The scouts never looked like this in my day!

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CLEM

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I did think about joining the scouts when I was a lad but I never did,shame really as I bet it was great fun but it was for the more well off types from what I saw of it.Anyway if there had been scouts like this I am fairly certain nothing would have stopped me joining.:D


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mr dazzler

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I did think about joining the scouts when I was a lad but I never did,shame really as I bet it was great fun but it was for the more well off types from what I saw of it.

I was in for about 8 or 9 years in all. Our troop was genuinely diverse with lads from literally every walk of life lads off the council estate, sons of wealthy businessmen, some well educated some semi literate, well spoken types, rough types, scrappers, those that liked a sly drink or a smoke, sporty types fat types everyone was in and we all got along it was a great education in its way, live and let live (ie give as good as you get:lmao: ) etc. I cant actually think of any other situatiuon where you'd get such a great mix and genuine diversity. And also we did some astoundingly memorable daft stunts some of which left various one's maimed and injured, the feminist men wouldnt let scout's do that sort of stuff these days I expect :lmao:
Are those 3 lasses the tonic for the troop's:)
 

John Fenna

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Some of my Ventures (girls) could have given them a run for their money! One did for a while work as a model.
Those were happy days!
 

Tengu

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I `wanted` to join the scouts.

(no, I do not look like that, much bigger due to a healthy eat all the meat you please childhood.)
 

Mike Ameling

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Hmmm ... looks like those three have worked on their "skills" at ... collecting ... badges instead of earning them.;)

The Scouts were not an option when/where I was growing up. The nearest pack was most of 100 miles away. But, growing up on the farm, us kids did far more things than the Scouts ever thought about doing! Although, we probably could have used a little more ... structure ... in what we were doing.:rolleyes:
At least nobody got permanently maimed, and no structures destroyed - except for that driftwood "shack" that got washed away in a flood.

Nothing like a well-spent youth to flood the memories with all those "life's lessons learned".

Mikey - yee ol' grumpy blacksmith out in the Hinterlands
 

Rebel

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Jun 12, 2005
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I reckon singing around the camp fire might be a bit rubbish with those three but the visual effects would make up for it. :)

Scouts in my area when I was young (quite a while back now) wasn't for the well off, it was for everybody. Must have been because I was in them. :rolleyes:

My son's troop has quite a mixture too but it does seem to attract a mostly middle-class type.
 

Eric_Methven

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dschild.jpg


Wow! Look at the woggles on those!
 

MikeE

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Sep 12, 2005
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Really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, disgusting bunch of perverts!
They can join my daughters beaver colony anytime they like!
Can't wait for the next family camp weekend!!
 
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lostindawoods

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i only went to scouts twice and never saw anything like that.
i did however join the the army cadets cos they still did the camping but they had guns,
better uniforms, and girls were allowed. (very forward thinking at the time i thought)
 

webbie

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i must say after the jamboree there were some girls that could sing better n look better than them 3, still wouldnt kick them out my tent though :D
 

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