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Just got back from my first Boy Scout jamboree with my youngest.

honest question, since I was never a scout, but were scouts always a place for D&D, Larping, weirdos ?……this extends to most of the dads there as well. I was kind of socially shunned after saying I was into guns and hunting.

that being said the kid (who I admit is awkward and nothing like his sports loving brother) had a great time on his first trip camping

 

The scouts changed when they stopped being Boy Scouts.

 

I was a Cub Scout until my mother found out she'd need to put effort into it

If you know of other dads/kids that share the same sense of adventure as you (guns, hunting, survival skills) vs. the other dads/kids (D&D, Ken dolls, cheesy poofs), you can start a troop. Scouting BSA - or whatever their name is now - troops are either boys or girls, afaik, and not both. They've had bad press and suffer the same problems as the Catholic church as far as image due to humanity problems, so ymmv troop to troop. There's an alternative growing in popularity: Trail Life USA | Adventure, Character, Leadership

 

Our den dads are pretty good, same frame of mind, but this was a pack event, and my usual dad I bs with did not attend, so I was stuck lone wolfing it. It’s not a bad thing, as it’s my usual go to anyway.

We have one more year, then switch to a different troop if we are going to continue on to Boy Scouts.

 

I don't know about the dads but the other kids in my troop were into biking, playing guitar (rock and metal) and violent video games (Doom, Unreal Tournament, GTA).

 

Eagle Scout here. It was a mix for us - but definitely none of the sports kids/jocks were in scouts. So that left the nerds, dweebs, dorks, and introverts (me included). We had an awesome scout master that was a veteran woodsman and we spent a lot of time in the outdoors learning bushcraft, survival, and general . But a lot of us were also into D&D, dog sledding, stealing someone’s dads Penthouse to stash into our sleeping bag and ogle over by 6V lantern, sneaking out of camp in the middle of the night to sneak smokes down by the lake shore, taking the Webelos scouts out snipe hunting in the dark until they would cry, telling ghost stories, whatever.

 

Cheers Crue

 

Beautiful view.

 

Thanks. It's the ten mile range.

 

Cheers

 

Still not drinking, although I had a couple with the delays related to my weekend travel... Beautiful week in SD in a Rav4, but happy to be home in the big girl now.

Hooking up in two days to head out camping for the weekend. Baby shower inbound.... Hope yall are having a great one!

 

What up crew!!

life has been crazy. Trying to catch up. Hope y’all are good. I’ve been a little slammed with family things both good and bad.

that bluefin tuna is epic btw and I know a 10year old that would eat it all raw.

softgoods have been shipped to me so everything goes out next week.


Just wanted to check in and say hey.

 

Enjoy the shower brother. It’s a necessary evil

 

First grandbaby due any day now.

My 6 weeks off work since my appendectomy ends this week, back to work Monday..
Disability pays sucks, but at least it is something.
I'd make more if I was retired, but not as much as working.

I miss NOTHING about going to work, I might have to retire earlier than I thought.....

 

Hell yeah!

 

Tom is really phoning in the merch lately.

 

I did all that shit without being in the scouts.

Eagle Scout though….that’s damned awesome Casey.

 

I figured you were just holding mine hostage until I sent your tail lights.

 

I’ll keep waiting

 

Soon

 

Same

 

that's a good day.

 

Looking forward to them! Was secretly hoping for a flag and the gear for this trip, but I know the hustle and have no complaints. Thank you for the update and hope the fam is all good.

Thank you brother! I'll be at fort DeSoto and manning the grill, so I am sure it will be awesome!

Congrats on the youngin! And good luck with work!

 

My sons not into sports, which is why I got him into scouts to encourage him to be outdoors, but it seemed like I was surrounded by a bunch of near spectrum, afraid of the woods, what am I doing here types

 

I had a somewhat similar experience as Casey, I had a lot of fun and still hang out with some of the guys from the troop. Definitely a lot of fun memories. That being said, I don’t know if I’d put MY kids in scouts nowadays. We basically do a lot of the shit we did in scouts on a regular basis, and I don’t want a bunch of REI dads asking me how to light their stove

 

Good thing they're in scouts. Maybe they'll learn to like it outdoors too.

 

I’m by default the assistant den leader. Nothing is getting taught unless I approve of it.

I’ll be able to avoid the other dads, as their kids are Weblos and will be moving on. We’ll be top dog in the pack next year. I think we’ll avoid inviting the lower den on the trip next year, which will leave us with the 4 kids in our den

 

Coming from the guy who hasn’t lit their new stove

 

The BING search engine sucks a di(k.
Long live Google and DuckDuckGo..

 

I don’t know why I’ve waited to pop the cherry, I just wanted the first time to be special