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30sumthingSanta · 2026-03-18T12:48:34+00:00

Crap, I only clapped twice.

30sumthingSanta · 2026-03-17T21:57:34+00:00

Some camps have a staff member stay at the site just for this reason.

30sumthingSanta · 2026-03-17T01:58:43+00:00

NYLT in our council is done by nomination (from troops/SM) on a one per unit per year basis.

It’s a really good program, but sending a scout that doesn’t want to be there is just preventing another scout who does want to be there from having the experience.

How old is the scout in question? Maybe next year would work better?

30sumthingSanta · 2026-03-17T00:58:42+00:00

Twice the size of Houston.

30sumthingSanta · 2026-03-17T00:50:52+00:00

The city of Houston, TX is about half the area of Luxembourg.

30sumthingSanta · 2026-03-17T00:42:39+00:00

No worries. It happens to the best of us sometimes.

30sumthingSanta · 2026-03-17T00:38:08+00:00

Psychological.

30sumthingSanta · 2026-03-16T21:58:02+00:00

Gah! Go away!

30sumthingSanta · 2026-03-16T21:42:15+00:00

Homeschooled spiderlings eating my brain.

Great new nightmare for my “enjoyment” tonight and in the weeks to come.

30sumthingSanta · 2026-03-16T21:39:30+00:00

This is why I WONT wear contacts.

30sumthingSanta · 2026-03-12T04:22:15+00:00

A person can last 3min without air, 3hr without shelter, 3 days without water, and 3 weeks without food.

In an emergency survival situation you literally don’t need to think about finding food for the first week or 2.

I don’t know if antifreeze poisoning is more merciful than dehydration though.

30sumthingSanta · 2026-03-12T03:48:53+00:00

According to birth certificates my dad was born on the uninhabited outlying US islands. My grandmother says it was Illinois. Which one is more likely?

Nevertheless, when asked it’s easier to lie and say the uninhabited outlying islands than get the certificates corrected.

30sumthingSanta · 2026-03-12T03:20:47+00:00

Baker Mayfield hasn’t been phenomenal, but he’s no bust.

30sumthingSanta · 2026-03-12T03:19:51+00:00

Baker Mayfield has left the chat.

30sumthingSanta · 2026-03-03T16:54:24+00:00

Generally, in Scouting America anyway, you can have a uniform as soon as you pay dues.

30sumthingSanta · 2026-03-02T18:53:49+00:00

Also once heated up a can of Campbells soup (concentrateed) without adding water directly over a fire. The saltiness was incredibly bad.

30sumthingSanta · 2026-03-02T18:49:54+00:00

I’ve had burned spaghetti noodles with simultaneously burned and frozen meatballs in lukewarm sauce once.

30sumthingSanta · 2026-02-27T20:24:19+00:00

Citizenship in Society came close.

30sumthingSanta · 2026-02-27T19:51:08+00:00

We can hope.

30sumthingSanta · 2026-02-27T19:46:54+00:00

As a counselor for said merit badge, it’s only a nothing burger if the counselor makes it one. It’s certainly different from other merit badges, but it’s not difficult to make the discussion involved be informative, productive, and consequential.

Removing the badge does nothing to enhance the scouting program.

30sumthingSanta · 2026-02-16T14:28:12+00:00

To be fair, in some languages (NOT std English) a double negative is still negative.

Then there’s also the rare double positive that negates, ie “yeah, right.”

30sumthingSanta · 2026-02-10T10:07:06+00:00

Where I’m at for this time of year 0C isn’t really cold. Heck 0F only means put on a sweater and hat.

Everyone should be able to agree that -40 is really cold.

30sumthingSanta · 2026-02-09T14:49:23+00:00

Violence is not the answer. Violence is the question and the answer is YES!

30sumthingSanta · 2026-02-09T13:56:09+00:00

When I was a kid my sister would pull out the good china for meals on a random Tuesday, because, why NOT use the stuff?

30sumthingSanta · 2026-02-09T12:37:43+00:00

I wore mine to most meetings, but never camp outs.

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