The beez, the beez. [URL]http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=2243176[/URL]
What a fucking arsehole. That was just a common or garden swarm. Harmless. Beneficial to the environment and everything else. In a while it would have buggered off somewhere. Or if he'd had the wit to call anyone who knew anything about bees (instead of the pest control people), a beekeeper would gladly have come and collected it. Instead the silly twat damn nearly incinerates his house, smokes out his neighbourhood, and a zillion other dimwit ignorant Yanks cheer him on. I mean: "Would they build a beehive there?" FFS. Only if they're skilled carpenters. I hope they take a lot of casualties in Iraq this Christmas. <Goes and cuddles own beez>
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Frankly if I had a huge swarm of beez in the garden I'd probably take exception and flame thrower the fuckers as if they were Catholic. Don't they get those nasty Eeefricen beez over there anyway?
While I agree with you on this bit, the comment down there was not what I expected. I had this happen 30 some years ago. I was in an apartment with then wife and #1 daughter. The ex was allergic to beez and carried a kit just in case. There was an old house nearby and a swarm of beez was disturbed. They ended up in the bathroom fan vent and it wasn't long before they found their way inside with us. I called a bee keeper and he said he was too busy to come. I called the manager and he called an exterminator who gassed them. They had already had a good size comb built in a matter of half a day. You really have to admire them.
One of the twats on that series of px was allergic to bees, and he went provoking them. Wtf? Oh yes, they can build wild comb astonishingly fast. Indeed. But that thread on that forum showed the very, very worst of uneducated belligerent America, I'm afraid. OK, so they were just woo-hooing about bees, but I had the very nasty feeling that they'd behave in exactly the same way to human beings. Oh well, it's Christmas. <Raises glass USA-wards>
Stupid humans. Yes, you are quite right. And to you and your household including the beez as I like honey in my hot cereal.
Whilst I understand the sentiment when applied to anything US, I have to say it's not something I'm comfortable with. The poor chaps over there are simply doing their masters' [1] bidding. We need to identify the power that generates such unthinking allegiance to a belief system. And fucking challenge it. TOG, if you're as good as you think you are you'll realise a dogmatic view on anything is the most dangerous thing we face; coupled with unthinking, lazy thought. [1] The apostrophe is in the right place IMO
Alternatively they are doing the job they are fucking well paid for which they signed up for. A soldier in battle who refuses his orders is likely to be shot, as it should be.
I like bees. And I especially like the first day in early spring when you see those fat sleepy bumbles looking rather bewildered at having hatched. (Or whatever the right term is.) I'm presuming you know the tradition of telling news to the bees? Ali
