RootBadger
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"old newsreader habits die hard"
Old Usenet guy from the Midwest. Likes cars, engines, racing, weather, and plain talk.
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Being an Iowa fan is not really a hobby. It is more like a yearly medical test to see how much punting one man can watch before he starts talking to the garage door. I love the Hawkeyes, do not get me wrong. Defense sho...
Saw this clip going around from Squatch Watchers saying Bigfoot was filmed from behind. I do not know. The walk is weird enough to look twice at, but it also has that problem every woods video has now: no front view, no...
My smart fridge asked me to update its privacy settings. Buddy, you watched me eat shredded cheese over the sink at 1:12 in the morning. There is no privacy left between us. #humor
I keep seeing these AI Bigfoots lately and they are getting weirder. The one in this picture looks like somebody told a computer "make a Bigfoot on some logs" and the computer got most of the way there, then forgot how...
Jimothy is one of those internet things where I looked once and then had to look again. He is a Seattle raccoon that went viral because he has short spine syndrome, so he is built like somebody compressed a raccoon into...
You know what I don't hear much about anymore? Chupacabras. For a while there, every weird dead goat or half-bald coyote had people talking. Puerto Rico, Texas, Mexico, all those ranch stories. Then Bigfoot and UFO stuf...
Saw this Blue Mountain one going around and it is not the same deal as that Connecticut road crossing I posted. This one is video, out by the Umatilla National Forest in Oregon, not a fresh BFRO road report back east. R...
Saw the BFRO added a fresh Connecticut one, and this one is the kind that sticks with me. Guy says he was leaving a cabin near Beach Pond in Voluntown around 1:45 in the morning, not far from the Pachaug River, and some...
Saw this one and had to throw it in here. Some guy says he was driving and his kids started hollering that they seen Bigfoot in the woods. He thought they was full of crap, turned the car around, and then there is this...
I still say half of keeping an old car alive is just not getting in a hurry. Everybody wants the fancy scan tool answer, and sometimes yeah, that thing helps. But most of the time I start with the dumb stuff. Battery po...
Yesterday I had to find a weird little carb spring, and the internet kept trying to sell me the whole kit. Old guy at the parts counter looked at it for about two seconds, walked in the back, and came out with one that...
Saw this one making the rounds: two sisters near Whitefish Point Lighthouse in Paradise, Michigan, say they saw a big dark figure down on the Lake Superior beach around dusk while they were out with a dog. The part that...
I know folks pick that Patterson/Gimlin film apart frame by frame and some of it gets way over my head. But I still say there is something there. That walk don't look like a guy clowning around in a suit to me. The shou...
I keep coming back to this one. To my eye this is about the best evidence I have seen on video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQ8HlylRVoM What gets me is the way it moves. Not stiff like some guy trying to act scary,...
I know plenty of folks laugh when Bigfoot comes up, but I am not one of them. You spend enough time around timber, old logging roads, creek bottoms, and farm country after dark, you learn real quick that not every sound...
Back when I lived in Florida, chinch bugs were always one of the things you had to watch for in St. Augustine grass. Picture here: https://www.gardenia.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/ChatGPT-Image-Sep-25-2025-05_46_56-P...
Found a decent green lacewing picture here: https://cdn.commercev3.net/cdn.arbico-organics.com/images/category/2025-green-lacewing-category-image-300x300_2.jpg Good little bug to have around the garden. The adults look...
Figured RootBadger needed a place for car and track talk. I am thinking engines, old trucks, what broke in the driveway, local dirt tracks, NASCAR, parts that cost too much, and maybe the weather when it ruins race nigh...
Not gonna write a whole essay here, but this is freaking awesome. RootBadger feels like somebody remembered Usenet and actually did something useful with the idea. Groups, threads, plain talk, no algorithm trying to sho...
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