The Cellar Image of the Day

So is the cat supposed to symbolic of the snake or the mushroom?

I'm gonna have that fucking "song" in my head all day now.
Thanks. Thanks very much.

badgerbadgerbadgerbadgerbadgerbadgerbadgerbadgermushroomMUSHROOM
damn

Hello, tuberculosis!

They spread it in cows by sucking their udders you know.
Which is why they are prized by naturalists in this country and hated by farmers.

Quote:

Bovine Tuberculosis (bTB) was a major problem in cattle herds earlier this century but was virtually eradicated by tuberculin testing and slaughter of infected cattle. However, bTB has persisted in southwest England, its traditional stronghold, some parts of Wales and the West Midlands, and is now increasing in other parts of Britain. Since the mid-1970s tens of thousands of badgers have been culled in response to bTB outbreaks because of circumstantial evidence that badgers spread the disease. However bTB has continued to increase in cattle. Bovine TB can be a serious problem for those farmers whose herds are affected. However it is still a relatively rare disease in the UK. To put bTB into context, in 2002 19,792 bTB reactors (cattle that gave a positive tuberculin skin test result) were slaughtered, which compares to 4,189,000 animals (including 590,000 cattle) slaughtered during the FMD outbreak1. In addition, 90,000 cattle are culled annually due to mastitis, 31,000 due to lameness and 125,000 due to infertility2.

In November 1996, the government commissioned a review, chaired by Professor John Krebs, to investigate links between bTB in cattle and badgers. The final report was published on 16 December 1997. It stated that “the sum of evidence strongly supports the view that, in Britain, badgers are a significant source of infection in cattle, although evidence is all indirect” and principally recommended that the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Fisheries (now the Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA)) should set up an experiment to quantify the impact of culling badgers3. In February 1998 the Independent Scientific Group on Cattle TB (ISG) was set up by the Government, chaired by Professor John Bourne, to advise on implementation of the recommendations in the Krebs Report, specifically the badger culling trials. On 17 August 1998 the Government published the Bourne Report4 and announced its plans for a strategy to control bTB in cattle.

Holy Crap UT, where is that picture from. I would be out there with a .22 having a field day. That is just ridiculous.

With that many badgers you could make alot of badger stew, so heres how its done:

1 badger
1 glass of pig's blood
1 small glass of armagnac
1 ginger root
1 bottle of dry, sparkling white wine
2 eggs
1 pot of crème fraîche
salt and pepper
500g forest mushrooms OR chestnuts to accompany
100g butter
oil

Eviscerate and skin your badger, and soak it in a fast-flowing river for at least 48 hours. This will help you to de-grease it more easily.

Once the badger is de-greased, cut it into pieces and brown it in a frying pan with butter. When the pieces are golden and stiff, flambée with the armanac, season and add a grated soup-spoon of ginger, fresh if possible.

Pour over the wine, and simmer gently for at least two hours.

At the end of the cooking time, mix the chopped badger liver (cooked beforehand in a little oil), the glass of blood, two egg yolks, a coffee-spoon of ginger and the crème fraîche, and pour into the cooking dish. Serve immediately.

This dish goes well with wild mushrooms or chestnuts.

http://www.gastronomydomine.com/2006...dger-stew.html

The cat is probably blaming it's owners. "Stop badgering me!!!"

(oh, like none of YOU were thinking that!!)

If they'd had these cows in Mississippi, we wouldn't have had the 55mil. beef plant flap up .
In addition, 90,000 cattle are culled annually due to mastitis, 31,000 due to lameness and 125,000 due to infertility2.

OK, thats fake ....right? coz none of them have shadows? ....bite me, I have never called photoshop before.

Oh and....wtf with that badgerbadgerbadgerbadgerbadgerbadgerbadgerbadgerbadgerbadger thingie?

I call Photoshop i'm afraid.

IIRC Badgers are pretty territorial, and wouldn't tolerate that many rivals.

I suspect that someone has had a camera on a tripod, and taken lots of images of one badger (and the cat) in the garden over a period of time, then photoshopped.

Anyway, it can't be real, there's no mushroom and no snaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaakes

What? No photoshop declarations? It is obiously the same badger, probably setting off some kind of motion flash whilst moving about the yard. The cat probably came in at the last minute, then moved out of frame...That many badgers would have had kitty for dinner...

Um, no...not if the flash, and the operative word is "flash" went off at a certain amount of movement from the badger. There are tons of photographs done this way. I dabble in photograpy myself. That is the same badger all over the yard...the moon could have been added later by the photographer for atmosphere with PHOTOSHOP.

The photo is taken from a high aspect which shortens the shadow. If you look closely, there are shadows under the bodies though. The photo's were taken using a flash in any case which is possibly not the only light source. This also could affect the length of the shadows.

If all the photo's were taken from the same aspect, why would the shadows be in different places?

Yeah besides badgers are digging psychos! If there were that many about that yard would probably look like a foundation dig for a 100 story building.

Dare I do it again? Oh, why not.

"This is the city, Los Angeles, California. Sometimes, someone gets the urge to pet a small furry creature. That's when I go to work. My name's Friday. I carry a badger."

Yeah Im still here Sundae Girl, lurking in the background, trying to wait for a news article in my neck of the woods to rock yours and every other cellars lil socks off.

And Shawnee that made me laugh so hard, can just imagine you with a badger under your arm