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Quite topical as Jamboree starts this week. I was flying out of Ecuador late last week and saw a bunch of excited scouts on their way to Jamboree and it made me
by SOLAR_FIELDS 7y ago
Quite topical as Jamboree starts this week. I was flying out of Ecuador late last week and saw a bunch of excited scouts on their way to Jamboree and it made me smile. Are there any other bizarre coming-of-age scouting traditions that other countries follow? This article immediately made me think of USA’s similar tradition, the snipe hunt:https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snipe_hunt https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snipe_hunt
- bane 7y agoWe had a tradition of sending new scouts over to other camps to ask for a "left-handed smoke shifter" to better control the smoke coming off of the camp fire. No such thing exists of course, but sending off new boys (and receiving similar new boys from other camps) was a hilarious tradition and a bit of light hazing that nobody ever broke. One older scout even crafted a piece of equipment he instructed the newbie to take with him to ask for a replacement part.
- jacquesm 7y agoOther professions have similar initiation rituals: automotive mechanics get sent out to get boxes of blue sparks and people in the clothing industry have to find a spool of yarn with some specific pattern on it.
- bluewater 7y agoThat’s really funny. I always assumed that was a troop specific joke. No one ever reacts when I mention the need for one around a campfire :)
- em-bee 7y agothe US shout shop at one point sold fly-squatters labelled "left handed smoke shifter"