Southerly: Still a Scientist at Heart
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A good attempt. But your conclusions fail to explicitly address your hypothesis. B-.
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No, no, I'm pretty sure this goes:
Apparatus
1. Beehive-looking thing.
2. Petrol.
3. Barbeque lighter.
The rest is pretty much the same, though. -
We've got bees popping into our place at the moment. Blow flys I'm used to, the reason for the pitcher plant, and wasps sure, always fun.
Bees make a nice change I suppose, docile and colourful.
Sympathies for the stings though. -
We had a swarm of bees at work once, in a garden centre. Watching the bee man come to take them away was fascinating. You (I) could walk right amongst them carefully without disturbing them in the slightest, but lawnmowers, no, I don't think so...
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Surprisingly, the lawnmower was actually a blessing. Most of the bees tried to attack it instead of me.
In late-breaking news, my fingers now look as though they belong to Gerry Brownlee...
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Surprisingly, the lawnmower was actually a blessing. Most of the bees tried to attack it instead of me.
You could take that as a compliment. It's said that bees have a sense of smell, and once they're on the warpath they'll go for the smelliest item. Something to do with an ancient antipathy towards bears. Beekeepers tend to shower regularly and have a thing for clean underwear.
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Perhaps the bees coincidentally appeared when you mowed the beehive-like object. You should repeat the experiment to get more conclusive results.
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Keith, I think that might be the response of the year.
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It would be more conclusive if repeated by someone else.
I volunteer ...................... Keith for the job. -
Mi lawnmower es su lawnmower, Keith...
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Dear Dr Haywood
I am delighted to read of your recent research and dilligent efforts to extend our knowledge in this area. It is indeed good to know that a lawnmower is somewhat more effective than a stick at deflecting the attentions of Bees. I look forward reading further research undertaken by you in this field. Have you any plans to explore similar hypotheses with hornets ?
Kind regards
81stC PhD
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This manuscript is well-written and addresses an issue of concern to the scientific community. The methods appear to be appropriate, and the experiment well-designed (although a double-blind trial, whereby neither bees nor researcher can see each other would be more rigorous still). However, it still substantial revision prior to any publication. In particular, there is nothing in the results that will be of surprise to the scientific community. What, exactly, are we take from this experiment? Perhaps if the results were better contextualized in light of the extant literature the discussion and conclusion sections would be on firmer ground.
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Margins are off by one millimeter. Please re-submit.
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Margins are off by one millimeter. Please re-submit.
And that's just the kind of blinkered, unthinking prejudice that people with Gerry Brownlee Fingers face every day of their lives.
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Why are you doing Science? Don't you know you should only be focussing on literacy and numeracy? Read to the bees and get them to count how many were killed.
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And here I was thinking you were surreally anticipating your book launch...
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So was it a beehive (a wooden structure full of bees or a building in Wellington full of MPs) or a bee swarm or what that you decided to attack with a lawnmower?
People need to know, possibly terrorists could have an interest as well!
The possibilities are almost endless -
Bees have appeared naturally over thousands of years without any interference from puny mankind. The sun alone drives 90% of bee appearance in the last thousand years and I saw a bee the other day BEFORE I mowed the lawn - your pinko theory can't explain that lag now can it?!
It is well known that the UN has a deep liberal apicultural agenda, and wish to implement the lesbian queen socialist utopia of the colony.
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So now we know what's causing colony collapse disorder
BTW: try filling a pump-up weedsprayer with kerosene, apply lighter & take 'em on like a man.
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You are just the sort of person who should be applying for this.
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You could take that as a compliment. It's said that bees have a sense of smell, and once they're on the warpath they'll go for the smelliest item
They do.
Saw them go after a farm dog, once. We'd drenched the bulls - a key component of Nilverm is also a key ingredient in one of the recently-banned party drugs - and the bulls, when let out of the yard, were leaping around and busted through the fence in the race and went down the side of the hill, which happened to be covered in gorse.
Dad sent the dog in among the gorse to round them up: there was barking which turned to yelping, the bulls come running out of the gorse at the bottom of the hill and then the dog comes out and streaks past them, yowling like mad.
Heading straight for the water trough. Which was the right thing to do. He'd run through a bee's nest and they were all over him.He got over it, mostly. But he'd never go down that hillside again, at least, not until we 245-T'd the gorse a few year's later.
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Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Flowers Make Everyone Happy, and we'd love to have this added to the group!
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a few year's later
DAMN.
a few years' later.
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I'd take a lawnmower to that apostrophe, I reckon.
...a few years later?
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I wish I had bees - I've let my lawns grow, on the hypothesis that more flowers everywhere will draw more bees, which will mean more bees on my fruit trees, which will mean more fruit. Strangely, it seems to have attracted a pair of ducks instead.
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