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a bit picture heavy but heres my blanket it covers 43 years of scouting



























what the fucks this doing on there



thye big badge is 43 years old and the one with the S surrounded by wings was the first ever air spotters badge awarded



Now i need to find my dads

You want to burn that Welsh shite one mate!

Ps sorry to hear you didn't make play-offs. However it could be worse: we're now in admin and the BSP (Conference) might not accept us and we'll drop down another league or two.

mate it was without doubt the best game I have ever been to , the atmosphere and tension were amazing.

90 minutes, plus 30 extra time and then 18 penalties , the Dons have nothing to be ashamed of, to finish 3rd in their first season in league 1 is more than enough.

Personally I think the play offs should be scrapped , the other teams have had all season to take 3 rd place and then the 4th 5th and 6th team get another chance , its just a means to line pockets at the team , the F.A and Wembley by putting on extra unnecessary games.
before the premiership came along it was the top three teams went up and the bottom three went down , Simples

Airspotters eh!! Err.. yes it's definitely a plane

Philhod wrote:Airspotters eh!! Err.. yes it's definitely a plane

it could have been a roflcotor

part of it was identifying military and commercial planes from silhouettes and it was judged by an air training corp officer
this was in 1974 if I remember correctly

A bit after my time Mickey..... I left in 1963

sorry mate I was only 4 then they hadent let me in yet

I've got fond memories of my time in the Cubs. I was in the 4th Woking group. There was an ancient white Transit Mk1 parked outside the hut surrounded by nettles that I used to like climbing on and bouncing the suspension...

At school, before the new minibus regs came in (all forward-facing seats) there was a lovely old light blue Transit 'bus with chrome wheeltrims. The music teacher used to take choir members to games in it because we'd miss the main bus due to choir practice during lunchtime. He loved throwing it around (side facing bench seats with seatbelts but loose cushions) and always floored it on the run-up to the hump backed bridge enroute Oh and he'd show off by changing gear without using the clutch. Happy days!

Mark.

Madcav wrote:You want to burn that Welsh shite one mate!

Strangely enough, (you may think) there are Scouts in Wales: in the 1970s the group I belonged to was enterprising enough to arrange a camp in Denmark with the Guides. A good trip.

Ha Ha ...I've just noticed that big fleur de lys says 1st Headstone........................



.................That'd be the Ghoul Guides I presume

Isn't the Scouts badge something to do with sheepshaggers?

Nah ! the fleur de lys is a French crusaders (hospitalers I think) name for an Indian (east)
Symbol.
Baden Powell was 1/2 a sheepshagger though.

Philhod wrote: Baden Powell was 1/2 a sheepshagger though.

Arn't there inferences of the P word associated with him too?

Choice of several...

I never heard that.... but hey, I was in from 1951 to 1963. Things like "that" weren't even mentioned....let alone talked about.
At 14 I knew where babies came from, but how they got in there, or out for that matter, was a complete mystery.

But 2 years later, after a few exploration sorties, all became clear..............

The scout badge is NOT a fleur de lys!!!


It's a tribal arrow head. I thought some of you ex-scouters would have known this!

Way2go wrote:

Philhod wrote: Baden Powell was 1/2 a sheepshagger though.

Arn't there inferences of the P word associated with him too?

Yes but they could never really make any proof stick to him.
He did have an extensive collection of pictures showing boys with shorts or swimming trunks on, and nowt else.
I think he was just a bit too clever to have the more incriminating variety.

Way2go wrote:

Philhod wrote: Baden Powell was 1/2 a sheepshagger though.

Arn't there inferences of the P word associated with him too?

nah , I think someone just didnt hear properly when he said, rub to sticks to gether to make a spark.


There have been a lot of dodgy scout leaders in the past though ,

I know of one who used to make his cubs swim naked at camp while he took photos ( middle of the sixties ) but no one believed anyone who said about it as his wife was always present ( she was a leader to ) and she denied it.

Smiffy wrote ...It was a tribal arrow head


If you read back that's wot i sed, albeit I said Indian symbol (for an arrow head).
It was first termed Fleur de Lys ( the french term) by Powell himself when he chose it.
Actually I think it was powell's wife who first picked it, but I'll stand corrected if anyone knows more.

[edit] Symbol of Scouting
Main article: Fleur-de-lis in Scouting

The World Scout EmblemThe fleur-de-lis is the main element in the logo of most Scouting organizations, representing a major theme in Scouting: the outdoors and wilderness. The World Scout Emblem of the World Organization of the Scout Movement, has elements of which are used by most national Scout organizations. The symbol was chosen by Robert Baden-Powell as it had been the arm-badge of those soldiers qualified as "Scouts" (reconnaissance specialists) when BP served in the British Army. The classical description of this shape in Scouting literature connects the compass rose with the purpose of Scouting's principles -- namely that Scouting gives one's life direction