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The Scouts / Cub Scouts

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  • #32
    Coriolanus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,879 ✭✭✭Coriolanus


    I was in it briefly, always regret that I didn't keep it up.
    I do remember one weekend long camp up in the Wicklow Mts where we were made swim relay races through a series of trenches dug into the bog and filled with water. Bizarre, but great craic. And playing Green Berets in the dark, taking turns to hunt and be hunted with the other squads. :pac:


  • #33
    BeanMunch
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13 ✭BeanMunch


    Nevore wrote: »
    And playing Green Berets in the dark, taking turns to hunt and be hunted with the other squads. :pac:

    Wide games are IMMENSE craic!


  • #34
    vampire of kilmainham
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,048 ✭✭✭vampire of kilmainham


    nope was never in any of em joined the FCA at 14 though that was in the days when you could do that and a blind eye was turned really enjoyed my few years there joined the army then as a cadet and became an officer...


  • #35
    vampire of kilmainham
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,048 ✭✭✭vampire of kilmainham


    Bob_the_dog wrote: »
    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 :(
    what will you do if it arrives:D:D:eek::eek:


  • #36
    Kersh
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    Joined Ballymun cubs when I was 8, but moved to Swords at 10, straight into 3rd Flight scouts, all the way up through Scouts/Venturers/Explorer Belt in 94, then onto leader.

    Great times. The transition from Scout through Venturers and over to the other side to be leader is interesting. Leaders got up to more mischief than the scouts :D

    As a scout I went to Isle of Man, various Melvins around the country, Boyle/Portumna etc

    As a Venturer I walked the length of Loch Lochy and a lot of Loch Ness on an annual camp. And in 94 I did the Explorer Belt in Scotland, walking 200k in 10 days through Newton Stewart/New Galloway/Dalbeattie/Fort and up to Torphichen between Edinburgh and Glasgow.

    Great times, and any kids I may have will be sent straight into Beavers :)


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  • #37
    Notorious97
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    I joined the beavers when i was old enough, and then onto the cubs, i didn’t bother with scouts after cubshaha

    Cubs was great craic though, camping trips, Larch Hill (correct me on name haha) with all different cub groups, huge football tournament was good fun, but there was a year or two when place was destroyed in cow shi*e i hated that part haha

    Ah the good old days, before life got cruel.


  • #38
    LadyMayBelle
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,109 ✭✭✭LadyMayBelle


    Brownies, Girl Guides and Rangers aged 6-17 and Scouts 11-17..great times and encourage anyone to get involved! Travelled abroad to Jamborees an International scout Centres, such craic, and great, great memories.

    Have also jut signed up to be a leader at my local Girl Guide troop just this week..never leaves you!


  • #39
    Kasabian
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,688 ✭✭✭Kasabian


    I was thrown out of the scouts. :o

    We tied the hands and feet of the annoying kids with all the new knots we had learned and rolled them down a big hill.
    Their parents were not happy.


  • #40
    Misty Chaos
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,363 ✭✭✭Misty Chaos


    I was in the beavers and had a good experience with it when I was 7 - 9, It was a good experince. Still have the end of year medals from it.

    I can't really say the same for the cubs and scouts, though. At the time I was there, I wasn't exactly the type who was keen on taking orders ( or outdoor hiking for the matter - my body doesn't like temperature extremes ) and got a lot of grief over it. The only reason I was there was because my brother was active in them for years and I was strong armed into the scouts. :/

    I did meet a girl in the scouts but the slagging I got from my brother and his friends in the scouts over that scarred me for life!

    That being said, I do regret not having more patience or interest in the scouts, it was a maturity thing on my part as a few years later, at 17, I joined up with the FCA and fortunately, was able to take orders that time! ( though I'm no longer in them )


  • #41
    WoollyRedHat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,462 ✭✭✭✭WoollyRedHat


    Micky Dolenz wrote: »
    Be Prepared.

    For what?!?

    I can't remember a damn thing from scouts. I think I remember how to play starship, port, whatever that game was called but everything else was wasted on me. It's no fun without bears.


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  • #42
    flyton5
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,106 ✭✭✭flyton5


    I was in the Walkinstown troop (94th if I remember correctly) from Beavers through to Venturers. My parents thought it would be a great way to get rid of me and have some peace for a few weeks every summer as I was nothing short of a jumped up little shít who was always in trouble.

    Pretty much every trip abroad the leaders would threaten to send me home. My record time for the threat was on a trip to Austria. The bus had only gone as far as Dun Laoghaire before I was given the warning.

    There were two leaders who would've been slightly slow. One guy called up to my parents before a trip away begging them to get me to behave myself as "it was his only holiday that year and he didn't want me to ruin it." He was probably in his 50's and I was about 12.

    The other guy was a good deal younger and I called him Frank for my own amusement. This really pissed him off which I thoroughly enjoyed. On a trip to Larch Hill I stole his new mobile and ran the assault course. Unfortunately he didn't have the smarts to realise that if he hadn't given chase I would've given it back. Cue leaders and scouts breaking their shíte laughing as he chased me through the assault course. This was repeated several times throughout the day. :D

    This bit of reminiscing has put a smile on my face for the rest of work. Hope I didn't bore too many of ya. ;)


  • #43
    seamus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 68,173 ✭✭✭✭seamus


    Jaysus that all brings me back. My Dad was our Unit Leader while I was a cub and a scout so I generally moved up younger than than everyone else. I remember being a sixer after two years in the cubs, and a PL after my first year in scouts.

    The freedom is funny. A group of us as APLs and PLs went camping on our own in Larch Hill, completely sanctioned by the leaders. I couldn't have been more than 14. We stuck our tents up, built a fire, and then spent the entire weekend smoking, setting off fireworks and eating junk food.
    Went into Venturers then. We were far too cool to build campsites and sleep in 8-man tents, so our expeditions consisted of sleeping in two-man easy-pack tents and playing football while we laughed at the scouts doing stupid things like putting up their tents badly and spending half their day working at building a campsite.

    Then the scouts would be told by the leaders that they had to cook our dinners. Or even better, we sat with the leaders eating fry-ups cooked on gas stoves while the scouts were struggling with some mushed-up crap that they rolled up in tinfoil and put into the embers to cook.

    Ah yes, Venturers was great, I loved it. Had to give it up before my leaving cert and because it was getting in the way of valuable drinking time. Not that we didn't get our fair share of drinking in. I remember 8 of us arriving into an Irish bar in Berne, all 16 years old, stoked to be drinking legally. We ordered a beer each, then another, then a drunk at the bar gave us 40 free pints. Bizarre. Everything else was a bit of a haze. There was a World Cup match on (1998?) where Michael Owen missed a penalty.
    We all stumbled back to our hostel and the leader who'd come with us (fully aware of our hammeredness) dragged us out of bed at 7am to get food and get the train back to the troop. That train journey was murder. Needed to puke the whole way.

    There was also an incident in another troop's cabin in the Dublin mountains where me and a mate managed to down a bottle of Vodka each in the space of about an hour and spent the next 5-6 hours passing out and puking and passing out and puking. We got banned from that cabin for that.

    Always wanted to go back and be a leader but I kind of lost touch with everyone else in the troop. I might have a looksee at some point.


  • #44
    Morag
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 8,450 ✭✭✭Morag


    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=617

    Scouts and Guides forum.


  • #45
    flyton5
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,106 ✭✭✭flyton5


    Sharrow wrote: »
    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=617

    Scouts and Guides forum.

    There's always one who wants to ruin the fun. :rolleyes:


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