November 11, 2007: Badger badger badger
 

http://cellar.org/2007/badgerbadgerbadger.jpg

Recreating the Internet-famous Flash presentation here.

Snake! There's a Snake! Look out for the SNAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAKE!

I think the cat is taking the invasion in stride.

lol hadn't even spotted the cat til you pointed it out :P

Hiya Bri:)

So is the cat supposed to symbolic of the snake or the mushroom?

I'm gonna have that fucking "song" in my head all day now.
Thanks. Thanks very much.

badgerbadgerbadgerbadgerbadgerbadgerbadgerbadgermushroomMUSHROOM
damn :headshake

Hello, tuberculosis!

They spread it in cows by sucking their udders you know.
Which is why they are prized by naturalists in this country and hated by farmers.

they suck cows udders? seriously?

Okay, I don't know if that really is the way it's spread, but it is a matter in debate regarding badgers and TB.

From here:
Sos to be teh serious!!! :)

Holy Crap UT, where is that picture from. I would be out there with a .22 having a field day. That is just ridiculous.

Must be a yard ornament, there is no way a cat would just sit there with all those same sized animals walking around. Unless of course there are all the cat's friends and he invited them over.:D

With that many badgers you could make alot of badger stew, so heres how its done:

1 badger
1 glass of pig's blood
1 small glass of armagnac
1 ginger root
1 bottle of dry, sparkling white wine
2 eggs
1 pot of crème fraîche
salt and pepper
500g forest mushrooms OR chestnuts to accompany
100g butter
oil

Eviscerate and skin your badger, and soak it in a fast-flowing river for at least 48 hours. This will help you to de-grease it more easily.

Once the badger is de-greased, cut it into pieces and brown it in a frying pan with butter. When the pieces are golden and stiff, flambée with the armanac, season and add a grated soup-spoon of ginger, fresh if possible.

Pour over the wine, and simmer gently for at least two hours.

At the end of the cooking time, mix the chopped badger liver (cooked beforehand in a little oil), the glass of blood, two egg yolks, a coffee-spoon of ginger and the crème fraîche, and pour into the cooking dish. Serve immediately.

This dish goes well with wild mushrooms or chestnuts.

http://www.gastronomydomine.com/2006...dger-stew.html

Oh well...I've been wondering what to do with my extra glass of pig's blood...

The cat is probably blaming it's owners. "Stop badgering me!!!"


(oh, like none of YOU were thinking that!!)

:band: badgerbadgerbadgerbadgerbadgerbadgerbadgerbadgerbadgerbadger:jig: :jig: :jig: :help:

i don't think they're badgers at all. I think they're aardvarks.

If they'd had these cows in Mississippi, we wouldn't have had the 55mil. beef plant flap up .
In addition, 90,000 cattle are culled annually due to mastitis, 31,000 due to lameness and 125,000 due to infertility2.

That's it! send Matt Damon in to take out the Tuberculosis Badgers covertly.

OK, thats fake ....right? coz none of them have shadows? ....bite me, I have never called photoshop before.

Oh and....wtf with that badgerbadgerbadgerbadgerbadgerbadgerbadgerbadgerbadgerbadger thingie?

I call Photoshop i'm afraid.

IIRC Badgers are pretty territorial, and wouldn't tolerate that many rivals.

I suspect that someone has had a camera on a tripod, and taken lots of images of one badger (and the cat) in the garden over a period of time, then photoshopped.

Anyway, it can't be real, there's no mushroom and no snaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaakes

Edited - realised UT had in fact linked the badgerbadgerbadger etc
You will pass it on to someone else Ducks. You will. Or it will drive you insane. Them's the rules I'm afriad.

BTW Nikolai, glad to see you're still around! But personally I'd drink the booze and call out for pizza :)

I agree that it is probably photoshopped, but by a different technique - I doubt a badger would hang around that long with flashes going off all the time. I guess they have one photo of a garden at night, and lots of photos of one badger mucking about against a plain (indoor/studio) background, and pasted the badger in appropriately. I've seen a similar one with scores of monkeys in a library.

Badgers ..... BADGERS! ..... We don't need no stinking BADGERS!

dontcha mean yardvarks?

:lol:

Vark you.

It's a dolphin, I tells ya.

they have such strange little tails

What? No photoshop declarations? It is obiously the same badger, probably setting off some kind of motion flash whilst moving about the yard. The cat probably came in at the last minute, then moved out of frame...That many badgers would have had kitty for dinner...

:notworthy Beautiful.

That would require a multiple exposure, wouldn't it? Can't be that, all the static stuff would be blurred and overexposed, and the moon would been in a slightly different position every time the camera went off.

Yeahh, I got that in UT's post....but I want to know wtf its about? why did they do it...what is it?

I NEED to know, coz the bloody kids wont stop singing it and its in my head now.

:eyebrow: there were

Someone skimmed a little to quickly, apparently.

Please forgive me for being thrilled that I'm not the only one that suffered emotional distress due to this post. :lol2:

Um, no...not if the flash, and the operative word is "flash" went off at a certain amount of movement from the badger. There are tons of photographs done this way. I dabble in photograpy myself. That is the same badger all over the yard...the moon could have been added later by the photographer for atmosphere with PHOTOSHOP.

But then you would expect strong shadows, and I don't see that.

The photo is taken from a high aspect which shortens the shadow. If you look closely, there are shadows under the bodies though. The photo's were taken using a flash in any case which is possibly not the only light source. This also could affect the length of the shadows.

If all the photo's were taken from the same aspect, why would the shadows be in different places?

Yeah besides badgers are digging psychos! If there were that many about that yard would probably look like a foundation dig for a 100 story building.

I dont see any shadows at all

Dare I do it again? Oh, why not.

"This is the city, Los Angeles, California. Sometimes, someone gets the urge to pet a small furry creature. That's when I go to work. My name's Friday. I carry a badger."

They could have lots of shots with one badger in each shot. Overlay them in photoshop, and bring each badger to the top. Only take the moon and other background stuff from one of the shots.

If the flash is very close to the camera lens, shadows would be hard to see at that distance.

Yeah Im still here Sundae Girl, lurking in the background, trying to wait for a news article in my neck of the woods to rock yours and every other cellars lil socks off.

And Shawnee that made me laugh so hard, can just imagine you with a badger under your arm

Are they badgering you?

:right:


but they are

here's a link to the real deal about this picture.