Hey, guilty because he asks for evidence of guilt. Hang on to your seats, We are now venturing into advanced rhetoric and logical fallacies, but it doesnt stop: accusation of ignorance, guilt by omission, diminution by association, and lastly dimunition by indifference. Facts and logic are so mid 20th century.
Glad to have your confirmation that your view on my alienation is completely unevidenced. just your way of putting down everything that is said not by yourself.
Those are interesting comments about the Basic course. I tend to like to provide expansive answers to things and I was very frustrated on my Basic Assessment when all they wanted was very succinct answers - life cycle of a queen bee - answer 3,5,8 - not what each number meant and they weren’t interested in any explanations about why some swarm management methods are different from others. I got the impression that anyone who had read the syllabus, read the books and regurgitated the answers verbatim without understanding any of it, would have passed with flying colours. However, the practical session was very thorough and if you didn’t know what you were doing you wouldn’t have passed (although you might not have known why you were doing things)! That said, I guess they have a lot of people to get through and if all the candidates were as loquacious as me, they’d be there for weeks
That’s the best suggestion here.
So I take it the pair of you have decided on the first committee members
Setting aside the personal beekeeping ideas that Robin has ... you have to agree that the BBKA as an organisation is lacklustre. Regardless of your personal view of Robins beekeeping (and I would reiterate - there is a place for every style of beekeeping on here and we should not be constantly seeking to promote or dismiss alterative styles) he is putting forward something that could have a place in beekeeping. The UK Institute of Beekeeping is not a bad idea .. yes, it would be difficult to get off the ground and it would need to have some attraction for all beekeepers to feel able to subscribe.So I take it the pair of you have decided on the first committee members
I clearly suggested in was in what you’ve said, and if you’re not sure you could have gone back and read your posts.
You’ve suggested banning queen imports several times, in that single statement alone you’ve alienated most commercial operations large scale queen breeders/rears and I’d suggest many larger amateurs. Also judging by the results of the bbka queen import petition a good proportion of their membership! Then to top it off the BFA some of whom may be covered in the above groups.
With the bbka you’ll be setting up in direct competition. You’ll be fighting for limited seats at the table for gov attention/resources. In terms of public funding and donations that you suggest, you’ll be competing directly for the same people/funds.
That is why you’ll alienate those groups! And that’s before we get on to claims you make in other threads regarding beekeeping practices, not long ago you claimed there was no need or desire for people to move hives anymore? You describe comb change as a key operation!…… most i
Know change comb as required it’s not key! We’ve not even got on to the fairy dust providing abilities of long hives have we.
So again you will alienate these groups and some won’t take you seriously, so I’m left wondering who the target market is.
But the model suggested definitely is
Maybe you need some matchsticks to get you through.
Maybe you'll get awarded an inscribed set when you subscribe to this new 'institute'
Again, you go for total dismissal of anything that is not your own opinion, wondering at ‘who the target market is’, implying there isn’t one. It‘s tedious replying to you.So I take it the pair of you have decided on the first committee members
I clearly suggested in was in what you’ve said, and if you’re not sure you could have gone back and read your posts.
You’ve suggested banning queen imports several times, in that single statement alone you’ve alienated most commercial operations large scale queen breeders/rears and I’d suggest many larger amateurs. Also judging by the results of the bbka queen import petition a good proportion of their membership! Then to top it off the BFA some of whom may be covered in the above groups.
With the bbka you’ll be setting up in direct competition. You’ll be fighting for limited seats at the table for gov attention/resources. In terms of public funding and donations that you suggest, you’ll be competing directly for the same people/funds.
That is why you’ll alienate those groups! And that’s before we get on to claims you make in other threads regarding beekeeping practices, not long ago you claimed there was no need or desire for people to move hives anymore? You describe comb change as a key operation!…… most i
Know change comb as required it’s not key! We’ve not even got on to the fairy dust providing abilities of long hives have we.
So again you will alienate these groups and some won’t take you seriously, so I’m left wondering who the target market is.
All architects, engineers, surveyors builders in the construction industry for a start. Then just about all professions that depend for public confidence on the practitioners being trained and proficient. Google ‘institutes‘ and see the long lists of all forms of institutes, including Inn Keepers as I have said before.
The group who founded BBKA were successful business men I believe, not notable ultra-rich. Today, there are many retirees on good pensions who may be bored with no company to run any longer.
