Scouts...
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fossyant
Ride It Like You Stole It!
- Location
- South Manchester
God you must have been bad.
HLaB
Marie Attoinette Fan
I enjoyed the Beavers and the Cubs, didn't enjoy the Scouts though and never lasted long there. A few years later one of my friends joined the ATC and I ended up there.
deptfordmarmoset
Full time tea drinker
- Location
- Armonmy Way
I got lynched by a pack of cubs for squeaking my shoes during the lord's prayer. My irreverence started early. Still, it was enlightening to get beaten up by Christians.
I was up in Leeds at the time. We didn't have woggles, we had toggles, possibly turned from teak. Where is the woggle/toggle boundary?
oldfatfool
Guru
Never got past cubs,then somehow got roped into being a venture leader for about 10 years.
Vapin' Joe
Formerly known as Smokin Joe
- Location
- Bare headed cyclist, Smoker
Hitler Youth.
Headgardener
Armchair Cyclist
I was a Wolfcub for about five months then a Cubscout with the 8th Bewdley pack, then for about two years as an aircub with the 21st Kidderminster pack. After moving down south I became to old for cubs and a major operation meant I didn't join the 23rd Romsey scout troop until I was about 12/13. Left after about two years as the District Commissioner upset my dad over leadership training.
Fastforward 35 years and I am an Officer with the 1st Hythe Company of the Boy's Brigade and last year recieved my 20 year badge.
Fastforward 35 years and I am an Officer with the 1st Hythe Company of the Boy's Brigade and last year recieved my 20 year badge.
Titan yer tummy
No meatings b4 dinner!
- Location
- Beckenham, SE London
Wolf cub. Seconder then sixer brilliant loved it. Akela was a fantastic woman called Mrs Jacobs. My dad told me recently she went on to become a commissioner of scouting of some sort.
Took the leaping Wolf into scouts but I think by that time I had been spoiled by the cubs. I didn't really like the scouts too much. In those days we wore the Baden Powell brimmed hat. Funnily enough I was at a dinner recently and found myself sat next to Micheal Baden-Powell, the great mans son or grandson I can't remember; he was in his seventies so probably grandson now I think about it.
It is great shame that the reputation of the scouting movement has become tarnished in recent times by the unpleasant activities of a minority.
Great organisation, very international too.
Took the leaping Wolf into scouts but I think by that time I had been spoiled by the cubs. I didn't really like the scouts too much. In those days we wore the Baden Powell brimmed hat. Funnily enough I was at a dinner recently and found myself sat next to Micheal Baden-Powell, the great mans son or grandson I can't remember; he was in his seventies so probably grandson now I think about it.
It is great shame that the reputation of the scouting movement has become tarnished in recent times by the unpleasant activities of a minority.
Great organisation, very international too.
Grizzly
Well-Known Member
- Location
- East Kilbride
I've enjoyed the beavers also, my kids have all been in them. Was a cub then scout myself and got my cycling badge, turned up with a frame and wheels with the rest of the bike in a bag. Got it built though and the fun is still going.
I was in the Boys Brigade (or the Christian wing of the waffen SS, as we wittily called it) since they had a good footie team. I left when they said, if I wanted to start an atheist offshoot, it wasn't compatible to the ethos .
I always assumed that the Scouts weren't quite as religious?
I always assumed that the Scouts weren't quite as religious?
Gareth
Guru
- Location
- Norwich, Norfolk, UK
4th Melton Mowbaray. Darwin troop: Cubs, Scouts & Venture Scouts
mcshroom
Bionic Subsonic
- Location
- Egremont, Cumbria
Cub - 15th Rotherham (St. Pauls) - closed
Scout - 46th Rotherham
Venture - 30th Rotherham Pioneer, then Titan VSU (Rotherham) afetr they alamgamated
Network - South Yorkshire
SSAGO* - Sheffield StinGS, National Publicity Officer 2004-5
ACSL** - 46th Rotherham ,then 17th Erith (GLSE), 99th Reading and currently
Cub Scout Leader - 1st Gosforth (Western Lakes)
Also went to the 19th World Scout Jamboree in Chile in 1999
I'd say I have had a passing involvement in the movement
* Student Scout and Guide Organisation
** Assistant Cub Scout Leader
Scout - 46th Rotherham
Venture - 30th Rotherham Pioneer, then Titan VSU (Rotherham) afetr they alamgamated
Network - South Yorkshire
SSAGO* - Sheffield StinGS, National Publicity Officer 2004-5
ACSL** - 46th Rotherham ,then 17th Erith (GLSE), 99th Reading and currently
Cub Scout Leader - 1st Gosforth (Western Lakes)
Also went to the 19th World Scout Jamboree in Chile in 1999
I'd say I have had a passing involvement in the movement
* Student Scout and Guide Organisation
** Assistant Cub Scout Leader