[neo_hermes]

your probably right

[Unknown Target]

...I think a weblo is a type of corn...

[Bobboau]

isn't it a type of burowing insect?

[Stryke 9]

That's a weevil.


And Webelos is like a slang term for "homosexual". It means you're almost as much a loser as the Eagle Scouts are, but unlike them you never have to dress up in "indian" costumes and prance around pretending to be some mythic figure in front of four dozen fifteen-year-olds.

I was lucky, I stopped just short of that. Enough rank that I could push other kids around (never mind that I was bigger than most of them, and quick with the sharp objects), but not enough that I had to be involved in any of the lameass "rituals" the no-life 40-year-old scoutmasters thought up.

[YodaSean]

You must be pretty good at scouts.  I couldn't make it past the first rank; all the other scouts laughed at me because I couldn't remember the various scout mottos and pledges

[Kamikaze]

Heh, I never memorized the stuff I was supposed to, didn't get to the first rank either. My time's better spent now.

[Starks]

More like we blow... Scouts really did blow for me. ROT IN HELL WILLIAM BOYCE!

[Stryke 9]

The way we did it, all you had to mumble to the tune and look like you knew what you were doing. The real necessary skills we needed were in starting fires (which I suck at, but still...), walking long distances, making weapons out of random equipment, and being able to be out in the rain or whatever for hours on end without sniveling like it was the end of the world.

Honestly, I can't believe kids these days. What pansies.

[Starks]

Boot camp is the way to go... A few reasons why.

1) Don't ask! Don't tell! Means you don't get gang raped.

2) No flower picking.

3) You get a badge for good marksmanship.

4) Your superiors are not repeat sex offenders (Hopefully).

[Stryke 9]

You also can't drop out, and you get court-martialed for mugging the smaller recruits. Never mind it's the ****ing Army.

[Tar-Palantir]

When I was one, ours was a light blue. Apparently that's because we were on an RAF airfield. Course the airfield had closed several years earlier but never mind.

[Petrarch of the VBB]

Christ you lot are abit fanatical!

Thunder, how could you stand to remain in the Scouts for long on without getting **** off everyone?

[Kamikaze]

heh. Hey in the UK does scouting have a distinctly religious (christianity) bias? My troop was majorly religious (i.e. I was the only agnostic) and that kinda annoyed me. They were all like "YOU'RE NOT CHRISTIAN!?", some of the people had a distinct hostility 'cause of that.

[Darkage]

I am happy i never did join any of these weird things. I always thought it was gay, how mind raped can you be if you walk around dressed up in a indian outfit!...

[Fineus]

Originally posted by Petrarch of the VBB
Thunder, how could you stand to remain in the Scouts for long on without getting **** off everyone?

Simple, I didn't tell anyone that didn't ask. I do realise the stigma that went with Scouts but given that I held a position of power within it for most of the time and there were also girls in the troop, it was far less a "follow the rules and tie knots" fest that it typically is. I got lucky though, I realise how it could've been.

Edit: and Kamikaze, our troop wasn't really religious, yeah we did the St Georges day and other Christian festivles but most of the actual scouts weren't religious and I sure as hell wasn't a part of it for that - it was just something to be done a bit every year. Yeah, there was respect to the Queen and what have you - at the time I couldn't see why we did that either but it was all a small price compared to the fun I had there.

[Petrarch of the VBB]

Originally posted by Kamikaze
heh. Hey in the UK does scouting have a distinctly religious (christianity) bias? My troop was majorly religious (i.e. I was the only agnostic) and that kinda annoyed me. They were all like "YOU'RE NOT CHRISTIAN!?", some of the people had a distinct hostility 'cause of that.

There's a slight Christian Bias to it, but it's more country-orientated, so allegience to Britain, rather than to Christianity. Unlike what I heard from the US scouts, where one guy was forced to leave scouts for refusing to denounce his atheism.

And Thunder, you had girls in the troop?!? Lucky bastard! The closest we ever came was the Guides at St. Georges day, and they tended to be ugly as sin.
When I was in the Cubs I held a posistion of power, as I was about 6 months late in moving form Cubs to Scouts, and so me and another guy became sort of Uber-Sixers, with absolute power and control over the rest of the group.
It got complicated, at the same time i was due to move form Cubs to Scouts, the group where I went was being wound up due to lack of leaders, and we were having to move to another, nearby, group. This meant that I was majorly delayed in making the transisition. I left soon after, as the new group was ****. All we ever did was play that crap hockey with the red and yellow plastic sticks.

BTW, neckers rule! I've been wearing mine in place of the school tie today. speaking of which...

[Grey Wolf]

I've gotten up to Life. Troop didn't use to be that bad, but since me and one of my friends are about 2 years older than everyone else, it's gotten kind of boring. Just going to finish my last merit badge, get Eagle, and leave.

BTW, it's the Order of the Arrow that does the strange Indian dances, not the Eagle Scouts. The Eagle Scouts just drop out after getting the rank, since it's the highest rank.

[Stryke 9]

Grey Wolf: Nah, I was one, I think. Didn't have to do ****.

Petrarch: Wah wah wah. You don't actually read much, do you? Most of us bear a hatred for boy scouting that could only be gotten from having been subjected to it.

[Grey Wolf]

I thought it was some stupid optional thing
Or at least something vaguely associated with Order of the Arrow. Sure as hell isn't Eagle Scouts....

BTW, as a note, the primary occupation in my troop before all the older kids dropped out was actually Magic: The Gathering
Quite strange, huh?

[Stryke 9]

Not really. All the scouts who weren't into burning/beating stuff and attempting to sodomize each other- or the whole outdoor thing at all, really- at the big camp meets where I went would gather around and play Magic. Dozens upon dozens of barely postpubescent nerds, out in some shanty in the forest, having their half-orcs beat all hell out of elf archers. Quite surreal, actually. Sometimes I watched- never got what the hell the point was, or really what the rules were, but the pictures were kinda cool.