Answer this, it divided Ollie's Bar last year!

[sherman]

Hiya,
i thought i'd throw this poll open to you guys because we never came to a definate conclusion about this last year in Ollie's bar (was one of our highly intellectual conversations!). would like to see if the club could form a concensus on the matter and finally lay this eternal mind boggler to rest

[Polly]

sherman said:

Hiya,
i thought i'd throw this poll open to you guys because we never came to a definate conclusion about this last year in Ollie's bar (was one of our highly intellectual conversations!). would like to see if the club could form a concensus on the matter and finally lay this eternal mind boggler to rest

I vote badger cos the are vicious little f*cks!

and they just love mashed potato!

[mrspoirot]

Yes, but currently the squirrals are winning! (Go Bodger )

[i can see a moron a mile off]

your a moron

[edtriplef]

your a moron - my god, is oscar wilde with us!! Im sure you will ocme back with some great line like " your gay "!!

Looking forward to it.

Love you

[Polly]

edtriplef said:

your a moron - my god, is oscar wilde with us!! Im sure you will ocme back with some great line like " your gay "!!

Looking forward to it.

Love you

Your actually talking to yourself on this now

You need a subway

[coatesy]

I have to side with the baadger as its Britains largest native carnivore and there was that 1 in the news a couple of years ago that went nuts and ravaged some old people.

[edtriplef]

As usual Mr C Coates BSc, is the man in the know! Despite his confused apperance he is as sharp as a very sharp thing on animals particually.

[johnboy17]

Personally, I think it depends on the battleground.

If it were in a heavily wooded area, I think that the squirrels would have the advantage of the high ground, because they could clamber the surrounding trees and leap down in a tag-team formation upon the badger.

However, if the bout (presumably decided by pinfall or submission) were to take place in an open space (let us say, for argument's sake, a car park) then the badger would surely win with its sheer brutality and technical ability

[Polly]

johnboy17 said:

Personally, I think it depends on the battleground.

If it were in a heavily wooded area, I think that the squirrels would have the advantage of the high ground, because they could clamber the surrounding trees and leap down in a tag-team formation upon the badger.

However, if the bout (presumably decided by pinfall or submission) were to take place in an open space (let us say, for argument's sake, a car park) then the badger would surely win with its sheer brutality and technical ability

These are all valid points, but even if in tag team formation the squirrels attacked the badger, they would first have to knock out the referee to get away with double teaming the badger. I think however, that no matter what the terrain, the finishing maneuver of the "throat crush" from the badger is not easily recovered from, and if just one of the squirrels got caught off guard, its advantage would indeed be over.

[sherman]

looks like on balance the squirrels have it - cheers guys, especially for backing my position in this debate

[sherman]

put this question on xuqa and it got over 120 responses - some of them are hilarious. its under "philosophical debate" if you interested. i mention this because there were a few links to related stories i thought you might be interested in:

www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,835154,00.htm

www.local6.com/news/4872001/detail.html?GetStory

news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4489792.stm

www.chainreactionbicycles.com/squirrels.htm

www.geocities.com/nickedemis/menu.html


ps. the squirrels won on xuqa too 52% to 48%

[sherman]

the top link wont work damn it - anyway its on xuqa (page 2 of the blog) and its about flesh eating squirrels attacking humans in Knutsford, Cheshire - well what do they expect when the towns called that!!