Paul the vexatious blogger with incredibly itchy underpants - Hypocrite.

[Tafflaff (Rob)]

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

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'

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.  

[nobby]

get back upa mountin

[handyman [Alan}]

Try this one from todays blog    22.10. 12  


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!  

[Tafflaff (Rob)]

Maybe we should use these eexamples to compline a list. Or is that pettyness at work ?

[DEADLOCK]

Think you two are goin to be on Barfords naughty list 

[rjm]

PMSL! 


It's wrong to ridicule someones spelling...............they could have dyslexia like Taff! 

[win]

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.

[win]

I know, it should be pathetic, and it is.

[Techony]

Yep, people who live in grass houses shouldn't throw bones. 

[handyman [Alan}]

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  

[Chef Geoff]

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)."

[nobby]

his book "The Early Slavs"

My god!!!......doesnt he realise he's left an "e" out of Slaves!!.......

[mrstonytrees]

The gentleman in question has now responded to this thread!

[TheLoveDoc]

ummm ...who is Paul the vexatious blogger with incredibly itchy underpants ?

[handyman [Alan}]

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  

It's good to see the student correcting one of his above mistakes!