just a thought...
i was wondering how many Badger related usernames there are on B3ta?
there's me and TGB for starters...
( blaireau69 , the Cumbrian Travis Bickle., Tue 10 Mar 2009, 14:35, 35 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

Mine's
Slovak for Badger.
( Cawl, Tue 10 Mar 2009, 14:41, Reply)

If you say big-girl's-blouse really fast over and over again.
It sounds like badger.
( girlinthehole, Tue 10 Mar 2009, 14:44, Reply)

Lies!
See, mine is true:
br.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaol
( Cawl, Tue 10 Mar 2009, 14:45, Reply)

Kaol
that's not achly true, is it!
( blaireau69 , the Cumbrian Travis Bickle., Tue 10 Mar 2009, 14:52, Reply)

There's also
Flirting with badgers.
( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Tue 10 Mar 2009, 14:53, Reply)

Ahem...
www.b3ta.com/users/manage.php?search=badger
www.b3ta.com/users/manage.php?search=badgers
( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Tue 10 Mar 2009, 14:53, Reply)

It is true!
That's an article about Badgers giving TB to cows.
Which is why you can click on "Chatal" and get an article on Cattles.
( Cawl, Tue 10 Mar 2009, 14:55, Reply)

im
about 50% of a badger
(Halfy By light alone, Tue 10 Mar 2009, 14:59, Reply)

I like to think I'm partly badger
But I'm really not.

Not that I know of, anyway....
(PenguinOfDeath is Scottish, and most likely angry, Tue 10 Mar 2009, 15:07, Reply)

um
slovak for badger is jazvec (or something along those lines).

there's also flirting with badgers.
( ascorbate, Tue 10 Mar 2009, 15:08, Reply)

Dammit!
Why did there have to be someone here who speaks Slavic?
Balls.
( Cawl, Tue 10 Mar 2009, 15:11, Reply)

sorry
kaol - your link is in breton, so maybe it's a breton word? for wild mustard?
( ascorbate, Tue 10 Mar 2009, 15:14, Reply)

Wild mustard?
Cool!

Er... And what's Breton? Crazy French-Sub-Dialect or something?
( Cawl, Tue 10 Mar 2009, 15:16, Reply)

oh!
it's KALE, that nice cabbagey stuff. And breton is explained here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breton_language

Sorry kaol, I'm bored shitless at the moment, and thus spending far too much time on wikipedia pretending to edit the wiki I'm actually employed to work on (called trykipedia, and about as interesting as watching a kettle dry).
( ascorbate, Tue 10 Mar 2009, 15:20, Reply)

Ah...
Foiled by veg once again.
*shakes fist*

How's the not-just-in-the-morning sickness going?
( Cawl, Tue 10 Mar 2009, 15:22, Reply)

@No3l
wow, didn't know you could do dat!
( blaireau69 , the Cumbrian Travis Bickle., Tue 10 Mar 2009, 15:30, Reply)

OMG!
There's another big girl's blouse..........and it's a man : o
( girlinthehole, Tue 10 Mar 2009, 15:35, Reply)

What I want to know is
why badgers? What makes them so iconic? Is it all just because weebl made his badgers and a mushroom thing?
( The Resident Loon Not a demographic. Do not measure., Tue 10 Mar 2009, 15:39, Reply)

@kaol
those pesky veg!

sickness is getting less constant, hopefully only a few more weeks of it.

@bgb - but surely you're the original and best?
( ascorbate, Tue 10 Mar 2009, 15:40, Reply)

@VitC
He was here before me : (

But I am the true Big-girl's-blouse.

*is unique*
( girlinthehole, Tue 10 Mar 2009, 15:43, Reply)

Loon
Badgers are the UK's largest indigenous mammals. Frankly, they're just cool :)
( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Tue 10 Mar 2009, 15:47, Reply)

Bollocks No. 31.
Deer.
Wild Boar.
Wolves.
( Cawl, Tue 10 Mar 2009, 15:48, Reply)

but
they are cool. and much more vicious than their faces would suggest.
( ascorbate, Tue 10 Mar 2009, 15:50, Reply)

My bad
Largest indigenous carnivores. It's all over the net, so it must be true.
( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Tue 10 Mar 2009, 15:57, Reply)

Wolves are bigger than badgers!
Plus we had bears here 'til a few hundred years ago.

I'm gonna assume that the phrase is "Badgers are the largest of the extant * indigenous UK mammals that partake of a significantly carnivorous diet."

EDIT: *terrestrial
( Cawl, Tue 10 Mar 2009, 16:00, Reply)

That is
If you ignore humans.
(Herr Doktor Lemminge Is bored, so cheer me up!, Tue 10 Mar 2009, 16:07, Reply)

Silly Dok...
"indigenous"...
( Cawl, Tue 10 Mar 2009, 16:09, Reply)

The term indigenous peoples
can be used to describe any ethnic group of people who inhabit a geographic region with which they have the earliest known historical connection.

I think that that covers us.

EDIT Also. The term indigenous does not mean that an organism necessarily originated or evolved where it is found.
(Herr Doktor Lemminge Is bored, so cheer me up!, Tue 10 Mar 2009, 16:14, Reply)

Nah,
In the biological sense we're not an indigenous species to the British Isles.
We migrated here.

A badger, however, couldn't swim the channel.

EDIT: "A species is defined as indigenous or native to a given region or ecosystem, if its presence in that region is the result of only natural resources, with no human intervention."

So... Humans are a result of human intervention :p
( Cawl, Tue 10 Mar 2009, 16:19, Reply)

I'm touched
that a couple people remembered my name.

could someone pass me a tissue?
( flirting with badgers What? It sounded good at the time., Tue 10 Mar 2009, 16:41, Reply)

There hasn't always been a channel.
Who knows what shit started where.
Or cares?
I don't.
( thealternativefact, Tue 10 Mar 2009, 17:25, Reply)

that's true
and who knows what will happen now there's a tunnel?
(happylittletulip helpless and delicious, Tue 10 Mar 2009, 17:32, Reply)

We'll be overrun
with smelly French post-renaissance badgers, spreading their arrogance and inability to queue*

* May contain slightly racist stereotypes
( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Tue 10 Mar 2009, 18:01, Reply)

Badgers rule
because they could maul you. And mauling stuff is cool.
( TGB checking Off Topic is still shit at, Tue 10 Mar 2009, 18:12, Reply)

Not to mention
their passion for garlic and cigarettes and inability to bathe!

(A friend of mine married a girl with relatives in France who attended the wedding. In particular my attention was caught by a tall slender blonde in a short skirt- absolutely gorgeous until I happened downwind of her. I thought she had been rubbed in onions and cigarette butts before being left in a closed car in the sun for a few days.)
( The Resident Loon Not a demographic. Do not measure., Tue 10 Mar 2009, 18:12, Reply)