last time I made a "scout" thread..

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It seems that these days the only thing the girl scouts have going for them is they accept gay and trans kids.

Other than that it's basically a cookie cartel.

I'm pretty sure I was dying from laughing so hard at that.

And the cookies aren't even that good any longer.

I adore the cookies but they have got hella expensive compared to when I was a kid and would use my own money to buy myself a few boxes. Inflation I know, I know.

two sisters were and my aunt was a den mother so... yeah. also been a weblow through a regular boy scout. outside of the scouting manual there was no planned itenary. my sisters went on camping trips (as well as x4 sleep overs) they went to the state park to swim and hike. they also got to sell those cookies which we never did. plus they had their own merrit badge system.

What the problem is?

I asked if YOU were a girl scout. If YOU were told that you needed to do certain badges just because of your gender. If YOU had to watch the other gender have fun while you let someone paint your nails simply because as gender roles go the boys were made for that and you were made for grooming. Sleep overs? Yeah? Wow they are so lucky they got to have sleepovers. /sarcasm. Yes SOME troops like the lucky duck's in Aroura's troop got to do some cool stuff and some boy scouts had boring leaders but everyone knows the majority was not that way I had four different leaders and not one thought it necessary to teach us how to even build a fire or let us swim in anything other than a chlorinated pool.

We GET to sell cookies? Like it's an honor to sell those things? Cookie sales were the most stressful time of the year. You were pushed to sell them with the threat that you wouldn't get to do anything fun if you didn't sell a lot. But hey don't go door to door because of bad people yo. If you didn't have a parent that could rock the selling game at work you got to sell cookies in the freaking cold (because for some stupid reason they thought February was a great time to put little girls outside selling shit) in front of Walmart or Blockbuster (Auto Zone if your troop got lucky) Don't get me started on the merit badges. Let me say this again; I got actual badges for painting nails and learning to braid. Literally nothing I learned in girl scouts, mind you I was in the system from 5 to 17 with only one year break because my mom was deployed, would ever be helpful on transcripts. The only thing that was helpful for college was the volunteer work at the half way houses and soup kitchens.

If they want more number go back to what work for 150 years prior.

Slavery was working pretty well for the white males for quite some time... should we go back to that?

I swear, I think they put crack in those things. People would buy 5 boxes at a time! Had one fellow buy a whole case!

Personally, I think all the cookies taste as good or better than they ever did. Samoas and Tagalongs are my favs as well.

You speak to my soul.