Was I in a different organisation to what we're talking about? The Scout troop I was in was hardly highly religious, discriminatory etc etc. It was just an excuse to show up on Fridays in uniform, do the whole earning badges and learning how to make fires thing, play a few sports and generally have a bit of a laugh.

Sorry, what do wirthling and I have in common?

Well, see, the Girl Scouts do what they're supposed to do. Teach girls to be baby factories and housewives. That's my kinda organization!

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Do you want ants? Because that's how you get ants.

I could never understand why anybody would want to join the scouts, why the fuck would I want to go to a place where I was FORCED to play with a set group of kids that I didn't know and spend the whole time hoping that the leader would pick a game that I wanted to play???

I'd rather just play on my bike with my mates, and, if that got boring I could have a game of tig or throw stones in a river.

The leaders of Scout groups are the same stuck-up assholes that attend church meetings and walk around with this attitude that just because they sit a room for an hour a week they're suddenly better than the rest of us. Any moron can sit in a church, these pretentious ignorant patrionising fuckers should put the same effort into doing something that matters instead of trying to outdo the neighbours!

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The main reason people join the organizations is to meet new people. I live miles away from my town, and the only person who was anywhere near my age as a kid that I could go see was my friend Joey. He lived two doors down, and was a 7th Day Adventist. As you can imagine, our playing was highly restrictive...

The idea behind Boy Scouts and such is supposedly to teach you useful skills, mostly regarding social interaction. Weather it does that or not is up to the individual.

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Do you want ants? Because that's how you get ants.

I understand what the Scouts is supposed to be about, but really, that's what school is for.

The best way to learn survival is to go camping with your mates when your about 14, trying to light a fag in the pissing rain is something that you figure out on your own as well as opening a bottle with only a stone.

It's not the actual little Scouts that I have a problem with, it's the attitude of the people who run the Scout organisations that I'm against, it's the whole pretence that they actually care, whereas it's just another thing to say "I run the Scouts and I hold sewing bee meetings and I'm head of the Church council...".

Growing up is supposed to be fun, it's not a constant task to meet the requirements of some idiot who decides when your good enough to earn a little badge. "No Kajun, don't throw the ball at Jimmy's face, throw it at his chest!", really, what's the point in dodging the ball unless it's gonna hurt?

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I concur wholeheartedly. I may be biased, though, having always been the last person to be picked in PE at school.

My problem was that I could dodge the ball pretty damn well, but I couldn't throw worth a crap. So I end up the last guy on my team, with some guy on the other side that I couldn't hit who couldn't hit me. Ended up being a contest of "who's more frikking bored with this?"

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...Trot and Cap'n Bill were free from anxiety and care. Button-Bright never worried about anything. The Scarecrow, not being able to sleep, looked out of the window and tried to count the stars.

The best way to teach kids survival is put them out in the woods with 14 hungry wolves, five hungry bears, and a rabid raccoon.

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No the best way is BATTLE ROYALE

Did anyone else think it was really strange the way Beat Takeshi got riddled with bullets and then continued walking about?

They had to keep him alive so he could finish the cookies. That was like a metaphor for something.

Incidentally, I just found out one of my friends has got a job in Japan for a year, teaching English to Japanese schoolkids. He can't speak a word of Japanese and his only knowledge of Japanese schools is through Battle Royale and Schoolgirl fetishes. I fear for the kids.

What, no tentacle porn?

I'm guessing he'll be sorely disappointed when he gets to Japan and realises that tentacle rape isn't really an everyday occurence.

Does it only happen at weekends or something?

Second thursday of every month.

I havent had a chance to see Battle Royale yet boys , so cheers for cunting that up for me.

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How did we cunt it up? We haven't given anything away except that it's got schoolchildren killing one another, and Beat Takeshi gets shot. Neither of these events come as as a surprise in the film.

The Scouts teach boys useful outdoor survival skills like how to bayonet savages.

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What others say about boorite!

Youve informed me that the ending of the film is Beat Takeshi getting shot repeatedly yet staying alive long enough to eat the cookies , and probably , due to this selfless act on his part , showing the children that theres more to life than mindless violence.

That said , what i wouldnt give to see a Beat Takeshi movie where he actually survived the entire movie , and doesnt die horribly in a bullet ridden pile somewhere in the last 10 minutes.

Martyrdom in moviemaking is overrated. Even anti-heroes are allowed to win once in a while.

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Youve informed me that the ending of the film is Beat Takeshi getting shot repeatedly yet staying alive long enough to eat the cookies , and probably , due to this selfless act on his part , showing the children that theres more to life than mindless violence.

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Ill end up renting it anyway , since anything with Takeshi and his 'limited' emotional repetoire in it is always worth watching.

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You should do. It's hilarious.
Speaking of foreign muck, has anyone seen Brotherhood of the Wolf?

I was going to see that during Melbourne's recent International Film Festival, but I just ran out of time. The summary in the MIFF program made it sound great, though. I am sorry I missed it.

Should I be?

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