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[–] [email protected] 0 points 18 minutes ago

Brother in law had a huge wolf dog. The kind that can put it's paws on your shoulders and look at you face to face. Massive. He got in a tussel with a badger and got tore up, took two weeks to heal. Then took off and came back with a 40 lbs badger in his mouth. Overall a 40 lbs meth badger = 150 lbs wolf dog.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 44 minutes ago

Badgers? We don't need no stinking badgers!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

Honey badgers will fuck up your shit simply because it was there.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 hours ago

I've witnessed a European badger stand up to a golden retriever much bigger than it barking and growling aggressively in its face and the badger stood its ground. I don't know if it was too scared to turn away or if it genuinely wanted to fight, but it was brave AF either way. (also I've never seen such a clean badger, but tbf most examples I see are dead on the road :/ )

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 hours ago (7 children)

Australian badgers are half this size, have no teeth at all, but can project venom 50ft from a gland in their nostril. The venom is completely harmless to humans, however it soaks into the skin and causes a pheromone to be emitted from the lungs such that when you are asleep, it attracts 14 different species of deadly venomous spiders that are attracted to your airway from up to a 4km radius.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 45 minutes ago

I'm pretty sure you made this up, so i believe it completely.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago

I don't want to know if this is true or not. Nobody look it up.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 hours ago

You had me in the first half

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 hours ago

Wat.

It sounds kinda based on stink badgers but they also aren't in Australia.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago

Of course Australian badgers would do this.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 hours ago

Those are the ones related to drop bears, right? I mean they've gotta be.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 hours ago

That's worse. So much worse. "I won't kill you but you'll wish I did"

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 hours ago

Dammit is this how we got the Lion & Wardrobe and such?

[–] [email protected] 26 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

90% of the time Euro badgers do that

10% of the time they scream "Eulalia!" and tear you limb from limb

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 hour ago

Redwallposting

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

European badgers would defend their mountain fortress from a weasel warlord

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 hours ago

Ugh. Searats again? Didn't we just send them packing one book ago?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

I love this meme, and nearly commented it myself to the top comment, but i learned an american badger != a honey badger :(

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago

Lol, dang. TIL. I almost googled it, but I'm happier learning it vicariously through you. Takes some of the brunt of the blow.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

When I was a child, I was told that hunters used to put things like twigs in their boots, so the European badger would let go, when they heard the "leg break".

Though I doubted it even then.

[–] [email protected] 45 points 5 hours ago (4 children)

But the American badger turns out to just want to drink a beer and talk about sports whereas the European badger, after having sat you down for some tea and buttered crumpets, reveals itself to be a racist eugenicist

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 hours ago

No dude, you're thinking of the other kind of British. I'm pretty sure their badgers are related to the homosapiens poulus aggressor, more commonly known as "football hooligans" to the locals.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 hours ago

Racisto? Europians? What an absolutely outrageous accusation. Badgers on

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (1 children)

Don't ask the le posh civil gentlesir Euro badger their opinion of Romani people. frothingfash

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 hours ago

"It's not racist because it's true, they really should be exterminated."

[–] [email protected] 24 points 5 hours ago

TBH, “reveals itself by shivving you anyway” is probably closer to the truth with Brittons and their tea.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

American badger is a wolverine? Genuine question.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

No, this is a wolverine:

It's about twice as big as an American badger.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 hours ago

Ah, a family sized meth weasel.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 hours ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

He's a living raging powerhouse who's bound to knock you back on your emerald posterior!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 hours ago

Fucking awesome

[–] [email protected] 65 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

Wisconsinite here where the badger is native and the mascot for the University of Wisconsin is the Badger.

This meme is inaccurate.

The American Badger will also remove your kidneys and sell them on the black market as well, to support their meth habit.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 minutes ago

I'm in new mexico and saw a badger crossing the road while I was driving to work. It stopped in the middle of the road, turned towards me and waited, like it was deciding whether or not to fuck up the large metal thing coming towards it. Then slowly turned and continued on it's way when it decided I wasn't worth it. No fear whatsoever.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 hours ago

The badger moniker comes from lead miners that initially settled the Wisconsin territory. They often didn't even bother building homes at first and just lived in their wildcat lead mines, like a badger.

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