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Title: Paul the vexatious blogger with incredibly itchy underpants - Hypocrite. Post by: Tafflaff (Rob) on October 22, 2012, 01:16:34 PM In one of Paul Barfords most recent articles,
http://paul-the vexatious blogger with incredibly itchy underpants.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/focus-on-uk-metal-detecting-rejoicing.html (http://paul-the vexatious blogger with incredibly itchy underpants.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/focus-on-uk-metal-detecting-rejoicing.html) Mr the vexatious blogger with incredibly itchy underpants starts off my ridiculing the valley's and pretty much anyone else that has picked up a metal detector. But what is most petty about his article is that he relishes in ridiculing the average metal detectorist's spelling. Now Im onlee a simpl mindid detectorist butt im shure that mr Barfords own spelleen is not perfick. Mr the vexatious blogger with incredibly itchy underpants, 'you've been Barforded' Quote Well, I suppose many will continued to be "amazed" by things they do not understand. The rest of us think that Britain has thrown millions of quid at an outreach Scheme to liaise with these people and explain simple things like the difference between surface evidence surveys and excavation and all that. It's not rocket science, but it seems the PAS has concluded that it's beyond their capabilities to explain that to their "metal detecting" partners over fifteen years of "outreach". Quite what they've done with the time and money apart from complining a database of objects lost from the archaeological record is beyond the rest of us. In any case, quite a lot of the discussion on detecting forums these days is about the new generation of sensitive depth advantage machines and the advantages they give over those who do shallow detecting. The PAS would of course never create such a list (because their "partners" would not come out too well if they did), but I bet if the public were kept properly informed about what's happening out in the fields, a high proportion (perhaps a very high proportion) of the multiple-object Treasure finds made each year are coming from below ploughsoil levels, despite strenuous efforts of the pro-collecting lobby to suggest otherwise. Title: Re: Paul the vexatious blogger with incredibly itchy underpants - Hypocrite. Post by: nobby on October 22, 2012, 01:34:13 PM get back upa mountin :D
Title: Re: Paul the vexatious blogger with incredibly itchy underpants - Hypocrite. Post by: handyman [Alan} on October 22, 2012, 01:55:26 PM Try this one from todays blog 22.10. 12 ;D ;D ;D
Of course "local government designation" does not have the legal clout of the scheduling system, and cannot be used, for eexample to effectively protect any - known or unknown - archaeological sites from looting by artefact hunters, for example those with metal detectors, whether by day or by night. and this grammatical error!. A week later, another American, Mrs. Candi Dunlap [not Dunlop as originally reported] was detained attempting to leave Macedonia at Skopje's international airport after customs authorities found in her baggage numerous coins dating back the second century [?] BC which she is accused of smuggling. as for this basic error - say no more Most of the discussion I have seen on US coin forums on this topic does little except illustrate an abysmal lack of intelligence or understanding of the way the world works and pettyness on the part of those who spend their time fondling little discs of metal. If this woman had been Turkish, Albanian, Polish, Maltese or any other nationality, everybody would be praising Macedonian customs on their vigilance - and saying how such a smuggler deserves to go to jail I think i'll offer my services as a proof reader! ;D ;D ;D Title: Re: Paul the vexatious blogger with incredibly itchy underpants - Hypocrite. Post by: Tafflaff (Rob) on October 22, 2012, 02:12:04 PM Maybe we should use these eexamples to compline a list. Or is that pettyness at work ?
Title: Re: Paul the vexatious blogger with incredibly itchy underpants - Hypocrite. Post by: DEADLOCK on October 22, 2012, 02:48:35 PM Think you two are goin to be on Barfords naughty list ;D
Title: Re: Paul the vexatious blogger with incredibly itchy underpants - Hypocrite. Post by: rjm on October 22, 2012, 03:43:54 PM PMSL! ;D It's wrong to ridicule someones spelling...............they could have dyslexia like Taff! ;D Title: Re: Paul the vexatious blogger with incredibly itchy underpants - Hypocrite. Post by: win on October 22, 2012, 07:05:45 PM A quick glance through Mr. the vexatious blogger with incredibly itchy underpants's latest rant shows 'excample' 'poeople' 'aford' 'exhaulted' (I really like that one), also various minor grammar mistakes including sentences starting with small letters. Yes its all patheitc nit picking but just showing him that no one is perfect.
Title: Re: Paul the vexatious blogger with incredibly itchy underpants - Hypocrite. Post by: win on October 22, 2012, 07:07:32 PM I know, it should be pathetic, and it is.
Title: Re: Paul the vexatious blogger with incredibly itchy underpants - Hypocrite. Post by: Techony on October 22, 2012, 07:13:04 PM Yep, people who live in grass houses shouldn't throw bones. ;D
Title: Re: Paul the vexatious blogger with incredibly itchy underpants - Hypocrite. Post by: handyman [Alan} on October 23, 2012, 10:48:30 AM and from todays blog .... grammar and spelling errors
So while a bunch of vengeful foreign interventionists was trying to bomb Gaddafi's Libya into the Stone Age to put a government of murdrous thugs in power .................... Feel free to add more examples ;D ;D ;D Title: Re: Paul the vexatious blogger with incredibly itchy underpants - Hypocrite. Post by: Chef Geoff on October 23, 2012, 11:18:06 AM I believe we can give him some forgiveness when speedily writing a blog...but when writing a book???
This is part of a review of his book "The Early Slavs" "the vexatious blogger with incredibly itchy underpants's The Early Slavs covers interesting ground where good syntheses are lacking. It was written, the author states, to be used "as an introductory text for students of history, archaeology and European Studies," and "for the general reader and western medievalist wanting an introduction to the history and archaeology of the area." The "area" is defined as those lands settled by peoples speaking Slav languages, and called Eastern Europe. the vexatious blogger with incredibly itchy underpants explains that this is shorthand for East-Central (including European Russia) and South-Eastern Europe. The book fails to provide a commendable synthetic introduction to the whole of "Slavdom" for three reasons: it is poorly written; its presentation of "history" is inadequate when compared with the far better treatment of "archaeology"; and it fails to cover the whole "area" equally or equally well. We may dispense with the first problem briefly: the vexatious blogger with incredibly itchy underpants writes in an awkward manner, partly conversational, partly densely academic, and appears on occasion to have a poor grasp of formal English grammar. He researched and wrote the book in Warsaw during the 1990s, and may have been out of an English-speaking milieu for long enough that one can understand his odd word choices or some poor sentence constructions. However, this can lead to significant problems in comprehension. For example: "When referring to the 'Early Slavs' here therefore, I intend to mean the people who we have good reason to believe speak spoke [sic] early versions of Slav languages, and it should be stressed that I do not mean the term to refer to a single ethnic group" (27). An editor at Cornell University Press should have read this text carefully and perhaps reduced the length of the book by about one-third. The general reader or western medievalist may find herself as frustrated as this Byzantinist at the more verbose passages. He may also grind his teeth at such facile observations as "Modern newspaper reports of the same event sometimes reflect the political bias of their writers for example" (5); or "Archaeology is not just about things, but about the people who once used the things we find and left the traces we interpret" (11)." Title: Re: Paul the vexatious blogger with incredibly itchy underpants - Hypocrite. Post by: nobby on October 23, 2012, 12:27:58 PM his book "The Early Slavs" ???
My god!!!......doesnt he realise he's left an "e" out of Slaves!!....... ;D ;D ;D Title: Re: Paul the vexatious blogger with incredibly itchy underpants - Hypocrite. Post by: mrstonytrees on October 24, 2012, 05:36:12 AM The gentleman in question has now responded to this thread!
Title: Re: Paul the vexatious blogger with incredibly itchy underpants - Hypocrite. Post by: TheLoveDoc on October 24, 2012, 06:39:14 AM ummm ...who is Paul the vexatious blogger with incredibly itchy underpants ?
Title: Re: Paul the vexatious blogger with incredibly itchy underpants - Hypocrite. Post by: handyman [Alan} on October 24, 2012, 06:46:26 AM and from todays blog .... grammar and spelling errors So while a bunch of vengeful foreign interventionists was trying to bomb Gaddafi's Libya into the Stone Age to put a government of murdrous thugs in power .................... Feel free to add more examples ;D ;D ;D It's good to see the student correcting one of his above mistakes! ;D ;D Title: Re: Paul the vexatious blogger with incredibly itchy underpants - Hypocrite. Post by: win on October 24, 2012, 08:37:42 AM Its the old Dad's Army saying 'They don't like it up 'em'. the vexatious blogger with incredibly itchy underpants certainly doesn't like us picking out his typos and spelling errors but he thinks there's nothing wrong with poking fun at us when we make them.
Title: Re: Paul the vexatious blogger with incredibly itchy underpants - Hypocrite. Post by: handyman [Alan} on October 24, 2012, 04:24:11 PM ...and here's todays offering.
He wrote "I wonder if part of the 'deal' was a cultural property MOU with macedonia in the offing?" No capital letter! and this little gem from Tuesday " I guress that just leaves healthy scepticism towards the sales-spiel of dealers," Title: Re: Paul the vexatious blogger with incredibly itchy underpants - Hypocrite. Post by: Tafflaff (Rob) on October 24, 2012, 06:08:40 PM And the funny thing is. Had he not been so vociferous with regards to the 'Valley's' spelling we would not have really cared less about his own shortcomings.
Title: Re: Paul the vexatious blogger with incredibly itchy underpants - Hypocrite. Post by: Techony on October 24, 2012, 10:12:14 PM It gets even better:
Talking of hypocrisy, his latest moan, this time about the Bredon hill hoard includes a satirical jab at the Cotswold Journal (that he couldn't even provide an unbroken link to) by stating: Quote [And to make matters even more interesting: "Ads by Google" right slap-bang in the middle of that page of the Cotswold Journal of all places when I looked at it was: Gadoury coins auction republic[an] and imperial roman coins sale of aureus denarius sestertius [indeed, multiple examples] Strange how when I looked, the Google ads were trying to persuade me to fly off to exotic places with BA and buy Ink for my HP printer. How strange then that these are both activities that I have been using the interweb for lately. Or is this not in fact how directed ad placement works in the first place. The answer to our poor deranged friend can only be "Look in the mirror pal, look in the mirror". Title: Re: Paul the vexatious blogger with incredibly itchy underpants - Hypocrite. Post by: Bill from Lachine on October 25, 2012, 12:53:45 AM Folks,
I had a bit of a run in with his alter ego Niger Swift awhile back....a couple of anal twits if you ask me......lol. Regards + HH Bill Title: Re: Paul the vexatious blogger with incredibly itchy underpants - Hypocrite. Post by: handyman [Alan} on October 25, 2012, 06:57:14 AM Thursdays offering,
"that will pleasse coin collectors immensely" and ... "In April 2011 Christie's sold a knocked-off scupted head of a woman with piggy eyes." ...well it only took him 3 hours to correct the 2nd error! I guess he still can't find the 1st one. So much for his attention to accuracy and detail.! Title: Re: Paul the vexatious blogger with incredibly itchy underpants - Hypocrite. Post by: win on October 25, 2012, 08:53:14 AM I've stopped looking at the vexatious blogger with incredibly itchy underpants's site now. I'm denying him the oxygen he gets by irritating us. He can do what he likes in his little corner in Poland. Its nothing that will concern me any more. Whatever he has to say, its not worth reading and I won't be reading it.
Title: Re: Paul the vexatious blogger with incredibly itchy underpants - Hypocrite. Post by: dances with badgers on October 25, 2012, 09:06:00 AM like i've have said before he needs a minelab for xmas to sort his head out.
Title: Re: Paul the vexatious blogger with incredibly itchy underpants - Hypocrite. Post by: Chef Geoff on October 25, 2012, 10:35:09 AM I've stopped looking at the vexatious blogger with incredibly itchy underpants's site now. I'm denying him the oxygen he gets by irritating us. He can do what he likes in his little corner in Poland. Its nothing that will concern me any more. Whatever he has to say, its not worth reading and I won't be reading it. My sentiments exactly Win, metal detectorists probably make up the majority of his readership. If you don't like what he says, just don't read it.Title: Re: Paul the vexatious blogger with incredibly itchy underpants - Hypocrite. Post by: dances with badgers on October 26, 2012, 02:26:08 PM if u dont believe in the bogeyman he cant get u.plus u save loads of time by not looking under the bed.balls to the guy he obviously dont like us so what.loads of people dont like me but i dont care cos i got a safe full of gold weehee
Title: Re: Paul the vexatious blogger with incredibly itchy underpants - Hypocrite. Post by: sinky on October 27, 2012, 05:41:27 PM i love the vallleys did i spell that ok sinky . ;) 8)
Title: Re: Paul the vexatious blogger with incredibly itchy underpants - Hypocrite. Post by: Spooyt Vane on November 02, 2012, 03:14:22 PM Our favourite critic Mr the vexatious blogger with incredibly itchy underpants has a lot to say on a hobby he has no real involvment in...His speculation on the millions of metal objects recovered out of context continues to amaze me ...Where did he get those fairy tales from...bottom of the garden?..I would like to know his experience as a site director on archaeology excavations and papers he published after .?.....Why is he based abroad throwing bricks at our hobby ?.....I would like him to go to Hadrians Wall and see what is been thrown out with the unseived top soil ...because its disturbed plough soil the archeologist in charge does not think its worth sieving..Exactly the same soil where 95% of our finds come from.....Please explain Mr the vexatious blogger with incredibly itchy underpants ..or iam wasting my breath ? ::) ::)
Title: Re: Paul the vexatious blogger with incredibly itchy underpants - Hypocrite. Post by: ysbytymike on November 02, 2012, 04:21:14 PM Will you all stop going on about Mr the vexatious blogger with incredibly itchy underpants. I think he's just a lonely guy with a lot to say and no friends to say it too. "Were all he's got".. ::)
Title: Re: Paul the vexatious blogger with incredibly itchy underpants - Hypocrite. Post by: galoshers on November 02, 2012, 09:23:57 PM he is like Lord Snooty ,supercilious and haughty looking down on all
its ok to read his coverage so long as you bear that in mind and dont take him to seriously old Lord Snooty Title: Re: Paul the vexatious blogger with incredibly itchy underpants - Hypocrite. Post by: Chef Geoff on November 02, 2012, 09:38:18 PM As I've said before, "he is his own worst enemy" as I fully understand and agree with his overall message as far as saving world heritage but it's the venom with which he puts it across. He reminds me of a religious fundamentalist :-\
Title: Re: Paul the vexatious blogger with incredibly itchy underpants - Hypocrite. Post by: handyman [Alan} on November 05, 2012, 02:48:39 PM Seeing as our Polish correspondent has made yet another foray onto our site, he begins his latest comment by making a reference to someone needing help with punctuation. Yet in his very same article, he goes on to make some very obvious spelling errors.
He wrote “I would have though the answer was obvious.” “the exploitation of the landscape managed sustainbly,” “as their "right" to indisceriminately hoik ..” Methinx he needs to go back to school! ;D ;D ;D Title: Re: Paul the vexatious blogger with incredibly itchy underpants - Hypocrite. Post by: dances with badgers on November 05, 2012, 05:59:09 PM cant we just lay this geezer to rest instead of rising to the bait .hes jealous cos he aint got a minelab,maybe we could chip in and get him one.love peace and banana smoothies mike :)
Title: Re: Paul the vexatious blogger with incredibly itchy underpants - Hypocrite. Post by: JBM on November 06, 2012, 09:59:39 PM Young Barfords at it again nosing into our threads and shooting his mouth off using his blog.
I have jotted out a reply,but not made a posting as yet. Perhaps I should just let him remain in his own tunnel vision little world. ;) Jerry. Title: Re: Paul the vexatious blogger with incredibly itchy underpants - Hypocrite. Post by: dances with badgers on November 07, 2012, 01:47:44 PM forget the sad loser.dont let him get to u.not worth it.he's only jealous he aint got a minelab or friends he can have a laugh with like us ;D
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