The Last Poster Wins! [v23]

[Neo Emolga]

Our camping is probably more comfortable than it should be. Air mattresses and usually a portable air conditioner or heater that my dad, whose pretty handy, has whipped up. Always love how food tastes when cooked out in the fresh air, though. Lots of great nights out by the campfire, and I always love bringing back a blanket that smells of woodsmoke.

I tried using an exercise mat as a mattress and it worked a little bit, but I still don't think it was enough. My only thing is I do have air mattress, but I'd have to either pump it by hand or use the electronic pump at the main building, carry it across all the camp sites, and hope it fits through my tent door while fully inflated (I don't think it would).

Cooking the food is great. If you're good at grilling, cooking it over a fire is essentially the same kind of deal. I took some MREs to the camping trip and those are pretty good and while you don't have to cook them, I think they're a lot better if you do. But yeah, you could spend hours by the campfire just chatting about whatever and you'll never notice how quickly the hours fly by. When you have good friends that enjoy that kind of thing, it can be quite fun despite the bugs and such.

[Chakramaster]

Yeah my work has a lot of things for those. Air mattresses, sleeping bags, foot air pumps, air pumps, electric air pumps, floor mats for the tents, up to a 12 person tent, etc. it's insane some of the things for it all out there.

[Chakramaster]

Dunno about Boy Scouts or especially Girl Scouts (except for their cookies xD), but I have been to the Boys Club in my town....whiiiiiiich is now Boys AND Girls Club of Georgia.

[Neo Emolga]

I did only a year of cub scouts when I was a kid. Mostly arts and crafts stuff and minor volunteer work things. Nothing really all that noteworthy.

[Noblejanobii]

So Boy Scouts from my understanding is more wilderness survivalist training whereas Girl Scouts is more... frilly. We learned how to sew and cook and make pottery and paint and such. Sure we did a creek hike and archery and went camping once in a blue moon but it wasn't the same.

[Chakramaster]

That's about all I've ever heard besides the cookies. Is there was some seeing and cooking involved, but it wasn't like the Boy Scouts where they learned to hike, tie knots, make a came fire, pitch tents, etc. still kinda odd, but they're losing that over time. Both Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts.

[Neo Emolga]

I have heard cases where in several Girl Scout troops, the only emphasis was on selling cookies. That's pretty shameful in my honest opinion. That's essentially turning little innocent girls into a sales force to guilt-trip people into buying cookies by solicitation.

[Noblejanobii]

Yeah I've heard that too. I got pretty lucky in that my troop was run by my mom. And for as much wrong as she has done throughout my life, this was not one of them. She actually hated selling cookies with a passion. So we spent only the necessary amount of time cookie selling. Then she'd orchestrate events like teaching us how to belly dance and sew and such. She didn't like how constrained we were activity wise so we did go camping a little bit but it was just like sleeping in cabins without air conditioning.

[Neo Emolga]

I don't think it's a big deal if there's just a little bit of emphasis on cookie selling, but that's the only thing I hear of them doing. Meanwhile, you see pictures of these girls going rafting, camping, and all kinds of other activities when I haven't heard of any of them doing that.

Although I remember in cub scouts, they wanted us to sell light bulbs, which seemed odd. Why that of all things?

[Chakramaster]

only thing I can remember off the top of my head is a fundraiser for my Elementary School. It had a little pamphlet that had items of what you could sell people on it and all I had to go by was family. It was some really odd things. I can't remember any, but only real group I was with like those was Awana for a Church in 6-7 grade. That was able out xD.

Yeah though, forcing young girls into the Girl Scouts JUST to sell cookies is wrong....unless it's a separate branch and that's what it was made for. Just for the Girls that wanted to do that and couldn't spend time in the other.