OOOOOPS! Meant Explorer, not Eagle. Sorry.
Are they tucked where they should be tucked and untucked where they shouldn’t and not some bastard combination?
Your blood boils over a tucked in shirt? Chill.
I am a Scoutmaster. My boys typically have their shirts tucked, but I rarely see Scout pants on them - nor do I complain about it. It is their choice, and uniforms are only one of the methods. Of course, I also go to a church a fair number of members wearing flowered shirts - so I don’t exacly have high standards. Uniforms are there to make the boys equals. Here is what the BSA has to say:
http://www.scouting.org/media/factsheets/02-503.aspx
If that Scout is not wearing his uniform with pride, perhaps he needs some help in that from a former Scout - not someone who wants to scream about a tucked in shirt. By the way, we don’t call it a blouse anymore, new shirts were just issued, and neckerchiefs are ONE of the optional bits of neckwear depending on the troop.
Muffin: Many of us continue to ask for local control on the issue of gays (that would allow our chartering organization to make the decision). I belong to the Boy Scouts, and I hope to see the exclusion of gays to end.
Jettboy: Too bad your sons have an asshole as a father. I hope that they are able to learn better morals in other activities, since you apparently are not passing any on based on this post.
Not joining a group because you do not like the activities - fine. Not joining because you will be bullied? That is pathetic. GREAT lesson to pass onto your sons, asshole.
Perhaps I engaged in some hyperbole with that phrase, but I was ranting.
I wanted to scream–okay, I really just wanted to whisper a reminder, but like I said, he’s challenged and a comment from a virtual stranger would scare the shit out of him.
Feh! Californians! 
I agree completely. And don’t get me started on Boy Scout activities versus Girl Scout activities. My daughters were sick with jealousy comparing what they did with the the boys did.
I had a hard time getting my mind around that post by Jettboy. Bullies go after Scouts? Truly laughable, from my experience. But then my experience was not Jettboy’s experience. Perhaps he grew up in an environment where bullies ruled the roost and where Scouts were at the bottom of the pecking order.
We simply included girls in our troop’s internal activities - canoe trips etc. Fortunatley, Scouts Canada recognised that it should not discriminate based on sex, so now Scouting here is co-ed.
I too feel misled. And angered. I was hoping for pictures, or at least a story about you…
naked.
Actually, it’s just one son, fuckhead, and I’d much rather him be involved in something quasi reality-based than some group of dinguses (dingi?) who live in a Daniel Boone fantasy world where ‘scouting skills’ have some sort of imaginary value.
As far as morals go, I think I’m much more qualified to teach him those than some crop of Jesus-lovin’ redneck wannabes who—rather than risk Daddy’s ire—are barely able to surpress their latent homosexual tendencies until they graduate high school, leave home, and explode in a frenzy of wanton gayness.
Your lack of knowledge about Scouts only matches the fucked-up lessons you are passing onto your son. The last Eagle Court of Honor we held was at a Temple and the benediction was given by a Rabbi.
You are the one gay bashing in this thread, by the way.
As for useless skills:
First Aid - used it several times in the Marine Corps, on hikes, and in an office setting.
Personal Management - I was smart enough not to get into debt with credit cards, and to get a 30 year fixed note on my house.
Emergency Prepardness - been through two major earthquakes. Neighbors came to me for water and food when the supply was questionable.
Lifesaving - Helped me get a job as a lifeguard.
Swimming - you really think that is worthless?
Orienteering - used map and compass in Europe to find the really cool spots.
Shall I keep going? Nah - you are an asshole who is raising a boy to wipe the asses of the local bullies rather than go against them. Do you also tell him to join in on gay bashing along with avoiding Scouts?
The next Eagle in my troop is a starting lineman on the local high school team. I have a patrol of Club level soccer players, and three All-Star baseball players. This goes along with the one headed to MIT next year of course. What a bunch of losers.
Go back to your fuming, little one. It is obvious that a Boy Scout took your girl when you were young, and you still harbor some resentment about it.
Venture Scouting (starts at 14) is Co-Ed in the US now. Our Venture Crew is trying to recruit some girls, but we also need a female adult leader for the overnights. We can find the girls with the desire and ability to join us on our hunting and backpacking runs, but we still don’t have a mom (or old enough sister) to cover the regulations.
I don’t know how long until Boy Scouts in the US makes it possible for girls to join officially. 20 years?
Jettboy, you are truely clueless.
Yeah, I’m sure that probably happened, lo these 30-odd years ago. :rolleyes:
I think the average Boy Scout was most likely too busy hanging out in the woods with his “buddies” to have taken my girl. Besides, the scouts seem to put girls waaaaay down on the list of “important and interesting things”.
An organization that is so obviously, and furiously, homoerotic that takes a rigid, stiff (oops, sorry, didn’t mean to get you worked up) stance against gays is a laugh a minute. Hypocritical, self righteous, white bread, Stepford boys?! Please, the question isn’t “why wouldn’t I want my son to be one?”, but rather, “…why would anyone want their son to be one?”
The Boy Scouts? A breeding ground for the next generation of sheep.
Hell yeah! We were the guys allowed to carry knives in school. Not our proper, weekend knives, of the, “You call that a knife? THIS is a knife,” sort, but they were sharp.
Some selected flock members:
Franklin Roosevelt
John F Kennedy
Neil Armstrong
Michael Moore
Indiana Jones
My scout leaders, back in the late '50s, stood by, smiling, while the new kids got ceremoniously tackled and forcibly stripped naked by some of the older kids. Then their clothes were hidden. I didn’t notice whether the leaders had pitched their tents in their pants, but I wouldn’t be surprised.
It’s called hypocrisy.
An interesting statement . . . from a person who apparently believes that whom you fuck ***does ***change what your rights are.
I’m kind of a hippie, myself, but my son is a Cub Scout, and I support him completely. At the rate he’s growing, anyone who tries to stuff him into a locker may just take home a spanked ass, with my blessing. This morning, we did ‘Scouting for Food’, in which they went door-to-door collecting canned goods on behalf of the Salvation Army. Afterwards, we stopped for lunch at a fast-food place, where a team of high-school cheerleaders winked at them and fawned over them (“Aren’t they just adoooorable in their little uniforms?”), and insisted on having pictures taken with them. The old saying that ‘girls love a man in uniform’ may not be a universal truth, but it’s true enough that I’m fairly certain that this crew will be ‘scouts for life’, now. 
And *dropzone, I hear ya’. Tuck those shirt-tails in, young men, and stand up straight.
It’s called ‘your scout leaders weren’t leaders’. That’s shameful.
Or, when will the Girl Scout/Guides let the boys join ?
I don’t see where you get that. I just don’t happen to believe that joining the Scouts is a right.
Its OK - let out the pain. While you are at it, you seem to harbor a lot of homophobia combined with a deep knowledge of homoeroticism. Perhaps you should look deep into yourself. This self-hatred is so unbecoming. Be truthful to your true orientation, and give up the hate.
In the meantime, a man who tells his son not to do anything that might anger the bullies is not one to make lectures regarding sheep.