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« Reply #20 on: February 06, 2011, 07:54:59 PM » |
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thats just crazy i guess if you are hungry enuff you would do anything those bees where crawling all over his back just plain nuts in my book  |
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« Reply #21 on: February 06, 2011, 07:59:07 PM » |
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And if you look closely, I think they were eating as much brood as they were honey.
I guess Walmart is just too far away for them to run to on a daily basis.
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« Reply #22 on: February 06, 2011, 08:27:19 PM » |
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Hey JP, If you go do that hive, I bet Schawee won't go up there. I don't think they have vanilla shakes up that high!
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« Reply #23 on: February 06, 2011, 09:05:28 PM » |
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Subsistence dining at it best. Or it might just be an average day for these folks and the tv people were making a big deal out of it. If the aboriginal (big word for native) people were acting weird or crazy, I would think that was a special treat, but I think that man had climb that tree before.
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« Reply #25 on: February 06, 2011, 10:42:44 PM » |
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fireman,i'll go up there with no problem.i'll make sure im on the right side of the branch when jp cut it  ...schawee |
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« Reply #26 on: February 06, 2011, 10:55:34 PM » |
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These are primitive people taking each day at a time, living off of what they can gather or catch, a very primal existence. They "do" because they have to. Ok, so they don't have to climb 120' to get honey but its something really special to the guy's wife, everyone enjoys the honey, they get to watch a good show and the guy gets lucky that night.  This guy learned he had a unique talent for climbing. He found this out one day when he changed his mind about killing himself. He was going to throw himself off of a cliff because he lost his job and was feeling down on his luck but discovered he could climb like the monkeys he studied in his native home. India Monkey King scales new heights (The video's owner prevents external embedding) ...JP |
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« Reply #27 on: February 06, 2011, 11:25:28 PM » |
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and the guy gets lucky that night don't you know that this is how we control our husbands after we have been married a bit? it has nothing to do with the honey. |
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« Reply #28 on: February 07, 2011, 12:24:50 AM » |
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and the guy gets lucky that night After all the stings,and swelling He Sure Did |
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« Reply #30 on: February 07, 2011, 12:56:32 PM » |
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If you have the opportunity check out Stan Lee's Super humans http://www.history.com/shows/stan-lees-superhumans this is where I saw footage of the Monkey king dude. In that segment he climbed a vertical cliff much harder to climb than the block wall in the aforementioned video. Kathy, why do you think he keeps going up there 120' from the ground, where many friends have died trying? ...JP |
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« Reply #31 on: February 07, 2011, 02:41:08 PM » |
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just saw the video and all i can say is you'll never see my fat a$* up on a roof much less that thing. even if i did get honey out of that tree the urine stains would taint it all!!  and the terrible sound of me screaming like a girl would kill any joy of being out in the woods.  bailey |
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most often i find my greatest source of stress to be OPS ( other peoples stupidity )
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« Reply #32 on: February 07, 2011, 03:12:55 PM » |
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don't you know that this is how we control our husbands after we have been married a bit? It's also why you get traded in for a younger model. |
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« Reply #33 on: February 07, 2011, 06:00:47 PM » |
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« Reply #34 on: February 07, 2011, 06:32:26 PM » |
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But the cash and assets don't go over with you to the younger model.
I think I'll keep my "aged" one, same as my wine. It just keeps getting better each year.
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« Reply #35 on: February 07, 2011, 07:02:23 PM » |
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It's also why you get traded in for a younger model. and i would never try to stop him. he's welcome to take what he can carry and go IF he thinks he'll get a better deal  |
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"Nay, it [this constitution of government] must perish, if there be not that vital spirit in the people, which alone can nourish, sustain, and direct all its movements. It is in vain, that statesmen shall form plans of government, in which the beauty and harmony of a republic shall be embodied in visible order, shall be built up on solid substructions, and adorned by every useful ornament, if the inhabitants suffer the silent power of time to dilapidate its walls, or crumble its massy supporters into dust; if the assaults from without are never resisted, and the rottenness and mining from within are never guarded against. Who can preserve the rights and liberties of the people, when they shall be abandoned by themselves? Who shall keep watch in the temple, when the watchmen sleep at their posts? Who shall call upon the people to redeem their possessions, and revive the republic, when their own hands have deliberately and corruptly surrendered them to the oppressor, and have built the prisons, or dug the graves of their own friends?
– Justice Joseph Story, "Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States," Volume II, Chapter XIII: Mode of Passing Laws, Sections 900-901, pp. 364 (1833)
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« Reply #36 on: February 07, 2011, 07:43:18 PM » |
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I don't think I would go over 20 feet to hive a swarm and I always wear a veil at least when i check my hives and full jacket when i steal there honey
I think that fellow is even braver than JP
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« Reply #37 on: February 07, 2011, 08:02:31 PM » |
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It's also why you get traded in for a younger model.
I have noticed that a few women have done the same thing when the old man wasn't as fantastic as he thought he was. Let's hope that hasn't been your problem. As far as climbing a tree, I still say ouch on the ground. Everytime. |
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« Reply #38 on: February 07, 2011, 09:21:33 PM » |
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Or it might just be an average day for these folks and the tv people were making a big deal out of it.
Considering that they have carved footholds into the trunk of the tree to make climbing it easier, (check out the 19 second mark) I'd say honey has been removed from this tree many times. Whenever they rob the hive, it likely moves to a new location in the tree.
The tree is probably like Beech trees - when they get that big, they are all hollow.
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« Reply #39 on: February 07, 2011, 11:42:57 PM » |
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Dave, I have my limit on heights. I'm with Bailey on this one. You would have to pry my hands off the tree to get me down from that height!
Tete is the man!
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