Apparatus

1. Beehive-looking thing.
2. Petrol.
3. Barbeque lighter.

The rest is pretty much the same, though.

In late-breaking news, my fingers now look as though they belong to Gerry Brownlee...

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?

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?

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.

BTW: try filling a pump-up weedsprayer with kerosene, apply lighter & take 'em on like a man.

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 few year's later

DAMN.

a few years' later.

...a few years later?

We'd drenched the bulls – a key component of Nilverm is also a key ingredient in one of the recently-banned party drugs ...

Let me guess: the cows danced madly for two hours, then had headaches for the next two days?

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,

Blue flowers are best, so they say, like borage, catnip, lavender & the like.

Considering getting a hive at some?

Of course, you may have endured crippling injuries as a result, but that shouldn't slow down your productivity.

Who knows,?

Bees do seem to like blue. I've noticed this, while tramping in bee-ridden areas near?

Lawnmowers clearly?

Bees do seem to like blue. I've noticed this, while tramping in bee-ridden areas near Nelson. If you've got blue gear on, you're more likely to be swatting the buggers away.

Must suck to be a smurf.

Generally, I quite like bees. They are only aggressive if you actually stand?

BTW: try filling a pump-up weedsprayer with kerosene, apply lighter & take 'em on like a man.

That's not very manly. Naked with a fly-swotter, as god intended!

Blues apparently like blue more because they can see ultra violet, which some colours show more of than others – blue makes uv?

Ha! But then guns start to appear.

"Ouch!"
"Sorry. Did I miss?"
"Not quite."

Something soothing or ambient but contemporary.

Moby?

(think about it...)

@Kyle:

Bees can't see red at all.

But what about those pesky bulls?

But what about those pesky bulls?

I think Mythbusters squashed that fairly effectively (and hilariously).

Clearly there was a missing element in the experiment... you should've considered the effect of music on the bees under such excitation.

Unfortunately, David's household only listens to country and western music. And bees hate that.

Plausable?

Oh,?

I keep two hives and one of the interesting things about the bees is the way they get used to you as part of their environment ? the kids can stand in the flight path and the bees bounce right off them. It?s only visitors who are stung.

Having recently?

Taster from Chapter 2 which explains how not to get stung:

I shall, in this chapter, anticipate some principles in the natural history of the bee, to convince my readers that any one favorably situated may enjoy?

Is this the right thread to share this charming little gem with everyone?

That is awesome. The luxury hive on page 12 reminds me of the multi storey, modular guinea pig hutches I used to construct out of, oh, anything laying around the property (when I was a boy).

Except?

Despite my advanced years, I am still faster than 90 per cent of bees.

I think this may be the best sentence on the Internet as of right now.

The luxury hive on page 12

And now I think of it, I'm amazed you took on such an edifice with a lawnmower.

Those prodies hurt more. I can vouch that when you take the weed eater to the tall grass and hit the white anglo saxon protestants – the effects are essentially the same – lots of swearing and stirred up religious fanatics!

But having suffered both, I would take?

Hebes

Bloody Catholics!

WASPS are truly nasty bastards

Well, my bingo card is filling up quickly.

How's everyone else doing?

Clearly there was a missing element in the experiment... you should've considered the effect of music on the bees under such excitation.

Something soothing or ambient but contemporary.

Anything but Sting!

So was it a beehive (a wooden structure full of bees...) or a bee swarm or what that you decided to attack with a lawnmower?

Just to clarify the sequence of?

I saw a thingish-looking thing on the lawn

I will treasure this description.

That way both your fellow team member (the lawn mower in this case) and your good person will be able to?

Thing
?noun 1. a material object without life or consciousness; an inanimate object.
2. some entity, object, or creature that is not or cannot be specifically designated or precisely described: The stick had a brass thing on it.
3. anything that is or may become an object of thought:?

an air of mowiness

And I shall treasure that description, redolent of spring.

Anything but Sting!

Yeah, but that applies to every single moment in one's life.

Anything but Sting!
Yeah, but that applies to every single moment in one's life.

Every breath you take?

OK, I'll stop that now.

Could the Wiggles have had anything to do with it? Did he have his IPOD hooked up?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7ijI-g4jHg

Could the Wiggles have had anything to do with it?

Wouldn't put it past the bastards at all.

Wiggles = Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.

Barney the Purple Dinosaur = the Anti-Christ.