Holy fuck. Nobody better tell a story about getting stung after spudboy's. That must have been inordinate terror. Completely. Anyways...

My uncle is an avid hunter. Many years ago, he was climbing up a tree to find a good vantage point to wait for whatever he was hunting. At one point, as he pulled himself up higher into the tree, he positioned his face directly in front of a hornets nest. He must have startled them. They all attacked his face. Hundreds of them stung his face. He fell out of the tree and was taken to the hospital. This was perhaps 40 years ago, and if you met him today you would surmise that he must have had terrible acne in his youth, but he did not.

Fuck bees, but fuck wasps and hornets harder. If wasps could make delicious natural chocolate or something, maybe I'd cut them some slack. But for them to rain down pain on my uncle and on Spudboy like they did, to do that but not leave some honey or some chocolate or maybe some exotic liquid hallucinogen? Well, I just don't see how they are contributing to the greater good. Burn the lot of them.

Also, Nick, sorry for your recent bee attack. Didn't mean to steal your bee stung thunder. Spudboy's story was just so overwhelming.

update: it has been determined the attackers were yellowjackets and not simple bees.

fuck the lot of them.

much respect to all of us who have suffered under the unholy terror of the flying beast.

trompuss wrote:Well, I just don't see how they are contributing to the greater good. Burn the lot of them.

I will be you $0.25 that if you do some decent research on wasps and pollenation and how important pollenation is, you will see how they are contributing.

Also, if I remember right, our gracious host once got in a bar fight with some bees and has been holding a grudge ever since.

Bees are great. I would wipe the planet free of wasps and hornets if I could. Fuck those little assholes.

I love 'em. fuck all y'all.

As I understand it, US bees are fucked. According to the Bee Bee C.

Apparently, two out of three mouthfuls of food eaten by western-worlders is reliant on bees, so maybe(e) it'd be(e) better if bees became un-fucked.

I love bees. In my back garden I get a type of bee I know as the "Hoverbee". I have no idea what its correct name is. Their hovering abilities are incredible. They change direction almost exclusively at right angles.

Fuck wasps though.

Nico Adie wrote:I have no idea what its correct name is. Their hovering abilities are incredible.

An impostor, the 'flower fly'. Not a real bee or wasp at all, probably gets beaten up at the annual stripy-insect convention...

Very cool.