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Giles Stille







Simster

"the man's an arse"
Jul 7, 2003
54,952
Surrey
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.
 


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Habitual User
Oct 18, 2006
25,511
Worthing
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.
 








sydney

tinky ****in winky
Jul 11, 2003
17,965
town full of eejits
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 ....:smile:
 




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Habitual User
Oct 18, 2006
25,511
Worthing
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

Well-known member
Feb 26, 2009
6,723
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

Not an NSC licker...
Jul 11, 2003
2,278
Horsham
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.

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