Saturday, November 11, 2017

Detectorist Steve Taylor 'Wants a Debate'? (2)


I thought it would be an enlightening insight into the way some metal detectorists in the UK think and attempt to enter the international debate on the issues surrounding collection-driven exploitation of the archaeological record. These are all real comments sent to me from Mr Steve Taylor for publication on my blog and retrieved from the rejected comments folder of my blog. Note the engaging way he creates an offensive screen name (he uses others, worse) and then the way he twists my surname and the misogynous terminology common among the mostly middle-aged-male detecting community. The first batch are from a post I did about the nasty trend among artefact collectors to use doxing as a weapon against their critics:
Paul Barford and his amazing talking arsehole has left a new comment on your post "Antiquity Collecting, UK Thuggish Louts and Their ...":
Still being a CUNT, Barffart. Thought you may have died by now, but alas you're still here. Soon be time to play a few games with you, like the good old days. lol 
Paul Barford and his amazing talking arsehole has left a new comment on your post "Antiquity Collecting, UK Thuggish Louts and Their ...":
Can't count knobhead !and no warnings lol

Paul Barford and his amazing talking arsehole has left a new comment on your post "Antiquity Collecting, UK Thuggish Louts and Their ...":
Oh by the way that photograph is copyright. Leave it up at your own risk ! You've been warned
Paul Barford and his amazing talking arsehole has left a new comment on your post "Antiquity Collecting, UK Thuggish Louts and Their ...":
I would be very careful about accusing people of stalking and posting personal information on line, as I have a whole file on you, which was also recorded on Google at the time. Along with your Steve Taylor scrap metal dealer. Those who live by the sword , die by the sword. 
Then the reaction to the capture on film of some illegal metal detecting going on near his home
Paul Barford and his amazing talking arsehole has left a new comment on your post "Kingscote Illegal Artefact Hunting: Update":
I recognize the one on the left who looks like a Neanderthal, low brow, small brain, works in the dark, lives in Poland, hey that's a photofit of you Paul. Tell everyone how you sent two criminals to Poulton, on Spot the hoard contest you ran ! Happy days 
This then became a xenophobic accusation:
Paul Barford and his amazing talking arsehole has left a new comment on your post "Kingscote Illegal Artefact Hunting: Update":
Not very nice you Poles to fellow men. lol http://www.jewsnews.co.il/2015/09/17/over-30000-furious-poles-chant-fck-islam-on-the-streets-of-poland-as-the-invasion-of-europe-is-growing-more-intense-each-day/
by the way, I am English (one wonders at the press Mr Taylor follows). More on the nighthawking issue
Paul Barford and his amazing talking arsehole has left a new comment on your post ""Detectorists" Responsible detectorists caught "Ni...":
I have an agreement signed on some bog paper Paul, I'll send you a copy. Be careful of the Van Gogh sunflower in the middle. lol Maybe the next series will feature a guy with a giant penis on his head, then we will all know how famous you have become Paul. 
This incomprehensible scatology is followed by an attack on the Portable Antiquities Scheme when I discussed a funding problem:
Paul Barford and his amazing talking arsehole has left a new comment on your post "LAVA-PAS Meltdown Continues":
It would be nice to see all PAS officers back on the dole, where they belong. Especially the one from Gloucestershire, who allegedly is as thick as shit ! 

TAKE A GOOD LOOK at this behaviour, for these are precisely the sort of people the PAS wants to grab more and more millions of public quid to make into the "partners" of the British Museum, archaeological heritage professionals and to whom they want us all to entrust the exploitation of the archaeological record. Take a good look and decide what you think about that as a "policy".  


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