Giles Stille

[Questions]

I got stung by a bee last week. 6 pounds for a jar of honey.

The bees in my garden went on strike last summer. The buggers wanted more honey and shorter flowers.

 

[Simster]

Apparently, if bees were paid minimum wage, a jar of honey would cost £4m.

FACT

Not quite. From Reddit:

Worker honey bees live for around 5 months

Bees work around 8 hours per day
One bee will make around 1/12 teaspoon of honey in their lifetime
That’s 14400 bee-hours per teaspoon.
Let’s say they work for 13 cents per hour, which comparable to a Bangladeshi garment worker.
That means labour alone costs $1872 per teaspoon.
7.1g of honey in a teaspoon
So honey would cost $264/g in labour.

Normally there’s roughly a 100% mark-up for the distributor and 100% mark-up for the retailer, so to buy it from a store would likely cost closer to $1050/g.
This means that a small 12oz bottle would cost around $350,000.

 

[Questions]

Everyone knows 22/7 is merely a bang average approximation to Pi, so I'd absolutely piss myself if anyone told me Pi was 22/7 because it isn't.

3.141592653589793238462643383279502884197…… then.

 

[studio150]

I went in to the bakers yesterday and asked if he had pie


3.14 or 22/7 he said.


Oh well I laughed.

Pi to only two decimal places, novice

Sing along to learn more

 

[GT49er]

Best wishes of course, but on a separate note, what on Earth was this thread originally about.

Exactly. Thank goodness for post #4, which made sense of a prattish OP.

 

[sydney]

Not quite. From Reddit:

Worker honey bees live for around 5 months

Bees work around 8 hours per day
One bee will make around 1/12 teaspoon of honey in their lifetime
That’s 14400 bee-hours per teaspoon.
Let’s say they work for 13 cents per hour, which comparable to a Bangladeshi garment worker.
That means labour alone costs $1872 per teaspoon.
7.1g of honey in a teaspoon
So honey would cost $264/g in labour.

Normally there’s roughly a 100% mark-up for the distributor and 100% mark-up for the retailer, so to buy it from a store would likely cost closer to $1050/g.
This means that a small 12oz bottle would cost around $350,000.

luckily they do it for nothing ....

 

[Dinner with Gotsmanov]

Andy Ritchie scored that goal.

Thanks for correcting me, I knew I should have checked. Wonder why I thought Giles had notched - did he ever score for us?

I hope we are kept informed of, hopefully, his recovery.

 

[Questions]

Fuc

Not quite. From Reddit:

Worker honey bees live for around 5 months

Bees work around 8 hours per day
One bee will make around 1/12 teaspoon of honey in their lifetime
That’s 14400 bee-hours per teaspoon.
Let’s say they work for 13 cents per hour, which comparable to a Bangladeshi garment worker.
That means labour alone costs $1872 per teaspoon.
7.1g of honey in a teaspoon
So honey would cost $264/g in labour.

Normally there’s roughly a 100% mark-up for the distributor and 100% mark-up for the retailer, so to buy it from a store would likely cost closer to $1050/g.
This means that a small 12oz bottle would cost around $350,000.

f*** me you’re in a pedantic mood today.

 

[BLOCK F]

The bees in my garden went on strike last summer. The buggers wanted more honey and shorter flowers.

Brilliant!

 

[BLOCK F]

Not quite. From Reddit:

Worker honey bees live for around 5 months

Bees work around 8 hours per day
One bee will make around 1/12 teaspoon of honey in their lifetime
That’s 14400 bee-hours per teaspoon.
Let’s say they work for 13 cents per hour, which comparable to a Bangladeshi garment worker.
That means labour alone costs $1872 per teaspoon.
7.1g of honey in a teaspoon
So honey would cost $264/g in labour.

Normally there’s roughly a 100% mark-up for the distributor and 100% mark-up for the retailer, so to buy it from a store would likely cost closer to $1050/g.
This means that a small 12oz bottle would cost around $350,000.

F—k me, do you think we’re all made of honey?

 

[Papak]

Thanks for correcting me, I knew I should have checked. Wonder why I thought Giles had notched - did he ever score for us?

I hope we are kept informed of, hopefully, his recovery.

 

[zefarelly]

Blimey. Giles Stille.
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Get well soon please Giles.

Likewise, funny how we remember though.