BS: The Honey Badger LOL

Subject: BS: The Honey Badger LOL
From: olddude
Date: 07 Jun 11 - 02:46 PM

The narrator is insane. Can't stop laughing
The honey badger

Subject: RE: BS: The Honey Badger LOL
From: gnu
Date: 07 Jun 11 - 03:27 PM

Holy crap. It got bit and just got knowcked out for while? Nasty critter... almost as nasty as a wolverine, which is what it looks like.

Subject: RE: BS: The Honey Badger LOL
From: J-boy
Date: 08 Jun 11 - 01:59 AM

Honey Badger doesn't give a shit. Look at that lazy fuck.

Subject: RE: BS: The Honey Badger LOL
From: Donuel
Date: 08 Jun 11 - 03:42 PM

The music is JS Bach's 6th cello Suite

Subject: RE: BS: The Honey Badger LOL
From: Louie Roy
Date: 08 Jun 11 - 11:20 PM

Old Dude I grew up with Badgers on the ranch and believe me they are a vicious animal. We killed seveal in the chicken house after dark. They will destroy a chicken coop overnight. two episodes I'll never forget the first happened on memorial day in 1930 we were going to the cemetery to visit my brother's grave in a 1930 model-A and dad hit and ran over a badger and it appeared dead so he throwed it in the back seat with me and my three sisters and brother and of course my Dad and Mom and the 9 month old baby were in the front seatNead;ess tp say about 4 miles down the road the damn badger started to come alive and of course we screamed and Dad with his tire iron made damn sure it was dead this time.We did take it home and skinned it and hung it in the barn as a reminder if you are going to screw with a badger make sure it is dead. The second incedent happened in 1948 on the home ranch which was over 1000 acres with many old apple orchards and I was slipping into this and apple orchard to maybe kill a black bear and this mommy badger came charging out of the bushes with her teeth barred I fired from the hip with my 30 30 winchester rifle and lucky me I hit her right in the mouth and blowed her damn head off and I'm sure that lucky shot makes it possible for me to comment om your thread today. I don't know if she was a honey badger

Subject: RE: BS: The Honey Badger LOL
From: gnomad
Date: 09 Jun 11 - 02:57 AM

A truly scary beast, that, you certainly wouldn't take one as a pet. An interesting film though like Olddude I got a giggle out of the commentary.

If I am right that Louie Roy is on the North American continent it is unlikely that his critter was one of these; Wikipedia reckons "The species ranges through most of Sub-Saharan Africa from the Western Cape, South Africa, to southern Morocco and south-western Algeria and outside Africa through Arabia, Iran and western Asia to Turkmenistan and the Indian Peninsula. It is known to range from sea level to as much as 2,600m in the Moroccan High Atlas and 4,000m in Ethiopia's Bale Mountains." More widespread than I had realised, but all 'Old World'

Subject: RE: BS: The Honey Badger LOL
From: GUEST,Jon
Date: 09 Jun 11 - 04:45 AM

Interesting commentary and creature!

It seems quite different to our (Eurasian) badgers and I notice Wikipedia says the honey badger is most closely related to martens.

As for not giving a shit, I wonder whether that is a weasel family thing? While she'd obviously have more to be concerned about than that thing, I've noticed little seems to bother our ferret. You can for example throw a blanket over her and she'll wriggle out, probably do a war dance, and resume whatever mischief she was up to before.

Subject: RE: BS: The Honey Badger LOL
From: frogprince
Date: 09 Jun 11 - 10:48 AM

Really high class narration on that; maybe the Animal Planet or Discovery Channel people will see that and hire the guy.

Subject: RE: BS: The Honey Badger LOL
From: olddude
Date: 09 Jun 11 - 12:19 PM

LOL yup froggie maybe they could ...

Subject: RE: BS: The Honey Badger LOL
From: gnu
Date: 09 Jun 11 - 03:27 PM

Swamp People season 2 episode 10 part 1 is on YT. And, I assume 2 and 3 as well.

Subject: RE: BS: The Honey Badger LOL
From: olddude
Date: 09 Jun 11 - 04:57 PM

sure is GNU ... and they are good ones also, check out Bruce doing a header right into the gator

Subject: RE: BS: The Honey Badger LOL
From: Louie Roy
Date: 09 Jun 11 - 05:44 PM

I alway figured the badger belonged to the wolverine family as vicious as they are

Subject: RE: BS: The Honey Badger LOL
From: olddude
Date: 09 Jun 11 - 07:53 PM

You are right Louie and that is what they are called out west .. I hear that term a lot ... and yup they are mean. Same animal I think just different country.. I wouldn't want to tangle with one

Subject: RE: BS: The Honey Badger LOL
From: GUEST,Jon
Date: 09 Jun 11 - 08:49 PM

Not according to Wikipedia.

"The honey badger is the only member of the genus Mellivora. Although it was initially assigned to the badger group in the 1860s, it is now generally accepted that they bear very few similarities to the subfamily Melinae, instead being much closer to the marten family. Differences between Mellivora and Melinae include a different dentition. Though not related to the wolverine, which is a large-sized deviant of the marten family, the honey badger can be considered an analogous form of weasel (polecat).

Subject: RE: BS: The Honey Badger LOL
From: Mrrzy
Date: 10 Jun 11 - 11:15 AM

What a howl, the narration!

And yes, badgers are not nice people. Pretty, but Narnian talse notwithstanding, not nice.

I remember a badger in the movie Thunderheart taking on a Fibbie... FBI 0, Badger 1.