27th December 2005, 11:59 AM
Pull your head out of whatever hole its in. Why is everything a personal insult to you?
"Highly qualified in what? Archeologists aren't the only people with 'qualifications'. Some of us have qualifications which are actually productive to society. You have obviously failed to understand what I said. I don't know you, so I am unable to determine if you are being obtuse or not. So I will give you the benefit of the doubt and assume I didn't make myself very clear."
I couldn't give a monkeys about 'qualifications' and what qualifications you have that are productive to society but, I think you're missing the point greatly. Archaeologists are highly qualified in, suprisingly enough, archaeology. Thats why we can talk about it and why we understand it. That's why we are so passionate about it.
"There is no way Troll, that I expected an easy ride on this thread. I'm a realist, and am well aware of the 'contempt' many archaeologists have for detectorists. However, I'd hoped that the members of BAJR, being associated with Hosty, would be somewhat more enlightned than the majority of archaeologists. Seems I was wrong in that assumption."
I don't have contempt for MDs. I appreciate that they are valuable to us on site and (when recording finds) can help us to identify landscapes and features we didn't know were there. (I do however think you're a t*** but thats just my opinion of you and is entirely based on the posts you have made.) This discussion is not just about your rights to detect where you want. This is MY heritage that is being lost, by bad detectorists AND archaeologists, I don't care who is doing it I want it sorting. If you have looked at any other posts, you will see the struggle BAJR as a whole is having trying to increase standards and implement some guidelines for archaeologists. Why can we not have the same for detectorists?
I don't know about anyone else, but I'm sick of defending myself and putting up with the crap you are talking. If you don't want to be productive then don't post here.
"Highly qualified in what? Archeologists aren't the only people with 'qualifications'. Some of us have qualifications which are actually productive to society. You have obviously failed to understand what I said. I don't know you, so I am unable to determine if you are being obtuse or not. So I will give you the benefit of the doubt and assume I didn't make myself very clear."
I couldn't give a monkeys about 'qualifications' and what qualifications you have that are productive to society but, I think you're missing the point greatly. Archaeologists are highly qualified in, suprisingly enough, archaeology. Thats why we can talk about it and why we understand it. That's why we are so passionate about it.
"There is no way Troll, that I expected an easy ride on this thread. I'm a realist, and am well aware of the 'contempt' many archaeologists have for detectorists. However, I'd hoped that the members of BAJR, being associated with Hosty, would be somewhat more enlightned than the majority of archaeologists. Seems I was wrong in that assumption."
I don't have contempt for MDs. I appreciate that they are valuable to us on site and (when recording finds) can help us to identify landscapes and features we didn't know were there. (I do however think you're a t*** but thats just my opinion of you and is entirely based on the posts you have made.) This discussion is not just about your rights to detect where you want. This is MY heritage that is being lost, by bad detectorists AND archaeologists, I don't care who is doing it I want it sorting. If you have looked at any other posts, you will see the struggle BAJR as a whole is having trying to increase standards and implement some guidelines for archaeologists. Why can we not have the same for detectorists?
I don't know about anyone else, but I'm sick of defending myself and putting up with the crap you are talking. If you don't want to be productive then don't post here.