Hine: I Quit Again … Sort Of … *YAWN*
Wait! 2024 is over and the biggest crop circle news of last year is only just hitting this website. We’re clearly slacking. Well, if you don’t already know, and why would you if you possess any dignity, (Un)Official Crop Circles UK admin and loud mouthed hoaxer Dene Hine has shocked the world by announcing that ‘Due to health issues I am done posting any of my crop circles made by me and my teams Clandestine and NYX’.
What, he’s seriously ill? What, he’s leaving the group? What, he really isn’t a self-important and utterly deluded twerp who is seriously unwell? No, on all counts. Hine has seriously written this rubbish.
Does Hine really believe that people will care if he stops posting the same few crop circle photos again and again and again and again and again? We’ve laughed about it here and here in the past. Does he think anyone will be upset with the supposed end of his repetitive posting of the Muncombe Hill and Space Cat hoaxes, along with his Ansty commission? What will we do without our Willoughby Hedge Wednesdays?
It took us all of ten milliseconds to shake our heads in response to this big announcement as Hine has had numerous retirements from the fields, never mind Facebook, and each and every time he’s come back. He can’t stay away as he needs the attention, though we did wonder what ‘health issue’ could prevent him from posting his own crop circles, but, apparently, post those of others? Whatever it is hasn’t stopped him from calling someone named Eddy H Newman ‘scum’.
We had hoped the ‘health issue’ is called ‘sudden self-awareness’, or ‘self-recognised delusions of grandeur’ though that’s proved to be wishful thinking. The reality, if you can believe anything Hine says, is much less of a surprise. Apparently he’s had to go to the police over threats of violence from croppies, but there’s no evidence of this. However there is a screengrab of someone calling Hine a ‘supercilious [see you next Tuesday]’.
Wow, big deal. Someone calling big man Dene a name has him on his knees and sobbing. Poor little duck, he’s such a victim and it has all become too much. But don’t feel sorry for him; just have a look here for a taster of the abuse and nastiness he’s directed at others: https://thecroppie.com/2023/10/09/croppie-gossip-dene-hine-a-new-low/
It’s always the same with the likes of Hine and his ilk. They can dish it out but as soon as they start getting it back with any force they wilt and cry foul. Another man baby.
And let’s be fair, Hine has been patronisingly lording it over true believers in the sewer that is CCUK. There, he really does behave in that supercilious manner, presenting himself as the messenger of truth over ‘woo woo merchants’, all the whilst he’s telling us he’s had his own paranormal experiences. Yet this is what hoaxers past and present (circle makers keep their mouths shut) don’t understand: you’re telling people who truly believe in the paranormality of crop circles that they’re full of shit, as well as being stupid and dumb. But your own beliefs are no more valid than theirs; it’s just you believe spirits and higher intelligences are guiding what you put down in a field, not aliens. What makes you any more right than these people? Nothing. Besides, by arguing with true believers you’re not going to change their minds. Just look at Paul Jacobs as a classic example of someone who went from a crisis of confidence to being a bigger hardliner than before.
An extremely favourable artist’s impression of Hine’s reaction to being called a ‘supercilious [see you next Tuesday]’. Out of revenge he’ll no longer be posting pics of Ansty, Ansty, Ansty and Ansty. Maybe there will be no photos of Ansty either.
Hine came to the fields wanting to be famous, wanting people to seize on his artwork and help him make a name for himself. That’s not how crop circles work. They never have done and never will. The art is in staying quiet and influencing the beliefs of others, not shattering dreams and making your name off of it.
People aren’t going to be thanking Hine in the long term for swaying a few already open minds. Any abuse he’s received may not necessarily, in some eyes, be morally justified, but we are by no means surprised he’s receiving it. He was stupid enough to sell himself to newspapers whilst running with a bullshit story featuring lies about ill people being dragged into crop circles for a miracle cure. He’s been stupid enough to dismiss other croppies across social media in the most public and patronising manner. Some people just don’t like being dismissed as idiots, Dene, especially when their accuser is … well … some balding bloke with a haggis-like growth under his eye who inspects pieces of plastic.
By sticking his head above the parapet and effectively sticking a middle finger up at hardline true believers and ridiculing them, Hine is tormenting a group of people, some of whom, as within any walk of life, are likely to stand up for what they believe in using any means they believe appropriate. He may as well walk around with a sign saying ‘kick me’ pinned to the back of his coat and cry when he’s getting booted.
Hine needs to ask himself why original circle maker Doug Bower subsequently regretted letting the cat out of the bag. (Clue: the answer is three paragraphs above, in the final sentence) And, as we’ve said before, nobody is going to remember Dene Hine as a circle maker in a century. It’s only the names Bower and Chorley that anyone will recall, and that’ll be as the originators of some quaint English eccentricity that involved flattening some crops and watching how people responded.
So, Dene, whilst you wallow in self-pity and your apparent anxiety and depression over some random person off the internet calling you a ‘supercilious [see you next Tuesday]’, stop playing the victim card and either man up, or better still, clear off and find something more productive to do with your time that will gain you the right kind of attention. But, as this website has said countless times before, that involves doing something more than spending all day on Facebook.
Because Hine is so ill he can’t stop being vile.
As we’ve already said, Dene, you’ll be back — and looking at it today, you haven’t ever left — because you crave publicity and attention. Maybe, just maybe, in an ideal world, you’ll see why circle makers keep their heads down and move in the shadows. We doubt it though. That you’ve seen fit to cry to the world about your extremely diluted flounce tells us you’re just attention seeking, and as soon as enough people say ‘share those photos, Dene’, you’ll pull yourself up from the sofa, spray salt water under your eyes, sniff, thank everyone for their support and get back to business as usual. Same old photos, same old boasting, same old delusions of grandeur, same old delusions of importance, same old ridiculous, balding, bearded, middle-aged man desperate to be somebody.
no way thats hind in the foto cuz he dont have a crikit ball on his eye
Let’s not be unkind to Mr Hine. In correspondence to a third party a year or two ago (which we possess a copy of), Mr Hine described what you term to be a ‘cricket ball’ as a ‘cancerous growth’. If this is the case then it would seem he needs to see his GP again extremely quickly. We aren’t ones to kick someone when they’re down (we note that he did not disappear from CCUK at all and is still posting), but if the ‘cancerous growth’ is not what he claims it is, we feel it is despicable to pass it off as fact. Cancers are something which have the potential to affect each and every one of us, and I imagine we have all lost, or have been concerned about losing, someone we love to one of these illnesses. Whilst the online croppie world can be extremely brutal, there are some lines which shouldn’t be crossed.