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In an alternate reality they might have just called skunks "stink badgers." (kbin.social)
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I'm a little envious of that reality, as stink badger is a solid go to insult that I don't think could ever catch on here.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How did neither of us or anyone in the thread wiki this? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stink_badger

I also found out American skunks are also known as polecats.

Whats our next move? I mean we still have to popularize it, but now is it a campaign to discredit the american skunk or to say that the Javan varieties are fake news badger imposters? Should we just ditch that and do a "badger is best" campaign?

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mephitidae
"Mephitidae is a family of mammals comprising the skunks and stink badgers. " I propose our goal is broadening the name stink badgers to include the entire family Mephitidae and we can still proceed as planned.