Apparently, the scouts slowly started going to the dogs in the 00s and this deeply accelerated after 2015 after a certain policy was changed. Entire org then collapsed via lawfare.
depends on a troop, but yeah, it's getting pozzed like everything else
there are hardliners who run it as a military bootcamps in Baden-Powell traditions
there are socckermoms who run it a everyone-gets-reward daycare center
check their uniforms, you will instantly know
if they all have dozens of badges, multicolored scarves and other random bullshit, they are the daycare dweebs
if the uniforms are actually uniforms, everyone has a big-ol knife and they don't hand out badges for shoe-tying, there's a chance they aren't led by idiots
Multi covered scarves? Wha? We had a troop "neckerchief". You might also have one from your summer scout camp and maybe a jamboree or Seacamp/Philmont. But mostly your troop's. It was the only part of the uniform that was unique to a troop besides the troop numbers.
sorry, neckerchief (esl)
Now I see it's a lot different in United States, you can forget that part then.
I don't mean commemorative Jamboree neckerchiefs either.
Thing is, here it used to be that everyone in the whole country had a plain brown one. That was the uniform - everyone had the same shirt AND neckerchief.
Recently some troops began to wear various clashing colors and trims, even within the same troops.
not a fan of that move, is all I'm saying.
Reading this book by the founder was one of the biggest redpills of my life. Contrast the boyhood of then - hunting, raising wild animals as pets, crafting weapons from sticks and whalebone - to now. Society has destroyed manhood.
it wasn't exactly boyscouts affiliated but the original boy's camp/prep school in Los Alamos in New Mexico was my one gripe with the Manhattan Project wiping it out to make the bomb
My cub scout troop had target practice. It wasn't officially sanctioned but we shot 22s behind the town hall, where we had out den meetings. This was a while ago near San Diego.
San Diego...firing weapons. yeah that was a long time ago lol. I grew up in SoCal and there was a massive firing range on the other side of my neighborhood that was open to the public. Man insane how things have changed.
i had some of my best experiences in scouts growing up, did it all the way to eagle. still very close friends with my entire cub scout troop. despite us all being in our 30's and living thousands of miles apart in different countries we get together at my friend's vacation home and go sailing and fishing every year. we're getting close to the 30 year anni on that one. only times anyone's missed a year was for military service or severe injuries.
Little gays like you wouldn't have turned out like little gays had you been in scouting. They wanted to keep sick pedos out, you sad you didn't get to touch boys?
They are if they are going for Eagle, it takes that long. My highschool had a outdoors class as a option to PE with indooor climbing, hiking, camping, kinda like outward bound lite, with a couple of coed camping trips, completly cool classmates were into this course. All the scouts had this 70-80s cool vibe with the primitive gear and the outdoors skills and cooking expertise.
The entire experience varies greatly from troop to troop. It’s totally reliant on the parents involvement, and if they’re complete idiots or not.
My backpacking merit badge went against what the scout handbook says, specifically about doing a 2 mile shakedown hike and limiting weight. We didn’t do either. In fact we didn’t do half of the “discuss” and “demonstrate” stuff, and they just marched us into the woods for five days.
It was probably an instance of none of the leadership knowing anything, but one of the dads faking it. “I was in the army a decade ago, and we walked with heavy packs, therefor I know about recreational backpacking.” It’s the closest thing they could find to someone with experience, so they went with it. Other troops have parents that can afford Philmont, and others don’t even bother.
Here’s the BSA handbook guide to the backpacking merit badge. Half of PrepHole wouldn’t qualify.
>The entire experience varies greatly from troop to troop
this is why I'm not terribly "bummed" that I was never a Scout, but I'd like to get my kids out and Scouting. I have heard some stories that made playing football at the park sound like a far better use of my time
>The entire experience varies greatly from troop to troop.
When I was about 12 years old, I went to 3 scout meetings/outings or whatever they're called. All three of them were picking up trash in public places.
scouts organization on my town during 90´s was just a glorified daycare with alchoholics anonymous
basically we would sit in this damp cottage with some former drunk for a few hours after school and play same board games day after day
random drunk got his unemployment fare for the day and parents were happy
one time i remember we even went out and raked the whole yard of dead leaves and burned them but that was it
Went to scouts once in 90's.
It was just learning one knot on a huge rope and since there was only one rope it took all day for all kids to do it on this one rope.
I didn't even get an answer to what the knot is good for.
Then we had some snacks and it wasn't even yummy.
I was in the Cub Scouts in the late 80s and the Boy Scouts during most of the 90s. It was a great time. My Boy Scout troop was rural; the leaders were all actual outdoorsmen who worked with their hands. One of them was an affable old fellow who'd smoke his pipe in the church basement where the troop met, and no one batted an eye.
Those guys were chock-full of testosterone, toxic masculinity, patriarchy, and other great and useful qualities that are poisonous to today's cracker box-dwelling onions consumers who never go out of doors.
Knot-tying, fire-starting, flag-folding, first aid, foraging, hiking, camping, swimming, boating, archery, athletics, fishing, bird watching... we pretty much did it all. No hunting or trapping, as the pussification of society was underway even at that time, but there were still entries for trapping in the old Boy Scout manual, I believe.
The BSA may be ruined now, but what made the Scouts wasn't the organization or the manuals and merit badges but rather the Scout leaders who taught the boys how to be outdoorsmen. My own father was a world-class fly fisherman and lifelong outdoorsman, so I had a role model at home as well as in the Scouts.
I was only in for a few years (Sweden, late 90s), 10 to 12 years old or something, it would probably have been more fun as a teenager when you get more autonomy. I remember on one camp, a troop of the older kids had cut down a birch tree and were forced to use as firewood to teach them a lesson. Not sure how well fresh birch burn.
Anyway, it was a good foundation for camping experience, living in tent and how to pack stuff properly and so on.
Yeah that's pretty normal nowadays. Case in point, I only did PrepHole stuff with the army's boyscout unit (skiing, caving, mountaineering), kek. We got government funding too.
> t. psychotic abusive parents banned me from literally everything as a kid (music, scouts, sports, even taking on voluntary extra school classes)
They finally let go of me when I was 16 and it was actually pretty shit. You either coached little kids (utterly feral because you couldn't smack them) or you were with kids the same age (phone obsessed zoomers).
I did my country's equivalent of JROTC and, while it was shit joining so late, (most kids start at 12), we got to much more PrepHole kino in addition to running around with rifles shooting blanks.
If you want the scouting experience, buy some guidebooks on outdoorsmanship and other skills you find interesting like programming, basket-weaving, auto wrenching, etc. and put them into practice. Also read and meditate on your preferred religious/philosophical books.
The ideal was to raise morally upstanding and physically and mentally capable young men who then pass those experiences on to the next generation because that's the backbone of a successful civilization.
If you feel like you missed out on those experiences, you'll have to create them yourself.
>The ideal was to raise morally upstanding and physically and mentally capable young men who then pass those experiences on to the next generation because that's the backbone of a successful civilization.
Absolutely this. Some shittakes in this thread (PrepHole could never) but scouting is entirely hit or miss depending entirely on the troop you’re in. I’ve met thirteen year old eagles from eagle-factory troops that cut corners like art class, and others are world-class places for young people to get outdoors and learn incredible things.
Totally. I was in two different troops not long ago. First was guys I'd come with from Cub Scouts, shitload of money because we had a banging mulch business, and it was basically a frathouse full of guys who loved the outdoors. We went to Philmont every other year, went for hardcore trips every month, and had an annual ski trip which was basically a long-weekend rager that included 12-14 hours of skiing every day. The second troop (I moved) was all about rank requirements, basically an Eagle factory, we went on car camping trips where kids littered shit everywhere, and I got gently nudged out as Senior Patrol Leader (basically the person in charge of the troop) for setting up a fistfighting bracket tournament and calling a kid a pussy on a trip. 10/10 experience overall.
>joined cub scouts as kid but Father pulled me out because he didn’t understand that scouting activities would happen in summer and not the middle of the fricking school year
Feels bad man
>i wanted to join Boy Scouts when I was growing up >parents wouldnt let me cuz it was right when the pedo ring in the Scouts was being uncovered in the 90s
>wanted to go camping when i was growing up >parents were poor and didnt like PrepHole, so they never wanted to take me
feels bad man
at least I can enjoy it once in a while now, but man i wouldve loved to sink some beers and go fishing with my dad
Me and my family moved from Australia to Texas for a few years for my father's work. I'm so glad that I got to experience Cub Scouts in the early 2000s before things started to go downhill. We moved back to Australia in 2009, and I'm shocked at what has happened to the BSA since then.
I was never a scout. I remember looking up what the first scout handbook looked like then compared it to the current year version.
Old version: >to get the cooking merit badge you have to prove you can do this stuff.
New version: >to get the cooking merit badge you need to do three pages of homework about cooking and what is dangerous about it. >if you have any time left maybe try cooking some stuff too.
I once went to a group interview for a job where one of the other guys applying name-dropped and quoted Baden-Powell. The guy was very obviously gay.
>be me >be bri’ish >be scout >lots of fun outdoors stuff but don’t really get it because autism >leave scouts but have good memories >years later. Enjoy going outdoors. >be in games workshop >see that you can get a badge for doing warhammer >knew that day that scouting had gone downhill
It’s not even that it was miniature wargaminh it was the fact that it was a brand tie-in. Scouts is only ever as good as the wider society it’s set up for. If scouts is training you to become self-reliant, help your community and develop life and outdoor skills, it’s good. If scouts becomes pioneers or hitlerjugend and constantly preaches how to be a good comrade by telling on your peers and parents, or a daycare that tells you to CONSOOM it’s a sign of a decaying society.
I was talking to a teacher and at her sons beaver scouts group (5-8 year olds) they made them buy from the supermarket with only one pound to make them feel sympathy for the poor. If scouting is meant to make good citizens then a good society would show them how to help fix the problem rather than throwing a putty party. Maybe teach the kids how to grow potatoes. I often say that poverty could be greatly lessened if more people grew some of their own food but apparently this isn’t viable because the disabled can’t do it.
I’m not gonna tell you that you didn’t miss out. Best memories of my life. The experiences and stories could fill a book. Camping once a month with my best friends, not a worry in the world. Frick.
Scouting is largely made to keep people busy.
If you already do stuff after school you will likely have trouble getting it done.
We always meet indoors hardly ever did practical stuff. I missed all the camping because I was already doing weekend activities in sports or band.
If you think you are getting together once a week to go out and do cool stuff at the lodge or a park you are wrong.
I wanted it to be cool but it never was.
Summer camps were neet but never going to camp out prevented me getting rank. Not having rank meant I was not eligible for the cool stuff.
Dude....
We had one counciler at Barn Heart in like
2008 or 9 who was a 10- 10 smoke show.
No clue why she was at a boy scout camp but holy shit did a bunch of teenage boys notice.
>that complex set of emotions when you were feeling really starved for affection and attention and your Akela was really skilled at groomership so it didn't really feel like a bad thing at the time but it made it harder developing the heterosexual relationships wanted later
Ive had some outstanding memories in the scouts. One of our biggest Troop's sponsorer was with the 101st Airborne Division. Our Troop leader was a former first Sergeant with the unit. He had a little bit of pull and would get us onto Fort Campbell at least twice a year. In 2005 my troop did PT, a ruck march and a conference obstacles course all in the same weekend and all alongside Paratroopers. We also got to play as Hajis or OP40 as the enemy in paintball games to train the paras for an upcoming deployment. They give us a senario like an ambush react to fire then shoot and move.
Scouts to me was badass. But as the warning in small font at the very bottom of your handbook reads: "Your experience my vary." Sorry to you cats out there that got fricked by shitty leadership drenched in nepotism and coruption. I came face to face with that as an asst. Scout master in 2014 and squared off with an absolute bastard who still goes around badmouthing me to this day because i caught him cooking the books on our troop funds. Only he and I had access to the account, and bank records show his card used to withdraw the funds.
Just sad how fast it all went downhill. But after that experience scouts just had a bad taste in my mouth. Damn shame.
My grandfather was permanently disabled because of the scouts. Some kid knocked him to the ground with a ball, he hit his head on a rock and his ear was filled with dirt. Instead of taking him to the hospital, they straight up left him in their camp infirmary for three days, and his parents only found out when they went to go and get him on the last day of camp. They arrived to find him in a near comatose state. Rush to the hospital, turns out if they had brought him in when it happened they could have potentially caught whatever bacterial or viral infection he got from the dirt going in his ear.
But, nope, the Scouts didn't do that. They conveniently include in their fine prints that you cannot sue the BSA organization, but only the scout master of the group any boy is in that gets injured. Being poor and extremely religious, my family decided to not ruin that man's life, and NOTHING happened. They received no help from the BSA at all, not even an apology.
Back then, they didn't have the support systems needed for people with severe, life-altering disabilities. Can you imagine being a normal boy for 11 years, and then all of a sudden becoming a *complete* cripple?
His dad tied him to a tree and gently threw balls at him in order to get him to raise his arms and use his legs as a make-shift form of physical therapy. It's fricked up, because he's the best guy I've ever met. A literal saint in human form.
> His dad tied him to a tree and gently threw balls at him in order to get him to raise his arms and use his legs as a make-shift form of physical therapy.
lmaoooo
Made it to Eagle along with 6 or 7 others my age and have unfortunately lost contact with most of them. I miss the scouting days and got out in the last year or two before everything went to absolute shit due to letting women & homosexuals in. Got to do some of the 100 year anniversary merit badges such as tracking & signaling and those were amazing along with the Radio merit badge and Order of the Arrow.
Apparently, the scouts slowly started going to the dogs in the 00s and this deeply accelerated after 2015 after a certain policy was changed. Entire org then collapsed via lawfare.
>Entire org then collapsed via lawfare
not quite yet but it's certainly on life support
It started going to the dogs earlier than that when some free mason introduced the Order of the Arrow bullshit.
True?
order of the arrow was a moronic larp. I was in it. It sucked
depends on a troop, but yeah, it's getting pozzed like everything else
there are hardliners who run it as a military bootcamps in Baden-Powell traditions
there are socckermoms who run it a everyone-gets-reward daycare center
check their uniforms, you will instantly know
if they all have dozens of badges, multicolored scarves and other random bullshit, they are the daycare dweebs
if the uniforms are actually uniforms, everyone has a big-ol knife and they don't hand out badges for shoe-tying, there's a chance they aren't led by idiots
Multi covered scarves? Wha? We had a troop "neckerchief". You might also have one from your summer scout camp and maybe a jamboree or Seacamp/Philmont. But mostly your troop's. It was the only part of the uniform that was unique to a troop besides the troop numbers.
sorry, neckerchief (esl)
Now I see it's a lot different in United States, you can forget that part then.
I don't mean commemorative Jamboree neckerchiefs either.
Thing is, here it used to be that everyone in the whole country had a plain brown one. That was the uniform - everyone had the same shirt AND neckerchief.
Recently some troops began to wear various clashing colors and trims, even within the same troops.
not a fan of that move, is all I'm saying.
I was in scouts until 2016, that about sums it all up. It was a steady but rapid decline
Reading this book by the founder was one of the biggest redpills of my life. Contrast the boyhood of then - hunting, raising wild animals as pets, crafting weapons from sticks and whalebone - to now. Society has destroyed manhood.
it wasn't exactly boyscouts affiliated but the original boy's camp/prep school in Los Alamos in New Mexico was my one gripe with the Manhattan Project wiping it out to make the bomb
My cub scout troop had target practice. It wasn't officially sanctioned but we shot 22s behind the town hall, where we had out den meetings. This was a while ago near San Diego.
San Diego...firing weapons. yeah that was a long time ago lol. I grew up in SoCal and there was a massive firing range on the other side of my neighborhood that was open to the public. Man insane how things have changed.
scouts are an evil organization who, for years, had hateful policies without apology and absolutely deserve their demise
i had some of my best experiences in scouts growing up, did it all the way to eagle. still very close friends with my entire cub scout troop. despite us all being in our 30's and living thousands of miles apart in different countries we get together at my friend's vacation home and go sailing and fishing every year. we're getting close to the 30 year anni on that one. only times anyone's missed a year was for military service or severe injuries.
>still angry the fat kid got his scoussy slammed but he never even got molested.
Little gays like you wouldn't have turned out like little gays had you been in scouting. They wanted to keep sick pedos out, you sad you didn't get to touch boys?
>tried to keep sick pedos out
Uh huh, and how well did that work?
Frick off, Spencer.
At least you didn't get diddled though
You have a higher chance of being molested in a public school than you did at boy scouts
In my country the scouts have always been mixed-sex so it's basically a camping sex party for teenagers.
Who the hell is still in scouts when they're a teenager?
scouts are mostly 12 to 18 here.
Same here, pre-scouts is called Cubs or Cub-Scouts
They are if they are going for Eagle, it takes that long. My highschool had a outdoors class as a option to PE with indooor climbing, hiking, camping, kinda like outward bound lite, with a couple of coed camping trips, completly cool classmates were into this course. All the scouts had this 70-80s cool vibe with the primitive gear and the outdoors skills and cooking expertise.
country?
Chile
This literally happens in every country outside of USA, BSA is the shittiest scouts organization out there, glad I grew up being a scout in Spain
Hedonism is so boring
I was in the scout in about 03 we literally never when hiking never even when PrepHole just to this one bratty kids house and to the "lodge"
The entire experience varies greatly from troop to troop. It’s totally reliant on the parents involvement, and if they’re complete idiots or not.
My backpacking merit badge went against what the scout handbook says, specifically about doing a 2 mile shakedown hike and limiting weight. We didn’t do either. In fact we didn’t do half of the “discuss” and “demonstrate” stuff, and they just marched us into the woods for five days.
It was probably an instance of none of the leadership knowing anything, but one of the dads faking it. “I was in the army a decade ago, and we walked with heavy packs, therefor I know about recreational backpacking.” It’s the closest thing they could find to someone with experience, so they went with it. Other troops have parents that can afford Philmont, and others don’t even bother.
Here’s the BSA handbook guide to the backpacking merit badge. Half of PrepHole wouldn’t qualify.
https://filestore.scouting.org/filestore/Merit_Badge_ReqandRes/Backpacking.pdf
>The entire experience varies greatly from troop to troop
this is why I'm not terribly "bummed" that I was never a Scout, but I'd like to get my kids out and Scouting. I have heard some stories that made playing football at the park sound like a far better use of my time
>The entire experience varies greatly from troop to troop.
When I was about 12 years old, I went to 3 scout meetings/outings or whatever they're called. All three of them were picking up trash in public places.
scouts organization on my town during 90´s was just a glorified daycare with alchoholics anonymous
basically we would sit in this damp cottage with some former drunk for a few hours after school and play same board games day after day
random drunk got his unemployment fare for the day and parents were happy
one time i remember we even went out and raked the whole yard of dead leaves and burned them but that was it
Went to scouts once in 90's.
It was just learning one knot on a huge rope and since there was only one rope it took all day for all kids to do it on this one rope.
I didn't even get an answer to what the knot is good for.
Then we had some snacks and it wasn't even yummy.
I was glad to get out of there and never return.
I was in the Cub Scouts in the late 80s and the Boy Scouts during most of the 90s. It was a great time. My Boy Scout troop was rural; the leaders were all actual outdoorsmen who worked with their hands. One of them was an affable old fellow who'd smoke his pipe in the church basement where the troop met, and no one batted an eye.
Those guys were chock-full of testosterone, toxic masculinity, patriarchy, and other great and useful qualities that are poisonous to today's cracker box-dwelling onions consumers who never go out of doors.
Knot-tying, fire-starting, flag-folding, first aid, foraging, hiking, camping, swimming, boating, archery, athletics, fishing, bird watching... we pretty much did it all. No hunting or trapping, as the pussification of society was underway even at that time, but there were still entries for trapping in the old Boy Scout manual, I believe.
The BSA may be ruined now, but what made the Scouts wasn't the organization or the manuals and merit badges but rather the Scout leaders who taught the boys how to be outdoorsmen. My own father was a world-class fly fisherman and lifelong outdoorsman, so I had a role model at home as well as in the Scouts.
I was only in for a few years (Sweden, late 90s), 10 to 12 years old or something, it would probably have been more fun as a teenager when you get more autonomy. I remember on one camp, a troop of the older kids had cut down a birch tree and were forced to use as firewood to teach them a lesson. Not sure how well fresh birch burn.
Anyway, it was a good foundation for camping experience, living in tent and how to pack stuff properly and so on.
Was it just me and my school, or were all the guys who stuck with the scouts autists who didn’t even do that much PrepHole stuff?
Yeah that's pretty normal nowadays. Case in point, I only did PrepHole stuff with the army's boyscout unit (skiing, caving, mountaineering), kek. We got government funding too.
> t. psychotic abusive parents banned me from literally everything as a kid (music, scouts, sports, even taking on voluntary extra school classes)
They finally let go of me when I was 16 and it was actually pretty shit. You either coached little kids (utterly feral because you couldn't smack them) or you were with kids the same age (phone obsessed zoomers).
I did my country's equivalent of JROTC and, while it was shit joining so late, (most kids start at 12), we got to much more PrepHole kino in addition to running around with rifles shooting blanks.
If you want the scouting experience, buy some guidebooks on outdoorsmanship and other skills you find interesting like programming, basket-weaving, auto wrenching, etc. and put them into practice. Also read and meditate on your preferred religious/philosophical books.
The ideal was to raise morally upstanding and physically and mentally capable young men who then pass those experiences on to the next generation because that's the backbone of a successful civilization.
If you feel like you missed out on those experiences, you'll have to create them yourself.
>The ideal was to raise morally upstanding and physically and mentally capable young men who then pass those experiences on to the next generation because that's the backbone of a successful civilization.
Absolutely this. Some shittakes in this thread (PrepHole could never) but scouting is entirely hit or miss depending entirely on the troop you’re in. I’ve met thirteen year old eagles from eagle-factory troops that cut corners like art class, and others are world-class places for young people to get outdoors and learn incredible things.
Totally. I was in two different troops not long ago. First was guys I'd come with from Cub Scouts, shitload of money because we had a banging mulch business, and it was basically a frathouse full of guys who loved the outdoors. We went to Philmont every other year, went for hardcore trips every month, and had an annual ski trip which was basically a long-weekend rager that included 12-14 hours of skiing every day. The second troop (I moved) was all about rank requirements, basically an Eagle factory, we went on car camping trips where kids littered shit everywhere, and I got gently nudged out as Senior Patrol Leader (basically the person in charge of the troop) for setting up a fistfighting bracket tournament and calling a kid a pussy on a trip. 10/10 experience overall.
Who the frick are these “jews” anon? Do they only exist in your head to stand-in for your delusions?
Scouting is over.
The Democrats killed it.
>joined cub scouts as kid but Father pulled me out because he didn’t understand that scouting activities would happen in summer and not the middle of the fricking school year
Feels bad man
>i wanted to join Boy Scouts when I was growing up
>parents wouldnt let me cuz it was right when the pedo ring in the Scouts was being uncovered in the 90s
>wanted to go camping when i was growing up
>parents were poor and didnt like PrepHole, so they never wanted to take me
feels bad man
at least I can enjoy it once in a while now, but man i wouldve loved to sink some beers and go fishing with my dad
WTF are you me ???
Me and my family moved from Australia to Texas for a few years for my father's work. I'm so glad that I got to experience Cub Scouts in the early 2000s before things started to go downhill. We moved back to Australia in 2009, and I'm shocked at what has happened to the BSA since then.
I was never a scout. I remember looking up what the first scout handbook looked like then compared it to the current year version.
Old version:
>to get the cooking merit badge you have to prove you can do this stuff.
New version:
>to get the cooking merit badge you need to do three pages of homework about cooking and what is dangerous about it.
>if you have any time left maybe try cooking some stuff too.
I once went to a group interview for a job where one of the other guys applying name-dropped and quoted Baden-Powell. The guy was very obviously gay.
>be me
>be bri’ish
>be scout
>lots of fun outdoors stuff but don’t really get it because autism
>leave scouts but have good memories
>years later. Enjoy going outdoors.
>be in games workshop
>see that you can get a badge for doing warhammer
>knew that day that scouting had gone downhill
It’s not even that it was miniature wargaminh it was the fact that it was a brand tie-in. Scouts is only ever as good as the wider society it’s set up for. If scouts is training you to become self-reliant, help your community and develop life and outdoor skills, it’s good. If scouts becomes pioneers or hitlerjugend and constantly preaches how to be a good comrade by telling on your peers and parents, or a daycare that tells you to CONSOOM it’s a sign of a decaying society.
I was talking to a teacher and at her sons beaver scouts group (5-8 year olds) they made them buy from the supermarket with only one pound to make them feel sympathy for the poor. If scouting is meant to make good citizens then a good society would show them how to help fix the problem rather than throwing a putty party. Maybe teach the kids how to grow potatoes. I often say that poverty could be greatly lessened if more people grew some of their own food but apparently this isn’t viable because the disabled can’t do it.
>see that you can get a badge for doing warhammer
That can't be real, pretty sure they had an arts and crafts badge though
>“You will live to see man made horrors beyond your comprehension”
Anon, it's real
https://shop.scouts.org.uk/gifting/toys-games/scout-model-maker-activity-badge-warhammer
>disabled can’t do it
Vegetables can't into vegetables.
Yeah
Also enjoyed watching the young boys swim in the buff.
It had a problem with suspect behavior from the onset.
Yeah me too. Sucks.
I’m not gonna tell you that you didn’t miss out. Best memories of my life. The experiences and stories could fill a book. Camping once a month with my best friends, not a worry in the world. Frick.
Scouting is largely made to keep people busy.
If you already do stuff after school you will likely have trouble getting it done.
We always meet indoors hardly ever did practical stuff. I missed all the camping because I was already doing weekend activities in sports or band.
If you think you are getting together once a week to go out and do cool stuff at the lodge or a park you are wrong.
I wanted it to be cool but it never was.
Summer camps were neet but never going to camp out prevented me getting rank. Not having rank meant I was not eligible for the cool stuff.
I was in the scouts. The sex wasn't that good.
Dude....
We had one counciler at Barn Heart in like
2008 or 9 who was a 10- 10 smoke show.
No clue why she was at a boy scout camp but holy shit did a bunch of teenage boys notice.
>that complex set of emotions when you were feeling really starved for affection and attention and your Akela was really skilled at groomership so it didn't really feel like a bad thing at the time but it made it harder developing the heterosexual relationships wanted later
Ive had some outstanding memories in the scouts. One of our biggest Troop's sponsorer was with the 101st Airborne Division. Our Troop leader was a former first Sergeant with the unit. He had a little bit of pull and would get us onto Fort Campbell at least twice a year. In 2005 my troop did PT, a ruck march and a conference obstacles course all in the same weekend and all alongside Paratroopers. We also got to play as Hajis or OP40 as the enemy in paintball games to train the paras for an upcoming deployment. They give us a senario like an ambush react to fire then shoot and move.
Scouts to me was badass. But as the warning in small font at the very bottom of your handbook reads: "Your experience my vary." Sorry to you cats out there that got fricked by shitty leadership drenched in nepotism and coruption. I came face to face with that as an asst. Scout master in 2014 and squared off with an absolute bastard who still goes around badmouthing me to this day because i caught him cooking the books on our troop funds. Only he and I had access to the account, and bank records show his card used to withdraw the funds.
Just sad how fast it all went downhill. But after that experience scouts just had a bad taste in my mouth. Damn shame.
My grandfather was permanently disabled because of the scouts. Some kid knocked him to the ground with a ball, he hit his head on a rock and his ear was filled with dirt. Instead of taking him to the hospital, they straight up left him in their camp infirmary for three days, and his parents only found out when they went to go and get him on the last day of camp. They arrived to find him in a near comatose state. Rush to the hospital, turns out if they had brought him in when it happened they could have potentially caught whatever bacterial or viral infection he got from the dirt going in his ear.
But, nope, the Scouts didn't do that. They conveniently include in their fine prints that you cannot sue the BSA organization, but only the scout master of the group any boy is in that gets injured. Being poor and extremely religious, my family decided to not ruin that man's life, and NOTHING happened. They received no help from the BSA at all, not even an apology.
Back then, they didn't have the support systems needed for people with severe, life-altering disabilities. Can you imagine being a normal boy for 11 years, and then all of a sudden becoming a *complete* cripple?
His dad tied him to a tree and gently threw balls at him in order to get him to raise his arms and use his legs as a make-shift form of physical therapy. It's fricked up, because he's the best guy I've ever met. A literal saint in human form.
Quit crying gay it made him a man
Well he ended up fine if he then managed to get some pussy and have children
> His dad tied him to a tree and gently threw balls at him in order to get him to raise his arms and use his legs as a make-shift form of physical therapy.
lmaoooo
>projectile-aided physical therapy
"I dodged bullets on the beach at Normandy, you can stand to dodge a baseball"
Made it to Eagle along with 6 or 7 others my age and have unfortunately lost contact with most of them. I miss the scouting days and got out in the last year or two before everything went to absolute shit due to letting women & homosexuals in. Got to do some of the 100 year anniversary merit badges such as tracking & signaling and those were amazing along with the Radio merit badge and Order of the Arrow.
CAN SOMEONE TELL JP MORGAN TO FRICK OFF???!!!!!!11
Nah I was in the scouts as a kid. Early 90s.