Right - my work here is done. For those that missed it, there was a clue to my strategy in my first post in this thread (#anythingbutthe badger).
For the final, I shall have ready an entirely new and intriguing strategy.
For the moment, I shall leave you with "Honey Badgerists - eat dirt"
Persuasive though that argument is, I feel compelled to point out that the badger lost to a PRAWN, which is a wholly different, and harder, animal than a shrimp. A prawn which, let me remind you, is still the reigning Champion. Unlike the badger, which has never been, or indeed will be this year.
A picture of a blind badger accidentally running into the back legs of leopard/cheetah (I'm embarrassed to admit I'm not sure which) is hardly conclusive evidence of hardness, now is it?
Proving what?
1) The python gives up and runs away.
2) It attacked an alligator. An alligator is NOT a salt water crocodile.
So, we're left with a failed attempt to down the mighty croc's baby second cousin. Big deal.
I'm starting to feel like the picture editor of Private Eye who every couple of weeks pulls out the pic of Andrew Neil and whoever she was.
You have seen the pic of the croc EATING a RUNNING CHAINSAW, right? Sigh.
Ahem.
It's eating a CHAINSAW. It's running too. But the croc - he don't care.
Please provide evidence of a badger eating anything that's anywhere near as hard. Actually, don't waste your time. You won't be able to find a pic - because badgers AREN'T HARD.
I rest my case, m'lud.
And there we have it in a nutshell. The fluffy badger is as hard as a, err wait for it, baby croc.
BUT - we're not talking about a BABY saltwater croc. We're talking about a beast that can:
FART from its mouth
FLY, FFS
routinely attacks humans, just for kicks
Has a coin minted...