FYI. The Boy Scout movement was founded in Great Britain in 1908 by a cavalry officer, Lieutenant, General Robert S.S. (later Lord) Baden-Powell, so yes, we do have the boy scouts over here. I was in the boys brigade which is the psychotic version of the scouts. I have some crazy stories about our camping trips.
There was an organization in the US called the Woodcraft Indians founded in 1901 by Ernest Thompson Seton (Scots parents, born in Leeds, raised in Canada, became a US citizen). Baden-Powell borrowed many of Seton's ideas for his Boy Scouts. In 1910 The Woodcraft Indians merged with the new Boy Scouts of American.
@@daveofyorkshire301ok, you asked for it! About 80 of us went camping in Devon. It was just an open field and 3 days later a load of scouts turned up in the next field. One of our officers introduced himself to them and challenged them to a game of British bulldog in the sand dunes. If you don't know what that is, it's like rugby but with no ball. By the end of it 5 scouts ended up in hospital. Then there's the traditional water fight. One of the officers went into town and picked up a load of ice and left it over night in his tent. By the morning it just had a few pieces of ice floating in it and it was freezing water. The weather was really hot when it all started and this officer chased one of the other officers down the field and hit him square in the back with the ice cold water which knocked him clean off his feet and the cold shock nearly knocked him out. The vicar (pastor) turned up and as soon as he opened his car door he got a bucket of water straight in the face. My brother and I were sharing a tent and we were being kept awake by a couple of guys who had their radio on and making a noise. My brother shouted at them to be quiet and they told him to f@ck off. So my brother looked out and could see the silhouette of a head leaning against the tent so he got the tent peg mallet and threw it. It hit this guy right on the top of his head and we watched him slide sideways onto his side. My brother just said "well, that's that sorted" and got back into his sleeping bag and went to sleep. We would find grass snakes and put them in people's sleeping bags and shit like that. We had a tradition called "plumb duff" which basically means stupid person. This involved one person being nominated, as plumb duff usually someone who's annoying, but he is not told it's him, instead everyone tells him that it's another person. We then march through the town with the full band of bugles and drums playing military marching music whilst wearing womens bra's on our heads and a Wellington boot on the end of the mase. The whole town watch and laughed in amazement as these silly buggers passed by. We'd march Down to the beach. A solo bugle player plays revale and everyone grabs the guy, covers him in toothpaste, baked beans, whipped cream, mint sauce and other nasty shit. Then we pick him up and throw him in the sea, which is usually freezing. Then we March back as if nothing had happened. Not everything was that crazy. One year we found a massive cannon barrel in a brook at the bottom of a field. We got a rope on it and 20 of us dragged it up to the camp site and propped it up on rocks next to the flag pole. We found a local historian to have a look at it and he was amazed to see that it was from a Spanish ship that was captured during the battle with the Spanish armada in 1588. It's now on display in a local museum although how it ended up where it did remains a mystery. There many other stories like what happened when girl scouts camped next to us, but I think you can guess what happened there. Far too many to list. A bit different to the boy scouts. I hope I haven't bored you with this. Live long and prosper my friend. 🖖 ❤🇬🇧
@@coot1925 it's unreadable at that length, split it into separate posts per story at least In my day Bulldog was played on concrete, British bulldog was the wimp out version with release on capture. Full contact bulldog was attack until they were down and stopped fighting. What your stories tell me is you were a kid doing what kids do. They aren't that exceptional or different.
Youth groups in the UK either have a military (Scouts). Or religious (boys brigade) roots. The Woodcraft folk has a community base and works towards social cohesion and independence without a military or religious bias.
Woodcraft Folk is a UK-based educational movement for children and young people. Founded in 1925 and grown by volunteers, it has been a registered charity since 1965 and a registered company limited by guarantee since 2012
Sexy husky voice😂 No we've never wondered why your annoyed at hubby just that he's not propping up the patio 😂 (UK TV show Brookside Anna friel murderer)
Whenever something has the adjective "American" or "of America" attached, you can be sure it was invented elsewhere first. And Jodi - rest that throat.
Really like the new sexy voice Jodie, l agree with you re students a Petri dish of bacteria. John is well known for his ADHD this could be where it all started.
I do not follow your reasoning here. The phrase Boy Scouts has nothing intrinsically British about it, save it's use of english words. For someone in Nick's position who does not know the origin, the name could have originate in any english speaking nation, such as Canada, Australia, New Zealand, or South Africa. For all he knows it could have started in France and be translation of a name in French. Can you explain whiy being called Boy Scouts, must mean they started in the UK? I know they did, but there is nothing in the name to make that obvious.
Nick can do no wrong, intentionally. Jodi is perfect in every way. tee hee. Scouting for Boys: A handbook for instruction in good citizenship is a book on Boy Scout training, published in various editions since 1908. Early editions were written and illustrated by Robert Baden-Powell with later editions being extensively rewritten by others. The book was originally a manual for self-instruction in observation, tracking and woodcraft skills as well as self-discipline and self-improvement, about the British Empire and duty as citizens with an eclectic mix of anecdotes and unabashed personal observations and recollections. It is pervaded by a degree of moral proselytizing and references to the author's own exploits. It is based on his boyhood experiences, his experience with the Mafeking Cadet Corps during the Second Boer War at the siege of Mafeking, and on his experimental camp on Brownsea Island, England. Lieutenant-General Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell, OM, GCMG, GCVO, KCB, KStJ, DL (/ˈbeɪdən ˈpoʊəl/ BAY-dən POH-əl;[4] 22 February 1857 - 8 January 1941) was a British Army officer, writer, founder and first Chief Scout of the world-wide Scout Movement, and founder, with his sister Agnes, of the world-wide Girl Guide/Girl Scout Movement. Wikipedia.
I can assure you there'd be no adults sleeping in the tents with the children in the Woodcraft Folk. I think you're getting confused with the Catholic church. Mind you to be strictly accurate I suspect there'd not be much sleeping going on there either.
The Boy Scouts of America was started by William Boyce in 1910 after being inspired by Robert Baden Powell’s uk Scout movement I believe. Just a bit more history for our America cousins.
Hard to believe but the person on the other end of Jon's bench Danny dyer is a direct blood relative of King Henry 8th only a small resemblance just thought I'd add that for your uk database
Nick please go and make Jodi a drink of warm honey and lemon to ease her suffering. I’m sure she would be looking after you if the roles were reversed! 😏
Camping in the UK carries very few risks or dangers. We have no dangerous animals, and one very timid poisonous snake no worse than a bee sting. Surely sleeping bags - if they're waterproof - and why would they be if they're to be used in a tent, are designed to breathe for the occupant. Don't judge this based upon what American camping is... In the UK the worst thing to deal with is the weather.
WOW a blast from the past , I went to the Woodcraft Folk when i was around 11, we use to camp out and had a really good time. Woodcraft Folk Are a movement for children and young people, open to everyone from birth to adult. Woodcraft Folk offers a place where children will grow in confidence, learn about the world and start to understand how to value our planet and each other.
Is it queue or line in American English? In Britain, a queue is a bunch of people 'lined up' in an orderly fashion waiting to get to a gate or pass thru some narrow place. In the US, we usually call that group a 'line', whether it is a straight line or a serpentine.30 Jul 2020 What is the difference between American and British English queue? In the US, the word line is used to refer to a line of people, vehicles, or other objects, while in the UK queue refers to that meaning. In the US, the word queue is most commonly used to refer to the computing sense of a data structure in which objects are added to one end and removed from the other. Google.
@Damien.Young46 Americans? Which Americans? Canad-ians? Columb-ians, Brazil-ians? Argentin-ians? Panaman-ians?, Chile-ans?, Mexic-ans? Or USA-ians? They are all Americans.
When kids are camping, supervising adults tend to have separate tents. It would be very inappropriate to put children with unrelated adults. Remember that the UK has no dangerous animals to worry about. My sister works with a Beaver troop and they often go camping, despite being little kids.
I am a former scout in the UK, and I have also worked twice for the Greater New York Councils Boy Scouts of America back in the late 90's. The Boy Scouts of America that I interacted with had all been taught how their movement originated in Britain from Lord Baden Powell. I would say the US scouts have a much more pampered experience with catering provided, tents pre-erected (at least on the official campsites) and also on wooden pallets with cots to sleep on.
"158 countries The 25th World Scout Jamboree was held from 1-12 August 2023 at Saemangeum, North Jeolla, South Korea, hosted by Korea Scout Association with the theme, "Draw Your Dream". About 43,000 participants from 158 countries attended." And this year too...
We had the Cubs which where the junior members of the Boy Scouts The Girl Guides for the girls and the Brownies for the young girls and yes there was the Woodcraft Folk. As someone stated the Boyscout Movement was founded by Lord Baden Powell in 1908 in the GB.
I believed Jon because I did the same thing, except I pretended it was the other guy in my tent, when you're a kid of that age you get embarrassed easily, I did anyway. Shows Jon's true nature of being a neat freak that even back then he had to hang everything out to dry.
As a native English person - I would have said “line” rather than “queue” in the context of your sentence. A queue has to be a single line determining the order of being processed. If you have separate groups of people, and you don’t know yet which group is going to be allowed in first, I don’t think it could be described as a queue.
I haven't seen this clip before but I believed it as soon as the cleanest tent was mentioned because of Jon's acknowledged obsession with cleaning and things being orderly 😁
