I assume that most people were able to follow my drift in a text I wrote about the difference between what a collector collects (and rejects as a collectable) and what archaeologists consider is archaeological evidence. It is
here. Sadly not all metal detectorists could follow the argument. In a bad-language post terminated by a foul-mouthed comment accompanied by a picture of the detectorist indulging his alcohol habit ("
Now It’s Our Junk They Want!"),
one of them indicates for all to see that he has not the foggiest what the issue is.
This man, without a doubt, is paranoid, obsessed and in need of
treatment. He’s what I call [...]“bat shit crazy”….
Hmm, makes perfect sense to me? (sic) [...] Are you ready for this? Here it comes….SCRAP METAL!! Damn, holy cow, knock me over….what a travesty! What next?
Maybe what next is that a metal detectorist, even if only a Texan one, instead of being insulting might want to actually
think about what he reads on other people's blogs before he decides to make an exhibition of his crassness and inability to grasp a (pretty simple, you must agree) point. Still, something perhaps, apart from his hatred of archaeologists, might be rotting his brain. This, slightly edited, is from the
Stout-Howland "Double-Standards" blog:
Vignette: It is believed that by the epithet "
Warsaw Wally", this alcohol-loving reprobate is referring to me.
that I have visited his dual-author blog (allegedly) nine times today. I would not know, I am not counting. I'd invite him to consider very deeply why four of those visits will be me downloading a copy of two texts containing personal attacks on myself and Nigel Swift which he published yesterday and then the link to them both into a date-stamped file. I have a whole collection of them. I suspect also I clicked on at least one of his links more than once because I simply could not believe my eyes the first time and probably was checking to see if he'd had second thoughts and removed the childishly-offensive material.
