{"id":8553,"date":"2023-02-24T21:40:55","date_gmt":"2023-02-24T19:40:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/expatkaliningrad.com\/?p=8553"},"modified":"2023-11-03T21:33:31","modified_gmt":"2023-11-03T19:33:31","slug":"made-in-kaliningrad-exclusive-badger-underpants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/expatkaliningrad.com\/ru\/made-in-kaliningrad-exclusive-badger-underpants\/","title":{"rendered":"Made in Kaliningrad Exclusive Badger Underpants"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I\u2019m badgered if I know!<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Published: 24 February 2023 ~ Made in Kaliningrad Exclusive Badger Underpants<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I can honestly say, hand on heart, that I have never had the urge to focus on a gentleman\u2019s underpants, for whatever the reason and whatever that reason may be. Even my interest in vintage clothes has not yet impelled me to research or wear undergarments that could be described as anything more than wholesomely traditional.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now, what have I done with my badger? <\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

For this reason and this reason alone, it is with curiosity regarding your reaction that I place before you photographic evidence of a truly remarkable pair of pants, the beastly likes of which I have never beheld before.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

No, your eyes do not deceive. You are actually witnessing what in all likelihood may well be the world\u2019s one and only pair of pants with a badger\u2019s head for its codpiece. You have to admit, ladies, unless you have lived a far more adventurous life than your neighbour’s suspect, that it\u2019s not every day that you come across a man with a badger concealed in his underpants!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Modelling the animal-lover\u2019s pants that he designed himself is the inimitable Aleksandr \u2018Chimney Sweep\u2019 Smirnov of Badger\u2019s Club fame (see earlier post<\/a>). Not that he feels the need to defend his creation, in fact he\u2019s rather proud of it, but if he did, he could argue that if the Royal Antediluvian Order of Buffaloes (RAOB) can adopt a buffalo\u2019s head as their fraternal motif then why not a badger\u2019s head for Kaliningrad\u2019s Badger Club?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Quite so, but whilst the Buffs, as the RAOB are colloquially known, display their animal namesake on blazer pocket patches, lapel badges and so on, there cannot be many among their number who have, or who are willing to admit they have, buffalo horns in their underpants. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The question is, will this example open the floodgates for variant animal codpieces, such as goats, pussies, kippers, beavers, rhinoceroses, hippopotamuses, absolute impossibilities, moles, rabbits and unicorns?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The eel or elephant\u2019s trunk might be overstretching it a bit, and really gilding the willy (Gates\u2019 spellchecker is too \u2018inclusive\u2019 for its own good) would be the python or green anaconda, and should your reputation not extend to the American Eagle, and naturally Biden\u2019s doesn\u2019t, you could always hedge your bets ~ remember, a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush ~ and settle instead for a Jenny Wren. The possibilities are endless (no pun intended).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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On the subject of all things compromising, imagine an irate country gentleman of the shooting, hunting and fishing fraternity, catching his wife in flagrante and promptly shooting her lover who happened at the time to be wearing a pair of badger-head pants. Could such a man resist having the pants he had bagged stuffed and mounted on his living-room wall? Probably not. But in the same way that one swallow doesn\u2019t make an Ann Summers, a one-night stand is nothing to boast of. In order to add more trophies, the wife would need to horn her skills and train herself to become a much more prolific hunter. What animal rights activists will make of all this, your guess is as good as mine, but as most of them are meat-eaters, which makes them also hypocrites, whatever they think is irrelevant anyway.<\/p>\n\n\n

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It is a sobering thought, however, that should such bestial practices be performed on British soil, you could in theory run foul of the law and be brought before the beak for violating legislation under the 1992 Protection of Badgers Act. (How this came about was that back in 1992 a lot of English country gentlemen apparently began to exhibit the embarrassing evening-dress tendency of loading their pants with badgers, and urban liberals did not like it, since they had failed to think of it first. Their reaction was similar to the way they reacted to the first female UK prime minister, Margaret Thatcher, and the first prime minister \u2018of colour\u2019, Rishi Soonout, since in both of these woke respects the Tories beat them to it. The last vestige of hope for liberals now is that they install in Number 10 something veiled from head to toe and of dubious gender extraction that claims itself to be both feminist and lesbian. I think I’d rather vote for a pair of badger underpants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the risk of sounding too liberal for my own good and becoming as a result a source of inflammation for my conscience, I hear myself philosophising what goes on in one\u2019s underpants is entirely one\u2019s own affair, subject to the qualification that it does not offend to any degree a reasonable sense of personal dignity. It should be noted that in the UK it is an offence at common law to outrage public decency, although to succeed in this worthy cause the act must be committed at such a time and in such a place that at least two members of the public ~ two or more ~ must have gathered there to witness it. English law is most precise on this point* {*The Ethnic Minorities Guide to Flashing<\/em>, Vol 45,756, 2022; Dover Publishing Unlimited}<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For example, The Royal Antediluvian Order of Flashers\u2019 Charter and Code of Conduct calls upon its members to expose themselves only in those locations where the audience is guaranteed to be no less than 2 and no more than 10, coupled with an exit strategy of an unapprehendable nature. The problems that this poses for the mathematically challenged, especially those who can\u2019t read the language, possibly explains why newly arrived ethnic flashers, defined as those who docked in the UK 25 years ago and who are longing to be deported because they are tired of living in free hotels, choose to go it alone. Whilst none of these have been spotted actually wearing a badger, there have, however, been rumours of acts involving goats. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

We would like to assure the public that where such incidents do occur they are rare and we also keep them secret and that the wearing of pants of an animal orientation can lay no claim to mainstream practice, although who can say without convictions when fads and fashion may take a turn for the worse and lead us up the woodland path?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Made in Kaliningrad Exclusive Badger Underpants<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Take Y-fronts, for example, once the must-have accessory for people from all walks of life, perhaps including Jimmy Saville, but which to the entitled youth of today are as pass\u00e9 as flared trousers and as offensive in their non-mediocrity as the shimmering outsized shoulder boards worn by Gary Glitter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Whilst such exclusive examples possess an underlying value of no small proportion, we must be careful not to suggest or infer that the wearing of strange underpants is the sole province of much-loved celebrities. For whom amongst us can claim without fear of contradiction and more of rank hypocrisy that we have not, at one time worn, myself of course excluded, pants which, though not deserving of the epithet shameful, have filled our introspective moments with disquieting thoughts of daring-do verging on impropriety?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Speak for yourself is your first reaction, but for the same reason that people in glass houses shouldn\u2019t throw stones, neither should people who wear glass underpants throw them, nor, I might add, should the latter attempt to go horse riding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At times like these, befuddled and confused, I often defer to my brother\u2019s opinion. \u201cWhat do you think of the badger\u2019s head pants?\u201d I asked.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Studying the photo provided, I heard him mutter something, which may or may not have been, ‘where does he find those horny women?’ And then I thought I heard him say something about it could be worse, that at least it was only a badger\u2019s head and not a full-sized badger standing proud and erect on its hind legs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The motto of the Royal Antediluvian Order of Buffaloes is \u2018No Man is at all Times Wise\u2019 (Latin: Nemo Mortalium Omnibus Horis Sapit<\/em>). I wonder what the Latin is for \u2018No Man is at all Times Wise when it comes to the Choice of his Underpants\u2019?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Please note: <\/strong>No badgers were harmed in the making of these underpants, but one or two were extremely embarrassed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Where is the Kaliningrad Badger Club?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Badger<\/strong> ( Barsuchek) \u0411\u0430\u0440\u0441\u0443\u0447\u0451\u043a club
Sverdlova, 33, Kaliningrad, Kaliningrad Oblast, 236006
Tel: +7 909 777\u201197-75<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I have it on good authority that entrance to the Badger Club will not be dependent on flashing your badger \u2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Image attributions<\/strong>
Moose\u2019s Head:<\/strong> <a href="\/ru\/”https:\/\/www.freepik.com\/free-vector\/vector-vintage-moose-hand-drawn-clipart_34100758.htm\/#query=moose%20head%20drawing&position=4&from_view=keyword&track=ais”">Image by rawpixel.com<\/a> on Freepik; : https:\/\/www.freepik.com\/free-vector\/vector-vintage-moose-hand-drawn-clipart_34100758.htm#query=moose%20head%20drawing&position=4&from_view=keyword&track=ais<\/a>

Wooden sign board:<\/strong> https:\/\/publicdomainvectors.org\/en\/free-clipart\/Wooden-sign-post-vector-image\/26059.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Copyright \u00a9 2018-2023 Mick Hart. All rights reserved.<\/strong><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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