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  • spyke252
    FFR Player
    • Oct 2006
    • 181
    #1

    Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, Venturers, and Explorers

    I recently finished my Eagle Scout Board of review (this past Tuesday) and only have paperwork to send by national to get my Eagle patch.

    I also know a few people from FFR who are Scouts.

    If you are any type of Scout, could you post your unit number, rank, and any other information you'd like to share?

    For an example:
    -Boy Scout, troop 649 (Clarksville MD, I believe.)
    -Soon-to-be Eagle Scout
    -I work at summer camp at camp Spencer up at whiteford, MD.

    Also, even if you aren't a Boy Scout or anything. At least in my case, Scouting used to be considered a kind of nerdy (If thats the right word) thing to do, but now it is considered a great accomplishment. What do you or people you know think about Scouting?
    Originally posted by Tokzic
    is the repetition of the last line a metaphorical comparison of the dependance of society on technology today versus the more natural lifestyle of the late nineteenth century
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    • Matrixdude
      And She Screams My Name
      • Jun 2006
      • 1351
      #2
      Re: Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, Venturers, and Explorers

      I think Scouting is pretty cool (though I am not a Scout nor will I ever be) but when my cousin became an Eagle Scout, I told my friends and they all laughed. I don't see what's so funny about it but I can imagine why they laughed.

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        • Ekehart
          FFR Player
          • Aug 2004
          • 60
          #3
          Re: Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, Venturers, and Explorers

          Recently Eagle Scout, Troop 88
          Austin, TX

          Brotherhood Member
          Ex-Brotherhood Chairman
          Ex-Tejas Chapter Chief
          Tonkawa Lodge.

          Shotgun instructor at Lost Pines Scout Reservation, and I still do OA ceremonies.

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            • Could_Strife007
              FFR Player
              • May 2004
              • 245
              #4
              Re: Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, Venturers, and Explorers

              Scouting was really fun, I loved camping trips and the goal oriented environment. The skills you learn and the friends you make is like nothing else.

              It's a shame I quit before I was 2nd class.

              o.o WWW o.o

              Never knew what happened in OOA though, quite the mystery.
              Last edited by Could_Strife007; 03-26-2007, 03:17 PM.

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                • Chromer
                  Hookers and Blow
                  • Jul 2003
                  • 4981
                  #5
                  Re: Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, Venturers, and Explorers

                  My friend has a few months to go before his 18th b-day before he gets his Eagle Scout. All he is doing right now is all the paperwork and shiz.

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                    • JurseyRider734
                      lil j the bad b-word
                      • Aug 2003
                      • 7506
                      #6
                      Re: Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, Venturers, and Explorers

                      I was a Brownie when I was little. 8)
                      Originally posted by Arch0wl
                      I'd better be considering I own roughly six textbooks on logic and have taken courses involving its extensive use

                      Originally posted by Afrobean
                      Originally Posted by JurseyRider734
                      the fact that you're resorting to threatening physical violence says a lot anyway.
                      Just that you're a piece of shit who can't see reason and instead deserves a fucking beating.

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                        • Squeek
                          let it snow~
                          • Jan 2004
                          • 14444
                          #7
                          Re: Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, Venturers, and Explorers

                          I really, really hated being in Boy Scouts.

                          PS - I'm an Eagle Scout.

                          PPS - I didn't even care to hold a ceremony or anything like that. I sent in the paperwork, got approved, then never did anything related to scouts ever again. I gave away my old uniform and crap and probably lost all the documentation and awards somewhere.

                          The only worthwhile experience I ever had during my time was the week I spent on a deserted island and the two week backpacking expedition in the Rockies.

                          (Pppps - this doesn't show up for me, so I didn't know if the edits took. If it looks like I'm repeating myself, that's why.)
                          Last edited by Squeek; 03-27-2007, 12:09 AM.

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                            • Specforces
                              Yes
                              • Jan 2004
                              • 5028
                              #8
                              Re: Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, Venturers, and Explorers

                              LOL

                              That's all I'll contribute to this thread.
                              Check Out My Music

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                                • justom
                                  FFR Player
                                  • Jan 2007
                                  • 698
                                  #9
                                  Re: Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, Venturers, and Explorers

                                  I quit after First class.
                                  It got extremely bad for me because I wasn't that "good" enough to do everything that everyone else did perfectly. I got made fun of every troop meeting.
                                  _

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                                    • Squeek
                                      let it snow~
                                      • Jan 2004
                                      • 14444
                                      #10
                                      Re: Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, Venturers, and Explorers

                                      Don't worry about it. Scouts is a joke. The entire thing is like one really big suck-up contest to see who can make the adults happiest.

                                      If you have friends whose parents are troop leaders, then you're set. I personally had enemies whose parents were troop leaders, so I had the worst time ever. The only fun I ever had in the ten (more?) years I was involved occurred during the long excursions: one was a week on a deserted island and the other was a two-week backpacking expedition in the Rockies.

                                      But anyway, I figured it all out when I got older. Scouts is just this military front that tries to start kids young to be trained ranked officers. It's really quite sad.

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                                        • Chrissi
                                          FFR Player
                                          • Mar 2004
                                          • 3019
                                          #11
                                          Re: Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, Venturers, and Explorers

                                          Haha. Haha. Scouts.

                                          Have fun in your ultra-conservative gay-hating christian environment!
                                          C is for Charisma, it's why people think I'm great! I make my friends all laugh and smile and never want to hate!

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                                            • Squeek
                                              let it snow~
                                              • Jan 2004
                                              • 14444
                                              #12
                                              Re: Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, Venturers, and Explorers

                                              Oh yeah, that was another thing.

                                              Boy Scouts assume you're a Christian, no matter what. Sure, at big Scouting events, they have tents for every religion, but in regular meetings, they pretty much assume everyone is a Christian.

                                              And yes, although it seems odd that a large collection of boys / men who just like to show off how "great" they are (badges, medals, etc) could possibly be 100% heterosexual across the world, they are extremely anti-homosexual.

                                              By the way, I got the absolute minimum number of badges and requirements when I got Eagle and nothing more. My childhood best friend managed to get the record number of badges and awards from the same troop and is now studying to be a U.S. Air Force... something or other. He's at the Air Force Academy, so Spec might even have seen him around once or twice.

                                              Not like that matters.

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                                                • Magnafiend
                                                  FFR Player
                                                  • Jul 2005
                                                  • 154
                                                  #13
                                                  Re: Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, Venturers, and Explorers

                                                  Boy Scouts, T690, Eagle
                                                  The reaper is the happiest being of all, because death is plentiful in this realm....

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                                                    • FishFishRevolution
                                                      GotR Creator
                                                      • Nov 2003
                                                      • 7251
                                                      #14
                                                      Re: Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, Venturers, and Explorers

                                                      EAGLE SCOUT

                                                      Yeah the christian thing was annoying, but I got all my friends into scouting when I was in middle school, so we would always go camping or hiking together on the weekends, and summers were really fun at the scout camps. After my friends fell out of it (one moved away), I sort of forgot about it for two years, then picked it back up late in my 17th year, and got my eagle project done just in time for my birthday.

                                                      I've been in so many troops, I don't even remember. The one my friends and I were in was 663.

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                                                        • soultaker89
                                                          FFR Player
                                                          • Feb 2005
                                                          • 25
                                                          #15
                                                          Re: Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, Venturers, and Explorers

                                                          well good job on almost getting eagle... i quit a long time ago... only made
                                                          2nd class myself... troop didnt do much at all.

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