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https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2020/02/18/806721827/boy-scouts-of-america-files-for-bankruptcy Boy Scouts that is.
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didnt this happen a few years ago or were they in the process of going bankrupt
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Feb 19, 2020 01:38
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As a former Boy Scout, good, gently caress the Boy Scouts and their poo poo attitudes and organizational beliefs.
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Feb 19, 2020 01:41
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Sounds like a good thing to me; now maybe they will actually take some action to protect kids from abuse in the future rather than ignoring it and letting "sexual abuse insurance" cover it.
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Feb 19, 2020 01:45
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Robo Reagan posted:didnt this happen a few years ago or were they in the process of going bankrupt Nope just now
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Feb 19, 2020 01:47
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Why would anyone join the scouts when you can just get all your knives from BUDK and avoid getting your butthole tongue punched by the assistant P.E teacher.
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Feb 19, 2020 01:54
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The_Continental posted:Why would anyone join the scouts when you can just get all your knives from BUDK and avoid getting your butthole tongue punched by the assistant P.E teacher.
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Feb 19, 2020 02:00
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Pawn 17 posted:Sounds like a good thing to me; now maybe they will actually take some action to protect kids from abuse in the future rather than ignoring it and letting "sexual abuse insurance" cover it. Apparently, the several thousand ongoing lawsuits against them by abuse victims is actually a big part of it.
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Feb 19, 2020 02:00
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Fleetwood Crack posted:Sounds like someone's PE teacher was an amateur asslicker. how else are you gonna get that badge
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Feb 19, 2020 02:01
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You know, the scouts were terrible and all but God drat those were some snappy uniforms.
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Feb 19, 2020 02:02
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Good riddance imo. One religious child rape cult down, who's next 
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Feb 19, 2020 02:03
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Nice, lets take down the red cross next!
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Feb 19, 2020 02:04
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Maybe girl scouts can expand to accept boys now.
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Feb 19, 2020 02:05
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Salem Saberhagen posted:You know, the scouts were terrible and all but God drat those were some snappy uniforms. For an organization that hates gays so much, you'd think they would ditch accessories like neckerchiefs.
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Feb 19, 2020 02:06
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gently caress this organization and the victims they created and the abusers they enabled. Bankruptcy while good is not justice.
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Feb 19, 2020 02:07
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Rad-daddio posted:For an organization that hates gays so much, you'd think they would ditch accessories like neckerchiefs. Its needed for the autoerotique asphyxiation badge.
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Feb 19, 2020 02:08
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Does this mean I no longer have to deal with those assholes trying to sell me lovely popcorn when I'm leaving the grocery store?
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Feb 19, 2020 02:09
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Traxis posted:Does this mean I no longer have to deal with those assholes trying to sell me lovely popcorn when I'm leaving the grocery store? wtf is it with the Boy Scouts and selling loving popcorn? Are they hoping to catch the average person at the one time a year they have a brief craving for popcorn?
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Feb 19, 2020 02:13
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I hope Girl Scouts picks up the slack so even more people can be murdered each year in shootouts over the last box of tagalongs
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Feb 19, 2020 02:13
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Did I mis-remember, or did the original Boy Scout handbook have a section on how to avoid masturbation?
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Feb 19, 2020 02:15
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Rad-daddio posted:wtf is it with the Boy Scouts and selling loving popcorn? Boy Scouts (or maybe it was ‘cub scouts’?) in Canada made me stand outside the sketchiest liquor stores in the city as a kid selling apples. We were supposed to ask for 2 bucks but say any donation is fine. Most of my apples ended up taken by homeless people who would give me a nickel or whatever. One time a guy tried to give me a bottle of vodka he stole from the liquor store. I was like... 7 or 8 years old
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Feb 19, 2020 02:17
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LonesomeCrowdedWest posted:Boy Scouts (or maybe it was ‘cub scouts’?) in Canada made me stand outside the sketchiest liquor stores in the city as a kid selling apples. We were supposed to ask for 2 bucks but say any donation is fine. Most of my apples ended up taken by homeless people who would give me a nickel or whatever. One time a guy tried to give me a bottle of vodka he stole from the liquor store. I was like... 7 or 8 years old i stole 100% of my apples ha ha ha ha
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Feb 19, 2020 02:18
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LonesomeCrowdedWest posted:Boy Scouts (or maybe it was ‘cub scouts’?) in Canada made me stand outside the sketchiest liquor stores in the city as a kid selling apples. We were supposed to ask for 2 bucks but say any donation is fine. Most of my apples ended up taken by homeless people who would give me a nickel or whatever. One time a guy tried to give me a bottle of vodka he stole from the liquor store. I was like... 7 or 8 years old good trade
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Feb 19, 2020 02:18
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Traxis posted:Does this mean I no longer have to deal with those assholes trying to sell me lovely popcorn when I'm leaving the grocery store? no now they're gonna have to sell even more popcorn to cover their legal fees
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Feb 19, 2020 02:19
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I was in scouts twice in elementary school, in different cities, and my only good memory is watching the scoutmaster's goat take a giant crap and laughing my rear end off about it. Mostly it was just incredibly boring.
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Feb 19, 2020 02:20
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If you are a boy scout til 19 years old (regal scout) Do you HAVE to join the military? Also do regal scouts get to carry guns?
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Feb 19, 2020 02:22
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Salem Saberhagen posted:You know, the scouts were terrible and all but God drat those were some snappy uniforms. The fabric sucked rear end the majority of the time and was scratchy crap better suited for an office than doing anything outdoors and the patches were sow on only making the situation worse
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Feb 19, 2020 02:23
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Great, gently caress the Scouts.
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Feb 19, 2020 02:23
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Salem Saberhagen posted:If you are a boy scout til 19 years old (regal scout) Do you HAVE to join the military? Also do regal scouts get to carry guns? No but you get to sit alone in the cafeteria as a 5th year senior.
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Feb 19, 2020 02:28
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During my brief tenure with the scouts, i remember a couple of chapters in the scout handbook was dedicated to recognizing signs of a sexual abuser. Stranger danger and all that. Maybe they should have given their scout leaders a manual telling them not to abuse kids too
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Feb 19, 2020 02:28
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As I said in the Boomer thread, they will be all "The Scouts made me the man i am today! Kids today would rather play fore night and tock tick than sleep under the stars and learn how to tie knots! Yea sometimes your scout master would get into your sleeping bag naked, but we really lived!".
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Feb 19, 2020 02:28
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The_Continental posted:No but you get to sit alone in the cafeteria as a 5th year senior. But I showed those girls all the cool knots I can tie! Why am I alone?
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Feb 19, 2020 02:29
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Salem Saberhagen posted:But I showed those girls all the cool knots I can tie! Why am I alone? Youre talking to the wrong kind of girls
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Feb 19, 2020 02:35
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i was in the bsa and had a good time and didn't get abused, did i mess up somehow?
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Feb 19, 2020 02:38
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I remember the scouts advertising to me and my third grade class but I swiftly passed on it. The only thing I remember was that this one kid who called my house for weeks asking if he can sleep over and the one time he did he tried biting me and completely broke my N64's reset button before vomiting in the driveway joined the scouts and he was super proud of a super lovely ant he made out of twist ties at the scouts and even I knew this poo poo sucked.
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Feb 19, 2020 02:38
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Salem Saberhagen posted:But I showed those girls all the cool knots I can tie! Why am I alone? heres a few reasons aside from the fact that you're nearly 20 years old and still in high schoool:     
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Feb 19, 2020 02:41
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Jeff K. looking all right
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Feb 19, 2020 02:43
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I did learn a lot of cool stuff in the Scouts and by the time I was in (late 90s to early 00s) they had started including more poo poo to do with electronics, building soap box racers was sick and so was making fast pinewood derby cars. None of this was poo poo that for any reason has to be limited to Boy Scouts though and the popcorn sucked poo poo. Also the obvious Christian slant was insanely obnoxious. I'm not going to increase my Relationship Level with Christ while my dad is cussing because he cut his finger as we built a kite together. The camping was a mixed bag, you either got an insanely strict overbearing Scout Leader who basically treated it as glorified babysitting or you had a cool adult that let you go off and nature study and work independently on crap from your workbook. It's an organization that on a practical level was cool to be a part of, but was ultimately degraded by the religious aspect, the conservatism, how extremely homogeneous the demographic was, and of course, the child molestation which I was lucky enough to avoid. The kids were just pressured into it by their parents the majority of the time and just wanted to go to the zoo or make sweet pinewood cars, there was always the super serious hyper religious kids but they were few and far inbetween, the closer you got to Eagle Scout the more prevalent they became until they were basically the only ones left because the Scout mindset and beliefs and core "principals" became emphasized at that level which scared off all the kids that weren't Young Republican automatons. Anyway suck my balls Boy Scouts of America and gently caress Mr. Zimmer who got me in trouble because I punched a kid who kept trying to give me a wet willy.
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Feb 19, 2020 02:43
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The_Continental posted:some sweet gear Looks like someone's ready for the jamboree!
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it would be cool if there were organizations like the scouts but not tied to weird gender stereotypes and rape I think learning skills and being independent and networking and all that poo poo are great and there should be environments where these things happen It bothers me how much effort I see into negative things like destabilizing geographical regions and we can't take a fraction of that knowhow to greedily teach our own people how to survive like dang if 'you people' are going to be jingoistic xenophobes at least have something worth being a poo poo heel over
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