29-07-2003 10:50									#1
	Okay admit it, who was in the boy scouts? Support Apolyton or Terrorists Win

actually I'll include other scouting type youth groups as well like cub scouts.

I was only in the boy scouts for about 6 months. Then I realized it was too much work to get merit badges and such. I didn't want to put up with all that bullshit. I just wanted to go to cool places.

Feel free to post stories about your scouting experiences. And any experiences with gay scout leaders as well

	29-07-2003 10:53									#2
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David Floyd.

	29-07-2003 10:53									#3
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I was in the Beavers, which was what they call boy scouts here when they're 5 or 6. Stayed in it for 5-6 months.

	29-07-2003 10:53									#4
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I was a whirly-bird.

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Beavers, Cub Scouts, Boy Scouts, and Ventures.

Yarr. I'm not inept in the outdoors, honest!

	29-07-2003 10:54									#6
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Hmm. Just visited the Beavers website. Never realised they were such a bunch of God-botherers.

	29-07-2003 10:55									#7
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It was actually fun to be in Scouting in Calgary, we used to go on so many kickass camps in the Rockies.

I have especially fond memories of all the games we'd play when it was pitch black in the middle of the forests and fields.

	29-07-2003 10:58									#8
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shouldn't beavers be the girls version of scouts?

	29-07-2003 10:59									#9
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I thought Brownies should be upgraded to Cupcakes.

	29-07-2003 11:00									#10
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quote: Originally posted by Dissident shouldn't beavers be the girls version of scouts?

http://www.scouts.ca/inside.asp?cmPageID=85

EDIT: and yes, I was thinking of making this joke myself...

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I have no idea what the brownies did. I just kinda sorta remember the name as a kid. I guess they baked brownies and such. They were for girls obviously, but I don't think they did anything useful. Of course little girls rarely do anything useful .

Even the girl scouts rarely went scouting I think. I'm sure they never slept on the ground like us men- I mean boys did. They probably had cabins and such.

	29-07-2003 11:05									#12
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All I've done is buy Girl Scout cookies.

Boy Scouts always seemed like it required too much motivation and activity.

	29-07-2003 11:06									#13
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I was in the Boy Scouts for a good 6 years, and I'm a proud Eagle Scout, too.

	29-07-2003 11:08									#14
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Not I, LTEC

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Damnit, ixnay, why do you always have to be so right? Can't you say you axe murdered someone or something!? You're raising the bar way too high.

	29-07-2003 11:10									#16
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quote: Originally posted by David Floyd Not I, LTEC

I could have sworn you would have.

	29-07-2003 11:11									#17
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The truth is, he joined up, but on the first day they told him he'd have to "help others", so he blew the joint...

	29-07-2003 11:12									#18
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I have a memory of being about seven years old and my mom taking me to some boy scouts or cub scouts or something meeting or something (which i only went to complaining about how it was gay [yes even at the age of seven i realized the homo-eroticism of the boy scouts ])... after a little while sitting at the meeting or whatever it was with me figiting and playing with the badges they had on display, my mom took me home early and i never returned.

	29-07-2003 11:19									#19
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I was in pathfinders for a small bit of time

the other people who were in my group were my siblings, so I thought it sucked and quit

Jon Miller

	29-07-2003 11:40									#20
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I was a Girl Scout.

	29-07-2003 11:41									#21
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And if anyone cares to make any snide remarks, your ass will be mine forever more.

	29-07-2003 11:41									#22
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My mom tried to sign me up for the Boy Scouts when I was little. She filled the forms, paid the registration fee...and never heard from them again. My mom did all the neccessary research into the program beforehand, and even spoke with the parents of some of my friends who were Scouts. Obviously, that was the last time we ever dealt with those thieving b*stards (the Boy Scouts, not the parents or their kids).

And before anyone says it, this all happened a few years BEFORE I became gay. Seperate - and short - story, but I'm sure the more bigoted among you* might have thought it a good idea to bring up my sexuality as a reason.

*EDIT: Which is to say, "...the more bigoted among you READING this might have...

EDIT EDIT: Ack, still doesn't sound right... ...I'm not singling any person out who has posted. I'm just saying...*sigh*...forget it. Apolytoners are smart enough to figure out my meaning.

	29-07-2003 11:42									#23
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She paid the registration fee but never heard back? Shoulda sued 'em.

	29-07-2003 11:44									#24
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There is no registration fee?

looks like she was had by a scammer posing as the boy scouts.

	29-07-2003 11:50									#25
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No, it was legit. Perhaps it was a practice that wasn't done in every region/local chapter, or perhaps it was discontinued, but it was a legitmate program she contacted. Believe me, she researched everything she could think of and interviewed 3 sets of parents, and we still got screwed. Wasn't a lot of money, so just a minor annoyance.

	29-07-2003 11:59									#26
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you're gay, Drosedars? i did not know that... what? is half of apolyton gay or something now? we def got more than that 10% ratio...

	29-07-2003 12:23									#27
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You just NOW learn that, Speer?

You need to start paying a little more attention to goings-on around here...

	29-07-2003 13:40									#28
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I was in the Cub Scouts.

	29-07-2003 13:43									#29
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quote: Originally posted by Albert Speer you're gay, Drosedars? i did not know that... what? is half of apolyton gay or something now? we def got more than that 10% ratio...

Perhaps 20%...

Apolyton is really, really strange... We got more commies here too than anything... it scares me....

I was never in the Boy Scouts or anything.

	29-07-2003 13:50									#30
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10 years, in scouts, cubs and beavers.

I got to go to 1 Canadian Jamboree in Kananaskis, and 1 provincial Jamboree near my hometown.

quote: And if anyone cares to make any snide remarks, your ass will be mine forever more.

MtG:

I've heard of girls joining boy scout troops, but no one swinging the other way.

Have you been overcompensating here on the forums?