Cryptic messages give game away: Scottish beek. forum busted

[gone2seed]

Stromnessbees,thank you for posting this.I believe there are a couple of pesticide shills on BeeL
as well.

[jonathan]

LOL
A single link in post 1 would have sufficed as the thread is still on the Scottish forum, just moved to another section as it went off topic on a discussion about winter losses.

http://www.sbai.org.uk/sbai_forum/sh...de-discussions

[D Coates]

Great find jonathan. So if you disagree with Stromnessbees you're obviously a pesticide shill? In otherwords, don't disagree, don't question findings and claims, don't think, and bottoms up with the Coolaid. Isn't that the same claim that the anti-pesticide folks are leveling at the findings of those who produce pesticides? Follow that logic and they're no better that what they claim to stand against. After reading the link many reasonable and logical points and questions were posed but ignored because they didn't support or questioned what Stromnessbees was claiming. Then for Stromnessbees to claim "Pro Pesticide Shills Expose Themselves on Scottish Beekeeping Forum" in the thread title shows this claim to be nuttier the squirrel droppings. This whole thread is Bollocks!

[jonathan]

And can I let you into a secret. There were no secret messages and there is no conspiracy. No-one was talking in a secret area of the forum or anywhere else. No cryptic messages appeared out of the ether. There was a joke about two water dwelling creatures, Capybaras and otters, avoiding the pesticide swill, which went whooooosh like a 747 straight past Stromnessbees leaving nothing but the small seed of a conspiracy theory in its chemtrail.
But then who amongst us can legislate for a sense of humour deficit. Maybe Rafa Nadal and his band of Genetically modified Capybaras are about to launch a Bayer sponsored bid for world domination via a Scottish bee forum.
Beam me up Scotty.

http://capybarasthatlooklikerafaelnadal.tumblr.com/

[D Coates]

Conpiracy theorists can't seem to find scientifically repeatable proof so they grasp to anything that possibly supports their claim. They belittle others who ask for actual proof as they beat their "sky-is-falling" drums. Apparently during these actions, something damages their ability to see humor. Does Bayer make anything for that?

The Nadal look alike site was quite funny.

[shinbone]

I am pretty new on this forum and to beekeeping, but I am curious - what the heck is going on here? Why would the Scotts want us to know about a conspiracy on their bee forum? Why do we even care that they want us to know? Seems like a heated argument over a possible non-issue for someone else? What am I missing here?

[Nellie]

What am I missing here?

Not much. The default position in the UK around the Neonicotinoid "Debate" from the Pro-Ban guys is that if you don't immediately and unquestioningly support the position as a supposed beekeeper then you must be employed by Bayer.

I did send Bayer a mail just to enquire if they'd hired me without my knowledge, but I've not heard back.

[jim lyon]

Whats going on you ask? A good question indeed and one i have wondered about myself. One cant be too careful. Theories abound.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lI_0-...e_gdata_player

[Barry]

A man with the right video every time!

[jonathan]

LOL Jim. Had not seen that before.

This is what it is really like in Scotland.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GX1DVnNWtGY

[jim lyon]

Interesting I always assumed the country was just comprised of men wearing kilts, throwing enormous poles, playing bagpipes and singing Danny boy

[Nellie]

Don't forget the Whisky!

[jonathan]

singing Danny boy

That's Ireland, ye eejit!

[beedeetee]

My family spent a couple of weeks driving through England/Scotland several years ago. We drove up to our nice hotel and right in the middle of their nice landscaped flower bed was the biggest thistle you have ever seen. The kind that we would call a Bull Thistle. "Are these people just blind" I said to my wife as I started to grab it and yank it out of the ground! She yelled at me that it was their national flower or something. A thistle their national flower?!? Are these people all "eejits"!!

At first I thought that this thread was going to be kind of lame, but it's perking up nicely.

[Scrapfe]

... I always assumed the country was just comprised of men wearing kilts...

Lord help me I am one (a Scotsman that is) so here goes.
Jim do you know what a Scotsman wears under his kilt?

No?
Well Jim he wears socks under his kilt, that’s what.

[Oldtimer]

Shill? What is a shill?

[Scrapfe]

Don't forget the Whisky!

This advice is a little outdated. Never walk into a Scotsmen’s' watering hole and shout out, "A hundred Clan Campbells crawled though the heathers pursued by one McDonald."

[waynesgarden]

I don't have a dog in this fight, but I think the OP's conspiracy is getting hijacked.

Just sayin...

Wayne

[hpm08161947]

Don't forget... the Scots have great breakfasts!! Well.. if you are into Blood Pudding and Haggis... which I am, by the way. Seems like everybody had got a sign out to rent you a room for the night too..... my favorite trip..

[Scrapfe]

... Then ... to claim "Pro Pesticide Shills [Expose] Themselves on Scottish Beekeeping Forum...

That bee the danger ye court when ye wear the kilt.