Ian Hislop's Scouting for Boys

[@granthurlburt4062]

Thanks so much for posting. Cub scouts were an important part of my life from age 8 to 10 or 11. Just ordinary boys having fun and learning some knots. Bullies didn't join so we were free of them. Sports were for fun. I was on the cub scout ice hockey team and played other cub troops in Edmonton. We had a great summer camp 100 miles north, where we swam and played "Capture the Flag" and sang songs. By the time I was old enough for Scouts, it wasnt cool anymore and not very popular, but Cub scouts were great. As is Ian Hislop. And yes, sometimes boys left on their own will drift into nefarious activities that might be antisocial only because it is what the most popular boy thinks is cool or daring, and one can be so much influenced by peer-pressures. Cubs gave an alternative activity that let us use and develop our minds and bodies. Bless the men who volunteered to do this.

[@tonysuffolk]

A great comment. Thanks for sharing.

[@215Gallagher]

Having just watched this my dear friend and I went outside and while I broke and cut up tree branches she fed them through a woodchipper. Good on you BP and IH, thanks for the inspiration, and we're both in our mid-sixties.

[@215Gallagher]

n.b. I was never a Scout but did "serve" three years as a St John's Cadette.

[@AndyMillerPhotoUK]

Excellent thank you. It is unsurprising the gutter press also remains unchanged since those times.

[@Silly.Old.Sisyphus]

The three scouts returned to camp, their faces aglow with the pleasure of a Good Deed well done. - "We helped a little old lady across the road" they explained. - But why did it take three of you?? - "Because", they said, "she didn't want to go"

[@annalieff-saxby568]

My local park in London has a memorial to Boy Scouts killed in WWI. It is engraved with a dot in the centre of a circle: the Scout's sign for "Gone Home".

[@mjspice100]

The same sign is found on BPs grave.

[@TheMrB]

BRILLIANT.

[@DragonwithaGirlTattoo]

thank you for sharing this

[@frankdunbar2560]

He was right the first time. Although "imperator" means "ruler," it is still derived obviously from "in" and "paro" prepare, the pare is right there in English. Also in the Marine motto Semper Paratus, which is the past participle.

[@EnglishTeacher-ez1bo]

It's sad that a concept so well-meaning was perverted by some. I hope the organization is able to purge itself of those that use it for ill.

[@jerrykitich3318]

Snobbery is why I left the Scouts. When I joined I was living in a youth group home. This was mostly for children whose parents were failing in raising children to the point where the child services took custody of their children, while the issues went through the courts. One day one of the other Scouts asked me where I lived, when I told him I lived across the street he told me that nobody from that group home should be allowed to join Scouts. Nice. I never went back. Eventually the group home found out why (as I previously was enthusiastic), they talked to the Scouts, who talked to him and apparently an apology was forthcoming. I still didn't go back though.

[@quercus21]

And you've had a chip on your shoulder ever since. Imagine if you ignored that boys silly remarks and proved him wrong.

[@timothygeorgechan9559]

What's the name of the whistling music?

[@glutinousmaximus]

At around 26:20, the M.P. remembers wrongly. He says he joined the Cubs aged 7. Actually, the lowest age you could join then was 8. Good post though!

[@tarquiniussuperbus21]

Drop the militaristic look and emphasis on obedience and replace it with democracy and scouting would be perfect for a truly enlightened society.

[@iamk4474]

Ew. Youre so wrong

[@annalieff-saxby568]

Baden-Powell with added democracy would be like the Greeks in that ancient history where they have to bop their way back home through Persia*. Every time something happened they all talked about it. PS. They got home. *It's the story behind The Warriors.

[@beth12svist]

There are other countries' versions that are more like that. I've never done it, but I understand scouting here in Czechia is a bit more like that - or developed over time into something more like that, probably not the least because T.G. Masaryk supported the movement and I think saw it as a good way to bring up children to be responsible in the new democratic Czechoslovakia - which of course would be one of the reasons both the Nazis and the Communists banned it. 🙄

[@PP_gogo]

Shit - the title of this video is misleading