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18th October 2011, 09:27 PM
Just popped in folks after a year(ish) of self imposed exile from BAJR.
I might as well not have bothered. How many angels can you get to sit on a pin~head? I'll disappear now for another year or so, don't want to see the torrent of vitriol that I'll face for stating the obvious. Just sit behind your computers and whine to each other, nowt'll ever get done, people in archaeology are far too spineless and self seeking for that. Maybe I'll pop in again next year, bet I see the same old arguments going around interminably, same old platitudes, same old self defeating attitudes. Treat yourselves to it.
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18th October 2011, 11:54 PM
Do you think that most archaeologists and archaeological companies have been deafening in their silence in the face of the potential threat to our profession from the government plans? that is, if there is a threat- and not just a few scaremongers?
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19th October 2011, 08:38 AM
Ken Denham Wrote:Just popped in folks after a year(ish) of self imposed exile from BAJR.
I might as well not have bothered. How many angels can you get to sit on a pin~head? I'll disappear now for another year or so, don't want to see the torrent of vitriol that I'll face for stating the obvious. Just sit behind your computers and whine to each other, nowt'll ever get done, people in archaeology are far too spineless and self seeking for that. Maybe I'll pop in again next year, bet I see the same old arguments going around interminably, same old platitudes, same old self defeating attitudes. Treat yourselves to it.
Come back! It's boring without you :face-crying:
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19th October 2011, 09:53 AM
Hello Ken so you are feeling the pain. Is this any of your Ken
http://npht.com/wordpress/category/news/
Reason: your past is my past
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19th October 2011, 09:57 AM
Ken Denham Wrote:Just popped in folks after a year(ish) of self imposed exile from BAJR.
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Maybe I'll pop in again next year
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Last post: June 28th.
We'll be hearing from you in February then. Until then, enjoy the lurking.
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19th October 2011, 11:37 AM
well i for one am glad you popped in. we will be more interesting from now on. thanks for sparing us your time:face-approve:
If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about answers
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19th October 2011, 01:23 PM
I know... Discussions about Romano British identity... C14 dating and Open source software Lots of stories about archaeology sites on Den of Antiquity... and yes some interesting discussions on real time archaeology. Some discussion on Overtime (which resolved itself) comment on the IfA Elections etc....etc...
Blah Blah :p
See you in Feb. Go on... the Forum is what you make it. :0
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19th October 2011, 01:51 PM
Ken Denham Wrote:Just popped in folks after a year(ish) of self imposed exile from BAJR.
I might as well not have bothered. How many angels can you get to sit on a pin~head? I'll disappear now for another year or so, don't want to see the torrent of vitriol that I'll face for stating the obvious. Just sit behind your computers and whine to each other, nowt'll ever get done, people in archaeology are far too spineless and self seeking for that. Maybe I'll pop in again next year, bet I see the same old arguments going around interminably, same old platitudes, same old self defeating attitudes. Treat yourselves to it.
Sounds like a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Closed minds will never see anything they haven't already seen
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21st November 2011, 11:36 PM
Not too bothered Dave about what the companies think.
I remember when Carlisle Archaeology went tits up. We'd worked for 3 years on that excavation and another copmpany moved in to do the post-ex. 90% of the staff was made redundant.
All the accumulated knowledge that had been incorperated within the firm was dispersed immediately and the academics moved in, who didn't know what the hell they were talking about.
So, I don't think that most Archaeological firms are deafening to any government plans. I'ts a horrible reality that most archaeological firms are
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22nd November 2011, 08:08 PM
If it's all so bad, way did you stop even longer to start a thread moaning and complaining, why don't you do some thing usful with your time or are you proving your own statement that archaeologist are spineless and self seeking
Archaeology is the peeping Tom of the sciences It is the sandbox of men who care not where they are going; they merely want to know where everyone else has been.
