Randomness XVI: Brains versus Bleach - an Epic Rap Battle in Iambic Pentameter.

[TheAuldGrump]

1 hour ago, Green Eyed Monster said:

They're still out there but in a less threatening form.

The Africanized bees have continued to breed with North American Bees, and over time the threat level has been reduced as the gene pool absorbs the Africanized genes and dilutes their effect.

GEM

Apiarists also discovered (rediscovered?) that the African bees really do increase the honey yield, so it was (mostly) worth the risk.

 

Sadly, bees are dying off, right now - both African bees and domesticated honey bees included.

 

I know a couple that used to keep bees, over on Salem Street, in Portland, Maine.

 

I don't think the African strain ever got this far North.

 

The Auld Grump

[Green Eyed Monster]

1 hour ago, Lord of the Dish Pit said:

Makes sense. I wonder if it will aid them in fighting the murder hornets.

The Murder Hornets got their name because they will murder thousands of Honey Bees without any provocation.

If they get a foothold in North America it will have devastating effects for all crops pollinated by bees.

GEM

[redambrosia]

32 minutes ago, TheAuldGrump said:

Apiarists also discovered (rediscovered?) that the African bees really do increase the honey yield, so it was (mostly) worth the risk.

 

Sadly, bees are dying off, right now - both African bees and domesticated honey bees included. 

 

I know a couple that used to keep bees, over on Salem Street, in Portland, Maine.

 

I don't think the African strain ever got this far North.

 

The Auld Grump

:siiiiiiiiigghhhhhhh:

 

This is quite simply not true. European honey bees are in no way endangered. In fact, they’re so NOT endangered, that they’re causing all sorts of problems for OTHER bees. Bees that are in endangered are wild and native bees. 
 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/07/23/call-off-the-bee-pocalypse-u-s-honeybee-colonies-hit-a-20-year-high/
 

https://www.wired.com/2015/04/youre-worrying-wrong-bees/amp
 

Domesticated bees will be fine. Billion dollar industries depend on them, so billions will be invested in them. 

[TGP]

Where is the thread for reporting foul-ups and failed tagging in the Reaper Online Store?   Anybody remember?

 

Is it gone?

Edited May 5, 2020 by TGP

[Lord of the Dish Pit]

31 minutes ago, Green Eyed Monster said:

The Murder Hornets got their name because they will murder thousands of Honey Bees without any provocation.

If they get a foothold in North America it will have devastating effects for all crops pollinated by bees.

GEM

I'm envisioning "Killer Bee vs Murder Hornet" air wars taking place, and hoping the locusts don't figure out our continent exists...

[strawhat]

59 minutes ago, Green Eyed Monster said:

The Murder Hornets got their name because they will murder thousands of Honey Bees without any provocation.

If they get a foothold in North America it will have devastating effects for all crops pollinated by bees.

GEM

 

The "provocation" seems to be that they like feeding the bees to their young.

 

It's also being reported that their stings can be fatal to non-allergic humans.  Something like 3-4 dozen fatalities a year in Japan from them.  I haven't seen anything about how many times a normal person would have to get tagged to be at risk, and I'd rather not find out the hard way.

 

Good news is that Japan's honey bees figured out a way to combat them.  When the hornets swarm a nest, the bees pile on the hornets--but don't sting.  All the bees climbing on the hornets eventually heats the hornets up enough that they die.  Now we just need to teach our bees to do the same...

[sumbloke]

15 hours ago, Green Eyed Monster said:

I cut classes in college that day in order to see the movie.  Has heard about it at local SF Conventions and was eager for release.

Only had to stand in line about three hours.

A week later a three hour queue was a short line.

GEM

I wasn't born until between Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi, but I did manage to see the original trilogy in the cinemas during the 20th anniversary re-releases.

[Green Eyed Monster]

1 minute ago, sumbloke said:

I wasn't born until between Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi, but I did manage to see the original trilogy in the cinemas during the 20th anniversary re-releases.

The opening sequence where the Great Big Starship comes across the screen firing at something behind it and then - the Imperial Battle Cruiser that is OMG BIG! comes across the screen was absolutely mind grabbing when it was first released.

This was in the very early days of computer assisted graphics, actually before CGI and it had to done with large scale models and computer controlled camera systems, operating in basically stop-motion mode, which were ground breaking technology for the 1970s.

GEM

[Darsc Zacal]

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[paintybeard]

5 hours ago, haldir said:

 

Funny thing on here it was said

 

"Its the Year of the Rat" someone said no "Year of the Plague."

 

Pretty close. Again, it can go away.

 

 

 

On 1/25/2020 at 3:06 PM, paintybeard said:

 

Actually it's beginning to look like the Year of the Virus...

 

Showing off here, that was me, displaying my usual tendency to always assume the worst.

Edited May 5, 2020 by paintybeard

[Glitterwolf]

Tried to open the garagedoor again no I can see better in the daylight.

No luck.

 

He seems to be crooked at the top, opens a few centimeters and then jams.

I have sent a message to a company that repairs doors like that.

Hope to hear from them today.

 

Also...

I have been working in the shed yesterday, noticed a shrew's nest and lots of droppings.

He's been making his way into the walls and that smells, so I knew there must be one of them around.

Now I've found the nest, pokes into it. he came out and ran away.

I've put some metal netting in it and then closed it with fast drying cement.

 

All well, but, while doing so I laid on the floor, and I don't know if it's caused by the cement or maybe I came into contact with droppings or something else.

But now I have a itching rash all over my arms.

Since I wore a t-shirt, my arms touched the ground where I was working.

There must have been something on there that caused it.

Itches like h.. if this isn't over today I will see a medic tomorrow.

 

Oh...and today it's Liberation Day in the Netherlands.

The end of WWII.

Yesterday we remembered the fallen.

[TGP]

That sounds like a rail that is misaligned, Wolf. Maybe try pulling upward on the side that is hanging from the bottom of the door. And don’t pull from the central knob/handle. You might luck out and get the wheel that is binding past the obstruction. 

[Pezler the Polychromatic]

56 minutes ago, Glitterwolf said:

Tried to open the garagedoor again no I can see better in the daylight.

No luck.

 

He seems to be crooked at the top, opens a few centimeters and then jams.

I have sent a message to a company that repairs doors like that.

Hope to hear from them today.

 

Also...

I have been working in the shed yesterday, noticed a shrew's nest and lots of droppings.

He's been making his way into the walls and that smells, so I knew there must be one of them around.

Now I've found the nest, pokes into it. he came out and ran away.

I've put some metal netting in it and then closed it with fast drying cement.

 

All well, but, while doing so I laid on the floor, and I don't know if it's caused by the cement or maybe I came into contact with droppings or something else.

But now I have a itching rash all over my arms.

Since I wore a t-shirt, my arms touched the ground where I was working.

There must have been something on there that caused it.

Itches like h.. if this isn't over today I will see a medic tomorrow.

 

Oh...and today it's Liberation Day in the Netherlands.

The end of WWII.

Yesterday we remembered the fallen.

*salutes the Dutch*

[Glitterwolf]

Tried to lift the door a little but it won't work.

Repairman will come Friday the 8th...

 

Luckily the cars are outside.

 

My rash has expandend to my neck..

I will see a medic tomorrow.

Edited May 5, 2020 by Glitterwolf

[ratsmitglied]

1 hour ago, Glitterwolf said:

Tried to lift the door a little but it won't work.

Repairman will come Friday the 8th...

 

Luckily the cars are outside.

 

My rash has expandend to my neck..

I will see a medic tomorrow.

If it's an allergic reaction (which it definitely sounds like) then an over-the-counter anti-histamine will help a lot.

(I have far too much experience with allergic reactions...thankfully my son has grown out of his anaphylaxis)