10 min later, after mutual whingeing with my friend) to the bar manager…”

also, if you had listened to me more carefully you would have heard that i said that we complained immediately but the bar younger bar person dismissed our complaint – i never say i complained to you immediately, you were just too quick to decide that something is wrong with complaint rather than with the drinks… and now, again, you think i am wrong in describing what happened

in the meantime i came to think that it was partly my fault for not making it perfectly clear that we HAD complied earlier, and that it was my to reject the offer for replacement rather than considering the willingness of the offer – you were very defensive which confused me

re being welcome again or not: i have decided to “get over it”.. just wonder how to get over the embarrassment – i have never been thrown out of a bar (or for that matter out of anywhere) , i had no idea that one might be welcome somewhere where once he’s been “asked to leave” . thank you, but i will sit on it for while, i was not guilty of anything to now be forgiven

i don’t want an online argument either – i never expected you to find this posting (i could not find another avenue that night when i had to write it down; how can i make it clear: i was shocked to be asked to leave a bar for merely expressing dissatisfaction with my drink). as i said, i am over it

]]> By: Mark http://thebestjudge.com/2009/11/14/time-to-get-back-on-the-saddle-again/#comment-394 Thu, 31 Dec 2009 06:13:30 +0000 http://thebestjudge.com/?p=767#comment-394 From the bar manager Mark. Don’t want an online arguement, but just 3 points you should have mentioned in fairness, 1 all the ice in your friends Scotch and Ice had melted, 2 I offered to replace your drink, 3 you were not told you are not welcome at the Saddle bar again.

]]> By: judgeg http://thebestjudge.com/2009/11/14/time-to-get-back-on-the-saddle-again/#comment-378 Fri, 11 Dec 2009 22:47:41 +0000 http://thebestjudge.com/?p=767#comment-378 Hi,

I don’t have anything to do with the management of the Midnight Shift/Saddle Bar – I am just a customer and my review was written from my personal experience there.

If you want to complain directly to the owner of the Midnight Shift/Saddle Bar, the details to contact them are below. The owner’s name is Tim Berry.

The Midnightshift
85 Oxford Street, DARLINGHURST, NSW. Australia 2010
Phone (02) 9360 4319
Email info@themidnigthshift.com

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