What are /pol/'s thoughts on the Boy Scouts?
Honorable young men's organization?
Jewish child rape cult?
Hitler Youth 2.0?
>>73795047
I was in boy scouts it was kinda fun but the year after I left the new scout master got kicked out for letting one kid molest another
>>73795047
*touches penis*
Eagle Scout here. Wish I had gotten my palms since they're such a rarity. Did Philmont, was awesome. Probably will make my kids do Venture Scouts, since it's more focused on outdoors stuff.
Km sure it's only a matter of time until they start letting women who "identify as men" in
Canadian scout here. Been in it since I was a kid. Still in it today at 21 as a Rover, at this point all I do are some volunteer camps occasionally and a bunch of hang out camps with my buddies.
Most, if not all of the guys I met in scouting are redpilled.
As an Eagle Scout, I believe it has helped me get scholarships for college I wouldn't have gotten otherwise. Plus some cool campus, met some cool people from across the country, and our fair share of drama (elder scout leader pulled a Sandusky). It's changed quite a bit since I was last in it. I'd rank it 15/19
There actually isn't as much child rape as you would think. However it is a place that allows and somewhat encourages young boys to sexually experiment with each other. Especially when you get into the higher scout ranks like Eagle Scouts, young men spend large amounts of time alone together in the woods and in small cabins, with no female contact or legitimate authority figures keeping them in check.
Eagle scout here. I didn't get touched inappropriately.
>>73795047
i've been a boy scout for over 20 years now.
best idea of my life to join. it has taught me a lot about nature, teamwork, caring for yourself and working hard to achieve my goals.
had a shitload of fun doing it, made friendships that last to this day and had a lot of steamy action with girls in camps. and at the age of 16: booze, a lot of booze,
never been molested by my leaders and although my troop is "christian" on paper we never go to church or shit.
then again, scouts in my home country are pretty chill and not very ideological
i've heard a lot about the boy scouts of america being a pretty cultish thing and hardcore christian, like not letting gays in and shit, care to elaborate OP?
>>73799149
>I believe it has helped me get scholarships for college I wouldn't have gotten otherwise.
being a scout significantly boosts your resumee.
my boss told me that scouting to him means that one is organized and disciplined, a quality every boss wants in his employe and apparently that made him choose me and not the other wankers that applied for the job...
i smile a lot when i think of all the "cool" kids who called me a faggot for being a scout and are now NEETs
>>73799335
Boy scouts of america are run by Mormans. The more you know
Scouting was the best decision I ever made
I left once I had to switch to the "adult" age-group as they seemed to do nothing but jerk around and screw with the younger scouts
>>73799751
A good service project adds a little more icing to the cake. Plus I get a cool id card.
>>73795047
Eagle Scout.
I had a good time, no scoutmasters were creepy or anything, and we were a big troop of like 80 kids, so a ton of moms and dads were involved.
My only complaint was the number of autistic people who were involved. Throughout my 7 years with the troop, there were maybe 5 I can remember. One aspie actually did get kicked out for taking pictures on a disposable camera of some of the other boys while they were changing in a cabin at summer camp.
>>73799851
really?
man... i wonder what lord B.P. would have to say about this. Certainly a British gentleman wouldn't aprove of filthy american religious fanatics running his paramilitary organization...
>>73799851
It's not like it's officially run by them, more like de facto by the sheer number of mormons involved. There's nothing in Scouting itself that correlated directly with LDS, thank God.
>>73799990
>they seemed to do nothing but jerk around and screw with the younger scouts
nah, come on. i've been jerked around by the older scouts and i think that was more character building than anything else. our leaders encouraged us to fight back and even hazed us themsleves just to get us to stand up for ourselves.
but of course by today's standards that would have been called bullying and systematic emotional abuse...
>>73795047
I learned a lot becoming an Eagle Scout, most of what I learned has enabled me to be a sneaky degenerate who skirts the law.
>>73800101
>My only complaint was the number of autistic people who were involved.
that is a bit of a problem for charitable organizations like the scouts. you cant just kick someone out for being weird or even autistic. i had some hardcore aspies in my troop too but you just have to drag them along. you wouldnt want to be that guy who kicked an assburger out of your troop simply because he's weird, imagine the shitstorm. so scout troops become a sort of safe haven for social outcasts, every troop i know has some weird guy in it. but also, most of these guys are quite alright, weird yes, but also pretty harmless and only want to do stuff... i'm cool with that.
although, another group in my city had a guy who always shat his pants and never wiped. it's the only guy i know who has been bullied out of a scout troop... but come on, not wiping your ass is against scout law, so fuck that guy...
Relatively new Eagle here. Had my Court of Honor about a week before my 18th birthday (a month ago). Been in scouting for 8 years now. We started in Cub Scouts with about 15-25 boys and in the end, only 3 became Eagle scouts, I was the last one.
>>73801569
Congrats anon!
>>73795047
Eagle here.
"Pedo scoutmaster" is an ebic maymay. Scouting is probably one of the best things you can enroll your wife's son into during development since it builds character and forces them to socialize.
>>73795047
I was in it. Waste of time. I learned more from playing video games. I would've been better of learning career skills than being pushed into this crap.
>>73795047
I'm an eagle scout. It taught me a lot of survival skills I wouldn't have learned otherwise as a city boy. Also philmont was pretty great. Racing with donkeys at 10k feet was some off the most fun I've ever had.
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>>73802105
>Also philmont was pretty great
what is this philomt you're all talking about?
>>73799851
They're more a shadow government that do shit that never actually affect troops
>>73802300
Big scouting ranch in New Mexico
It's basically a summer camp where you backpack to each activity for two weeks
Lot of fun for older boys
Going back there this summer as an adult leader/older scout since they raise the age range a bit
>>73802300
A huge ranch in the northern New Mexico. (Southern rocky mountain range). It's kind of like the shooting Mecca of the USA. You backpack around 150 miles over 14 days. It's pretty rugged and grueling at times. It's all high altitude but it's absolutely beautiful country and every few days you would set up near a ranger outpost and the rangers would have activities to do (shooting, rock climbing, you congress trees like the lumberjacks of old) all kinds of stuff.
>>73802876
> shooting mecca
Scouting*
>>73802564
>>73802876
moooooaaaaaaahhh
i just watched their promo video on youtube... holy fuck i want to go there. it look slike so much fun
but also: jesus christ america: the first couple of seconds into the video and there is a guy with a gun. what the hell, america? i love you guys... and also the "shooting mecca" typo isnt perhaps a typo at all
>>73802995
Oh in America. scouts we do a lot of shooting
It's actually pretty tame compared to our recreational shooting as the higher ups put a lot of regulation on what we can shoot
But still shooting is a big part and if you ever come over you should try it, it's fun!
>>73803190
American scouts*
Damn phone
>>73795047
I'm am eagle scout
Bad is in all organizations. Id like to be a scout master teaching kids outdoor skills and encourage outdoor activities instead of constant neet lifestyle stuff
>>73800101
My scoutmaster hated the autistic kids as much as we did, and looked the other way while we did retarded shit like piss on their tents or dump half a bottle of hot sauce on their food. Eventually they would ragequit. I don't think any of them lasted more than a year
>>73800260
Except the money. Mormon church s BY FAR the largest donor to national and also to most local councils.
>>73802995
Guns skills are needed here man. When I went there we hung up our food in between two trees like 25 feet up. We woke to a bear that had been harassing us all night in one of the trees. The crazy fucker jumped and swiped open one of the bags. We chased him off but he made off with some pepto. We heard a few days later that that bear ended up dragging a kid out of his tent and had to be hunted down.
>>73795047
An introduction to freemasonry.
>>73801811
Thanks :^]
>>73803478
Fucking bears man
At least they're not as bad as minny bears
They'll fuck you up
>>73803190
i always regretted that they didnt teach me how to fire a gun. it's a skill i consider essential
>>73803478
yeah i agree with you but the video is just so clichée american:
>here's a promo vid about our scouting ranch
>first second of the clip: here's a dude with a gun
>'murica land of the free, home of the brave
talk about perpetuationg a stereotype
>>73803829
That's a stereotype I don't mind
Yee-Haw!
>>73803829
White America embodies that stereotype. It's kind of dying with the mass influx of spics though, at least in the west. Spics aren't mountainmen.
Made it to eagle
Had to pretend to be religious several times because agnostic family
Lots of cool backpacking and white water rafting though senpai
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>>73799149
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>>73800101
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>>73801931
>>73802105
>>73803251
There's no fucking way all of you are Eagle Scouts
>>73803939
>>73804023
i dont really understand why that stereotype has such a negative connotation, i've been to the US several times and those white middle class gun nuts were all pretty decent people i'd let them take my kids to scout camp
>>73804148
why not? or is the eagle scouts such an exclusive club?
>>73804148
Scouting is pretty /pol/.
>>73804447
Its not particularly common
About 5 percent of Scouts make it to Eagle.
>>73804148
Most Boy Scouts who put effort into it get to eagle, it's not all that difficult
But it is interesting how a lot of us are eagles here
>>73804502
i just read about eagle scouts on wikipedia, never heard of it before.
i have to say, that is some elite shit... i am somewhat jealous
>>73804494
We posting cards?
>>73804686
Do you guys not have ranks in Germany?
>>73804148
It's not that hard to get and I'm not digging through a trunk of shit to get the proof out. My Eagle Scout project was literally painting parking lines in a parking lot.
>>73804781
i dont know about the german stuff, i'm from luxembourg, i'm just here in germany stealing a job from hans. i've stayed true to my home troop in luxembourg and never joined a german troop.
but in luxembourg there are no real ranks, of course you move to other troops ( cubs, explorers, pionieers and rovers) with your age and you have merit badges but nothing of the sort of eagle scouts. there is nothing like a final objective or highest rank to reach.
however at the beginning of each year, every troop divides its members up in different platoons and one scout is the platoon leader, but that position is not based on skill rather everyone gets a turn in order to learn valuable leader skills.
also you can swear an oath on your troops flag and get a badge for that, it means that you take your shit super seriously and are fully committed to the cause, but that's about it, there are no "elite" scouts in luxembourg
I didn't join because my family moved often (dad was military) but I've considered letting my kids join when they are old enough. I've heard mostly positives from old boy scouts but I don't know if modern scouts are any good. To anyone who was in it, would you let your kids join? Why or why not? I have also considered girl scouts for my girls, but I know virtually nothing about it.
>>73805485
It all depends on the troop
Some troops are good while others are bad
Look at the kids and see if they're the kind of kids that you want hanging around and influencing your kids
Look at their itinerary too and see if it has good outdoor activities and not just soccer mom shit
My sisters were in Girl Scouts but they never really did anything so I might be a bit biased but it always seemed like pussy shit to me
>>73805485
>I have also considered girl scouts for my girls,
look here burger... do oyu want them cookies or not? having your girls in the girl scouts means unlimited access to the dough... be smart... send your girls to the girl scouts
>>73805485
If the troop is good and I have time to volunteer as an adult yes. If the leadership is mediocre I could at least help my son out.
>>73805485
My sons will join. I guess it would depend on the troop as it is really only as good as the leaders but its goal is basically to help mold a boy into a mask, godly man. Teaches survival skills, personal responsibility, leadership skills, makes sure your kid isn't a video game obsessed neet. Plus a huge array of merit badges that let you do all kinds of cool shit. I piloted a glider when I was 15 for my aviation badge.
Girl scouts is a meme. Just another social group really. Might be good though.
>>73805938
> mask
Moral*
cub scouts only. did not enjoy the patch earning, felt pointless. enjoyed den meetings, or whatever they're called, the group gettogethers once a week. lax den mothers, video games, food, sort of mini-birthday parties once a week. would have continued but there was some sort of patch requirement to advance and i never passed it, wasnt even close.
>>73805377
This is really surprising anon, when I was at the international jamboree back in 2011 there was basically a rank equivalent for Eagle scout with all the other national scouting organizations. Britbongs had Queens Scout, Japs had the Fuji Scout, hell even the poo in loos had a President's Scout.
>>73806012
Weird, I despised cub scouts but loved Boy Scouts
The again my den never did any camping and I love camping
You were not a real scout if you dont remember selling shit tons of this crap
>>73806194
Fucking scout-o-rama
Got sick of selling that shit once I got to second class
It was either that or coupon books
>>73806194
>harrasing people in front of the grocery store for 8 hours
>>73806172
well same here, might have liked it if we actually did outdoors stuff. was active outdoors each weekend with my dad and brothers, fishing and hiking. all i recall cub scouts being is den meetings then once a month or something all the dens congregated at the local school, sometimes contests like wooden car races.
>>73805938
i know this sounds autitstic but i've told everyone of my girlfriends that our kids will join the scouts. end of discussion. my offspring will join the movement for all the reasons you mentioned and this is not negotiable.
one of my gf told me: well anon i'm not so sure about that.
dumped her fucking ass immediately
>>73806040
well there is something close to eagle scouts i guess, once you got all your merit badges you can complete one large extra project and you'll get a special badge, but that's all. no new name or rank, just one fancy badge without much addo about it. perhaps that is the idea of an eagle scout but we dont really liv eup to it. idk
>>73805706
Don't cub scouts start at 6-7 years old? I'm not sure how well I can gauge kids' personalities at that age. I'll probably consider putting them in and just taking them out if shit hits the fan.
>>73805938
>>73805938
I was in the scouts. Made it to Star, nearly Life. Now I'm in College, but I'm basically a video game obsessed NEET. Nothing about the Scouts says you won't become a loser, it's just a bit less likely.
>>73795047
>christian association, somehow jewish rape cult
yeah sure why not
>>73806287
>>73806483
Yeah but if you sold enough you were set. I ususally did door to door, but one year before i got my first pt job i stood outside a stop n shop.
I was a scout until I was 13, scout master wasn't a pedo, but the whole troop leadership was shady as fuck. They waved requirements to advance, and pushed their own kids through so they could get eagle. Kept others back, despite being qualified for a new rank. 6 months after I left they had their charter revoked.
>>73806573
Cub scouts isn't all that fun honestly and doesn't really matter where you go, it's likely to be shit
My parents had to force me through cub scouts to get to Boy Scouts and that's when selection actually matters
Never really looked into skipping cub scouts but you'd have to do research and see if you do want to push your kid through it
>>73802995
Knowing how to kill animals that are trying to kill you is perhaps the most important survival skill.
>>73806554
>once you got all your merit badges you can complete one large extra project and you'll get a special badge
Thats basically what eagle scout is. Maybe you guys just had less pomp and ceremony about it.
But yeah definitely get your kids into scouting and make sure they do it all the way. Its basically a shoe in for college applications.
>>73807010
oh... so i guess i had the wrong idea, everything i read about it so far made it look like a really officially bad ass challenge with lots of waving flags and standing ovations from everyone.
back in lux. it was more like:
-hey guys, look i got my brevet (that's what we call it)
-oh nice, good for you
and that's about it. the way they teach us scouting back home is perhaps different than in the us. it's not important if that you get all the badges, the most important thing is to do your part and try to learn and grow in the process. badges are just nice things to pin on your chest but it doesnt really matter, the experience and learning is what counts, so even though we collected a shitload of badges the number of them didnt elevate you to something special... (writing this i ask myself, have communists infiltrated luxembourgish scouts?)
>>73807672
Well yeah everybody does it different in a way. We get a little ceremony which is more like an informal brunch. Speeches are read. Local organizations give out little placques and shit, etc. Im told the Bongs have a similar thing.
The only difference for me was that we had 4 other guys besides me making Eagle Scout so we lumped it together into a masssive court of honor.
But yes generally speaking i have to agree with you, the experience and challenges of merit badges are the most rewarding. the thing is to get eagle you have to do 13 core required and an additional 21 merit badges alongside a project, a board of review, and alot of other miscallenia I forget now. (granted its been 5 years since I've seen my old troop)
>>73808308
>you have to do 13 core required and an additional 21 merit badges alongside a project, a board of review, and alot of other miscallenia
man, that sounds like a full tiem job. we had the understanding that you work on your badges during our meetings which was once a week and a 10 day camp in summer. so in the 3-4 years where you stayed in one troop (all age troopshave different badges) you could hardly do every badge let alone the brevet. also i could never have gotten my brevet because i absolutely refused to do anything to get my "religion" badge, so i would have never even been eligible to do the brevet
Eagle here, used to be better, but depending on the troop still very much worth it.
When did they switch from the Gold Eagle Scout cards to these skyline ones with the eagles?
I'm an 08 Eagle with a gold card.
>>73804148
>>73806194
My troop hated selling that shit, you don't even make that much. We did our own fundraising.
>>73798783
They already let girl into the scouts and the junior versions of the scouts here in the UK.
>Been doing scouts since 1st Grade
>Made good friends
>Went camping in awesome places
>Eagle Scout is a great resume booster
>Good values to follow
I liked it. I wouldn't really call it red-pilled or blue-pilled, that kind of depends on what troop you're in.
>>73808732
Its not as difficult as you think when you have years to bang it out. With us we had a few summer camps we went to every year, most guys would use the trip to knock out a slew of merit badges that they either needed or were cool and not normally ones you could do.
But yeah its nigh impossible to get every merit badge. Theres a few kids that have done it but they were really fuckin busy. We also have religious medals but I never bothered to get mine, the indian kid in our troop did but thats another story.
>>73810264
At best its heavily red pilled. At its worst, its not degenerate blue pilled.
>>73809670
You've been able to do that since the late 80s, it was never really an issue when I was in Scouts.
The reverse isn't true for the Guides however and any attempts to open that up quickly lead to shouts of 'GIRLS NEED A GIRL ONLY SPACE SHITLORD' from their bosses.
>>73810937
Well we seperated out scouting organizations for a good reason; teenage horomones. I fucked at least 3 different girls at the int jambo in sweden. (cant remember the rest after this polish kid had me do shots of Zubrowka with him)
>>73810292
>we had a few summer camps we went to every year,
do you usually go to specialised scouting camps?
most of our camps are done on some farmer's field where you only have the infrastructure you can bring along or build on site. just every couple of years we'd go to a jamboree or a scout center
>>73810937
we had the boy/girl seperation too. at one point we started to accept girls as well but the guides didnt let in boys. the guides ceased to exist after a year. i honestly think the seperation based on sex is bullshit. i learned how to interact with girls and they learned not to be the giant pussy ass drama queens they used to be
>>73806194
My troop had rummage sales that took way more effort then they were worth.
>>73811260
Oh aye, I'm well aware, the fucking was rampant, especially at the camps, my god.
I think that was actually kinda good though, it made us teenage boys actually learn to speak to women and they got to learn that axing down a tree and dragging them for half a mile wasn't beneath the.
>>73795047
Why can't it be all three?
>>73811478
Not necessarily specialized per se but most camps had specialty merit badges. The two main ones we went to were Camps Rodney and No-Be-Bo-Sco. Rodney was over on the Chesapeake Bay in Maryland and had alot of aquatic based merit badges that were hard to do elsewhere like Sailboating, Waterskiing, and Oceanography. No-Be on the other hand was a bit more generic but closer to home and pretty famous for being the place where they filmed the original Friday the 13th movie. The one saving grace it did have was Horsemanship due to a deal with a local stable but it cost extra.
As for the sex seperation thing you gotta understand because we're not as selective alot of those weird kids were more likely potential rapists if we ever lumped our scouting organizations together.
>>73811260
what's wrong with teenagers fucking each other? it's bound to happen no matter what you do.
we certainly dont encourage it but on every camp we go we have a box of condoms with us, put in a place where everyone can go take some if they want, with no one in sight and no questions asked. we tell our kids that if they really have to fuck that they should at least wear a condom. teens gonna fuck, get over it ;-)
i bet i wouldnt have all the fun i had, had i been in a boy only group
>>73812004
Had some great times at No-Be, I also grew up down the street from yawpaw and glen gray
>>73812363
Motherfucking Yaw Paw and Glen Gray? Shit son youre basically in my area. Where you from? Troop 138 represent.
Who OA here? And what was your induction challenge?
For those of you who don't know what the OA is. It stands for the Order of the Arrow. You have to do a whole bunch of shit to get into it. But for induction at summer camp, a bunch of the senior scouts dress up like Indians and kidnap you. Then you have a challenge that you and your other candidates have to do. For me I had to do roadwork. But you get a slice of bread for breakfast a slice of ham for lunch and dinner and the next day you get a four course meal and are inducted into the order. It's a lifetime thing and is pretty cool as a way to stay in scouting after you turn 18.
>>73812575
I was 133 in upper saddle river but then I moved to mahwah
>>73812050
>t. tanned german
>>73812004
>alot of those weird kids were more likely potential rapists
but if you never let them near girls they will never learn how to interact with them, they become even more sexually frustrated and will become rapists regardless
so why not give them at least a chance to learn a thing or two about girls.i've seen quite a few kids turning from outsider weird goofy kid into a respectable and sociable person
as for scouting centers i've been to kandersteg switzerland and gilwell park in north london. shit was cash but too much civilization for my taste. although those big international camps were the only ones where there was really a lot of fucking going on
and i have to admit gents, this is the most civilized discussion i had on /pol/ ever. thanks lads...
>>73812800
Wanted to get into it but it was basically like the country club around here, only the scoutmasters son got in because of the connections they had.
>>73812934
Nice.
>>73813166
source?
>>73795047
they love pedos and they love gays
0/10 would not enroll child
>>73813191
Hmm you do raise a good point anon. The only real hindrance to it from a logistical implementation perspective would be the resistance met from the real uptight types, nevermind the clusterfuck of reforming the rules and regulations.
But likewise Luxembourg-Anon, one of the most enlightened conversations I've ever had on /po/.
>>73812800
>>73813275
honestly guys, this sounds like some fascist militia shit. no offence
>>73813620
are your rules that rigid and do they get enforced?
here it's very casual, you have the basic principles of B.P. and for the rest you make up your mind as you go along, there is no rule book that you have to follow, it's more like a guideline. like i hold the teaching of how to survive in nature in very high regards whereas i almost completely disregard all the jesus loves you stuff. my kids still turned out alright, despite the fucking
>>73814239
It varies, again around by me it was basically like an oldboys club for the more connected scouting snobs.
>>73814239
Depends on the troop but the HQ High ups are very rigid about laws. Furthermore the organization as a whole went through a whole debacle of allowing gay scouts but not gay scout leaders. We lost some conservative funding but dodged a bigger bullet in the process.
>i hold the teaching of how to survive in nature in very high regards whereas i almost completely disregard all the jesus loves you stuff
I basically was the same way and most of the troop was.
>>73814884
i am really baffled by your organisational structure.
it really sounds like some hyperbeaurocratic institution. and why the hell do you need funding? what are you spending all your money on?
our national hq is financed by the state. in the same way as the state finances the national football federation and other organisations with an educational purpose.
but we have a bit of luck since our grand duke is the headscout of the country, so our hq is in a building that belongs to the state, with no rent and the state pays for one employee. the rest is done by volunteers. with the money from the government we buy tents and other camping equipment that we use when there is a national camp and the troops can rent the equipment if they want. overall the budget is a couple of ten thousand bucks. for the rest every troop finances itself via selling shit or offering community services and donations from parents or the parents companies but in no way would we be dependent on donations from interest groups.
you americans are truly the temple of capitalism ;-)
>>73795047
When I was a boy scout I remember going to a summer camp where this kid tried killing me twice, he was an autist with anger issues and I remember teasing him because he was italian (by italian i mean "how the fuck is this guy white?" italian) and he got really pissed at me so he tried to drown me during the swiming test. The second time he tried to kill me was when he woke me up in the middle of the night and told me he was going to stab me with a nail he found, I told him to fuck off and woke the rest of the cabin up and we went to go get a scout master, the kid got kicked out and I never saw him again.
I have more stories from that camp if you guys want to hear them, ones about a group of kids who took part in something called "midnight madness"
>>73816662
why did you call him italian? why couldnt you just accept him as a human being? B.P. would have...
>>73815878
Therein lies the difference between our organizations. While the US gov't supports scouting, it isnt its sole funder, its been that way since its founding. You have to realize, we own ALOT of property around the country and it costs money for st/equipment, starting up new troops in different towns, and other miscellaneous but necessary capital.
Dont remember much about the national headquarters, but they're over in texas. As far as I remember it, things were more decentralized and scouting politics was mostly state based and council based.
As for my local troop we the majority of our funding from the local council and the excess funding was generally through selling shit (like the popcorn pic i posted) or donations from people and/or companies.
The best way i can describe it is that the interest groups fund more of the coroporate bigwigs that had little to no influence on us but made it hard for the big rules to be changed.
I don't like it much either, but thats just how it was.
>>73801569
Venture scout here, congratulations!
>>73817017
no, I didn't call him italian i called him darky, mario, spaghetti boy and wop
>>73795047
It depends. At my school most of the dads were busy working so it died out really fast because no one wanted to do arts and crafts with stay at home moms. Better then getting butt fucked though.
>>73817192
yeah well, i guess as long as they leave the troops alone, it's not thaaat bad. can hq enforce its rules in anyway? like could they have done anything if you let a gay dude in your troop? (prior to it being ok)
Im doin my order of the arrow ordeal this weekend. Is it worth it or just a cult?
>>73804148
Why are you surprised so many /pol/acks achieved eagle?
Also how do I get a new card? Mine looks like ass.
>>73813386
Confirmed underaged that was never in scouts
>>73817633
Thats actually an interesting story. One of the guys that made Eagle with me was this dude called Tyler. Real brilliant guy who made it to Cornell and was one of the originals who crossed over from cub scouts with me. Anyways anyone who was around him for a week could see that he was gay. For the most part the troop barely batted an eyelid at it. Went through the whole experience unbothered and even brought what i think was his boyfriend to the Court of Honor.
And mind you this was all pre gay rule changes.
>>73817723
>Joining Order of the Arrow
>"over 18"
Enjoy your ban, underaged
>>73817723
It's good to join, but to participate, you basically need to be totally far gone on the autism spectrum.
It's like the 8-chan of boy scouts.
>>73817723
Sorta both; like I've been saying, its basically the BSA frat/oldboys club
>>73817986
why the fuck would you carry your eagle card around in your wallet?
>>73818173
that's nice. good for him.
well lad, i gotta go. this was really nice.
stay frosty, brother!
>>73818420
For moments like these, obviously.
>>73818549
You too brother.
>>73795047
No one bought our overpriced popcorn. Ever.
>>73818787
haha. same here.
the christmas tree game was legit tho. we made a killing.
>>73818420
Cops cut you slack if you carry it and they can see it while you get your license out.
>>73818787
What about the batteries? Did you try to sell those, too?
All I remember from Boy Scouts is that we would go into the woods and light shit on fire.
>>73818568
>>73818881
What other superpowers does this card entitle me to?
A fading anachronism.
Who the hell wants a "merit badge?"
>>73819076
ahaha this faggot didn't make eagle
>>73818943
yeah, I wasn't a very honest scout, I remember stealing some flint and a pocket knife from a scout master and going into the woods away from the troop with one of my buddies and just lighting shit on fire, after I was done i put it in some kids bag and he got in trouble for it.
good times.
>>73818787
You must've been shitty then.
>>73818859
Palm sunday was our killing. Made a shit ton whenever mothers day wasnt far behind.
>>73819029
Every Full moon you can get a free grande burrito from Chipotle if you show it and recite the scout oath backwards to the cashier.
>>73802564
There's a hell of a waiting list to get in there. Totally glad my troop got picked.
>>73818943
>>73819278
>Scout Oath or Promise
On my honor I will do my best
To do my duty to God and my country
and to obey the Scout Law;
To help other people at all times;
To keep myself physically strong,
mentally awake, and morally straight.
>Scout Law
A Scout is ...
trustworthy, loyal, helpful, friendly,
courteous, kind, obedient, cheerful,
thrifty, brave, clean, and reverent.
You guys failed
>>73819604
Our scoutmaster had a twist on the scout motto that I really appreciate to this day
Be prepared, or be prepared to suffer.
>>73806194
Oh, young buck. You probably have no fucking clue what a Tom Watt kit is, huh? That's what we sold for scouting fundraisers in the late 70's early 80's.
Also made Eagle. The # of Eagles posting in this thread speaks to how redpilled the BSA experience is.
>>73819604
hey, at least I was the majority of those things
What's boy scouts? What's their purpose?
>>73795047
>tfw my boyscouts used to be Hitlerjugend
>>73804447
Thanks German-bro. I'm glad that there are Europeans who get it.
>>73819980
it's kind of like your child soldiers, but less death
>>73819739
I run into eagles all the time. I'm not surprised at all.
>>73819739
I have a very good idea as to what that is due to my older uncle, and i think it was better we got something more iconic like popcorn to compete with the iconic girl scout cookies.
>>73819980
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scouting
ITT: Retarded shit you thought in the past.
>"Shia" sounds more menacing than "Sunni", surely the shia muslims are the most savage
>>73795047
Was pretty based to be a scout. Used to be a part of the christian scouts so as an extra bonus besides from camping in the woods was that you learned a lot about the bible.
>>73820375
>>73820413
So they are like a milder version of our child soldiers. Good to know that guys have child soldiers too.
eagle scout reporting in
The Boy Scouts used to be great but it went downhill when they let women be troop leaders
>>73821066
we were only allowed to shoot 22 rifles and single shot 20ga shotguns, no AKs like your 12 year olds get. our troop gave zero fucks and we all learned how to shoot mausers and AR-15s anyhow.
>>73821175
>they let women be troop leaders
oh god when did that happen?
I never got to learn any useful outdoorsman skills. This may sound pathetic, but I wish there was some sort of training available for adults that's similar to the boy scouts.
>tfw no dad
![boys-life1[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/Vrw8dmt.jpg "boys-life1[1].jpg")
>>73795047
Literally turns straight boys into gay men. I've done a lot of gay stuff in my life but being in scouts was by far the gayest. Any homoerotic story you've heard about frats has probably happened in boy scouts. Three of the six eagle scouts I know are gay.
>>73821663
dude around here they have free classes at the local REI like every week.
also there's tons of hunting, fishing, and general outdoors training available. Did you even bother to google "wilderness survival training"?
>>73821411
Nice, I have seen AR-15 with lots of crazy attachments on youtube, if I had that gun I would conquer all of somalia. No joke.
Eagle scout reporting in.
Scouts are pretty based; the media is constantly trying to give them a bad name since they're so against the liberal narrative.
10/10 would put son in. Good anti-cuck proofing.
>>73795047
Was in Cub Scouts and then Scouts over here. Never heard anything bad ever happening with kiddy fiddling. I liked it since I got to burn stuff and I learnt stuff. How to tie knots, how to light a fire a bunch of different ways. Leader ship skills and how some people just really need to be bullied so they conform and don't do stupid shit.
I left when I was in Scouts because the Leader dude had 3 young kids and didn't want to do it anymore. The guy that took over couldn't fucking manage to organize dinner and 13-16 year old's made it happen. Guy was fucking useless and his son grew up to be the type of dude that beats his girl friends. One of my mates beat the fuck out of him because he hit her sister.
