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We lost, five to four. Chief Justice Rehnquist wrote the majority opinion. And then my name became a citation. A precedent. A legal shorthand that other people’s lawyers would invoke in rooms I’d never enter, for arguments I’d never approve, for outcomes I couldn’t control.
https://medium.com/prismnpen/my-gay-name-became-a-legal-weapon-to-exclude-lgbtq-people-8416af93bfac -
We lost, five to four. Chief Justice Rehnquist wrote the majority opinion. And then my name became a citation. A precedent. A legal shorthand that other people’s lawyers would invoke in rooms I’d never enter, for arguments I’d never approve, for outcomes I couldn’t control.
https://medium.com/prismnpen/my-gay-name-became-a-legal-weapon-to-exclude-lgbtq-people-8416af93bfac -
Eagle Scout Finally Putting Knot Tying Skills To Use as Shibari Instructor
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Eagle Scout Finally Putting Knot Tying Skills To Use as Shibari Instructor
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https://www.europesays.com/people/129827/ Complaint Seeks Disclosure of Pentagon’s Agreement With Scouting America #BoyScouts #DefenseDepartment #DiversityInitiatives #FreedomOfInformationAct #hegseth #pete #PeteHegseth #SuitsAndLitigation(Civil) #transgender #UnitedStatesDefenseAndMilitaryForces
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Laws Every Scout Should Know
Being a Scout means more than camping, hiking, and earning merit badges. Scouts are also expected to be good citizens who understand the rules and laws that help keep our communities safe and fair. While Scouts are not expected to be lawyers, learning about important laws can help them become informed and responsible leaders. 1. The Scout Law and the Law of the Land The Scout Law teaches Scouts to be Trustworthy, Loyal, Helpful, Friendly, Courteous, Kind, Obedient, Cheerful, Thrifty, Brave, […]https://troop161ma.wordpress.com/2026/06/26/laws-every-scout-should-know/
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Laws Every Scout Should Know
Being a Scout means more than camping, hiking, and earning merit badges. Scouts are also expected to be good citizens who understand the rules and laws that help keep our communities safe and fair. While Scouts are not expected to be lawyers, learning about important laws can help them become informed and responsible leaders. 1. The Scout Law and the Law of the Land The Scout Law teaches Scouts to be Trustworthy, Loyal, Helpful, Friendly, Courteous, Kind, Obedient, Cheerful, Thrifty, Brave, […]https://troop161ma.wordpress.com/2026/06/26/laws-every-scout-should-know/
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Laws Every Scout Should Know
Being a Scout means more than camping, hiking, and earning merit badges. Scouts are also expected to be good citizens who understand the rules and laws that help keep our communities safe and fair. While Scouts are not expected to be lawyers, learning about important laws can help them become informed and responsible leaders. 1. The Scout Law and the Law of the Land The Scout Law teaches Scouts to be Trustworthy, Loyal, Helpful, Friendly, Courteous, Kind, Obedient, Cheerful, Thrifty, Brave, […]https://troop161ma.wordpress.com/2026/06/26/laws-every-scout-should-know/
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Laws Every Scout Should Know
Being a Scout means more than camping, hiking, and earning merit badges. Scouts are also expected to be good citizens who understand the rules and laws that help keep our communities safe and fair. While Scouts are not expected to be lawyers, learning about important laws can help them become informed and responsible leaders. 1. The Scout Law and the Law of the Land The Scout Law teaches Scouts to be Trustworthy, Loyal, Helpful, Friendly, Courteous, Kind, Obedient, Cheerful, Thrifty, Brave, […]https://troop161ma.wordpress.com/2026/06/26/laws-every-scout-should-know/
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Laws Every Scout Should Know
Being a Scout means more than camping, hiking, and earning merit badges. Scouts are also expected to be good citizens who understand the rules and laws that help keep our communities safe and fair. While Scouts are not expected to be lawyers, learning about important laws can help them become informed and responsible leaders. 1. The Scout Law and the Law of the Land The Scout Law teaches Scouts to be Trustworthy, Loyal, Helpful, Friendly, Courteous, Kind, Obedient, Cheerful, Thrifty, Brave, […]https://troop161ma.wordpress.com/2026/06/26/laws-every-scout-should-know/
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A boy scout may declare themselves trustworthy but they will call themselves reverent before they call themselves honest. — A misgiving I've had about #BSA #BoyScouts
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A boy scout may declare themselves trustworthy but they will call themselves reverent before they call themselves honest. — A misgiving I've had about #BSA #BoyScouts
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Test Your Knowledge with Our New Scouting Trivia Challenge!
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Test Your Knowledge with Our New Scouting Trivia Challenge!
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The law of the jumble.
Do ‘Jumble Sales’ still exist today?
Sadly, I fear not.
Nowadays, the word ‘jumble’ infers any goods on offer consist of worthless junk the original owner couldn’t be arsed taking down to the local dump. Nowadays, that ‘useless crap’ has become more treasured. Expressions like ‘vintage,’ ‘pre-loved,’ ‘pre-owned’ and the very loosely-termed ‘nearly new’ give second-hand items an air of respectability.
‘Tat’ has now become ‘nostalgic.’ Or ‘shabby chic.’
Such items are less likely to find their way to the local dump these days (‘the dump’ has been re-imagined as a ‘re-cycling centre,’ these days ) mainly because we now have various businesses accepting boxes of unwanted goods in return for a ‘fair price.’ ‘Vintage Cash Cow,’ ‘and ‘We Buy Books’ and ‘Vinted’ are good examples.
Not only that, the good ol’ Jumble Sale faces competition, and ultimate extinction, thanks also in part to the plethora of High Street charity shops. And of course there are also those infernal plastic bags pushed through our letterboxes with a request for old clothing.
Everyone wants our old stuff now! Kids from local youth organisations looking to supplement their coffers, are reduced to bag-packing at the supermarket. Some simply shake a can in front of consumers going about their weekly shop. (Heck – I’ve even seen some desperate, but enterprising youngsters priming their hand-held card reader in readiness to accept donations by bank card!)
It’s all so far removed for the days back in the ’60s & ’70s, when Jumble Sales were a pretty big deal within the local community. Boy Scouts, Girl Guides, youth sports clubs and the like, all regarded Jumble Sales as a prime fundraising events.
Throughout the week prior to the big day, kids would be farmed out around the local streets with the instruction to ask / beg householders for any old jumble they’d be happy to pass on. A group leader would follow in their car and children would fill the boot and back seats with donated books, toys, ornaments, unwanted tools, lamps and other various electrical goods.
It was from the latter category I managed to bag my best Jumble Sale purchase.
Provided we paid a fair price, as agreed by our leaders, we were allowed to ‘bagsie’ items we collected. These would still be displayed at the sale, but with a great big, hand-written ‘SOLD’ sign taped to them.
The most commonly ‘bagsied’ stuff were toys and board games. Inevitably, the feelings of excitement and triumph at getting your hands on Mouse Trap turned to utter, crushing disappointment when it was later discovered both the diver and washtub / bucket were missing. This of course meant there was nothing to prompt the final act of the cage falling to entrap the wee plastic Indian Chief that was used in substitute for the also missing, toy mouse.
However, I got my hands on this beauty, didn’t I? I’d collected it from its old home, and so had first ‘dibs’ on it. I can’t remember how much I paid for it, but it was well within the budget of my paper-round pay packet.
So … not much!
Result!
It worked, too. Sure, it gave off a bit of an acrid, dusty burning smell, but the dial lit up perfectly and enabled me to pick up the US Forces Network and tune in to Yankees or Red Sox baseball games as they happened. There was something almost romantic about doing so on such an old radio receiver.
(Manufactured around 1945 / 1946 by E.K. Cole Ltd in Southend-on-Sea, my model is of ‘premium’ nature, and now worth between £500 and £750 in working order. Kerchiiiing! 😉)
This was an exceptional find, of course. But even the more mundane items were well sought after, and a good thirty minutes or so before the official opening, queues would form outside the village / church hall venue. (We like queues, here in the UK!)
It was all very civilised … until the doors opened. Mild-mannered elderly ladies instantly morphed into handbag brandishing monsters and youngsters would squabble over a copy of the Dandy Annual that Santa forgot to deliver the previous Christmas.
(Who, in their right mind, gives away their copy of a Dandy or Beano Annual????)
The general rule was that first to lay their hands on a desired good, got it. However, the law of the jumble is savage. Much-sought-after items would become subject to mini-bidding wars, much to the delight of the sale organisers.
And it’s fair to say a good biot of haggling went on, especially towards the end of the sale, when it was a case of shifting everything that was left, for the best price possible.
There would be home-baking stalls, loaded with donations our mothers had slaved over for a couple of days prior.
That stuck up cow, Mrs Brown, isn’t going to produce the best Victoria Sponge this year! (Now don’t go telling wee Johnny, I said that, mind.)
Coffee and tea would be served at the small trestle tables normally used by Tuesday evening’s Village Bridge Club – be careful you don’t spill your fizzy drink on the card-table top.
There was a lovely, warm ambience about the place on Jumble Sale day. The hall would normally have a fusty, possibly even slightly damp smell to it. This was accentuated with all the sales items that had been dragged down from people’s attics or the dark recess of the understairs cupboard.
This mixed with the aroma of over overly-stewed tea and egg and cress or cucumber sandwiches – yes, we were frightfully posh in our village! And then there was the heat that filtered through the hall from the kitchen area – wonderful on a cold Saturday morning in March, but a nightmare in summer sales.
A cacophony of excited chatter, and the odd ‘heated discussion,’ would fill the air.
Ah, yes. Jumble Sales. I miss them. Just think of the bargains you’d pick up these days with consumers buying expensive goods, looking at them twice, wearing / playing with them once, and then replacing them with the more updated, super-improved, better-than-ever make / model.
There’s much to be said for the services offered by the various online organisations who are delighted to buy your old tat. But I’d suggest there’s more to be said about Jumble Sales.
(About 1,049 words, as it happens.) 😉
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#BoyScouts #DailyBlog #GirlGuides #humor #humour #JumbleSales #junk #preOwned #radioReceivers #secondHand #villageHall #vintage -
SIGUE ⬇️
Miles de personas enviaron cartas de felicitación a la familia.
Los periódicos hablaron de un milagro.
Para muchos estadounidenses, en una época marcada por la Gran Depresión y por la amenaza de una guerra mundial, la supervivencia de Donn representó una historia de esperanza.Poco después fue recibido en la Casa Blanca por el presidente Franklin D. Roosevelt, quien le entregó una medalla al valor.
Su fama fue enorme.
Ese mismo año, junto al escritor Joseph B. Egan, publicó el libro "Lost on a Mountain in Maine".
La obra se convirtió en un clásico de la literatura juvenil estadounidense y durante generaciones fue lectura obligatoria en numerosas escuelas de Maine.Pero lo más curioso es que la experiencia no hizo que odiara la montaña.
Al contrario.
Con los años regresó muchas veces a Katahdin.
Aprendió a convivir con aquel recuerdo y terminó desarrollando un profundo respeto por la naturaleza.
Compró una cabaña de vacaciones en Maine y continuó visitando la región durante gran parte de su vida.Ya de adulto ingresó en el Ejército de Estados Unidos.
Su carrera militar fue larga y destacada.
Sirvió durante más de tres décadas, participó en la Guerra de Vietnam y alcanzó el rango de teniente coronel antes de retirarse.Después dedicó gran parte de su tiempo a visitar escuelas.
Miles de estudiantes escucharon de primera mano la historia del niño perdido que se negó a rendirse.
Siempre insistía en la importancia de mantener la calma, prepararse adecuadamente y conservar la esperanza incluso en las situaciones más difíciles.Se casó, formó una familia y tuvo cuatro hijos.
Durante décadas siguió respondiendo cartas de admiradores y participando en actos relacionados con la seguridad en la montaña y la supervivencia al aire libre.
Donn Fendler falleció el 10 de octubre de 2016, a los 90 años, por causas naturales.
Sin embargo, su historia sigue viva.
Más de ochenta años después, continúa siendo uno de los casos de supervivencia más extraordinarios jamás documentados.
Un niño de 12 años, solo en medio de una naturaleza implacable, sin comida, sin refugio y sin ayuda, logró sobrevivir gracias a una mezcla de valentía, conocimientos básicos, fe y una determinación fuera de lo común.Y quizá por eso su historia sigue fascinando: porque demuestra que, a veces, la diferencia entre rendirse y seguir adelante puede cambiarlo todo.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_OU9A-elI_0
#historiareal #donnfendler #supervivencia #montañakatahdin #maine #historiasincreibles #boyscouts #aventura #historiasreales #curiosidadeshistoricas #estadosunidos #supervivenciaextrema #naturaleza #ecosdelpasado #memoriahistorica #historiasqueinspiran #rescate
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SIGUE ⬇️
Miles de personas enviaron cartas de felicitación a la familia.
Los periódicos hablaron de un milagro.
Para muchos estadounidenses, en una época marcada por la Gran Depresión y por la amenaza de una guerra mundial, la supervivencia de Donn representó una historia de esperanza.Poco después fue recibido en la Casa Blanca por el presidente Franklin D. Roosevelt, quien le entregó una medalla al valor.
Su fama fue enorme.
Ese mismo año, junto al escritor Joseph B. Egan, publicó el libro "Lost on a Mountain in Maine".
La obra se convirtió en un clásico de la literatura juvenil estadounidense y durante generaciones fue lectura obligatoria en numerosas escuelas de Maine.Pero lo más curioso es que la experiencia no hizo que odiara la montaña.
Al contrario.
Con los años regresó muchas veces a Katahdin.
Aprendió a convivir con aquel recuerdo y terminó desarrollando un profundo respeto por la naturaleza.
Compró una cabaña de vacaciones en Maine y continuó visitando la región durante gran parte de su vida.Ya de adulto ingresó en el Ejército de Estados Unidos.
Su carrera militar fue larga y destacada.
Sirvió durante más de tres décadas, participó en la Guerra de Vietnam y alcanzó el rango de teniente coronel antes de retirarse.Después dedicó gran parte de su tiempo a visitar escuelas.
Miles de estudiantes escucharon de primera mano la historia del niño perdido que se negó a rendirse.
Siempre insistía en la importancia de mantener la calma, prepararse adecuadamente y conservar la esperanza incluso en las situaciones más difíciles.Se casó, formó una familia y tuvo cuatro hijos.
Durante décadas siguió respondiendo cartas de admiradores y participando en actos relacionados con la seguridad en la montaña y la supervivencia al aire libre.
Donn Fendler falleció el 10 de octubre de 2016, a los 90 años, por causas naturales.
Sin embargo, su historia sigue viva.
Más de ochenta años después, continúa siendo uno de los casos de supervivencia más extraordinarios jamás documentados.
Un niño de 12 años, solo en medio de una naturaleza implacable, sin comida, sin refugio y sin ayuda, logró sobrevivir gracias a una mezcla de valentía, conocimientos básicos, fe y una determinación fuera de lo común.Y quizá por eso su historia sigue fascinando: porque demuestra que, a veces, la diferencia entre rendirse y seguir adelante puede cambiarlo todo.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_OU9A-elI_0
#historiareal #donnfendler #supervivencia #montañakatahdin #maine #historiasincreibles #boyscouts #aventura #historiasreales #curiosidadeshistoricas #estadosunidos #supervivenciaextrema #naturaleza #ecosdelpasado #memoriahistorica #historiasqueinspiran #rescate
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SIGUE ⬇️
Miles de personas enviaron cartas de felicitación a la familia.
Los periódicos hablaron de un milagro.
Para muchos estadounidenses, en una época marcada por la Gran Depresión y por la amenaza de una guerra mundial, la supervivencia de Donn representó una historia de esperanza.Poco después fue recibido en la Casa Blanca por el presidente Franklin D. Roosevelt, quien le entregó una medalla al valor.
Su fama fue enorme.
Ese mismo año, junto al escritor Joseph B. Egan, publicó el libro "Lost on a Mountain in Maine".
La obra se convirtió en un clásico de la literatura juvenil estadounidense y durante generaciones fue lectura obligatoria en numerosas escuelas de Maine.Pero lo más curioso es que la experiencia no hizo que odiara la montaña.
Al contrario.
Con los años regresó muchas veces a Katahdin.
Aprendió a convivir con aquel recuerdo y terminó desarrollando un profundo respeto por la naturaleza.
Compró una cabaña de vacaciones en Maine y continuó visitando la región durante gran parte de su vida.Ya de adulto ingresó en el Ejército de Estados Unidos.
Su carrera militar fue larga y destacada.
Sirvió durante más de tres décadas, participó en la Guerra de Vietnam y alcanzó el rango de teniente coronel antes de retirarse.Después dedicó gran parte de su tiempo a visitar escuelas.
Miles de estudiantes escucharon de primera mano la historia del niño perdido que se negó a rendirse.
Siempre insistía en la importancia de mantener la calma, prepararse adecuadamente y conservar la esperanza incluso en las situaciones más difíciles.Se casó, formó una familia y tuvo cuatro hijos.
Durante décadas siguió respondiendo cartas de admiradores y participando en actos relacionados con la seguridad en la montaña y la supervivencia al aire libre.
Donn Fendler falleció el 10 de octubre de 2016, a los 90 años, por causas naturales.
Sin embargo, su historia sigue viva.
Más de ochenta años después, continúa siendo uno de los casos de supervivencia más extraordinarios jamás documentados.
Un niño de 12 años, solo en medio de una naturaleza implacable, sin comida, sin refugio y sin ayuda, logró sobrevivir gracias a una mezcla de valentía, conocimientos básicos, fe y una determinación fuera de lo común.Y quizá por eso su historia sigue fascinando: porque demuestra que, a veces, la diferencia entre rendirse y seguir adelante puede cambiarlo todo.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_OU9A-elI_0
#historiareal #donnfendler #supervivencia #montañakatahdin #maine #historiasincreibles #boyscouts #aventura #historiasreales #curiosidadeshistoricas #estadosunidos #supervivenciaextrema #naturaleza #ecosdelpasado #memoriahistorica #historiasqueinspiran #rescate
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https://youtu.be/vQoahSUs7RE
The real reason the Boy Scouts disappearedAs a former Eagle Scout, there is a reason i did not enroll my son into scouting.
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https://youtu.be/vQoahSUs7RE
The real reason the Boy Scouts disappearedAs a former Eagle Scout, there is a reason i did not enroll my son into scouting.
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Would the Playhouse have been a safer place for someone like me?
I found out that actors can be gay, but Boy Scouts can’t.
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Would the Playhouse have been a safer place for someone like me?
I found out that actors can be gay, but Boy Scouts can’t.
https://medium.com/prismnpen/over-my-dead-body-gay-boy-scout-went-back-af347e205bf3 -
CW: Boy Scouts, military
Sometimes I think about how I'm glad that I quit so early. I think it was like a month or less and I didn't like the idea of day camping or whatever so I didn't go back when they said that's what they were doing next time. I feel like maybe it exists to brainwash kids into being ok with going into the military.
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CW: Boy Scouts, military
Sometimes I think about how I'm glad that I quit so early. I think it was like a month or less and I didn't like the idea of day camping or whatever so I didn't go back when they said that's what they were doing next time. I feel like maybe it exists to brainwash kids into being ok with going into the military.
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Until 5 today! 10 wings = $15 for #BoyScouts from #NewYorkState, sponsored by #WestwayDiner. 43rd I think, at 9th.
They told me it was battery powered, all 3 spits (looks like only 2, I know) turn simultaneously - only available from international import via Greece, she said. Super cool looking.
9th Ave #International #FoodFestival this weekend, 42nd-57th. It used to go as far south as 38th!
#NYC #street #fair #festival #wings #tacos #turkey #legs #bratwurst #fried #dumplings #sliders #mozzarepa -
Until 5 today! 10 wings = $15 for #BoyScouts from #NewYorkState, sponsored by #WestwayDiner. 43rd I think, at 9th.
They told me it was battery powered, all 3 spits (looks like only 2, I know) turn simultaneously - only available from international import via Greece, she said. Super cool looking.
9th Ave #International #FoodFestival this weekend, 42nd-57th. It used to go as far south as 38th!
#NYC #street #fair #festival #wings #tacos #turkey #legs #bratwurst #fried #dumplings #sliders #mozzarepa -
Until 5 today! 10 wings = $15 for #BoyScouts from #NewYorkState, sponsored by #WestwayDiner. 43rd I think, at 9th.
They told me it was battery powered, all 3 spits (looks like only 2, I know) turn simultaneously - only available from international import via Greece, she said. Super cool looking.
9th Ave #International #FoodFestival this weekend, 42nd-57th. It used to go as far south as 38th!
#NYC #street #fair #festival #wings #tacos #turkey #legs #bratwurst #fried #dumplings #sliders #mozzarepa -
Until 5 today! 10 wings = $15 for #BoyScouts from #NewYorkState, sponsored by #WestwayDiner. 43rd I think, at 9th.
They told me it was battery powered, all 3 spits (looks like only 2, I know) turn simultaneously - only available from international import via Greece, she said. Super cool looking.
9th Ave #International #FoodFestival this weekend, 42nd-57th. It used to go as far south as 38th!
#NYC #street #fair #festival #wings #tacos #turkey #legs #bratwurst #fried #dumplings #sliders #mozzarepa -
Until 5 today! 10 wings = $15 for #BoyScouts from #NewYorkState, sponsored by #WestwayDiner. 43rd I think, at 9th.
They told me it was battery powered, all 3 spits (looks like only 2, I know) turn simultaneously - only available from international import via Greece, she said. Super cool looking.
9th Ave #International #FoodFestival this weekend, 42nd-57th. It used to go as far south as 38th!
#NYC #street #fair #festival #wings #tacos #turkey #legs #bratwurst #fried #dumplings #sliders #mozzarepa -
Donald Trump has announced his intention to rename the Boy Scouts of America ‘Trump Youth’ after a number of tremendously well-received rallies.
Taking a break from tweeting and watching Fox News, President Trump used his Truth Social account to explain how delighted the crowds were with his views on fake media, the Epstein files, and a party that he may or may not have attended back in the 1980’s.
https://archive.ph/ER8hf #satire #Trump #BoyScouts -
Donald Trump has announced his intention to rename the Boy Scouts of America ‘Trump Youth’ after a number of tremendously well-received rallies.
Taking a break from tweeting and watching Fox News, President Trump used his Truth Social account to explain how delighted the crowds were with his views on fake media, the Epstein files, and a party that he may or may not have attended back in the 1980’s.
https://archive.ph/ER8hf #satire #Trump #BoyScouts -
Ah, the Boy Scouts—a beacon of #neglect wrapped in a new brand name! 🔥🔥 Apparently, the organization thinks a bit of #rebranding magic will solve decades of negligence. 🤦♂️ But fear not, they've got a meeting in Dallas where they’ll surely fix everything with some #PowerPoint slides and corporate jargon. 🎩✨
https://www.untendedfire.org/2026/05/09/scoutings-real-crisis-is-not-marketing-it-is-decades-of-neglect/ #BoyScouts #CorporateJargon #DallasMeeting #HackerNews #ngated -
Ah, the Boy Scouts—a beacon of #neglect wrapped in a new brand name! 🔥🔥 Apparently, the organization thinks a bit of #rebranding magic will solve decades of negligence. 🤦♂️ But fear not, they've got a meeting in Dallas where they’ll surely fix everything with some #PowerPoint slides and corporate jargon. 🎩✨
https://www.untendedfire.org/2026/05/09/scoutings-real-crisis-is-not-marketing-it-is-decades-of-neglect/ #BoyScouts #CorporateJargon #DallasMeeting #HackerNews #ngated -
Campaign Against Camping!
Have I ever been camping?
Have I ever been camping?!!
You’re rootin’ tootin’, I’ve been camping. I’ll tell you – I’ve spent some of the most miserable days and nights of my life under canvas.
I’m cool with the notion of getting back to nature. I did, after all, spend eighteen years of my working life outdoors, in just about every kind of weather imaginable, when I was working with animals. That part doesn’t faze me at all. It wasn’t pleasant at times, for sure, but I knew come six o’ clock in the evening, I could head home for a hot bath, something nice to eat, and watch my favourite television programme.
That didn’t happen on any camping expedition I was on, that’s for sure.
You see, I was in the Boy Scouts. In the late 1960s and early ’70s. Camping was seen then as ‘character building.’ And I think that’s what turned me into the bitter and twisted wee character I am today.
The idea was we went on organised camps with the Troop Leaders to learn all sorts of useful skills.
Aye right! I’m not sure exactly how may tent pegs I’ve subsequently had to whittle from a damp log found in the woods, but I’m guessing if I were to count them, they’d come to less than a finger on one hand.
Map-reading? There’s another. Just jump in a taxi for goodness sake. Erecting a tent. Why? I’m never likely to go camping ever, ever again.
It was pointless. Why not just take us away for the weekend to a nice hotel in a distant city where we could all sneak out, meet up with the local Girl Guide unit , and blag a few illicit beers. That would have more of a practical life experience.
But no – not only were our parents so happy to pack us off for random weekends with the Scout Leaders, so they could … well … they were also happy to let us go without the adult supervision. And so off we’d go, maybe six of us from our own patrol; off to show the Leaders what great Scouts we were. Off to live under canvas for a weekend at the arse-end of the Earth.
One time, our ever-so-inexperienced band of idiots pitched our tent at the foot of a wooded slope. With a river about fifty yards away.
And it rained. Big, Scottish rain. Scottish rain is like rain the world over. Only more miserable!
At two o’clock in the morning, with our sleeping bags already soaked, we had go out in the dark, with some crappy wee torch thing (the wick in the lanterns we’d brought were too damp to ignite) and dig a bloody big, deep trench around the tent and divert the cascading water away.
Over the next two days, we replaced the rainwater in our clothes with smoke from the campfire which we eventually managed to restart.
And we couldn’t just break camp and head home, because we were in the middle of bleedin’ nowhere, and weren’t due to be picked up until the Monday afternoon.
And see all this palaver about digging latrines or using the bushes in the woods like a bear does??!! Whaaat?!
That was the last time I went camping.
(Oh no, wait. My wife and I did stay overnight in one of these plush Arabian tent things in Goa, India, a couple of years ago. And I got bitten on the chest by a huge spider that I witnessed escaping from under the bedsheet. The bite left a dirty great welt that I had to bombard with antiseptic creams for a week.)
And caravanning is no better! I’ll post my ‘Caravan Holiday Hell‘ tale, taken from my book ‘A Space Hopper Killed My Hamster‘ in a day or two. Once I’ve gotten over the trauma of re-living my Camping experiences.
SO THAT’S IT – CAMPING MUST BE BANNED! I’M STARTING A CAMPAIGN. HERE AND NOW! ARE YOU WITGH ME, BROTHERS & SISTERS? ADD YOUR NAME IN THE COMMENTS SECTION BELOW, AND TOGETHER WE WILL CANVASS AGAINST CANVAS!
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Campaign Against Camping!
Have I ever been camping?
Have I ever been camping?!!
You’re rootin’ tootin’, I’ve been camping. I’ll tell you – I’ve spent some of the most miserable days and nights of my life under canvas.
I’m cool with the notion of getting back to nature. I did, after all, spend eighteen years of my working life outdoors, in just about every kind of weather imaginable, when I was working with animals. That part doesn’t faze me at all. It wasn’t pleasant at times, for sure, but I knew come six o’ clock in the evening, I could head home for a hot bath, something nice to eat, and watch my favourite television programme.
That didn’t happen on any camping expedition I was on, that’s for sure.
You see, I was in the Boy Scouts. In the late 1960s and early ’70s. Camping was seen then as ‘character building.’ And I think that’s what turned me into the bitter and twisted wee character I am today.
The idea was we went on organised camps with the Troop Leaders to learn all sorts of useful skills.
Aye right! I’m not sure exactly how may tent pegs I’ve subsequently had to whittle from a damp log found in the woods, but I’m guessing if I were to count them, they’d come to less than a finger on one hand.
Map-reading? There’s another. Just jump in a taxi for goodness sake. Erecting a tent. Why? I’m never likely to go camping ever, ever again.
It was pointless. Why not just take us away for the weekend to a nice hotel in a distant city where we could all sneak out, meet up with the local Girl Guide unit , and blag a few illicit beers. That would have more of a practical life experience.
But no – not only were our parents so happy to pack us off for random weekends with the Scout Leaders, so they could … well … they were also happy to let us go without the adult supervision. And so off we’d go, maybe six of us from our own patrol; off to show the Leaders what great Scouts we were. Off to live under canvas for a weekend at the arse-end of the Earth.
One time, our ever-so-inexperienced band of idiots pitched our tent at the foot of a wooded slope. With a river about fifty yards away.
And it rained. Big, Scottish rain. Scottish rain is like rain the world over. Only more miserable!
At two o’clock in the morning, with our sleeping bags already soaked, we had go out in the dark, with some crappy wee torch thing (the wick in the lanterns we’d brought were too damp to ignite) and dig a bloody big, deep trench around the tent and divert the cascading water away.
Over the next two days, we replaced the rainwater in our clothes with smoke from the campfire which we eventually managed to restart.
And we couldn’t just break camp and head home, because we were in the middle of bleedin’ nowhere, and weren’t due to be picked up until the Monday afternoon.
And see all this palaver about digging latrines or using the bushes in the woods like a bear does??!! Whaaat?!
That was the last time I went camping.
(Oh no, wait. My wife and I did stay overnight in one of these plush Arabian tent things in Goa, India, a couple of years ago. And I got bitten on the chest by a huge spider that I witnessed escaping from under the bedsheet. The bite left a dirty great welt that I had to bombard with antiseptic creams for a week.)
And caravanning is no better! I’ll post my ‘Caravan Holiday Hell‘ tale, taken from my book ‘A Space Hopper Killed My Hamster‘ in a day or two. Once I’ve gotten over the trauma of re-living my Camping experiences.
SO THAT’S IT – CAMPING MUST BE BANNED! I’M STARTING A CAMPAIGN. HERE AND NOW! ARE YOU WITGH ME, BROTHERS & SISTERS? ADD YOUR NAME IN THE COMMENTS SECTION BELOW, AND TOGETHER WE WILL CANVASS AGAINST CANVAS!
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Southern Oregon teen photographs Applegate peaks to inspire peers
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Eagle Scout project brings hammock garden to Lost River Cave https://www.allforgardening.com/1670767/eagle-scout-project-brings-hammock-garden-to-lost-river-cave/ #BowlingGreen #BoyScouts #EagleScoutProject #garden #HammockGarden #LostRiverCave
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@vees #boyscouts have decided racism is important them. Too bad they don't care about their scouts or their future
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@vees #boyscouts have decided racism is important them. Too bad they don't care about their scouts or their future
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#TheGremlinZoo #Pentagon #BoyScouts #TransgenderYouth
From AP News.com: Transgender youths are targeted in Scouting America changes pushed by the Pentagon
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From AP News.com: Transgender youths are targeted in Scouting America changes pushed by the Pentagon
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NEW: Do they give merit badges for awesomeness? Because while #Broncos coach Sean Payton was jetting to the scouting combine, his Pro Bowl LT, Garett Bolles, got busy giving pointers to Boy Scouts. @DenverPost column: 👇
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Have a great World Thinking Day!
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