Dendrobium primulinum

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Originally Posted by Bud

-that entails at least 10 years of volunteer work with no pay not even gasoline or subway card to go attend every AOS function and you have to kowtow and be under scrutiny....when you become a judge you have to sell orchids on your lectures and you are thankful if you even get paid to talk about your 10 years of experience....It is better to attend university and in 10 years one can be a doctor of Botany and get a salary of a professor.
And I don't believe in AOS and what it stands for=they use and abuse their judges....I might favor the RHS since they have been around for at least more than 2000 years in orchid research=but they also succumb to politics and bias because they are under the sponsorship from the money of the Queen of England and partly from donors and patrons and at least RHS people get paid a salary.

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Thank You!

You most definitely are completely ignorant about the judging program. Nobody abuses anyone. If they abused me I have no hesitation about abusing back, but contrary to your pronouncement AOS judges are some of the nicest people you will ever meet.

We judge because we want to and have fun doing it. We pay our own expenses because we love looking at orchids and dealing with orchid people. When we are lucky enough to give programs we nearly always donate any money to AOS. or to our Judging Center. The centers are completely financially independent of AOS. We receive no AOS funding so we work to support ourselves.

It just amazes me that you yak about things you know nothing about, fault things that you have completely wrong about, and criticize people who are doing what they want to do. It is not your business what I do and the conditions under which I agree to do it.

Judging is great fun and judges are great people. They are my best friends. And yes I am one so I know exactly what I'm talking about.