...despite the length of time some people seem to spend attempting to ruin it in the pursuit of 'superior knowledge'. Trans: pathetic oneupmanship based on googling. If they were pulled away from the computer and asked a few questions wait and see how long it'd be before they faltered. And ye shall know them by the trail and number of their posts. Google pathetic. Means, iirc, w i t h o u t looking it up, deserving of sympathy. I'm increasingly struggling to find that. And I D O have your measure. Yes, you. Don't push it. I was bullied in a playground by people by you. I won in the end. Am, thank fuck and whoever, much, much better now. You: you just can't resist reading, can you. I know you are now. You can't help it, can you. Always hovering, waiting for the chance.... I love archaeology. This does NOT, repeat NOT depend on the volume of reading. Or pretend reading. I am not sure what you're relationship with this hobby is. R e a l love, that I doubt. A means to an end, a vicious balm for your inferiority is much more likely. I know I am not held in contempt here by quite a few, for which THANK YOU, nice people who remain. You, matey, you very probably are by far, far, more. REAL contempt. R E A L contempt. Including from many who went and would LOVE to come back. Still there, hovering, like you. Digest that for a minute. Or three. This forum was great. That it is not now is down to you and one or two 'ickle' mates. How many birthday cards or greetings do you get from people here? I haven't noticed any of the latter. There's a bloody good reason for that. I want this forum to be great again and am by no means alone. You know that. Plenty of evidence. This topic and my post and the replies tgat it prompted for a start. Dispute that. You cannot. I did not pay or ask them to. And I know you're still reading because you just can't help it. It is you that needs the help. Please go and get it. I've had mine and am better. It works. Most of it I did myself. Try it. Don't even think of replying to this because in doing so you will only be revealing yourself to be what you really are even more, you who loves 'evidence'...and the very, very few acolytes you have. Plain to see. The evidence is there. Reams of it. Absolutely fucking unquestionable: no further 'evidence' needed. If you can't take it then you shouldn't have dished it out. Pity you haven't learnt that. And I know you're still reading.... And ye shall know them by the trail of their posts. There for all to see..the normal ones, anyway. It ain't pretty. Payback time. Several years overdue, thanks to spineless Eds who c o u l d have done something but did not..a quiet cautionary email away from public gaze, for a start. Nope. Bugger all, it seems.... Julian must be SO proud of you and this mess you have made of his baby and love. Have this post back, 'matey' and 'chums': ........... NAFF OFF. NAFF OFF N O W
Hey, cut the anger and be positive ;) it is up to all of us to make TMA what we want.............
Spencer it's ok. Gladman & Sweetcheats posts are splendid. I for one wish I'd never posted about lofty patronising tones.. that was stupid really. I think it's a pity that more speculative ideas & beliefs aren't expressed on here as much as they obviously were in the past, but I suppose facts are facts. Rhiannons folklore brilliance is always a wonderful read. I didn't read your original post about " change", I read Moss' s response. Did you delete it? Am I missing your point? Anyway love don't loose sleep. There are obviously disagreements on here that I for one awkwardly blunder into.
Now then can we discuss ley lines; dowsing, pyschoacoustics,faeries & witches? Only joking I know fuck all about any of them. Although....
Anyway your contributions are obviously bloody great. Keep it up. Keep well.
It's just struck me, am I completely missing the point of all this as per? Never mind.
It's probably best to ignore the more manic vitriolic posts , but what the hell .
Yes , there are signs of the loaded gun .
Little doubt for me , that your post was aimed at me .
This is an open forum for discussion ,if you had a problem earlier why didn't you mention it then , or is there a fear of open discussion . That has proved to be the case often enough in the past where those who don't like their views being questioned get personal then flounce off .
One clue to the loading was the mention of googling . Everybody can google , why is it that those who flounce off can't ? Or is it more a case of not everything is googleable . Much of what I post here is not googleable , recent instances are , the Holm of Papa Westray azis and declinations I mentioned to tjj , the list of victims with trauma was collected over years and not available as a single entity on google ,although it will be now , nobody had ever said that the bone under slabs in Orkney was used as a stabiliser and the explanation why that didn't make sense would not be googleable . How could completely new sites be googleable , but they are now . Many opinions expressed here are not googleable .The content in relation to the astronomy of the dolmens , where is that googleable ? But it will be now . If you dispute anything let's hear it . It's like you have saved up years of bile then exploded . If you tell me the capital of Mongolia and it is correct ,do you think that I would think you googled it ?
You seem to have a problem with evidence , I don't , I prefer it to fantasy , sometimes there is no evidence , discuss , but there are those who have a problem with discussion ,they don't like evidence either .
The mention of those who want to or would love to come back is also reminiscent of one other source , who is stopping them . Maybe they get put off by vitriolic posts , what about other forums where I don't post ,what is the excuse there ?
Reading , don't you read ? Is there something wrong with reading ? I don't mind if others don't read , fine , but they are likely to lose out on some stuff.
A few posts ago you said I could apologise if I liked , but failed to explain what I should apologise about . The most I had done was disagree with you , probably less ,and I certainly didn't get " personal " .I'm surprised that you have .
You can get away with vitriol , that's the beauty of the forum ,but don't think you can tell others to go simply because you don't like what they say or that they differ from your beliefs . I'll defend your right to stay and say what you like , but I'll almost certainly disagree with it .
Hello again Spencer,
I have reflected on some of your post content and would like to say something about forum bullying. When I first started posting here I was ‘bullied’ but in a very subtle way. I had crossed swords on another now defunct forum with some of the people from this forum (there was a bit of personal stuff with one of them which I have no intention of dredging up). They bullied me by blanking everything I posted – just ignoring me as though I didn’t exist. I am grateful to people like Thesweetcheat, Gladman and Tiompan for bothering to interact with me, though they may not have noticed what was going on. Maybe it would have been more dignified to have just disappeared but my Irish mother’s stubborn streak kicked in. Some of those people came around to accept me in the end but to be fair most of them generally don’t post on TMA much anymore.
Be glad that Tiompan enters into discussion with you even if he sometimes challenges you. There is absolutely no malice intended.