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Paulus P
Paulus Dec 4, 2007 21:08:39
Replying to ocifant

Hi Ocifant -

ocifant wrote:
...Ridicule is now being used (chuckle brothers etc) to try to discredit what are perfectly natural questions to ask.
I think you'll find that the same methodology is constantly used by LittleOne, etc, as well. Or izzit OK for some to be that way, and others not? Honest question.

If only these people had a different approach, they'd find better responses came back to them. For example: the recently discovered 'tooth' in Silbury was told to me just after it's discovery inside Silbury - and I don't even have that much interest in the place!!! So one would surely ask themselves: how can someone with little interest in the place, and certainly no direct involvement with Silbury at all, gain such 'privvy' info?

Simple: talk with people properly! Some people don't actually seem to realise this basic missing-link in their psychology. What's stranger is that when you point it out to them, they start shouting, ridiculing, acting like tits, and then have the audacity to expect folk to take 'em seriously! Seems like mummy and daddy never paid the right attention to such people when they were kids...and they're still finding other folk won't do it either...

Lessons anyone? I didn't think so...

S starfury
starfury Dec 4, 2007 21:12:35
Replying to Paulus

It'd be nice to know if anything else had been found apart from the tooth?

Andy....

O ocifant
ocifant Dec 4, 2007 21:30:13
Replying to Paulus

I'm not going to get into a "who's right and who's wrong" argument with you. Life's too short.

However, last time I looked, English Heritage was a public body, funded by the taxpayer. As a taxpayer, I (and I get the feeling I'm not alone here :-)) feel I have a right to be appraised of certain important information about what's been going on over the last few months, and more importantly, answers to questions that I've been invited (via their website) to ask.

I'm not fortunate to be local enough to pop along and have a chat whenever I feel like it, unlike some here. So I ask on the website, and so far have been largely ignored or palmed off with irrelevant marketing speak.

What I've seen has been issues raised here about certain decisions, which have apparently been strongly supported by EH (eg the Time Capsule farce) and ridiculed by their supporters, yet which have been quietly reversed once a fuss was made. That's no way to run a public body, and if I'm wrong for pointing that out, then so be it. Luckily, we still live in a country with a modicum of the right to free speech, so I'll speak out about poor management of public bodies like EH.

BTW, I have nothing but respect for the grunts at the coalface - you wouldn't get me in there in such dangerous conditions. Frankly I think you'd have to be mad to even think about going inside the hill, but I'm grateful they did, and I'd like to read about what they found. It's the decision makers I'm critical of here.