The Honey Badger

[kateorman]

"But my childhood love of the natural world had forearmed me with a ready enthusiasm for when I finally came face to face with the honey badger in the wild. Actually, getting face to face with a honey badger is surprisingly difficult. They are blessed with the unique and, I should imagine, bloody surprising ability, if you've just caught one by the

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[qthewetsprocket]

if you're a small and irritatingly cute-looking thing and want to be taken seriously in the seedier end of the jungle, tearinq someone's bollocks off with your teeth does get your message across quickly.

hear, hear.

*will remember this the next time a larger animal nearly bulldozes me in a bookstore*

[almostwitty]

Apparently I'm one inch taller than Richard Hammond. But I've never particularly thought of myself as short. Or cute, for that matter.

[antikythera]

And this is what inspires totem animals...

Where did Hammond grow up, anyways? I thought he was English, but they don't have honey badgers there.

[endis_ni]

You're quite right, we have the regulation stripy lads, specifically meles meles.

You're also right about the Hamster- he's from Solihull, which is a posh part of Birmingham.

[murasaki_1966]

There are posh parts of Birmingham!?!?!?!?!

[endis_ni]

I'm going to get smacked for saying this...

All the locals of Solihull that I know insist that Solihull is actually a separate market town and nothing to do with "the city over there."

Well, that might have been true a hundred and fifty years ago, but Brum's spread a fair bit since then. It's now a glorified suburb, and really nice paving will not change that fact.

To be fair, Brum has it's nice bits. Bourneville (site of the Cadbury factory!) is a purpose-built Quaker paradise, for example.

Oddly, though, it's right next to Selly Oak, which made a really bad first impression with me when the underground sewers backed up, and what was flowing down the streets couldn't rightly be called water.

[murasaki_1966]

Hehehe. I so agree. I must read that.

[murasaki_1966]

Honey badger here and here