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# This week's guest publication...
(I helped save b3ta! Lherkin, Sat 8 Jun 2013, 21:56, archived)
# no science here
www.defra.gov.uk/animal-diseases/a-z/bovine-tb/badgers/culling/
(I helped save b3ta! mongychops, Sat 8 Jun 2013, 22:27, archived)
# First they came for the badgers, and I remained silent
(I helped save b3ta! PedroHin Come along & ride on a Flantastic Voyage, Sat 8 Jun 2013, 22:40, archived)
# there are too many, they need killing, you cant have ten badgers in ever squre mile, the things are cunts
(I helped save b3ta! mongychops, Sat 8 Jun 2013, 22:44, archived)
# I've never actually seen a badger.
I don't think they exist.
(I helped save b3ta! monkeon schmonkeon, Sat 8 Jun 2013, 22:47, archived)
# loads of the cunts it seems, i live in town, foxes are bad enough
www.defra.gov.uk/animal-diseases/files/population-badger-pilot-areas.pdf
(I helped save b3ta! mongychops, Sat 8 Jun 2013, 22:55, archived)
# ship them to the inner-cities here in the USA :D
(I helped save b3ta! PedroHin Come along & ride on a Flantastic Voyage, Sat 8 Jun 2013, 23:01, archived)
# i reckon a few fighting as a team could fuck up a pitbull
(I helped save b3ta! mongychops, Sat 8 Jun 2013, 23:04, archived)
# you can have our inner city urban foxes too, mange ridden kentucky eating ginger fuckers
(I helped save b3ta! mongychops, Sat 8 Jun 2013, 23:05, archived)
# aw, I'm sure Rob's not that bad
(I helped save b3ta! FeralCatMan Unusual disease collector., Sun 9 Jun 2013, 0:25, archived)
# rob fingers kids
(I helped save b3ta! mongychops, Sun 9 Jun 2013, 0:48, archived)
# we all know this and we have to keep it covered up
(I helped save b3ta! Elvis impersonator, Sun 9 Jun 2013, 1:13, archived)
# You're quite right, you can't have ten badgers in every square km
(not mile - based on that document)
Frankly, the notion is ludicrous. That's ten times the estimate of the fox population in the UK. If they're coming up with numbers like that, there *has* to be something wrong with their data collection method. I'm no expert on the ecology of badgers, but that figure just sounds fishy as fuck to me.
(I helped save b3ta! flatfrog Staring vacantly into space, Sun 9 Jun 2013, 0:09, archived)
# Following up
The Badger Trust's website has an estimate from 2005 of 288,000 badgers in the UK, which would be around 1 per sq km, roughly the same as foxes. That sounds a *lot* more likely to me. So either their estimation method is way off or they chose some areas to sample with particularly high population density. Either way, that's a huge discrepancy and if they're planning to slaughter 70% of badgers, it's hard to see how they can do that with any degree of accuracy based on those numbers.
(I helped save b3ta! flatfrog Staring vacantly into space, Sun 9 Jun 2013, 0:22, archived)
# it's like badgers live in badger habitat, and loads live together and cause a problem because they are cunts
(I helped save b3ta! mongychops, Sun 9 Jun 2013, 0:45, archived)
# 'blinded by technical terminology'
(I helped save b3ta! FeralCatMan Unusual disease collector., Sun 9 Jun 2013, 1:19, archived)
# So your saying that Defra and various scientific bodies have overestimated the badger population by 10 times, and only you've noticed?
Or could it be you don't undertsand what your talking about, and using a combination of ignorance and confirmation biased, are spouting any old shit to support your beliefs?
(Brigadier an old boot sitting on a man's face - forever, Sun 9 Jun 2013, 8:14, archived)
# it could be just words on the internet, of course
(I helped save b3ta! Mighty Nibus who dares gins | @nibus, Sun 9 Jun 2013, 10:17, archived)
# badgers are ghetto cunts, why they get so much tb, skanks
(I helped save b3ta! mongychops, Sun 9 Jun 2013, 0:22, archived)
# From the major independent government-sponsored study:
Given its high costs and low benefits we therefore conclude that badger culling is unlikely to contribute usefully to the control of cattle TB in Britain, and recommend that TB control efforts focus on measures other than badger culling

In this case it's the farmers that are consistently being cunts. Badgers are just getting on with being badgers.
(I helped save b3ta! flatfrog Staring vacantly into space, Sun 9 Jun 2013, 0:33, archived)
# if you love badger land so much why dont you go and live there>
then we can cull you as well
(I helped save b3ta! mongychops, Sun 9 Jun 2013, 0:44, archived)
# Dear Mr Mongy of Chops.
You have made your views on Badgers patently clear.

Out of interest, what are your views on 15 year old dancing hamsters?

Kind Regards,

Redsushi
(I helped save b3ta! Redsushi! Whoop! Whoop! Yes, that one!, Sun 9 Jun 2013, 1:39, archived)
# i fucking love em
pages.cs.wisc.edu/~boris/dance/
(I helped save b3ta! mongychops, Sun 9 Jun 2013, 1:43, archived)
# They should start on the buzzards first
(I helped save b3ta! Rebel biscuit stercore sumus et nos esse novimus, Sat 8 Jun 2013, 23:03, archived)
# Well, it appears our decision to allow animals to live is based on a 'cuntishness' metric
So on that basis, probably ducks.
(I helped save b3ta! flatfrog Staring vacantly into space, Sun 9 Jun 2013, 0:23, archived)
# geese, swans, humans are all above ducks
(I helped save b3ta! Rebel biscuit stercore sumus et nos esse novimus, Sun 9 Jun 2013, 0:44, archived)
# What the fuck is wrong with buzzards?
(I helped save b3ta! FeralCatMan Unusual disease collector., Sun 9 Jun 2013, 0:30, archived)
# they are like aerial cats, they kill things and there's loads of them
(I helped save b3ta! Rebel biscuit stercore sumus et nos esse novimus, Sun 9 Jun 2013, 0:46, archived)
# People, they are like land cats, they kill things and there's loads of them
(I helped save b3ta! FeralCatMan Unusual disease collector., Sun 9 Jun 2013, 1:14, archived)
# And more men have been killed by other men in the last 100 years...
...Than all the badgers combined.
(smellysamlyingcable Seaman on, Sun 9 Jun 2013, 9:12, archived)
# they like eating things in order to survive
and that's just plain wrong
(I helped save b3ta! Mighty Nibus who dares gins | @nibus, Sun 9 Jun 2013, 10:13, archived)
# we don't have a normal ecosystem in this country
since most of the top predators have been made extinct, so the current ecosystem needs a lot of management
(I helped save b3ta! Rebel biscuit stercore sumus et nos esse novimus, Sun 9 Jun 2013, 13:24, archived)
# cormants
(I helped save b3ta! mongychops, Sun 9 Jun 2013, 0:50, archived)
# They're like ordinary ants, only cormier.
(I helped save b3ta! Yell Whoop continued to be a nin-com-poop on, Sun 9 Jun 2013, 10:11, archived)
# Cheaper and more effective to vaccinate cows against TB.
But then farmers can't can't get the government to pay for that, can they? Odd how the Department for the Elimination of Furry and Rare Animals swing from trying to completely fuck farmers one minute and then swing violently the other way on a whim.
(I helped save b3ta! Colonel Boris "...a desperate Buzzfeed imitation...", Sun 9 Jun 2013, 8:30, archived)
# and now Waitrose, M&S and Asda won't buy milk from badger-cull farmers
so they're fucked

mind you the farmers round here (rural Cornwall) are all cunts
(I helped save b3ta! Mighty Nibus who dares gins | @nibus, Sun 9 Jun 2013, 10:15, archived)
# Is this badger cull
taking the form of men in red coats, on horses, with packs of dogs chasing badgers to their demise?
(I helped save b3ta! An Egg ,D, Sun 9 Jun 2013, 14:18, archived)
# I enjoyed Brian May as "Great King Badger" on Queen II.
(I helped save b3ta! Jabberwoc misses D.R. and Quinch, Sun 9 Jun 2013, 14:33, archived)