Confession time: were you a cub/scout/beaver/brownie etc?

[Lady Whistledown]

Well?

I was a brownie. And a damn fine one too

I got a STACK of badges to stick on my lovely brown uniform, which included all the essential ones for girls, principally House Orderly (cleaning/ironing), Sewing/Knitting and Cooking. Going to Brownies mainly seemed to involve dancing round a toadstool, the occasional church parade if it was Remembrance Sunday, and getting shouted at by Brown Owl for playing football in the Guide Hut.

So, did any of you go Scouting For Boys, as it were? What badges did you get (Camping, anyone?)?

And who's prepared to admit to having been a Beaver?

 

[Les Biehn]

Cub. f***ing hated it.

 

[Heffle Gull]

I was a scout

1st Heathfield

 

[Nibble]

I was a cub until my overprotective Mother became a cub leader thingy to keep an eye on me and embarrased the hell out of me so I left.

 

[Cian]

Cub, Scout, Cub leader at various times. Fairly hefty amount of badges at the two lower levels and a lovely scar from a tent collapse incident at the latter

8th Kildare, for those that give a f***. Sixer at both cubs and scouts. The I discovered alcohol

 

[Dave the OAP]

 

[pasty]

3rd Haywards Heath. Cub, scout and venture scout.

 

[Lady Whistledown]

I was in the 1st Hurstpierpoint Brownies in fact.

The boys in the local cubs got to go camping outside each year. The Brownies, on the other hand, had to make to with kipping on the floor of Angmering Village Hall.

They made us bath in a bin

 

[Silent Bob]

I was a Beaver (as opposed to now I'm just a cunt), and a cub, but by the time I was old enough to be a scout I'd realised it was a bit shit.

 

[Blackadder]

5Th Haywards Heath cubs Sixer Black six.

Went on to Scouts. Dropped out.

 

[Napper]

Army Cadets

 

[scooter1]

Cub and then scout... I'm sure I heard a story going round a few years back that our cub leader got sent down for kiddy fiddling.. Thinking back he always looked a bit of a wrong-un, and his missus, 'kin ell she was a scary sort
We used to play Britsh Bulldog in the cubs and it was alright, when moving up to Scouts it was a whole different game - it paid to get out early!!

 

[Mr Blobby]

I was in the cubs and then the scouts. Didn't stay in the Scouts long as the bloke that ran it was a sadistict wan*er and everyone I joined with had left within 6 months.

We only all joined as we played football as a cub team, moved on to scouts but then all joined a local team (this was when I lived in the Midlands for a few years)

 

[CHAPPERS]

Beaver, cub, scout.

Beavers had the boss tracksuits. Cubs was shit. Scouts involved playing football in a tiny room and smashing each other up.

I left Scouts asap.

What a load of shit.

 

[junior]

at the fact im about to admit this


I was a Beaver,Cub,Scout and a cub leader for a few years.....but worst of all......

....My mum was a Brown Owl at Brownies,and ran the Girl Guides,and as i came from a single parent family i had to go along every weeks and sit at the back/join in until i was old enough to tell her to RAM IT and i'd stay at home

 

[Lady Whistledown]

Army Cadets

Booooo!

I was a Sixer too, my six was the Gnomes (Brownies were so rock 'n roll).

Gave up on Guides after about three weeks though I think. They took an extremely dim view of football. Miserable bastards...

So I became a Junior Seagull instead, maybe it was a kind of substitute- no badges, but I did get to meet Danny Wilson...

 

[tedebear]

I was a nipper!! Strangely this googled picture looks like a tubbier version of me!!

 

[Lady Whistledown]

I was a nipper!! Strangely this googled picture looks like a tubbier version of me!!

What the HELL is a Nipper?

 

[junior]

I forgot to add....i was a POLICE CADET too

A bit gay looking back on it but i did get to see some wicked shit like dead bodies and car chases and smashed up posh house in Hove

 

[maffew]

Cub
4th Worcester X Pack

Honours
Super Sixer 4 times (got to wear a silver woggle though it fell off
so came with a bit of sponge)
Sixer (Yellow 6)


Seconder


Badges:
3 x gold stars 1 for each year I think
Camping
First Aid
Map Reading/Orienteirng
Home Help
Swimmer
Book Reader