Comments on: An informative video about the Honey Badger http://boingboing.net/2011/02/18/an-informative-video.html Brain candy for Happy Mutants Wed, 19 Jun 2013 14:18:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: mr.skeleton http://boingboing.net/2011/02/18/an-informative-video.html#comment-1031170 mr.skeleton Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1031170 I think this is the original upload: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4r7wHMg5Yjg I think this is the original upload: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4r7wHMg5Yjg

]]> By: VICTOR JIMENEZ http://boingboing.net/2011/02/18/an-informative-video.html#comment-1031178 VICTOR JIMENEZ Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1031178 What is he eating? Aww! Disgusting! The honey badger dont gives a shit! Best narrator ever. What is he eating?
Aww! Disgusting!
The honey badger dont gives a shit!

Best narrator ever.

]]> By: C White http://boingboing.net/2011/02/18/an-informative-video.html#comment-1032972 C White Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1032972 Thanks for posting the links to the others. Great, hilarious stuff! Thanks for posting the links to the others. Great, hilarious stuff!

]]> By: Jack http://boingboing.net/2011/02/18/an-informative-video.html#comment-1032974 Jack Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1032974 So effing hilarious!!! So effing hilarious!!!

]]> By: Robert http://boingboing.net/2011/02/18/an-informative-video.html#comment-1031448 Robert Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1031448 He's queer. He's a wildlife narrator. He's fabulous. Get used to it. Although as a queer non-wildlife narrator (one of the few...) that raises a question -- BoingBoing is a generally fabulous site, but has it had any openly gay guest hosts? Honey badger doesn't give a shit. ;-) He’s queer. He’s a wildlife narrator. He’s fabulous. Get used to it.

Although as a queer non-wildlife narrator (one of the few…) that raises a question — BoingBoing is a generally fabulous site, but has it had any openly gay guest hosts? Honey badger doesn’t give a shit. ;-)

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2011/02/18/an-informative-video.html#comment-1031197 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1031197 I like how youtube can detect if your video sounds like it contains anything even remotely resembling a copyrighted song, but it can't detect when you grab someone else's video and upload an exact duplicate. Yes, that's the original. He's got a whole series of similar videos on his channel. I like how youtube can detect if your video sounds like it contains anything even remotely resembling a copyrighted song, but it can’t detect when you grab someone else’s video and upload an exact duplicate.

Yes, that’s the original. He’s got a whole series of similar videos on his channel.

]]> By: Jardine http://boingboing.net/2011/02/18/an-informative-video.html#comment-1031199 Jardine Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1031199 Jeremy Clarkson: A honey badger does not kill you to eat you, it tears off… your testicles. Richard Hammond: It does not! James May: Why's it called the Honey Badger? Richard Hammond: Exactly! Jeremy Clarkson: Because that's what made it angry. Richard Hammond: Why isn't it called the Badger of Death? Jeremy Clarkson: A honey badger does not kill you to eat you, it tears off… your testicles.
Richard Hammond: It does not!
James May: Why’s it called the Honey Badger?
Richard Hammond: Exactly!
Jeremy Clarkson: Because that’s what made it angry.
Richard Hammond: Why isn’t it called the Badger of Death?

]]> By: murrayhenson http://boingboing.net/2011/02/18/an-informative-video.html#comment-1031209 murrayhenson Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1031209 Thank you - I was thinking of that exact discussion as well. Thank you – I was thinking of that exact discussion as well.

]]> By: jonw http://boingboing.net/2011/02/18/an-informative-video.html#comment-1031722 jonw Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1031722 In what scenario is this NSFW? In what scenario is this NSFW?

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2011/02/18/an-informative-video.html#comment-1031213 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1031213 Wait, where's Homer Simpson? Wait, where’s Homer Simpson?

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2011/02/18/an-informative-video.html#comment-1031221 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1031221 That was fucking awesome! The narrator rocks. That was fucking awesome! The narrator rocks.

]]> By: Charles Guarino http://boingboing.net/2011/02/18/an-informative-video.html#comment-1031222 Charles Guarino Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1031222 HONEY BADGER BADGER BADGER BADGER BADGER BADGER BADGER BADGER BADGER BADGER BADGER BADGER (no mushroom, but plenty of snake!) HONEY BADGER BADGER BADGER BADGER BADGER BADGER BADGER BADGER BADGER BADGER BADGER BADGER

(no mushroom, but plenty of snake!)

]]> By: PaulR http://boingboing.net/2011/02/18/an-informative-video.html#comment-1031479 PaulR Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1031479 My first thought was: Why, if honey badgers have so few real enemies and they can eat anything, why are they so rare? My first thought was: Why, if honey badgers have so few real enemies and they can eat anything, why are they so rare?

]]> By: daev http://boingboing.net/2011/02/18/an-informative-video.html#comment-1031230 daev Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1031230 Two snaps up! Two snaps up!

]]> By: TheVoBRX http://boingboing.net/2011/02/18/an-informative-video.html#comment-1031238 TheVoBRX Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1031238 This guy is great. Friend of mine showed me the honey badger vid a couple weeks ago, an then I found more hilarious videos of other animals here (WARNING: the choice of colors on this page may cause blindness akin to staring at the sun): http://www.youtube.com/user/czg123#g/c/2A9D6BFCC78EDB71 This guy is great. Friend of mine showed me the honey badger vid a couple weeks ago, an then I found more hilarious videos of other animals here (WARNING: the choice of colors on this page may cause blindness akin to staring at the sun):

http://www.youtube.com/user/czg123#g/c/2A9D6BFCC78EDB71

]]> By: Elrohir http://boingboing.net/2011/02/18/an-informative-video.html#comment-1031240 Elrohir Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1031240 Funny, but I prefer the real original: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c81bcjyfn6U That's one badass badger. I quote from a page: "If the creature is too huge for the Badger to straight-up eviscerate with its inch-and-a-half long claws or its razor-sharp teeth, the Ratel still knows how to go for the weak spot – the balls. That's right, folks, this thing has been documented as killing male lions by running underneath them and tearing off their scrotums. " http://www.badassoftheweek.com/honeybadger.html Funny, but I prefer the real original:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c81bcjyfn6U

That’s one badass badger. I quote from a page:
“If the creature is too huge for the Badger to straight-up eviscerate with its inch-and-a-half long claws or its razor-sharp teeth, the Ratel still knows how to go for the weak spot – the balls. That’s right, folks, this thing has been documented as killing male lions by running underneath them and tearing off their scrotums. ”

http://www.badassoftheweek.com/honeybadger.html

]]> By: Ugly Canuck http://boingboing.net/2011/02/18/an-informative-video.html#comment-1031498 Ugly Canuck Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1031498 Anon #20: What the hell is a "voiceover"? Is it a type of overdub? And precisely when did Cheech & Chong do "stoner voiceovers"? Although I must admit your comment is he first time in over thirty five years that I have ever, anywhere, heard Cheech & Chong's act criticized - even obliquely - for maligning stoners! For that is what you are accusing them of, are you not? Perhaps it would have been much better in your opinion had Cheech & Chong been actually beating, imprisoning and otherwise physically mis-treating and terrorizing "stoners", as some police did ( and still do), while the ENTIRE television, daily newspaper and radio media of the day constantly and relentlessly advocated both the justice of and increased public expenditure on such "useful tactics" in the "war on drugs". Anon #20:
What the hell is a “voiceover”?
Is it a type of overdub?

And precisely when did Cheech & Chong do “stoner voiceovers”?

Although I must admit your comment is he first time in over thirty five years that I have ever, anywhere, heard Cheech & Chong’s act criticized – even obliquely – for maligning stoners! For that is what you are accusing them of, are you not?

Perhaps it would have been much better in your opinion had Cheech & Chong been actually beating, imprisoning and otherwise physically mis-treating and terrorizing “stoners”, as some police did ( and still do), while the ENTIRE television, daily newspaper and radio media of the day constantly and relentlessly advocated both the justice of and increased public expenditure on such “useful tactics” in the “war on drugs”.

]]> By: davidjoho http://boingboing.net/2011/02/18/an-informative-video.html#comment-1031499 davidjoho Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1031499 Honey Badger has a PR problem. Its name makes it sound like its image ought to be printed on kiddy pajamas. How about "Ball Shark" instead? Ball shark don't give a shit. Honey Badger has a PR problem. Its name makes it sound like its image ought to be printed on kiddy pajamas.

How about “Ball Shark” instead?

Ball shark don’t give a shit.

]]> By: Kentj http://boingboing.net/2011/02/18/an-informative-video.html#comment-1031756 Kentj Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1031756 Funny-Funny-Funny. The narrator sounded Effeminate...there are those that can equate that with Gay (normally) but not necessarily true. The narration would not have been as good in a womans voice, IMO, the feminine guy voice does it and the squeamish descriptions of this eating are what make this what it is. I didn't take it as a knock on gay people if that's what you were after Cts359, but I guess it could have been. Funny-Funny-Funny. The narrator sounded Effeminate…there are those that can equate that with Gay (normally) but not necessarily true. The narration would not have been as good in a womans voice, IMO, the feminine guy voice does it and the squeamish descriptions of this eating are what make this what it is. I didn’t take it as a knock on gay people if that’s what you were after Cts359, but I guess it could have been.

]]> By: alllie http://boingboing.net/2011/02/18/an-informative-video.html#comment-1031505 alllie Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1031505 What that left out was the bit about the <a href="http://www.safarichatter.com/2010/06/27/honeyguide/">Honeyguides</a>, a bird that guides honey badgers (or people) to bee hives. Also they are social parasites that lay their eggs in the nests of other birds. When the young hatch they have a barbed beak with which they kill the other baby birds or puncture any remaining eggs. What that left out was the bit about the Honeyguides, a bird that guides honey badgers (or people) to bee hives. Also they are social parasites that lay their eggs in the nests of other birds. When the young hatch they have a barbed beak with which they kill the other baby birds or puncture any remaining eggs.

]]> By: Ugly Canuck http://boingboing.net/2011/02/18/an-informative-video.html#comment-1031506 Ugly Canuck Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1031506 I think I'll change my name to "Stoner Voiceover". Or perhaps use it as a name in my next short story.... I think I’ll change my name to “Stoner Voiceover”. Or perhaps use it as a name in my next short story….

]]> By: Ugly Canuck http://boingboing.net/2011/02/18/an-informative-video.html#comment-1031510 Ugly Canuck Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1031510 Cool that the badgers noticed the little bird's association with the sweet sweet honey. Is this a learned behavior? like hunting is for cats? Does mama badger have to point out the bird to the kits? We too noticed the little bird as a guide to honey: but I suppose we could follow the honey badgers themselves around for the same purpose, eh? Cool that the badgers noticed the little bird’s association with the sweet sweet honey.

Is this a learned behavior? like hunting is for cats? Does mama badger have to point out the bird to the kits?

We too noticed the little bird as a guide to honey: but I suppose we could follow the honey badgers themselves around for the same purpose, eh?

]]> By: Ugly Canuck http://boingboing.net/2011/02/18/an-informative-video.html#comment-1031512 Ugly Canuck Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1031512 Although now that I have watched the video, I think it would be much safer to follow the inoffensive little bird to that sweet gold rather than the savage and aggressive badger. Although now that I have watched the video, I think it would be much safer to follow the inoffensive little bird to that sweet gold rather than the savage and aggressive badger.

]]> By: magicjo http://boingboing.net/2011/02/18/an-informative-video.html#comment-1031266 magicjo Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1031266 honey badgers rule - after i discovered them i tried to convince a friend as to their awesomeness, dismissing my "but they eat anything...even leopards" he called google and this came up: "Like many predators leopards quickly recognise an unfit animal. This old female should be an easy catch. Using their powerful jaws leopards strangle their prey, often within a few minutes, but she just can’t get a good hold on the badger’s neck. The skin is thick and loose. By now other prey would be dead but this one still struggles fiercely. She refuses to die! After a battle lasting almost an hour the old badger is finally all but dead. The leopard departs with her half blind and nearly toothless prey, and at least one badger myth appears to be true – they are the very devil to kill." http://www.carnivoraforum.com/index.cgi?board=mustelids&action=display&thread=1807#ixzz1EMXhYo4v honey badgers rule – after i discovered them i tried to convince a friend as to their awesomeness, dismissing my “but they eat anything…even leopards” he called google and this came up:

“Like many predators leopards quickly recognise an unfit animal. This old female should be an easy catch. Using their powerful jaws leopards strangle their prey, often within a few minutes, but she just can’t get a good hold on the badger’s neck. The skin is thick and loose. By now other prey would be dead but this one still struggles fiercely. She refuses to die!

After a battle lasting almost an hour the old badger is finally all but dead. The leopard departs with her half blind and nearly toothless prey, and at least one badger myth appears to be true – they are the very devil to kill.”

http://www.carnivoraforum.com/index.cgi?board=mustelids&action=display&thread=1807#ixzz1EMXhYo4v

]]> By: Cts359 http://boingboing.net/2011/02/18/an-informative-video.html#comment-1031282 Cts359 Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1031282 I kind of feel like I'm the only guy on the internet who doesn't find this funny. I mean, it's just a gay joke. Not even a fun, witty gay joke at that. It's more along the lines of 'Hey everybody, look at the silly fag!' I am disappointed, internet. I kind of feel like I’m the only guy on the internet who doesn’t find this funny. I mean, it’s just a gay joke. Not even a fun, witty gay joke at that. It’s more along the lines of ‘Hey everybody, look at the silly fag!’

I am disappointed, internet.

]]> By: Felton / Moderator http://boingboing.net/2011/02/18/an-informative-video.html#comment-1032324 Felton / Moderator Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1032324 They're <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZ5ZUaRRs08">sooo cuuute</a>! They’re sooo cuuute!

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2011/02/18/an-informative-video.html#comment-1031559 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1031559 And yet, none of my friends who are gay sound like that, and the friend that I had who DID sound like that wasn't gay. (although many people assumed that he was when they first heard him) And yet, none of my friends who are gay sound like that, and the friend that I had who DID sound like that wasn’t gay. (although many people assumed that he was when they first heard him)

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2011/02/18/an-informative-video.html#comment-1031319 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1031319 Sir David Attenborough is crying. Sir David Attenborough is crying.

]]> By: davejenk1ns http://boingboing.net/2011/02/18/an-informative-video.html#comment-1031332 davejenk1ns Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1031332 Cts359 I find it really funny, and not because of the guy's accent (which may seem stereotypically queer). I think his word choices, pacing, and simultaneous emotive 'gross!' reactions are t3h funnay here. Take a script of this, hand it to Scott Glenn or The Dude, and it would still be funny. Lighten up, Francis. Cts359 I find it really funny, and not because of the guy’s accent (which may seem stereotypically queer). I think his word choices, pacing, and simultaneous emotive ‘gross!’ reactions are t3h funnay here. Take a script of this, hand it to Scott Glenn or The Dude, and it would still be funny.

Lighten up, Francis.

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2011/02/18/an-informative-video.html#comment-1031336 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-1031336 humor1 has been terminated due to multiple or severe violations of our Community Guidelines and/or claims of copyright infringement. You think humor1 gives a shit? That shit was TRANSFORMATIVE. humor1 has been terminated due to multiple or severe violations of our Community Guidelines and/or claims of copyright infringement.

You think humor1 gives a shit? That shit was TRANSFORMATIVE.

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