Are you a badminton champion?  Or are you more interested in cattle?
I'm more of a badminton person myself. I like the speed - shuttlecocks have a higher speed than many balls in other similar sports.
However, they always run out of feathers by the time I'm done playing a set.  
True enough. Some poor rooster lost it's feathers twice! Mind you, it also resembles the shuttle of a loom, which is how it got its name.
I didn't know that.  I'm not a scholar, just a pro badminton player so the history is over my head.  Definitely superior to tennis, but less intense than squash.
I'm no pro, but I played as a kid. We loved it as we could play in the yard or at the beach. And in Winter we played at an indoor court.
Playing outside makes it about wind and not skill though.  Inside better
That's true, but we played outside anyway. Probably because I'm from the UK and the game originated in British India, so there's a bit of a connection there.
Ah the US has appropriated the game as well.  My gym sets up courts on Saturdays and I have a badminton rival that I play with.
Badminton
Badminton is a racquet sport played using racquets to hit a shuttlecock across a net. Although it may be played with larger teams, the most common forms of the game are "singles" (with one player per side) and "doubles" (with two players per side). Badminton is often played as a casual outdoor activity in a yard or on a beach; formal games are played on a rectangular indoor court. Points are scored by striking the shuttlecock with the racquet and landing it within the opposing
was Mads Pieler Kolding's recorded smash at a Badminton Premier League match.
Statistics such as the smash speed, above, prompt badminton enthusiasts to make other comparisons that are more contentious. For example, it is often claimed that badminton is the fastest racquet sport. Although badminton holds the record for the fastest initial speed of a racquet sports projectile, the shuttlecock decelerates substantially faster than other projectiles such as tennis balls. In turn, this qualification must be qualified by consideration of the distance over which the shuttlecock travels: a