Used sarcastically, normally as a congratulation for someone achieving something diabolically simple, or for grasping the absolute and complete obvious. It's origins are based on any organisation that, in the absence of better ideas, or prizes of any real value, would give a cheaply manufactured metal badge as a token reward.
Paul A. Sheehan: "Look! I just uploaded a JPEG to your hosting using FTP!"
A term for an unexpected or unpredictable problem or issue which causes harm, physically, mentally, etc.
Can be used if the problem is self created or not.
Referential to the idea of a mailman’s opening a mailbox unknowingly containing an angered badger
(Self Created Problem) *Joe trips and hurts his nose*
Steve: Man, you really put the badger in the mailbox
Joe: I guess so
(Not self created) *Crazy girl destroys Steve’s car*
Steve: Man I really missed the badger in the mailbox there
"Badge-ing" is an exhibitionist trend in certain trendy nightclubs (Most commonly in California) It involves a woman taking a male patron (Almost always a stranger) into a more secluded part of the club (i.e. bathroom, service area, etc.) and giving him an orgasm (usually by means of a hand or blow job) then allowing the cum to hit her face and top portion of her shirt, then returning to the rest of the club without in anyway making an attempt to clean herself up, wearing the proof of what she just did as a "Badge"
A misunderstanding between the Badger and Myself. People who experience this also report that they "didn't know that fireworks were badger compatible".