IDK it kinda sounds like they just fired the animal handler and gave him their $27K.
Maybe it was over a few takes or something…
Without knowing anything about it, I’d wager that it’s generally not a good idea to mess around too much with a hive.
And picking out a bunch of drones in the amount used in film would no doubt rile up the swarm.
The way they do it is likely the best, safest and least invasive way of using live bees in a film setting.
You could be right, but they literally shove the drones out to die when winter comes so I don’t think they value them all that highly compared to the workers which are the stinging ones.
Candyman gave me nightmares for 8 years and I still remember the movie. Dude got underpaid.
Most of the time I only vaguely recognize all but the biggest stars from my childhood, but god damn did that movie cement Tony Todd in my brain.
maybe he was still in character as Kurn and took the challenge as yet another pointless Klingon pain ritual.
kurn was the best. his outing in deep space nine was a let down, i love kurn.
They paid him “a one thousand dollars” for every sting? Pretty good deal.
Why did they sting him?
Have you ever put a large amount of bees in your mouth? I haven’t personally, but I can’t imagine the bees wouldn’t take too kindly to it.
Because it was in their nature :(
when reached for comment, one source close to one of the bees said “you knew he was a bee when you put him in your mouth”. they asked to remain anonymous in this grieving time.
He gave them a cut of the money.
Holy shit is that Pure Luck? Haven’t seen that shit in 30+ years
Got stung by about 20 bees once (amateur beekeeping incident, taught us to wear proper clothing). Had a fever for a couple days after and did not enjoy it a single bit. $20k though…
Poor bees which were lost during this kind of activity.
That is pretty interesting. If only the movie wasn’t so terrible 😔
What!? Kid me really liked it. I thought Great Value Sharon Stone did a good job too.
$27 isn’t really a lot considering each bee was supposed to be $1000
He was only stung by 27/1000s of a bee.
Yeah he got ripped off
American notation - they use comma every three orders of magnitude, and dot for decimal separator. It’s almost as retarded as imperial measurement system, but what can you do.
I’d love to hear what’s objectively ‘wrong’ with this one. They’re arbitrary symbols. If anything, isn’t the decimal more akin to a full stop, while a digit separator is more of a pause?
Having a full stop between thousands is just as stupid. It’s completely arbitrary. It’s only unfortunate that it’s yet another difference hindering communication (and numbers parsing, dammit)
Yeah, it is objectively bad, because introduces confusion. These systems are supposed to remove ambiguities, not introduce them
Introduces confusion how? Because it doesn’t agree with the arbitrary convention you happened to grow up with? Why is your preferred convention not equally objectively bad? I thought Americans were supposed to be the egotists.
If we are being pedantic, technically you should use a space to separate the thousands (e.g. $27 000), as this avoids the ambiguity.
If we ignore that and only focus on comma (,) and period (.) decimal notations, then period for decimals would win out, as the larger majority of the world population use it. So $27,000.00 would be the correct way.
But until the whole world agrees on one, we are stuck with multiple, so you can just rub your two brain cells together and realise that the 3 trailing zeroes probably mean it is in the thousands (along with the rest of the context).
(no shade at the original comment, which was clearly tongue in cheek, idk why it is downvoted lol it was funny)
technically you should use a space to separate the thousands (e.g. $27 000), as this avoids the ambiguity
But who has time for   in their lives?
A comma it is then :D
(e.g. $27 000)
Ok so they’re winning $27, but I thought it was filmed in America, not Australia. Shouldn’t that be $27 911?
/s, obviously.
But more seriously, yeah a space is brilliant. But you shouldn’t use U+0020, the space you get when you press spacebar. It’s awkwardly wide for this purpose, and more importantly it can break the number over two lines if it happens to line up that way.
The best alternative is U+202F, which is both narrower and non-breaking. Wikipedia claims that the official SI recommended character for thousands separation is U+2009, the thin but breaking space, but I read their source and did not see this supported. It seemed to just say space, without specifying which type of space. There is of course also U+00A0, the no-break normal-width space. Any of these would be better than U+0020.
The problem is them being difficult to type, which is probably why most people tend towards the comma instead. It’s automatically non-breaking and doesn’t have the awkward wideness of U+0020.
Incidentally, SI specifically allows for either the comma or the point to be used as the decimal separator. As long as the thousands separator is a space, this can introduce no ambiguity.
Why do you know various space characters…
Why not?
I didn’t have the specific Unicode codes memorised. Those I found on Wikipedia. But the knowledge that there exist spaces of different sizes and the non-breaking space just comes out of my general interest in computers across the board.
Yeah, but aint nobody got time for that. Just hit the spacebar.
If we are being pedantic, technically you should use a space to separate the thousands
Exactly. Space doesn’t introduce confusion no matter what sign is used as decimal separator. It’s a such a simple, elegant solution, world would be a better place if people were acrually using it.
I’m not even American, just used the same notation as in the article.
Seems to still be confusing based on the comments, go figure.
People seem to lack any critical thinking, who would put three zeros for cents? It’s obviously a thousands denominator. The context makes it obvious regardless of a comma, period or space.
Hey, you are the gardener from !gardening@lemmy.world, I love your posts!
Nah, people just enjoy being pedantic little shits.
Case in point, me! I am a pedantic little shit.
