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It's a terrible joke, but I think it's was supposed to be cute because bees fly so ground transportation wouldn't work. I think HN has been deteriorating latel
by dfc 9y ago
It's a terrible joke, but I think it's was supposed to be cute because bees fly so ground transportation wouldn't work.
I think HN has been deteriorating lately because of comments lame jokes. There are a bunch in this story.
- TimTheTinker 9y agoI thought there was also a chuckle there about the queen bee having "attendants" accompanying her, like in stories about human queens.
- dfc 9y agoDifferences in what is funny is why I think jokes just don't work well on discussion forums. I assume that this is the reason they are called attendants. Things that seem to follow logically are not comical to me.
- Stratoscope 9y agoThe term "attendants" didn't come from anyone joking around in this thread. The linked USPS information page uses the word because it's what beekeepers call them: > Monday morning myth: attendants must be removed from queen cages > Many beekeepers believe that you must remove attendant bees from queen shipping cages before you introduce a caged queen into a hive. They believe the queen will more likely be killed by the receiving hive if both the attendants and the queen have a foreign odor. > This simply is not true. If you install the caged queen properly, the attendants will cause no problem. Before long the queen’s pheromone will circulate throughout the hive. All the bees—as well as the attendants—will then smell the same. https://honeybeesuite.com/monday-morning-myth-attendants-must-be-removed/ https://honeybeesuite.com/monday-morning-myth-attendants-mus...
- arghwhat 9y agoNo matter the forum, there will always be someone who doesn't understand the joke. That's not going to stop the rest of us from being entertained, however.
- tryingagainbro 9y agoI think HN has been deteriorating lately because of comments lame jokes. There are a bunch in this story. Yeah. I just hope that the sun doesn't stay down one day because of the so called jokes in some threads. People waste so much time trying to be funny. (sarcasm--attempted at least) The funny part, at least for me, was the specific number of bees (8) attending to the queen. It's good to be the King /Queen comes to mind and how did they decide the exact number...
- stephengillie 9y agoThings remain mostly the same. How we perceive them changing tells us much about how we, ourselves, are changing. On the other hand, it's probably better they restrict the number of worker bees. What would happen if someone shipped a full nest of bees via airmail, and they somehow got loose on a commercial flight?
- sctb 9y agoWe detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15139251 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15139251 and marked it off-topic.