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Badgers. And the madness thereof.

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ONLY NICE THINGS

13:31 / 12.07.07

I'd like to address an injustice there. Badgers may carry TB, but they don't spread it very much, unless you start culling them, in which case they scatter, bearing their deadly cargo with them.

They will punch a bull in the cock as soon as look at it, though.

MattShepherd: I WEDDED KALI!

13:32 / 12.07.07

Were-badgers. WERE. BADGERS.

I played a Level Eight Were-Badger Druid in high school once.

Kali, Queen of Kitteh

13:37 / 12.07.07

I'm just thinking of all those times when driving on the interstate, I see abandoned cars that appear as though they have been there awhile and I wonder what happened.

Did they break down late at night, get out of the car and check under the hood or the tires, and hear something in the underbrush? Something HUGE perhaps? Something FEARLESS?

It makes me all oogie to think of how many badger (or WERE-badger) related deaths there could be and no one may ever know.

13:44 / 12.07.07

there are fossil remains of giant rattel relatives though I can't find them online atm...

I just like the name of this article

Kali, Queen of Kitteh

13:46 / 12.07.07

Just read in the ratel Wikipedia entry that adult male honey badgers will CANNIBALISE their own cubs so they won't have competition for food.

"As a result, only half of ratel cubs survive to adulthood."

CHRIST!

14:07 / 12.07.07

I'd like to address an injustice there. Badgers may carry TB, but they don't spread it very much, unless you start culling them, in which case they scatter, bearing their deadly cargo with them.

Riddled with it, absolutely lousy with it. It's more like TB is, in fact, a natural reservoir of badgers.

The badgers got to Haus! Is anyone safe?

14:12 / 12.07.07

Channelling reality for one blessed second. The below comes to us from the RSPCA website.

Cattle-to-cattle spread of bovine TB is much more significant.

Although there is some link with badgers, the link is not clear.

An analysis of badgers killed in road accidents over seven counties in three years showed that, even in those parts of the country worst affected by bovine TB, most badgers tested negative for the disease.

Both badgers and cattle can carry bovine TB (as can approximately 20 other wildlife species, including deer).

Also:

The government set up an eight-year trial to study the impact of badger culling on the incidence of bovine TB in cattle.

The recently published results showed that badger culling actually increases TB infection in cattle in surrounding areas and achieves only a limited reduction within the areas targeted.

The chairman of the Independent Scientific Group responsible for overseeing the culling trials has warned that the government ignored the scientific advice provided and misinterpreted the results of the trials. He has stated that a badger cull will almost certainly make the situation worse and that it would be better to focus on cattle controls.

14:39 / 12.07.07

I refuse to engage in any topic whatsoever that is not striclty badger-related herein. NO BADGERLESSNESS ALLOWED!

What about a Transformer that transforms from car to badger? A badger-bot?

Or, nightmare of nightmares, a were-badger-bot? (with a hot, but awkward, computer geek-chick carrying a flamethrower and a motion detector as hir/its sidekick and/or comic relief?)

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

15:03 / 12.07.07

Combining both Evil and Kali's trains of thought, does anyone remember on The Archers when David (may really icky things happen to him) got done for killing a badger?

I'd have loved it if transforming were-badgers had fucked his shit up good. That'd have DEFINITELY given Ruth something to go "Ooh NOO!!!" about.

16:01 / 12.07.07

Or, nightmare of nightmares, a were-badger-bot?

That´s surely what´s ripping apart the statue of liberty in the cloverfield trailer.

16:04 / 12.07.07

Were-badgers? My friend's Cthulhu LARP group is at werebadger.com.

"The most popular werecreatures in Japanese folklore is the kitsune (fox) and the tanuki or mijina (raccoon dog or badger)."

16:10 / 12.07.07

That´s surely what´s ripping apart the statue of liberty in the cloverfield trailer

Mecha-Badgerzilla?

16:20 / 12.07.07

Just as I mention cloverfield, cthulhu strolls into this thread. A mere coincidence? Oh what a tentacled web we weave! Mecha-Badgerzilla indeed! And if you rewatch that J.J. Abrams trailer and listen really carefully, you can hear someone utter some badger's gone mental among the party chatter. What will the Worcestershire Badger Society think of next?!

Kali, Queen of Kitteh

17:51 / 12.07.07

Badgers don't live in cities, do they?

DO THEY?

(looks anxiously around the house)

17:56 / 12.07.07

Not to mention the rural badgers that are so fed up with humanity that they sacrifice themselves to stop humankind's driving; a friend of mine had his car almost totalled by a suicidal badger, something I had heretofore not heard of.

18:50 / 12.07.07

Which proves badgers can trash cars, if they want, when they are not depressed.

Janean Patience

06:42 / 13.07.07

While doing something dull and domestic last night, I realised you can sing Honey Badger to the tune of the classic Secret Knowledge house tune, Sugar Daddy.

Honey Bad-ger... set meee freeee...

This will mean nothing to anybody.

Mysterious Transfer Student

07:29 / 13.07.07

It does to me! I still have that record at home.

"I love you Honey Badger... I just can't take this crazy life / That you put me through..."

... plus you really gave my car insurance premiums a hammering.

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