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[–] [email protected] 1 points 15 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] 3 points 40 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] 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] 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 41 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] 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] 1 points 2 hours ago

Of course Australian badgers would do this.

[–] [email protected] 65 points 6 hours ago (1 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] 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.

[–] [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] 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] 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."

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Fuck it, there is no substitute.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=pzagBTcYsYQ

(if i could i would upload the original flash animation from albino black sheep)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 32 minutes ago

I hate how hard it's to convey this masterpiece of a meme to younger audience now that Newgrounds doesn't use the music background anymore and ng isn't a default go to media place for them. Even Know Your Meme doesn't mention why this is created.

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

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[–] [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 2 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] 5 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

European badgers would defend their mountain fortress from a weasel warlord

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) (4 children)

Having recently learned that they were bred specifically to hunt badgers, I wonder how a dauchshund would fare against North American badgers 🤔

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

I have three dachshunds. Two minis, Mary & Maizie, and a full size, Monty.

Mary we often call a little wolverine, because she can be vicious when she plays, making the most horrific noises you've ever heard out of any creature, much less someone that looks so absolutely disgustingly cute and adorable.

Her sister, Maizie, is the sweetest, kindest, shyest and nicest creature. Unless she sees a rat. Then it's terrifying. She makes no sound as she runs at full speed, and snaps it up and shakes at the speed of sound. I don't think her feet even touch the ground.

Monty is the biggest baby, he just wants to sleep and cuddle, even when he was a puppy. Unless you touch his mama. I am not allowed to hug my own mother, because he stands there and barks and howls and shoves his body between whoever's touching her and her. Lol.

If anything of them could take a badger it would Maizie, but I don't think even she could.

Also, this was originally supposed to be much shorter and more on topic, but then I had a chance to describe my dogs, and, y'know, muh babies!

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

Our dog is the most kind lovable 70 pound Belgian Shepard you'll ever meet.

On leash if she sees a coyote, bobcat, or mountain lion she turns into a Hollywood snarl machine. That super deep rumble.

One day a cat chased our cat back to the door. I opened it to get him inside but I unwittingly unleashed a silent tan streak. The only reason the other cat survived was it jumped off the porch and went straight up a tree. Our cat came out to gloat and our dog did the tippy taps right there under the tree.

I have the most lovable furry criminal gang.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 6 hours ago

Having met dachshunds, and having met American badgers, I'm going to put my bet on "poorly"

A couple hundred years of bred instincts aren't going to save the walking hotdog from the meth bear

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 hours ago

It depends on how many dachshunds you're willing to lose.

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

I remember learning that after my dad told me stories about badgers near the Minnesota farm where he grew up killing dogs significantly larger than dachshunds and thinking “how the fuck does that work??”

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

It takes a slinky to beat a slinky

[–] [email protected] 19 points 7 hours ago (5 children)

That's exactly what badgers do in the stories of Beatrix Potter

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 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.

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[–] [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] 2 points 3 hours ago

Ah, a family sized meth weasel.

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