Tonight BBC2, The Man Who Eats Badgers

[chymaera]

I felt particularly sorry for the wife when he kept talking about the house smelling of badger.

Male badgers do have a strong pong.

 

[likesfish]

theres a slightly bonkers scheme stateside where hunters can donate freshly killed deer to foodbanks

 

[STFC]

Very strange but entertaining programme.

Was the private investigator for real? He was as weird as the rest of them. Loved it when the roadkill bloke started getting calls from more than one person, the PI said something like "There's not much I can do, so I've closed the case". Classic. A spin-off dedicated to him would be brilliant.

 

[Badgers]

Call out thread

bin/ban/lol/kitteh

 

[innit]

Do you make the house smell, Badgers?

((((Badgers' wife))))

 

[Rollem]

Was the private investigator for real? He was as weird as the rest of them. Loved it when the roadkill bloke started getting calls from more than one person, the PI said something like "There's not much I can do, so I've closed the case". Classic. A spin-off dedicated to him would be brilliant.

thats what i thought

i found it all a bit weird, but very compelling viewing. what the hell was arthur skinning in his shed towards the end of the programme? was it a cat?!

and was the farmer/stroke preacher bloody bonkers or what! loved it when he was leading his congregation in the singing (or should that be shouting very loudly )

 

[susie12]

I laughed at this programme but thought there was also something quite admirable about these people, living how they like in that lonely place. And at least they are being themselves! Too much bland conformity today imo. Feeling seemed to be that men find it easier there than women. There was lots of pain under the surface for some of those guys.

 

[Orang Utan]

Those prank calls were obviously just 13/14 year old kids - they said stuff like 'you suck badger willies' FFS!

 

[Rollem]

Those prank calls were obviously just 13/14 year old kids - they said stuff like 'you suck badger willies' FFS!

i disagree, some were very clearly NOT kids.

 

[gentlegreen]

Was I the only one for whom it illustrated a large chunk of their lives ?

Take away my rather shallow-level contact with people at work and I would be a lot happier living on Bodmin ....

 

[ViolentPanda]

What do you make of Arthur? He seems like a nice bloke. Shame about all the morons ringing him up all the time. Still, he doesn't seem to mind that much.

He probably doesn't feel threatened by people too stupid to make the distinction between his eating animals that have been killed by cars (which is what he does) and his going out and killing the animals himself (which he doesn't).

 

[ViolentPanda]

I couldn't understand why Arthur was getting those crank calls accusing him of killing animals. Surely the whole point was that they were dead when he found them

Precisely.
The cranks are obviously thick as shit.

 

[madzone]

I enjoyed the bit where he was listening to one call and joined in, shouting 'Cuuuuuuuun't' and then cackling away to himself

I enjoyed the programme but I worried a bit that it would just feed into the stereotype.

 

[butterfly child]

I watched it for a bit and got bored.

So, he's a bit eccentric? So what.

Thought it said a lot more about the cunts who leave abusive messages on his answer machine, tbh. Wankers.

 

[Nixon]

I watched this and it was too strange so I changed the channel near the end.

 

[madzone]

I watched it for a bit and got bored.

So, he's a bit eccentric? So what.

Thought it said a lot more about the cunts who leave abusive messages on his answer machine, tbh. Wankers.

It wasn't just about him though. There were three others.

I couln't live on Bodmin Moor - too isolated. I was fascinated by the accents of the father and son - mostly cornish with a bit of plymouthian thrown in. Weeeerd.

 

[Orang Utan]

I felt sorry for the single ones - you just knew they were never gonna meet anyone

 

[madzone]

I felt sorry for the single ones - you just knew they were never gonna meet anyone

The younger farmer will meet someone, definitely. She'll be as weird as him and possibly not have all her own teeth but he will meet someone. I can feel it in me water

The panther man didn't want to meet anyone did he?

 

[Orang Utan]

I bet he did

 

[madzone]

I bet he did

Really? I got the feeling from him that he spent so much time on the moor because he'd had enough of people. I dunno, maybe I'm projecting. I go for weeks without seeing another person to talk to and I like it that way but I know that I'm only a short step from being a mad be-headscarved old lady who smells of goat piss

I used to do a character called Marjorie Barns-Hayloft who was very similar and came to me a bit too easily

 

[Badgers]

Can this thread be binned now, I had nightmares last night!!!!!

 

[goldenecitrone]

Can this thread be binned now, I had nightmares last night!!!!!

Be careful crossing the road, mate. Particularly if you're down near the Lizard.

 

[madzone]

Bodmin's nowhere near the Lizard

 

[goldenecitrone]

Im sure Arthur would drive for miles for a nice piece of badger.

 

[nightowl]

Im sure Arthur would drive for miles for a nice piece of badger.

it's when he took a barn owl out of his freezer that i was shocked

 

[chymaera]

Bodmin's nowhere near the Lizard

Correct, tis 56 miles from my home til the start of the Bodmin bypass.

 

[dlx1]

he eats road kill

still on Iplayer 5 days left

 

[bi0boy]

what the hell was arthur skinning in his shed towards the end of the programme? was it a cat?!

That was an otter

It was great when asked if he would eat their own cat he said his wife wouldn't be too happy, and that they had a another cat a few years ago who died and was buried in the garden. He hadn't dug that up yet, not even for the bones, and it had interesting bones on account of it having three legs.