Badgers, a mushroom, a snake, on a loop. Ran uninterrupted for seventeen years and then stopped on the same afternoon as everything else made in the same program.
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Sighting, 22 September, a council recycling leaflet. Badger Badger Badger appearing as a menu option. Someone in a meeting proposed this and nobody stopped them.
The one thing missing from the headnote: Badger Badger Badger landed differently on people who had been online since the 2000s than on anyone who arrived later, and the later arrivals were the ones who spread it.
Logging a live specimen: a garden centre's loyalty-card email, 19 February. Badger Badger Badger, used correctly, in full, with no visible irony. Nobody involved is under fifty.
Half the disagreement in this thread is between people defining Badger Badger Badger by what it meant in 2003 and people defining it by what it meant at its peak. Both are right. Neither is the current meaning.
What does it mean? Write it the way you would say it out loud.
