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badgertime

can i tell you a story about badgers and how they saved my life?

id love to hear that story mate raaa

then i’m telling it just for yoooooooooooo… but is a long story, i’ll keep it short as i can… you’ll have imagine the pain and long faces that i’ve left out

about 3 months ago a bumped into a mate who’s a bit of an anarchist and is in the same line of work as me (community work) at a party

we’ve both been getting involved in an area of town that is largely fucked and came up with the idea that it would be a good thing to throw a one day free festival with all the trimmings there, for the people, by the people

the council gave us verbal agreement 2 months ago and got on with planning it… absolutely masses of effort from loads of people… many of those people have been written off by society, but all of them had loads to offer to this event. we got £10,000 of free money from all sorts of places to make it happen. we were riding high

anyway, on monday morning i got a call from the council “sorry, your event has been cancelled because there’s sunday league football on the field the next day”

“WHAAAT? a 5 a side footy is more important than all this” I was spitting bricks mate

after 3 days of getting nowhere, and the bloke who made the decision pretending he wasn’t the one responsible, I forced matters to a head this afternoon by going to their offices with some business in mind

i have 2 allies in the office, so before i sat down to get some sense out of this person, i hallo’d my friends, ate a biscuit and loudly shared a few facts about badgers

fact 1) i’m going to stay at a farm this weekend that has a badger set outside the kitchen window. if you sit there at night with the lights off, you can love watching the badgers

followed by

fact 2) (and this is the life saver) according to Guinness book of records, the honey badger is the most fearless animal in the world. it will take on a full grown bison in a fight. it will win by biting the bisons testicles until the bison dies

the guy who was holding everything up (and is a senior officer of the council) understood the metaphor and after a bit of nonsense, changed his decision back to a yes

so, badgers saved my life, because if i had left that office with a “no” our festival would have been no more and a lot of the people who live in my section 30 estate wouldn’t have forgiven me

raaa FTW

then i’m telling it just for yoooooooooooo… but is a long story, i’ll keep it short as i can… you’ll have imagine the pain and long faces that i’ve left out

about 3 months ago a bumped into a mate who’s a bit of an anarchist and is in the same line of work as me (community work) at a party

we’ve both been getting involved in an area of town that is largely fucked and came up with the idea that it would be a good thing to throw a one day free festival with all the trimmings there, for the people, by the people

the council gave us verbal agreement 2 months ago and got on with planning it… absolutely masses of effort from loads of people… many of those people have been written off by society, but all of them had loads to offer to this event. we got £10,000 of free money from all sorts of places to make it happen. we were riding high

anyway, on monday morning i got a call from the council “sorry, your event has been cancelled because there’s sunday league football on the field the next day”

“WHAAAT? a 5 a side footy is more important than all this” I was spitting bricks mate

after 3 days of getting nowhere, and the bloke who made the decision pretending he wasn’t the one responsible, I forced matters to a head this afternoon by going to their offices with some business in mind

i have 2 allies in the office, so before i sat down to get some sense out of this person, i hallo’d my friends, ate a biscuit and loudly shared a few facts about badgers

fact 1) i’m going to stay at a farm this weekend that has a badger set outside the kitchen window. if you sit there at night with the lights off, you can love watching the badgers

followed by

fact 2) (and this is the life saver) according to Guinness book of records, the honey badger is the most fearless animal in the world. it will take on a full grown bison in a fight. it will win by biting the bisons testicles until the bison dies

the guy who was holding everything up (and is a senior officer of the council) understood the metaphor and after a bit of nonsense, changed his decision back to a yes

so, badgers saved my life, because if i had left that office with a “no” our festival would have been no more and a lot of the people who live in my section 30 estate wouldn’t have forgiven me

raaa FTW