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remigious posted:Last time I visited my dad he was lamenting that it’s illegal to shoot hawks Don't worry, wanton animal murder is back on the boomer table.
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May 29, 2020 00:16
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I get really nervous thinking about him drinking too much and shooting at the wildlife on his property in the boonies.
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I have a legal mediation coming up soon with two Boomer property developers that screwed me over. Very tempted to sit quietly listening to their opening statements and then just reply with "OK Boomers". Property developer is a very Boomer career. Hopefully they catch corona on the way to the court because I'm pretty sure it would take them both out pretty easily. They are walking cliches. One wears a big gold necklace over shirts that are way too loud and tight for his fat gut, and only dates younger blondes. The other is a compulsive liar who immediately gets spit-talk angry when you point out his lies. I'm going to make them pay me lots of money and apologize. Not sure which one will hurt more for them. Wish me luck!
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May 29, 2020 01:03
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Red Rox posted:I have a legal mediation coming up soon with two Boomer property developers that screwed me over. Very tempted to sit quietly listening to their opening statements and then just reply with "OK Boomers". Property developer is a very Boomer career. As your lawyer, I say HELL YES
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May 29, 2020 01:07
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https://twitter.com/Breaking9ll/status/1265905737638739969
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May 29, 2020 01:36
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Krispy Wafer posted:They could have just said "look at her haircut" and closed their case against Boomer Karen. "The Unsettler"
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May 29, 2020 01:57
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Krispy Wafer posted:I imagine Whirlpool could have told her to pound sand if she put a 8lb chunk of meat in a convection toaster oven. The fact they sent her to the Chinese manufacturer means they didn't necessarily have a problem with how she cooked it. You imagine a Boomer owned up, fully and honestly, to their own dumbass mistake? What they told the authorities and press after the fact was the truth, whole and nothing but? Brother have I got a bridge to sell you, or better yet a Bible Bucket full of 50lbs of nachocheez and broccoli. "I don't KNOW how it set on fire, Billy, it just did! drat thing's defective! I should sue! Lousy manufacturers cutting corners, sending the jobs to China! And if there's a size limit it should say on the box!" <son silently and furiously chips a brick of charcoal that was obviously once a full spiral ham, welded to the toaster oven's walls and floor by carbonized grease slicks>
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May 29, 2020 01:58
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A White Guy posted:It's important to remember that "Everyone gets a gold star!" and "Just think positive thoughts forever and everything will be fine!" were things invented and popularized by boomers. Check out "Smile or Die" on YouTube https://youtu.be/u5um8QWWRvo
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May 29, 2020 02:12
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Geoj posted:When I was in scouts and someone would reach Eagle they'd always give a speech about how X presidents, Y Apollo astronauts and Z war heroes were Eagle scouts. Nobody gets eagle scout because they want to be an eagle scout. They get eagle scout because their father wants them to be an eagle scout.
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May 29, 2020 02:13
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E. Revenant posted:Nobody gets eagle scout because they want to be an eagle scout. They get eagle scout because their father wants them to be an eagle scout. There's a segment of self-motivated teenagers who still care about the program they've been a part of since they were 12 but yeah, there's also a whole lot of moms and dads pushing their kids across the finish line, with all the other kids who were shooting for eagle at roughly the same time helping out with your project with the understanding you'd help with theirs.
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May 29, 2020 02:18
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E. Revenant posted:Nobody gets eagle scout because they want to be an eagle scout. They get eagle scout because their father wants them to be an eagle scout. 100% I'm an Eagle Scout because my parents wanted me to and because it'd apparently help me if I joined the military and it'd look good on a resume. I don't remember a single thing about actually surviving in the wilderness and my favorite part of camping was just staying in the tent and playing Pokemon
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May 29, 2020 02:25
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E. Revenant posted:Nobody gets eagle scout because they want to be an eagle scout. They get eagle scout because their father wants them to be an eagle scout. What are you talking about 17 year olds love spending a bunch of time with the only 2 other dorks who stayed in scouts that long as well as bunch of 12-year-olds who haven't gotten enough autonomy from their parents to quit yet. I assume that's what it's like being in Boy Scouts at that age anyway. I didn't know anyone who did it.
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May 29, 2020 02:33
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scouts are for the kids too uptight to get into drugs but too helicopter parented to be able to develop honest serial killer tendencies. hello its me. im the teenager who made thempself an eagle scout. the thing that loving sucks is i only became an eagle scout AFTER i got accepted into college so it did gently caress ALL to help me. PHIZ KALIFA fucked around with this message at 04:17 on May 29, 2020 |
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May 29, 2020 03:49
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PHIZ KALIFA posted:i only became an eagle scout AFTER i got into college fuckin' l o l at least you realize the folly of it
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May 29, 2020 04:08
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well, now in retrospect, the seminary probably saw on my application how much of my public service was scout related and probably figured i'd be fine working alongside unconvicted sex offenders
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May 29, 2020 04:18
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Seminary huh? That's a fancy name for a blowjob factory
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May 29, 2020 04:22
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Geoj posted:When I was in scouts and someone would reach Eagle they'd always give a speech about how X presidents, Y Apollo astronauts and Z war heroes were Eagle scouts. Many scouts have their parents basically do their eagle projects for them and many troops are notorious for being eagle mills who flout the rules in order to churn out as many eagles as possible (apparently the LDS led ones were the worst when it came to this). My troop was one of the better ones in that you had to be at least 14 to be seriously considered for eagle.
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May 29, 2020 05:45
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Scouts was great. I was in it for 3 years. Zero badges. No regerts.
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May 29, 2020 05:57
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My brother's eagle scout project was cleaning out a storage closet above the stage in our LDS chapel. It was such bullshit that I am embarrassed by it to this day. Even other LDS eagle scouts I told this to have been disgusted and incredulous.
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May 29, 2020 05:58
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Bloody Hedgehog posted:Scouts was great. I was in it for 3 years. Scouts as a concept could have just stopped at being a club for hanging out in the woods and playing with fire and knives, but they had to make a whole organized thing out of it.
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May 29, 2020 06:11
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Bongo Bill posted:Scouts as a concept could have just stopped at being a club for hanging out in the woods and playing with fire and knives, but they had to make a whole organized thing out of it. So tonight at Scouts we learned to draw our own hentai. Can I go back next week?
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May 29, 2020 06:15
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Bloody Hedgehog posted:Scouts was great. I was in it for 3 years. An impressive commitment to slacking off. You can't accidentally earn a badge at that point? Good attendance, something?
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May 29, 2020 06:21
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Bongo Bill posted:Scouts as a concept could have just stopped at being a club for hanging out in the woods and playing with fire and knives, but they had to make a whole organized thing out of it. This was exactly how I treated it. My friends at school were also in scouts, so it was just an extended hangout session. gently caress around at the scout hall, occasionally go camping and gently caress around in nature, it was great. When they were finally like "You have to earn some badges, a SINGLE badge, or your out.", that's when I handed in my walking papers. PostNouveau posted:An impressive commitment to slacking off. You can't accidentally earn a badge at that point? Good attendance, something? Nope. Even the badges that were dead easiest to earn, you still had to do a small little "Here's what I learned, and what I did." presentation for your scout leader. gently caress that, that would've been effort, and working with the system. I was definitely chaos-aligned at that age, and the system was to be shunned.
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May 29, 2020 06:22
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LabyaMynora posted:
if this guy knew cobol he could get his entire family line jobs by telling them the pw on his death bed. foundation style. ive had run ins at old jobs where the guy made his code as obtuse and frustrating as possible as job security and then eventually got fired or quit and makes more as a consultant. loving genius.
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May 29, 2020 07:01
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In 2014, there was a guy where I work who made a dumb little Excel macro that the team used, then shortly after quit because when the supervisor position for the team opened up, he expected to be promoted and wasn't - literally walked out and quit when it was announced who got it.
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Bongo Bill posted:Scouts as a concept could have just stopped at being a club for hanging out in the woods and playing with fire and knives, but they had to make a whole organized thing out of it. The organised thing is what the Scouts started out as, unfortunately. IIRC, started out when some military officer noted his mostly urban recruits had next to zero existing outdoors skills he used to be able to expect farmboys to have.
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May 29, 2020 09:41
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I think the random and casual torture/murder of animals is a cultural relic left behind by christianity. In the bible nature was created to serve us/as our playground, and americans have always treated nature as an enemy to be fought. If you’ve seen The VVitch, that movie captures that puritan ‘gently caress nature’ vibe really well. Also think of how the woods are always deep/dark/evil places in fairy tales.
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May 29, 2020 10:51
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these days we know better. the true purpose of forests is to hide porn
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May 29, 2020 10:54
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02-6611-0142-1 posted:I think the random and casual torture/murder of animals is a cultural relic left behind by christianity. In the bible nature was created to serve us/as our playground, and americans have always treated nature as an enemy to be fought. If you’ve seen The VVitch, that movie captures that puritan ‘gently caress nature’ vibe really well. Also think of how the woods are always deep/dark/evil places in fairy tales. This is a lot of it. I have been quoted the Bible verse about man having dominion over animals of the land, sea, and air or however the gently caress it goes several times. These people love them some cops and do the whole blue lives matter and that dumb blue striped flag but they cannot loving stand game wardens. They are the only law enforcement they believe have too much power and abuse their authority. Meanwhile black people are getting murdered by regular police and ICE exists. Unperson_47 fucked around with this message at 11:47 on May 29, 2020 |
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May 29, 2020 11:42
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Many laws for the ox, none for the lions.
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May 29, 2020 11:48
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my brother's eagle ceremony was in a church and we got an angry email for not tipping the priest, that's my scout story
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May 29, 2020 13:36
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Don't most eagle scouts statistically end up being miserable failures at life? Someone above said it's all about their dads wanting it not them, and that was super true in the case of our scoutmaster and his son. Also we had one dad in the troop that people openly told me to stay away from as he was a creep...like no one did anything to remove the guy, but everyone pointed it out...so loving pathetic.
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May 29, 2020 13:39
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Add me to the list of "Eagle Scout because my parents (and my aunt who was a Big Wig for my local Boy Scout council) wanted me to." Which isn't to say it was a total loss, one of my scoutmasters was an old Hippy Boomer, so he was cool. Seemed to be one of those guys that wished he was involved in some sort of big protest/riot in the 60's or 70's but missed out. He'd say things like, "You can make a molotov cocktail with some lantern fuel and cooking oil...but you didn't hear that from me." or, "Don't eat any mushroom you find in the forest, there are too many poisonous ones that look like edible ones...though if you see ones that look like this (shows picture of magic mushrooms,) let me know right away!" I also met one of my best friends through Cub Scouts...weird to think about, but I still hang out with him and we met in like first or second grade (we don't still live in our hometown..we moved a whopping 35 miles away,  )Other than that, all I really got out of it was very slight camping.survival knowledge that would be useless in any real scenario, and a bear attack scar.
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May 29, 2020 13:45
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DrBouvenstein posted:and a bear attack scar. 
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May 29, 2020 13:46
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Endymion FRS MK1 posted:100% I remember how to build really good fires quickly. That's about it. I got to First Class rank the summer before high school and that was that. Our scoutmaster was some old traditional hardass who banned radios on camping trips. Every other single troop had radios except us. I think one the parents finally challenged him on this in case of bad weather. We camped in areas that were known for bad storms or tornadoes so I guess this guy wanted us to earn another badge by predicting weather or something. I think he was just a really square guy who hated "Rock and or Roll". He also knew ALL the verses to Taps. I had no idea it even had words.
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May 29, 2020 13:50
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https://missoulian.com/scout-ranch-plagued-by-bear-attacks/article_5230b18e-fede-54ff-9084-954abb89e3fa.html https://www.newson6.com/story/5e3685022f69d76f6209a4f2/drought-blamed-for-bear-attacks-at-scout-ranch Summer of 2000, was camping in Philmont, one night a bear attacked my friend and I in our tent (we were following proper bear bag procedure, too.) I got bit on the foot/ankle, and he was slashed in the face.
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May 29, 2020 13:52
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DrBouvenstein posted:https://missoulian.com/scout-ranch-plagued-by-bear-attacks/article_5230b18e-fede-54ff-9084-954abb89e3fa.html Holy poo poo. Worst that happened to me was breaking my big toe on a rope swing (hit the roots of the tree), and had to complete the rest of the week long canoe trip with a broken foot, it sucked. I'm glad I was in boyscouts for exactly as long as I was (1 year) because I got to camp and do cool poo poo but didn't worry at all about badges or rank, then I started getting laid and I was done with scouts.
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May 29, 2020 13:55
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RE: Boy Scouts It's a miserable organization, that my dad pushed me into because he was a boy scout. I was already an outsider, and because I wasn't part of the subset that had been in the troop leader's family's cub scout den, me and a few others were the outsider group. It was 100% nepotism in that troop, the insiders got everything just signed off, all at once out of nowhere on multiple occasions. My outsider group had to fight tooth and nail to get our badges. They dropped like flies, and I think I was the last one standing when my dad let me drop out. I made it about 2 years I think. 02-6611-0142-1 posted:I think the random and casual torture/murder of animals is a cultural relic left behind by christianity. In the bible nature was created to serve us/as our playground, and americans have always treated nature as an enemy to be fought. If you’ve seen The VVitch, that movie captures that puritan ‘gently caress nature’ vibe really well. Also think of how the woods are always deep/dark/evil places in fairy tales. That's why Black Phillip rules!
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May 29, 2020 13:59
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Sounds like they boy scouts taught you a valuable lesson. Nepotism is how the world works
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May 29, 2020 14:17
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Our troop somehow got on the bad side of the camp counselors at a week-long Summer camp and the last night trashed their cabin while everyone was at the end-of-camp bonfire where we did a skit mocking them. Then everyone rushed back to our campground where the scoutmasters had positions all the trucks so they could shine their high beams into a 'kill zone' and supplied all the scouts with bags of rotten fruit that we were to ambush the counselors with during their inevitable counterattack. I feel asleep at my post and was the only guy who got any sleep that night because no one ever showed, but crazy ex-military scoutmasters are the best. Doesn't even begin to compare to getting attacked by a bear. Holy poo poo. EDIT: in retrospect I do question where scoutmasters got that much rotten fruit 6 days into a weeklong Summer camp out in the middle of no where. I had a paper sack full of dates. Krispy Wafer fucked around with this message at 14:31 on May 29, 2020 |
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May 29, 2020 14:23
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My biggest memory of scout camp was that we had some Explorer Scouts there as counselors. Explorer scouts allowed girls in, and there were exactly two of them. One was a smoke show to our 12 year old brains, so there was stiff competition to get her totem at meal time. Second biggest memory was that one of the other counselors practically chopped his foot off while chopping firewood.
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May 29, 2020 14:28
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I went to Venturers, the Aussie equivalent of scouts once. Most notable achievement was joining the water gun fights with a pair of cheap water pistols and believing I was in a Jon Woo movie for a few glorious minutes.
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