$27,000 does not seem like enough money to endure 27 bee stings simultaneously.
Seems a bit stingy.
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Movie is from 1992, so it would be 60k today. Still not enough considering what famous movie actors make.
I’d do it every day this week
They signed him a blank cheque. I bet he was doing everything he could to get stung.
Dude should have asked for at least 10k/sting could have walked out with a cool $270,000 instead
For $270,000 I will let 27 American honeybees sting me. No Africanized bees allowed!
Dude I’d do this for 10% of that fee. Sure stings hurt, but not that much and it passes.
That might depend on one’s pain tolerance levels, idk.
True.
I will say it’s not worse than a tattoo and I’ve paid money to sit there for 6 hours being tattoo’d.
Not saying I’m tough, as I’m pretty soft, more that often it’s the thought that is worse than the thing.
I think that’s on top of the regular salary
The words of either someone immensely privileged or deathly allergic to bees.
Has enough money to say no == immensely privileged apparently
Yeah, if 27k won’t significantly change your situation you are privileged.
We’re not talking about 27k for one day of work. We’re talking about an acting gig with months of training, rehearsals, costume fittings, make-up, traveling, shooting, reshoots. It’s a full-time job.
I already have a job. I’d prefer to keep doing what I’m doing rather than that gig.
The 27k this article references is for the bee stings the actor endured. Which more than likely happened over a few takes spread over a day. At an 8 hour work day, he made $3375 an hour that day.
Bro you wouldn’t have to act in Hollywood, you would simply need to get stung by a bee or multiple bees until the total number of stings is 27. Pretty easy money unless you’re allergic.
I’d do this for 10% of that price without hesitation. I’ve been stung my many bees in my life and never got paid for any.
In your mouth though?
That’s a good point. I suppose that depends how many in the mouse and how many on the face.
I’m neither of those things, but I think I’m partially allergic to them. Last time I got stung by a bee in my foot, it swelled up so bad I couldn’t get a shoe on, and it was intensely painful. I have a high pain threshold, and it fucking hurt, bad. What’s weird is that I don’t have the same reaction to yellow jacket stings. Possibly because they inject less venom, but idk.
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.
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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.
To earn him $1000, of course.
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…
Are you saying “beads”?
Beesszzzzzzzzzzzzz!
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.
Unbeelievable
$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.
Dafuq? It makes way more sense than using a dot for the separator and a comma for the decimals. Commas are literally for separating related ideas in a single sentence. The thousands position is related to/part of the hundreds place in a single number. What’s your crazy logic for using a terminator within a single number representation?
Commas are literally for separating related ideas in a single sentence.
While I personally think it’s arbitrary which characters to use as separators I can’t follow that logic.
Thinking of sentences, a comma separates stuff that belongs together while a dot is literally a full stop. All of the comma/dot separated parts belong to the same number though. So, why are thousands/millions more closely related than integers/digits?
You said it yourself, “a comma separates stuff that belongs together”. The integers. I can type 27000 and its valid, I can space them integers with a comma 27,000 they belong together. Decimals are different to integers, so they are marked with a period, like the end of a sentence (of integers).
You can argue either way honestly, but more of the world use periods for decimal notation. So it would make more sense if we just adopted that (never going to happen though).
27,000 and 1.5
Why do 27 and 000 belong closer together than 1 and 5? Both numbers are incomplete when leaving out a component.
You can argue either way honestly
Agreed, it’s completely arbitrary.
more of the world use periods for decimal notation
It’s two pretty large groups but you’ve got India and China, so population wise it’s pretty clear. Let’s make a deal: we (Europe) switch to the dot as decimal separator if the US switches to metric.
I kinda like laughing at the US for measuring things in AR15s though.
Yes please
It makes way more sense than using a dot for the separator and a comma for the decimals.
How about using spaces?
I will smash your face through a car windshield, then take your mother, Dorothy Nantooth, out to a nice seafood dinner, and never call her again!
DOROTHY MANTOOTH IS A SAINT!
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.
Hats off to you, sir or madame.
