There are far more impressive clips of Honey Badgers out there, but I do like this for the way a Porcupine (still larger than the HB) tries to cause some aggro and Honey Badger doesnt even feel the need to acknowledge him. a nice piece of understated hardness.
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***Worlds Hardest Creature VIII: QUARTER FINAL TWO***
- Thread starter Garry Nelson's Left Foot
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The Modfather
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NSC's perennial fav, the Honey Badger
Oh FFS.
The Wizard
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- Jul 2, 2009
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All aboard the Badger bus.
The Wizard
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Thunder Bolt
Silly old bat
#TeamBadger
A grasshopper mouse is not a house mouse. They don't like cheese either. If you want to catch a house mouse then use chocolate.
Thunder Bolt
Silly old bat
You know what to do.
JCL - the new kid in town
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- Aug 23, 2011
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You use the immune to venom argument against the mouse yet the badger has such a thick skin that it doesn't get penetrated by the bee stings or snake bites. That is basically a form of immunity, you can't have it both ways
Well leave venom immunity as a point of hardness if you like. Honey badger survives being bitten by a puff adder.
I just don't really like to include either poison attack or defence as use of poison is SNIDE therefore not HARD.
Puppet Master
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- Aug 14, 2012
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The Honey Badger has too many plastic fans
Rodney Thomas
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This may be the year the HB finally takes the title (however my vote still goes to the Wolverine: HB's harder Northern cousin)..
MattBackHome
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- Jul 7, 2003
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Bollocks. It is the most consistently well supported creature EVER in this competition.
Compare this to the 150 Mantis Shrimp plastics that failed to turn up at all this year.
Quite. The JCL and plastic comments are baffling. The Honey Badger is one of the only creatures to have featured every single year, and is probably the most popular single creature in terms of overall votes over the history of the WHC. Truly it is Spain pre-Euro 2008.
MattBackHome
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I am not familiar with all the details but there seems to be some suggestion that substantially less than 150 users controlled the 150 mantis shrimp supporting accounts.
WHC in association with FIFA.
Puppet Master
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- Aug 14, 2012
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Nah, HB is the Man United of the competition. Loads of armchair types just rooting for him cos he looks good on paper and everyone else supports him without really knowing a lot of the facts. I don't doubt a HB is hard pound-for-pound and worthy of a quarter-final place but easy pickings for too many predators. HBs are preyed by leopards, lions, hyenas and even eagles. Yes, a bird - http://www.cracked.com/article_19377_6-animals-that-kill-natures-scariest-creatures-fun_p2.html
A number of mods and the owner of NSC himself have alluded to as much. Last year's WHC was about as transparent and above board as Qatar winning the World Cup Bid. The lack of support for the Mantis Shrimp this year speaks volumes.
Of course Leopards and Lions can kill a HB on occasion, they're much bigger than them! That's nothing against the HB. Eagles are pretty hard *******s too.
A lot of people support the HB because of his attitude, an attribute much misunderstood and undervalued by those who just vote for the biggest creatures every year without understanding what it truly means to be hard.