Plain Weird and Shit Sherlocks12 Aug 2009 02:09 pm
By Alex

Topics must be running dry.

Bee keeping needs to be done by people who know what they are doing, not just on a whim.
Janet

Bollocks. I mean what exactly do you need for beekeeping? Honey, paintbrush and a good solid bucket to keep the buggers in. Maybe some newspaper down if they’re not housetrained.

49 Responses to “On a Whim”

  1. on 12 Aug 2009 at 2:13 pm deelang

    Honey? What do you need honey for? That’s why I’ve got the bees in the first place.

    Thanks for making an already complex new hobby even more confusing .

  2. on 12 Aug 2009 at 2:16 pm Tomsk

    Orinoco says hives are better than whims for keeping bees.

  3. on 12 Aug 2009 at 2:31 pm Rosie @ the BBC

    Topics must be running dry.

    Sorry Alex. We did try to provide a topic in which teh stupidz couldn’t possibly make crap jokes about Gordon Brown or whinge about tax.

    Get ready for the TAX on home produced honey.

    Wen Wy, London

    Yes, definately yes! As long as Gordon Brown doesn’t find another way to tax us with one of his famous honey traps!

    michael williams, newbury, United Kingdom

    Epic fail.

  4. on 12 Aug 2009 at 2:38 pm alt-f4

    people who know what they are doing

    i.e. WASPs.

  5. on 12 Aug 2009 at 2:38 pm Oh Shandy

    I was given a hive of bees for Christmas but had to dump them on the motorway after 2 weeks ‘cos they refused to do tricks – on reflection I didn’t know what I was doing.

  6. on 12 Aug 2009 at 2:40 pm Ceannair

    I was given a hive of bees for Christmas but had to dump them on the motorway after 2 weeks ‘cos they refused to do tricks – on reflection I didn’t know what I was doing.

    Could you not have put them in a Coke bottle and made a cheap “credit crunch” vibrator ?

    I’ll get me pashmina.

  7. on 12 Aug 2009 at 2:42 pm Yossarian

    I’ve tried keeping bees on a whim, they stayed for a bit but they kept flying off.

    Bees are whimsical about whims.

    If I’m right maybe dont know

  8. on 12 Aug 2009 at 2:45 pm alt-f4

    Sure enough….

    How can you expect plants and flowers and all the other natural habitats the bee requires to flourish with sixty five plus million people living here?

    I loathe NuLab

  9. on 12 Aug 2009 at 2:48 pm Rosie @ the BBC

    And one from an old favourite

    With the increase in bees I predict a “Bee community congestion charge” being introduced in the next budget – or “Hive Tax” as it’s already become known as.

    Adrian Mugridge, Chester, United Kingdom

  10. on 12 Aug 2009 at 2:50 pm Yossarian

    Its a goddam Nuliebor conspiracy to wipe out the indigenous bee population by encouraging human reproduction.

    Next thing we know they’ll be letting in millions of imigrunt bees who make honey for next to nothing!

  11. on 12 Aug 2009 at 2:54 pm Felna

    Next thing we know they’ll be letting in millions of imigrunt bees who make honey for next to nothing!

    It’s already happened: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1523845/Super-bee-invasion-has-sting-in-the-tail-for-native-species.html

  12. on 12 Aug 2009 at 3:08 pm Simon

    This country is crowded enough without billions of bees taking up space. Besides, if everyone in London starts to keep bees they might even become a threat to aircraft.

    We have seen what a bird strike can do to a plane, surely the next thing would be a bee swarm strike at City Airport or Heathrow.

    Do we really want to see such a disaster just for a few extra pots of honey? Somebody at Natural England hasn’t thought this through.

    And no, I don’t think this is a joke: I’ve had a look at his previous posts.

    SUBJECT: Tea or coffee?
    POST: When will NuLiarBore end the extortionate taxes on tea. I will not pay my hard-earned money for *Indian* tea. I for one will stick to English tap water.

  13. on 12 Aug 2009 at 3:08 pm sophie

    I do understand the need but I would never leave the house I am terrified of them sorry!!!!!!!
    LYDIA REID, EDINBURGH Don’t mention Christianity or the HEFA Bill

    Probably don’t mention bees then either. haven’t we heard her brain farts before?

  14. on 12 Aug 2009 at 3:09 pm Simon

    Sorry, that should be: “I for one will stick to English water that I’ve collected in buckets from my drainpipes.”

  15. on 12 Aug 2009 at 3:22 pm Andy

    Why does everyone want to ‘keep’ these animals. Bees should be free to do as they want. Keeping thousands of bees in one place such as a horribly overcrowded hive is probably the cause of bee disease. Besides, there’s plenty of honey in the supermarkets if that’s what people want.

    L A Odicean, Lower Sidcup

    Would somebody please think of the bees.

  16. on 12 Aug 2009 at 3:23 pm Jedrek

    The top-rated comment in that thread has a lovely spelling mistake. Think about it for a second:

    No bees = no pollenation = no cops = no food = humans become extinct. Or maybe humans just aren’t suited to the modern world?

  17. on 12 Aug 2009 at 3:30 pm My Foot Hurts.

    Keeping thousands of bees in one place such as a horribly overcrowded hive is probably the cause of bee disease

    Does she mean hepatitis-Bee?

  18. on 12 Aug 2009 at 3:30 pm My Foot Hurts.

    Damn, meant to use an alias for that.

  19. on 12 Aug 2009 at 3:37 pm John Adair

    With more government support of our farmers our bee industry could be revitalised. But when they are cutting everything left right and centre what time do they have for bees.

    bee keeping is not something that can be done on a whim and by the untrained. Laughable. Really laughable.

    Joshua Porteus, Oxford, United Kingdom

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    Alert a Moderator

    Very true, I use the “Kadir Buxton bee keeping method myself, but it can be very painful if you get it wrong.

  20. on 12 Aug 2009 at 3:47 pm Ed aka Nearly Craig

    @My Foot Hurts.

    Does she mean hepatitis-Bee?

    Don’t bother trying to get your coat. It’s already been sent away in a taxi. Kindly report for recycling.

  21. on 12 Aug 2009 at 4:04 pm john Adair's Gerbil

    What did bees do before they were enslaved by WASPS? Probably just sat around in their council hives signing on for dole honey every two weeks.

    Lazy bastards.

  22. on 12 Aug 2009 at 4:10 pm john Adair's Gerbil

    Send your pictures of bees to yourpics@bbc.co.uk or text them to 61124. If you have a large file you can upload here.
    Read the terms and conditions

    At no time should you endanger yourself or others, take any unnecessary risks or infringe any laws.

    In other words, beehive yourself.

    I’ll share a taxi with My Foot Hurts.


  23. Topics running dry indeed,

  24. on 12 Aug 2009 at 5:36 pm Amy

    i got a beehive

  25. on 12 Aug 2009 at 5:46 pm Pob

    Get box.

    Put bees in box.

    Try to look after bees without knowing what the fuck you’re doing.

    Bees all die.

    That’s all she was saying. And she was right.

  26. on 12 Aug 2009 at 5:53 pm saprotrophic eubacteria

    Oh my goodness, I don’t think so!
    I suppose interested parties could take a course in bee-keeping so that the little stingers will survive; but to place bees in congested, urban areas is like asking for more cases of prophylactic shock…
    Regina-Gabrielle Berry, Toronto, Canada

    prophylactic shock??? bees wearing condoms???

  27. on 12 Aug 2009 at 6:02 pm Ed aka Nearly Craig

    I had to think about that before remembering it’s “anaphylactic” she’s thinking of. But it’s still not as good as the “cops” typo above!

  28. on 12 Aug 2009 at 6:03 pm funny peculiar

    Hi Neil. Your time’s up mate. Your 15 minutes as SYB’s most revered loon are over. You’ve been out loonied. Once upon a time your delusions seemed to us a vast and complex edifice of fantastic size and impossibility; An epic Gormenghast built in the rainbow clouds of La-La-Land. But it has just been over-shadowed by a truly staggering giant of the internet’s lunatic fringe and your efforts suddenly look like a feeble sandcastle built by a bored four year old. Global Nazi Conspiracy? Pfff! Fascist cabal at the BBC? Pah!

    I bet Edward Heath never tried to assassinate you when you were twelve, did he? I bet you can’t cure psychopaths with one blow, can you? Tchah! You haven’t even got a fully designed machine for reversing global warming and curing Altzhiemers. Give it up, Neil, you are yesterday’s man. You have lost the internet.

  29. on 12 Aug 2009 at 6:26 pm Mim

    Google beekeeping.

    Acquire bees.

    Success!

    See? That wasn’t so difficult!

  30. on 12 Aug 2009 at 6:44 pm funny peculiar

    I’ll give you a B+ for your efforts, Mim. But be careful, some hives are known to sing the 80s ballad Roxanne at all hours of the day and night. It doesn’t happen with all types of Bees, generally only the ones with a Beesting.

    And now I shall make a beeline for my coat and buzz off.

  31. on 12 Aug 2009 at 7:06 pm Pam Ayres

    “My friend the bumble, they fly about from plant to plant, collecting the nectar, they mind there own business, and make something really yummy, which you can have on toast to fill your tummy.

    Thumbs up for the bumble.
    Guy Flowers, Sheffield, United Kingdom
    Recommended by 1 person”

    +1 Bees just get on with running their small manufacturing business instead of dabbling in complex financial instruments. I think we should be grateful for their sound judgement and high ethical standards.

  32. on 12 Aug 2009 at 7:39 pm Loop

    Oh my goodness, I don’t think so!
    I suppose interested parties could take a course in bee-keeping so that the little stingers will survive; but to place bees in congested, urban areas is like asking for more cases of prophylactic shock…
    Regina-Gabrielle Berry, Toronto, Canada

    prophylactic shock??? bees wearing condoms???

    Ah, so that explains the introduction of the Extra Large to the UK shores! It’s not to boost morale at all, it’s for the bees!

  33. on 12 Aug 2009 at 8:24 pm Pam Ayres

    Probably will be moderated out because I’m in Scotland but used to live in England and had a cottage garden – bees everywhere! A beesting has the potential to kill me so I wouldn’t keep them but if we all had bee attracting plants we might be able to help – after all, there is something called the food chain!

    Anne, Argyll

    Is a “beesting” some sort of sexual encounter in a hive?

  34. on 12 Aug 2009 at 8:52 pm Parasite

    Next thing we know they’ll be letting in millions of imigrunt bees who make honey for next to nothing!

    Time for the righteous rule of the Bee-NP, methinks.

    (Coat, taxi etc)

  35. on 12 Aug 2009 at 11:43 pm Magician Assisted Suicide

    the 80s ballad Roxanne

    Outlandos d’Amour was 70s, shurely?

    Added: Wednesday, 5 August, 2009, 18:47 GMT 19:47 UK
    Yes, we should be encouraged to keep bees….

    [dennisjunior1]

    I like this one. It has a charming simplicity to it. And in a similar vein:

    Added: Wednesday, 5 August, 2009, 16:15 GMT 17:15 UK
    YES,YES a thousand times YES.

    [JockMcCool], dundee, United Kingdom

    Added: Wednesday, 5 August, 2009, 12:14 GMT 13:14 UK
    They are always busy; buzzy buzzy
    They make honey; yummy yummy
    They poke about in flowers and polinate them so we get crops
    They sort of look cute
    Down side
    They sting
    They swarm
    They only live 6 weeks or so
    Get trapped on the inside of the window; potential sting situation
    Yes we should keep bees though but not in some daft place.

    Bryan Hemming

    Was this written by a six year old? “My mum says I should not keep bees in my socks because that is very very daft.”

  36. on 13 Aug 2009 at 8:22 am Oaf

    All of my bees are kept in daft places.

  37. on 13 Aug 2009 at 9:12 am Arthur Askey

    I like bees.

  38. on 13 Aug 2009 at 9:13 am Simon

    To bee or not to bee:
    That is the question that’s not worth asking.
    Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer the turdspurts and dribblings of outrageous HYS Fucknuts,
    Or to take blogs against a sea of shite,
    And by taking the piss, end them?

    I’ll get my cloak, woudst thou hail for me a transport to convey me elsewhere?

  39. on 13 Aug 2009 at 1:44 pm Set your faces to stunned

    @My Foot Hurts

    If you want to get away from the Hepatitis Bee, just jump into the Hepatitis Sea!

    TAXI!

  40. on 13 Aug 2009 at 2:11 pm Very Tenables

    Typical of the biased Bee Bee. See?

  41. on 13 Aug 2009 at 2:11 pm Very Tenables

    Sorry – forgot to pick up my coat.

  42. on 13 Aug 2009 at 2:58 pm Paranoid Mandroid

    As bad as these bee puns are, none are as excrutiating as Stephen Fry’s in the Direct Line advert. For shame Stephen, for shame…

  43. on 13 Aug 2009 at 10:34 pm Dean Yaeger

    Two guys are sitting in a bar. One asks the other, ‘So what are your
    hobbies?’

    ‘Me? I keep bees.’

    ‘Bees, huh? How many have you got?’

    ‘About fifty-thousand.’

    ‘You’ve got fifty-thousand bees? But you live in a small apartment…
    Where the hell do you keep them all?’

    ‘In a shoebox, in my closet.’

    ‘A shoebox? You keep fifty-thousand bees in a shoebox?’

    The beekeeper nods.

    ‘Fuck ‘em.’

  44. on 13 Aug 2009 at 11:04 pm funny peculiar

    This is the most voted comment on a Daily Mail Swine Flu Jabs Hysteria Stoker. Nowhere in the article does it mention any plans for compulsory jabs in any way. Now watch this dick as his paranoid fantasy spirals off, dragging his self-righteous anger with it. And of course, it’s all Puppet Gordon’s doing.

    Its going to be an interesting few months.
    When is this going to change to a COMPULSORY jab ??
    What then if we refuse .. mental health act?? the pond life of the psychiatrists will be rubbing there hands.

    I for one will refuse, I will decide whats best for my family not some puppet called Gordon Brown ……….
    - Paul, Pembz, 13/8/2009 20:14

  45. on 14 Aug 2009 at 1:17 am Chris

    @Dean Yaeger

    I’d get you your coat, but then you wouldn’t be around to explain to me what the hell you’re talking about.

  46. on 14 Aug 2009 at 8:54 am My Foot Hurts.

    I’m afraid Janet’s right. I tried keeping a bee last night but it died.

    Derek, I called it.

  47. on 14 Aug 2009 at 10:28 am Simon

    ISIHAC:

    Samantha’s just started keeping bees and already has three dozen or so. She says she’s got an expert handler coming round to give a demonstration. He’ll carefully take out her 38 bees and soon have them flying round his head.

  48. on 14 Aug 2009 at 10:58 am Bit Special AKA La Spesh

    That sounds like the start of the worst ‘niche’ porno ever.

  49. on 14 Aug 2009 at 12:26 pm Admiral Grovworth, III

    It is – I’ve seen it.