Worse than the moms in the show"Dance Moms" (my sisters force that to be what the family watches when we eat dinner)
Woman is a loser. She is a horrible journalist, and might be a loser purely because she hates her job or knows she should have picked something that she was good at. Wouldn't be surprised.
Maybe she could tag along with the diggers crew..then she could find a lot and do cartwheels for her daughter and make her proud.
Pretty basic information to me. Maybe someone should share with her a bit of common sense. It is not likely that you are going to get rich, or find some ultra unique piece of metal/jewelry by metal detecting.....particularly on the first few times that you go out.......especially when you don't know not a darn thing about detecting; it that were the case then everyone and their mother would do it....the world would be comprised of nothing but rich people and the metal detector manufactures would charge through the nose for the device.
Most people, I suspect, at least I, do it because it is fun....its the thrill of the hunt..... and are unlike the characterization made of your typical "detectorist" by this nincompoop; I'm in my 40', I am a former college athlete, I am in excellent shape, and I do not expect my body - let alone my legs - to atrophy for another 40 years at the earliest.
Oh, and by the way, my kid asked for a iPhone when he was 7 because he saw a kid on TV with one.......did I buy him one? HELL NO, it is called parenting lady........maybe you should have known that there aren't many 7 year old detectorist out there or better yet maybe you should have planted some goodies in the back yard to let your little girl discover them and get a thrill of a lifetime......after all the is what childhood is supposed to be about?
I'm still trying to figure out what that solipsistic (a metaphysical theory in philosophy that states that nothing exists or is known outside of one's own mind) is doing in there. Perhaps it has some sort of ironic meaning, given that the hilarity of her writing exists only in her own mind.
Yeah, okeydokey, metal detecting is boring but it's a funny coincidence that she should bring this up because I find badly written articles that lack any research and which take a smarmy, sneering tone of superiority and belittlement, all under the guise of humor, to be boring.
She found it the worst hobby ever, and thus pronounced it to be so, without bothering to ask why there are many people out there who enjoy it and have done so for decades, or what they might be getting from it. In short, she has the temperament of a self-absorbed, spoiled brat.