The Scouts / Cub Scouts

starbelgrade · 20-02-2011 04:08AM #1

Were you ever a member?

Do you have any stories to tell?

If so, post 'em here!

To start off, I joined the cubs when I was 5. I was a year younger than the allowed age, but as my brother had just joined and as we were inseparable back then, they made an exception.

It opened up a whole new world to me at the time.. new friends, new experiences & some odd new regimes. The camping trips were always the best part. Even though they were mostly done in damp, wet Irish summers, we still managed to have the craic & get up to all sorts of mischief.

There were some oddball leaders, some sound ones & even some hot female ones.

I kissed my first girl on a camping trip when I was 8. She was a blonde girl guide who looked like Drew Barrymore in ET. Well, that's how I remember it anyway. For all I know, she could have looked more like ET.

I learned weird words like "goggle", how to tie knots, use a compass & how to wear a garter. (:o).

It was an experience that I grew out of by the time I was 11, but it was still an experience that I remember and if I could go back to those days of sitting round a campfire, singing "Come By Ya My Lord", I would probably pass, but I also wouldn't deny that they were formative times, which for the most part, I enjoyed immensely.

melekalikimaka · 20-02-2011 04:12AM

starbelgrade wrote: »

I learned weird words like "goggle".

it's 'woggle'

starbelgrade wrote: »

singing "Come By Ya My Lord"

it's 'Kum bay ya, my Lord'

starbelgrade · 20-02-2011 04:17AM

melekalikimaka wrote: »

it's 'woggle'

it's 'Kum bay ya, my Lord'

I just Woogled that.

You are indeed, correct!

Dangerous Man · 20-02-2011 04:18AM

I was a cub-scout. I was made a 'sixer' and was very proud. However, a guy who was there longer than me was pissed off that I got the gig ahead of him and started talking **** in the middle of inspection. Now, this guy used to give me a hard time in school and for whatever reason I just thought, 'fuck this, I'm putting this guy in his place' so I grabbed him and slammed him against the wall and told him to shut up and stand at attention. It felt good. It was probably the first time in my life (aged seven) where I felt like I was fully in control.

melekalikimaka · 20-02-2011 04:18AM

was in them for a long long time. good times

Tubsandtiles · 20-02-2011 04:18AM

I was in the cubs, had some great times in them and made some good friends. I remember during the trips where you would spend the night we would get up too all mischief, the leaders would be cracking up

. I had some hot leaders too and funny enough was good friends with a young lad who went on too star in Angela's Ashes

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starbelgrade · 20-02-2011 04:25AM

Dangerous Man wrote: »

I was a cub-scout. I was made a 'sixer' and was very proud. However, a guy who was there longer than me was pissed off that I got the gig ahead of him and started talking **** in the middle of inspection. Now, this guy used to give me a hard time in school and for whatever reason I just thought, 'fuck this, I'm putting this guy in his place' so I grabbed him and slammed him against the wall and told him to shut up and stand at attention. It felt good. It was probably the first time in my life (aged seven) where I felt like I was fully in control.

Apt username by the sounds of things.

Micky Dolenz · 20-02-2011 04:26AM

Be Prepared.

Ron DMC · 20-02-2011 04:29AM

starbelgrade wrote: »

To start off, I joined the cubs when I was 5.

Surely you joined Beavers at that age, and not Cubs...

Pdfile · 20-02-2011 04:30AM

how'd you think i gots meh name... :cool:....

we'llallhavetea_old · 20-02-2011 04:34AM

aw cute!

starbelgrade · 20-02-2011 04:35AM

Ron DMC wrote: »

Surely you joined Beavers at that age, and not Cubs...

There was no Beavers at the time.

minidazzler · 20-02-2011 04:37AM

If I ever make the mistake of having kids they are going into all sorts of those things! I never was in them and feel like I missed out alot.

Oranage2 · 20-02-2011 04:46AM

My parents wouldnt let me join the scouts/cubs because they didnt want to see me molested!

Micky Dolenz · 20-02-2011 04:51AM

Oranage2 wrote: »

My parents wouldnt let me join the scouts/cubs because they didnt want to see me molested!

Heh, sucker. That was the best part.

Sir Gallagher · 20-02-2011 06:40AM

minidazzler wrote: »

If I ever make the mistake of having kids they are going into all sorts of those things! I never was in them and feel like I missed out alot.

..like putting them up for adoption. :pac:

Mr. Incognito · 20-02-2011 07:04AM

ex cub, scout, explorer belt and leader

Scouts rocks!

sam34 · 20-02-2011 07:22AM

was never allowed join brownies or guides. cant particularly say I feel I missed out on much. the girls in my class who were in the group always seemed like do-gooder Pollyanna types.

Chaotic_Forces · 20-02-2011 08:24AM

Oranage2 wrote: »

My parents wouldnt let me join the scouts/cubs because they didnt want to see me molested!

Well said!

Bob_the_dog · 20-02-2011 08:38AM

I was in the cubs for 2 years and then moved house, went to enroll in the cubs in my new area and they were full but said they would contact me as soon as a place came up.

25 years later I'm still waiting on that bloody letter

Vicxas · 20-02-2011 10:50AM

Beaver, Cub and Scout here. had to stop when i went to college. Might go back if i get the chance.

Herb Powell · 20-02-2011 11:55AM

We went to Castletownbere/Allihies camping for a few days, it was mad craic

lamai · 20-02-2011 12:03PM

Oranage2 wrote: »

My parents wouldnt let me join the scouts/cubs because they didnt want to see me molested!

Maybe they were jealous

Son Of A Vidic · 20-02-2011 12:04PM

I intended to join the scouts but failed, I remember going with a mate into a local school. When we arrived, there was no sign of Pedolord the Scout Master. But some pr1ck, slightly older than us started ordering us about. He ended up pushing me and I floored him with a right hook. Thus ending my potential scout career, yet thankfully perserving the purity of my 'ring'.

lamai · 20-02-2011 12:07PM

I was in the scouts. I still have 2 very good friends from the scouts, friends for life. Sometimes at xmas you will meet some other ex scouts and you get telling stories.:D

Great times and some of the best times of my life

sidneykidney · 20-02-2011 12:13PM

I was in the cubs then the scouts, then i went into the venturers ( i tihnk that was the name for them) I made some really brilliant friends, some that i am still close friends with to this day.

They really were great craic to be in, all the skills learned, and the craic that was had, always look back at those days with a smile

Sticky_Fingers · 20-02-2011 12:18PM

* Awaits Snypers reminiscences about he helped many a young rascal earn their "Our Little Secret" merit badge by letting them dib dib dib his woggle

alwaysadub · 20-02-2011 12:23PM

I was a Brownie, a Girl Guide, a Scout, a Venture Scout and am now a cub scout leader for the past few years.
I love it. Gets me out and about. Hard work at times though!

BeanMunch · 20-02-2011 12:31PM

Long time scout here. Without a doubt the best organisation I have ever been a part of. Having left school now the friends that I have kept in touch with most haven't been school friends, but scout friends; you really bond with people in scouts like nowhere else. The sort of freedom and responsibility they give you at 12/13 is brilliant- really makes you grow up as well as being a great thrill. I remember doing a 16km hike when I was 12 with gear, in the pelting rain for half of it, and then facing into setting up camp, lighting a fire and cooking- it really toughens you up.

Seperate random point: I always thought it was funny that I would always pick up more injuries in scouts than in rugby and I used to play rugby 5-6 times a week. You can tend to go a bit wild with the freedom in scouts

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iPlop · 20-02-2011 12:34PM

I was a beaver ,cub ,scout and venture ,I went to many places Germany ,Isle of Man ,Austria all over Ireland ,Midnight Hikes across mountain tops some of the best times of my life were had.I used to love going to the regional shield in larch hill.Building your base camp ,camp fire ,all that stuff was great.Every second weekend we were doing something

Larch hill was great crack.

snickerpuss · 20-02-2011 12:42PM

I was in an Irish speaking troop of cub scouts for a few years. (NERD!) Loved it!

Went on trips down to Wicklow and to the zoo and generally just had loads of fun. I left because all the other girls left leaving only me.

Retrospectively, this makes no sense since all my friends at the time were boys and largely, they still are. Maybe if I'd joined the brownies I'd now know what the hell to say to fellow girls but I probably wouldn't have had the pleasure of beating all the boys at arm wrestling when I was 8. Ahhhhh...

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