Scouts
About Scouts
Scouting or the Scout Movement is a youth movement which became popularly established in the first decade of the 20th century.
On the show — 12 mentions total
Loads of them are just absolutely straight down the line like athletics, air researcher, angler, caver, climber — they're just absolute route one classic scoutster. Oh yeah, they're all the classics except one of the really early classics: a swastika badge, which I don't think was on my list.
from 597: No Such Thing As Love Spaghetti, 2025-08-21 at 00:24:44 · read transcript
Other times Scouts came up
That's very good. There is this really big thing of, oh, all the badges they've gone, all woke, blah, blah, blah. It's a very, very tiresome talking point because there are things like there's a money skills one or the scouts digital citizen or this. Actually, loads of them are just absolutely straight down the line like athletics, air researcher, angler, caver, climber, they're just absolute route one classic scoutster.
No Such Thing As Love Spaghetti, 2025-08-21 · listen
Year in prison And it was a dance that stopped All of this nonsense happening Because footage was shown of them on TV Dancing the Macarena With no music And there was such a backlash from the public Going don't make Girl Scouts dance the Macarena Without the fucking song At least with the Macarena You never have to put your hands above your head Exactly One thing that neither boy Scouts nor Girl Guides Were allowed to do in official literature They were given.
410: No Such Thing As A Cheesus Christ, 2022-01-21 · listen
The wedding present for those two, the scouts were each encouraged to contribute one penny and 100,000 of them did it and they bought him a car which is quite cool and then in 1929 to celebrate the 21st birthday of the Scouts they all did the same again but at this stage there were 4 million scouts and guides around the world and so they bought him a Rolls-Royce Oh, that's a great Isn't that cool? Long con you know? They started admitting girls in 2019 the Boy Scouts of America and who did this piss off Oh, the Daily Mail Readers. Was it someone in the Baden Powell's family?
597: No Such Thing As Love Spaghetti, 2025-08-21 · listen
The invention badge, it's part of the American Boy Scout specifically. There were 57 original merit badges that you could get, like archery and swimming and so on. invention was part of it. That launched in 1911 and they took it out by 1914 and only 10 scouts in that time managed to get it which I think is a very high number. Actually only nine got it in that time.
597: No Such Thing As Love Spaghetti, 2025-08-21 · listen
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597: No Such Thing As Love Spaghetti put 2 places on the map.
- Boy Scouts of America · United States
Coordinates: 51.6346, 0.0233