NationStates Jolt Archive

I know I made this same topic a while back, but as time goes on people leave, people change as well as ideas. So I'm asking again these following questions:


Is any one here a scout
Any eagle acouts (or state other rank)
personal thoughts on the scouting program
Are you in the Order of the Arrow(if u are in BSA)
Any special memories of your time in the scouts


i know there was a thread not too long ago where someone asked what the scouts has done thats been important. Well i have answer, the Order of the Arrow(BSA's natinal honor scocioty) had somthing called ArrowCorps5. like half a million scouts converged on five different natinal parks to do work clearing invasive species and make trails and such. that is just one of the many things that the boys scouts are doing in this day and age.

me personally, i got my eagle scout last year, and looking back i should have gotten it sooner so i could get some of the eagle palms. i am the chapter chief for the local OA chapter. my troop totally kicks ass. we domiate any and all competitions ever.

so feel free to post away

They also sell chocolate covered popcorn.

i suppose it may be mostly harmless at the cub and bluebird levels,
(which ought to be combined and made co-ed anyway.
and get rid of that damd christer pseudomorality nonsense),

but i wouldn't recommend pursuit of merit badges other then in model railroading and backpacking.

(unless they've got one for creating websites now)

I am an Eagle Scout, I am also an ordeal member of the OA (never advanced far in that). After I earned my Eagle, I was an Assistant Scout Master for a while until I entered college and didn't have time for the BSA anymore. I feel that the BSA helps instill a wide range of practical skills and knowledge regarding survival, first aid, safety and other subjects.

As for a personal experience, when I was taking part in a week long leadership training camp out, somehow a can of tomato sauce ended up in our camp fire. One minute we are enjoying the fire and the night air, the next minute the can explodes. Needless to say, the adult leader was pretty angry at our patrol. I can say that I didn't put the can in the fire, but patrols were punished collectively. That event developed some notoriety in my district.

aren't they part of the illuminatus conspiracy too?

I am an Eagle Scout, I am also an ordeal member of the OA (never advanced far in that). After I earned my Eagle, I was an Assistant Scout Master for a while until I entered college and didn't have time for the BSA anymore. I feel that the BSA helps instill a wide range of practical skills and knowledge regarding survival, first aid, safety and other subjects.

As for a personal experience, when I was taking part in a week long leadership training camp out, somehow a can of tomato sauce ended up in our camp fire. One minute we are enjoying the fire and the night air, the next minute the can explodes. Needless to say, the adult leader was pretty angry at our patrol. I can say that I didn't put the can in the fire, but patrols were punished collectively. That event developed some notoriety in my district.

Wow. How could that have happened? *whistles innocently*

No I'm not a scout... I figured if i was going to help old ladies across the street I wasn't going to do it in that ridiculous getup.

I was simply a Scout but then being in Australia we do have different names Joey's for those under 7, Cub Scouts 7-11, Scouts12-15 and Venturers 15-18. Make that of what you will. I was in Joey's, Cubs and Scouts leaving at the age of 13 simply got bored with it really. I got plenty of badges got promoted to sixer in the Cubs git a few pieces of coloured rope to hang around my shoulder and that was about it.

As for a personal experience, when I was taking part in a week long leadership training camp out, somehow a can of tomato sauce ended up in our camp fire. One minute we are enjoying the fire and the night air, the next minute the can explodes. Needless to say, the adult leader was pretty angry at our patrol. I can say that I didn't put the can in the fire, but patrols were punished collectively. That event developed some notoriety in my district.

You guys were weak, next time throw a can of deodorant in there, then you get to light the night sky. That is a memory, a few others I have of some decent times but nothing really special.

I was imagining this thread was going to be about a ship full of boy scouts being shipwrecked on a Scottish island.

I never liked joining anything that involved pledges and uniforms.

I was imagining this thread was going to be about a ship full of boy scouts being shipwrecked on a Scottish island.

I never liked joining anything that involved pledges and uniforms.

Dirty draft dodging hippy! Its cuz of people like you we lost in 'Nam

Eagle scout and ordeal OA here.

Eagle Scout with gold palm. Ordeal member of OoA. I love Scouting. I just was not the best at the knots though. It is a good program. I think of it as the thin khaki line keeping depravity at bay from completely overrunnung the values of all of our youth. That is probably way too much of a romantic way of looking at it but alas I am a romantic.

I was only a Wolf back in the day, but my son is about to complete Eagle.

I know I made this same topic a while back, but as time goes on people leave, people change as well as ideas. So I'm asking again these following questions:


Is any one here a scout
Any eagle acouts (or state other rank)
personal thoughts on the scouting program
Are you in the Order of the Arrow(if u are in BSA)
Any special memories of your time in the scouts
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1. I was 2. Got it in 2002 3. It teaches you valuable life and survival skills, but I do think that some of it's policies need to come out of the 1950s. 4. My troop nominated everyone but me. :( 5. Eh just the one time we were camping in the spring, and one of the guys put up green string for his clothes line. (yea, you see where this is going don't you?) For some reason one of the guys started chasing him, or they started running around and he got clothed line by his own clothes line.

i know there was a thread not too long ago where someone asked what the scouts has done thats been important. Well i have answer, the Order of the Arrow(BSA's natinal honor scocioty) had somthing called ArrowCorps5. like half a million scouts converged on five different natinal parks to do work clearing invasive species and make trails and such. that is just one of the many things that the boys scouts are doing in this day and age.

Maybe I didn't miss too much of the Order of the Arrow then.

me personally, i got my eagle scout last year, and looking back i should have gotten it sooner so i could get some of the eagle palms. i am the chapter chief for the local OA chapter. my troop totally kicks ass. we domiate any and all competitions ever.

so feel free to post away

What is your troop # and state?

I dunno...bunch of teenage boys, alone in the woods, around a fire, with an older male "role model"? Seems kinda gay.

i was a cub scout all the way through, but i only stayed in boy scouts for about a year. after that they started pressuring me to complete various badges and shit. man, i was just there for the monthly camping trips.

I was a brownie, got kicked out for fighting. I went on to Campfire and did really well. I was in the Boy Scouts explorer program when I was in high school. It was pretty awesome.

You guys were weak, next time throw a can of deodorant in there, then you get to light the night sky. That is a memory, a few others I have of some decent times but nothing really special.

Well that brings back a few memories, one time we chucked two in just to see which one would go first. Since our leaders were off getting a BBQ, another woman came rushing over and started yelling. We just said it was a kid who had come through.

Eagle Scout.

I went through until Eagle Scout ... I became involved in other organized group activities which turned out to interest me more

Personally the value in the scouts was simply group activity doing interesting things with kids my age, I did not find anything special with their moralistic preachings nor their overly elaborate sometimes unspoken code that seemed to permeate the scout troupe that I was in

In the end if there was another group that let me hang out with kids and camp that would have been just as good to me

Eagle Scout with gold palm. Ordeal member of OoA. I love Scouting. I just was not the best at the knots though. It is a good program. I think of it as the thin khaki line keeping depravity at bay from completely overrunnung the values of all of our youth. That is probably way too much of a romantic way of looking at it but alas I am a romantic.

What kind of drug cocktail are you on? Please, I want to know how to make it.

I was a beaver from as old as I could join and jacked it all in when I went up a level to cubs which was shite (btw I'm good friends with a girl who did all that crap with the guys because girls suck)

as for now well anyone over the age of 12 here is either an army or sea cadet which means wearing their gash kit around in town centre on a Saturday putting me in an early grave due to anger issues :mad:

What kind of drug cocktail are you on? Please, I want to know how to make it.

oh hush its a bunch of kids going out to do some shit rather than kicking bins in on a Saturday or whatever kids do these days

What is your troop # and state?

i'm from the mt baker council in Washington. i'm assosiated with my troop and a venture crew.

i remember one time at a camporee we were sharing a campsite with another troop. i was in one of the tent frames boiling water for dinner. then i hear some yellinhg from the other troop. one of the scout desicides to put an unopened can of beans IN the fire. then wtach directly over it.

In the end if there was another group that let me hang out with kids and camp that would have been just as good to me

which is partially why i wound up getting more involved with the rock climbing program at the y

than kicking bins in on a Saturday or whatever kids do these days

Thats not the comment that bothered me. His "thin line between moral depravity" bit did.

Life scout. Going for Eagle.

Not an OA member: too much with my other commitments.

I think it helps instill community/service-oriented values in kids, and the camping is lots of fun.

I just went to Philmont this past summer, and the whole thing was unforgettable. That is my best experience so far.

I dunno...bunch of teenage boys, alone in the woods, around a fire, with an older male "role model"? Seems kinda gay.

Somethin wrong with that, Neo?

Regardless our Scout group had girls in it as well, sounds kinda hot.

Canadian Queen's Scout and Venturer.

And Blouman, we totally allowed girls in our troop. In a completely unrelated matter, I'm very skilled with knots.

Canadian Queen's Scout and Venturer.

And Blouman, we totally allowed girls in our troop. In a completely unrelated matter, I'm very skilled with knots.

Queen's Scout? *snickers*

Queen's Scout? *snickers*

Laugh if you like, I got academic considerations and the respect of my province and country out of it. Oh, and the part about the knots again too.

Laugh if you like, I got academic considerations and the respect of my province and country out of it. Oh, and the part about the knots again too.

I'm sorry, I just got the image of an entire troop looking fabulous!

http://gothamist.com/images/2004_01_queereye.jpg

:D

Laugh if you like, I got academic considerations and the respect of my province and country out of it. Oh, and the part about the knots again too.

one thing I always wanted to know is to how to tie ropes better...

......what?

one thing I always wanted to know is to how to tie ropes better...

......what?

Handcuffs are better.

Handcuffs are better.

no, not really. For several reasons actually.

Handcuffs are better.

The lazy man's encounter, that.

no, not really. For several reasons actually.

Well it depends on what you're going for really. I mean if you want your victim to struggle some, then yea rope is the way to go. However, if you want to immobilize them, then handcuffs.

What?

This thread sounds like an erotic website.

Well it depends on what you're going for really. I mean if you want your victim to struggle some, then yea rope is the way to go. However, if you want to immobilize them, then handcuffs.

What?

1) first off, don't use the term "victim". It's insulting, and not just a little bit sketchy. It also makes you look like a poser

2) again, no. Not at all.

1) first off, don't use the term "victim". It's insulting, and not just a little bit sketchy. It also makes you look like a poser

2) again, no. Not at all.

We're talking about BDSM? Oh...

You people take what I say way too seriously sometimes.

This thread sounds like an erotic website.

YOU'RE an erotic website.

We're talking about BDSM? Oh...

You people take what I say way too seriously sometimes.

remember that whole "makes you look like a poser" bit?

remember that whole "makes you look like a poser" bit?

Since when do I care about what I look like?

And Blouman, we totally allowed girls in our troop. In a completely unrelated matter, I'm very skilled with knots.

It was great wasn't it, I loved it even more when they were the ones doing the cooking :p I am sure they loved it when we were the ones making the tents and cleaning up their mess.