Dib Dib - new Scout leader

[EternalOptimist]

Never been to SA, but Cooba Pedi in Oz was pretty impressive. Millions of little pyramids of spoil stretching away across the desert

we got some cheap opals there

[darmstadt]

Crikey, it would be safer if the sirens preceded the explosions. Seems like closing the stable door after the horse has been blown to smithereens!

Still, I guess elf 'n safety wasn't exactly a prime concern in Seth Efrica before majority rule. Someone here related how they worked there in a diamond mine back in those days. The pit entrance then was simply a large hole in the ground with no fence, and workers regularly fell in and plummeted thousands of feet to their death.

Well the sirens were basically after the dynamite had exploded. You could feel it in our house which was a few miles away although that used to shake every now and then due to the gold mines running below it.

I remember visiting some Dutch friends in Rhodesia who had bought a load of gold mines for some reason. These were also just holes in the ground and you had to be pretty careful when walking around although that wasn't as bad as the makeshift loo. This was a hole about 6' by 3' and about 6' deep with just 2 planks over it for you to stand on to do the business. The highlight was visiting the Wankie National Park...

[OwlHoot]

Was in a Wolf Cub troop in South Africa which was based in the stables of Baden-Powells' house there which is in Modderfontein and just round the corner was the largest dynamite factory in the world, which used to occasionally emit loud explosions followed by a lot of sirens.

Crikey, it would be safer if the sirens preceded the explosions. Seems like closing the stable door after the horse has been blown to smithereens!

Still, I guess elf 'n safety wasn't exactly a prime concern in Seth Efrica before majority rule. Someone here related how they worked there in a diamond mine back in those days. The pit entrance then was simply a large hole in the ground with no fence, and workers regularly fell in and plummeted thousands of feet to their death.

[lightng]

"I was a seconder in the cubs."

Thats my stock answer to the question "Do you have any previous managerial experience?".

[Churchill]

It was 'DYB DYB DYB' followed by 'DOB DOB DOB' (Do Your Best, Do Our Best)

Dib dib dib
Dob Dob Dob
Where's Akela?
In the pub!

[darmstadt]

It was 'DYB DYB DYB' followed by 'DOB DOB DOB' (Do Your Best, Do Our Best)

[ace00]

Didn't the "Bear" get found out for making up many of his "dangerous" stunts for one of his discovery channel thingies?

Why isn't it Mears-o anyway? He is surely the God of the Scouts.

[RasputinDude]

I run an Explorer Scout (14ish to 18ish) unit - it is a lot of fun.

[EternalOptimist]

It's DYB - it means Do Your Best.

I was a Cub, Scout, Venture and Leader (15 yrs), Queens Scout, County Mountaineering Team, Wood badge etc. I'm just re-applying for an Assistant Beaver Leaders warrant.

It's 'Do Your Best' now
in those days it was 'Do It Better'



I'm struggling now, help me someone

[oraclesmith]

It's DYB - it means Do Your Best.

I was a Cub, Scout, Venture and Leader (15 yrs), Queens Scout, County Mountaineering Team, Wood badge etc. I'm just re-applying for an Assistant Beaver Leaders warrant.

[EternalOptimist]

I think you meant DYB DYB DYB.
Cub, Scout, Venture Scout, Venture Scout Leader and Scout Fellowship.

Dont have any time for it these days but still lend a hand where I can. Was on the service crew for Zellhof (a camp site in Austria) for a while.

Turd Vale eh! Ever take part in the Mersey Moot?

It was dib dib when I was in, they changed it later because there is no 'I' in scouting. I never got to the Mersey moot, it sounds like I missed a lot of fun there

[chef]

I was in Beavers, Cubs and Scouts

Cubs was brilliant, went camping loads, went to Amsterdam, tried my first ever Stella Artois (yes I was aged 9)

Scouts was rubbish IMO, I think it was the scout pack I was in that was being run into the ground that made it so rubbish but either way I was in "big school" by then and had other friends

[darmstadt]

Was in a Wolf Cub troop in South Africa which was based in the stables of Baden-Powells' house there which is in Modderfontein and just round the corner was the largest dynamite factory in the world, which used to occasionally emit loud explosions followed by a lot of sirens.

[The Lone Gunman]

Bear Grylls has taken over from Peter Duncan as Scout Leader.

Were you in the scouts when you were younger ? Are you still involved with them ?
I went to Tord Vale with them twice, I remember jumping into the open air pool which was so cold that I came out with two lumps in my neck


Bear Grylls

I think you meant DYB DYB DYB.
Cub, Scout, Venture Scout, Venture Scout Leader and Scout Fellowship.

Dont have any time for it these days but still lend a hand where I can. Was on the service crew for Zellhof (a camp site in Austria) for a while.

Turd Vale eh! Ever take part in the Mersey Moot?

[EternalOptimist]

Bear Grylls has taken over from Peter Duncan as Scout Leader.

Were you in the scouts when you were younger ? Are you still involved with them ?
I went to Tord Vale with them twice, I remember jumping into the open air pool which was so cold that I came out with two lumps in my neck


Bear Grylls