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Has no one asked the bees what they think?

For a few years when I was a teenager, I was obliged to attend Ipplepen village show, as I played in Torbay Brass Band and we'd have to do a march and then the Floral Dance and Strawberry Fayre over and over whilst the local kids did the maypole.

In between maypoles, we'd just hang around bored whilst the grown-ups in the band got steadily pissed in the pub. One year I had a look at a stall where this fella was explaining beekeeping. He had his talk down pat, including a rubbish political analogy that said that the bee society was a bit like communism in that they're all equal and a bit like 'our system' where they all looked up to the queen. Being the type of teenager I was, I suggested that it was a bit like fascism, with everyone equal and subservient to a single leader. He really didn't like that.

I learned an important lesson that day: don't call bees fascists.
 
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