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Lurgan Lad wrote: Thu Aug 12, 2021 8:51 am Definitely need to change the grading that a specific percentage get each grade each year. So say 5% get A*, 10% A, 20% B etc., because surely the purpose of the grades is to be able to understand who did well and who didn't, and giving everyone A grades doesn't make a lot of sense.
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You think I could trade in my cycling proficiency certificate c.1966 for a GCSE or two?
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solidarity wrote: Thu Aug 12, 2021 9:00 pm You think I could trade in my cycling proficiency certificate c.1966 for a GCSE or two?
At the current rate of grade inflation, your cycling proficiency certificate is at least the equivalent of the Advanced Driving Test and should substantially reduce your motor insurance premiums :thumleft:

I'm thinking of trading my Gold Arrow badge from the Cubs for an MSc.
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big mervyn wrote: Thu Aug 12, 2021 9:59 pm
solidarity wrote: Thu Aug 12, 2021 9:00 pm You think I could trade in my cycling proficiency certificate c.1966 for a GCSE or two?
At the current rate of grade inflation, your cycling proficiency certificate is at least the equivalent of the Advanced Driving Test and should substantially reduce your motor insurance premiums :thumleft:

I'm thinking of trading my Gold Arrow badge from the Cubs for an MSc.
Id forgotten about gold arrows. However I had my first aid badge at cubs (a weee handvwith a bandage on it iirc). I'm fairly ertain that qualifies my as a senior consultant in emrgency medicine today.
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What were the 3 colours for cub badges?

1st level was red, then yellow, then green?
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BR wrote: Sat Aug 14, 2021 8:48 am What were the 3 colours for cub badges?

1st level was red, then yellow, then green?
God I can't remember.

I can still recite the pledge "I promise that I will do my best ... etc
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big mervyn wrote: Sat Aug 14, 2021 9:02 am
BR wrote: Sat Aug 14, 2021 8:48 am What were the 3 colours for cub badges?

1st level was red, then yellow, then green?
God I can't remember.

I can still recite the pledge "I promise that I will do my best ... etc
It isn't 'we will do our best, cubs do their best, we will do our best'. That's my recollection anyway
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...do my duty to God and to the Queen :roll: and obey the Cub Scout law (whatever that was)

I suspect the wording may have altered over the last 50 years.
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Indoor British bulldog at the cubs was good prep for rugby in the first form. Probably one of he most violent games I've participated in :lol:
Mini rugby is for pussies in comparison.
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big mervyn wrote: Sat Aug 14, 2021 10:18 am ...do my duty to God and to the Queen :roll: and obey the Cub Scout law (whatever that was)

I suspect the wording may have altered over the last 50 years.
To help other people fitted in somewhere too.
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Anyway,

a) People who clap a boundary when it’s blatantly the fortunate result of an edge or other false stroke and

b) People who feel the need to stand up and signal a four...
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justinr73 wrote: Sat Aug 14, 2021 12:47 pm
big mervyn wrote: Sat Aug 14, 2021 10:18 am ...do my duty to God and to the Queen :roll: and obey the Cub Scout law (whatever that was)

I suspect the wording may have altered over the last 50 years.
To help other people fitted in somewhere too.
It actually hasn't changed at all. Hard luck if you're an atheist republican Cub.

I promise that I will do my best
to do my duty to God and to The Queen,
to help other people
and to keep the Cub Scout Law.

Any of you get your Sixer/Seconder stripes? I did 4 hard years in the cubs and commanded the Grey Six.
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Back to the title of this thread.

People talking about things they admit they can't actually remember.......but still talk about them anyway.FFS!
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big mervyn wrote: Sat Aug 14, 2021 5:05 pm
justinr73 wrote: Sat Aug 14, 2021 12:47 pm
big mervyn wrote: Sat Aug 14, 2021 10:18 am ...do my duty to God and to the Queen :roll: and obey the Cub Scout law (whatever that was)

I suspect the wording may have altered over the last 50 years.
To help other people fitted in somewhere too.
It actually hasn't changed at all. Hard luck if you're an atheist republican Cub.

I promise that I will do my best
to do my duty to God and to The Queen,
to help other people
and to keep the Cub Scout Law.

Any of you get your Sixer/Seconder stripes? I did 4 hard years in the cubs and commanded the Grey Six.
IIRC Merv is quoting the promise/oath thing that you took before you got the wee purple badge.
Lurgan Lad is quoting the wee rallying call done each night.
Was the law a list of 10 (???) including 'to help other people', 'to do a good deed every day', ...

Yes I was a sixer (yellow) - and then 2 of us (me and Robert from green six) were promoted to 'Senior Sixer' which I believe was an invention of our own pack - a sort of Sergeant Major/Warrant Officer role - where we weren't attached to a particular six - so we got to wear leather woggles and most importantly long trousers.

I did some googling re the badges and it seems the badges progressed from red to yellow to green. I recall having an armful of red and a couple of yellow, not sure if I ever got a green. Jack of all trades; master of none - story of my life.

What were the bronze/silver/gold arrows for? There was also a couple of other general achievement badges (link badge, ...???) There was some award I put in peril when I was suspended for punching someone's lights out one night. Personally I thought I deserved my boxing badge, but his ma didn't see it the same. The whole escapade probably did earn me my diplomacy badge though.

Most of my mates were BB, so, even with the oath to god and the queen - I was pretty much seen as an atheist.
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BR wrote: Sun Aug 15, 2021 1:40 pm IIRC Merv is quoting the promise/oath thing that you took before you got the wee purple badge.
Lurgan Lad is quoting the wee rallying call done each night.
Was the law a list of 10 (???) including 'to help other people', 'to do a good deed every day', ...

Yes I was a sixer (yellow) - and then 2 of us (me and Robert from green six) were promoted to 'Senior Sixer' which I believe was an invention of our own pack - a sort of Sergeant Major/Warrant Officer role - where we weren't attached to a particular six - so we got to wear leather woggles and most importantly long trousers.

I did some googling re the badges and it seems the badges progressed from red to yellow to green. I recall having an armful of red and a couple of yellow, not sure if I ever got a green. Jack of all trades; master of none - story of my life.

What were the bronze/silver/gold arrows for? There was also a couple of other general achievement badges (link badge, ...???) There was some award I put in peril when I was suspended for punching someone's lights out one night. Personally I thought I deserved my boxing badge, but his ma didn't see it the same. The whole escapade probably did earn me my diplomacy badge though.

Most of my mates were BB, so, even with the oath to god and the queen - I was pretty much seen as an atheist.
Aye, the BB were almost the youth wing of the Salvation Army - a lot of religion and drill. Our church was BB but my Ma was ex Girl Guides so sent me to the Cubs instead. Seemed like a better deal to me. We did a lot more outdoorsy Ray Mears type stuff and no religion

Th arrows were a longer project which typically took about year for each stage. You had to complete about a dozen separate and varied tasks to gain the badge and it got progressively harder from bronze to gold - a bit like kiddy Duke of Edinburgh. Our pack focussed on the arrows whereas others seemd to be more into the proficiency badges.

Oh aye. I do remember somebody getting busted down from Sixer to Seconder for calling somebody a "big spastic" :lol: - not me I hasten to add (neither the "big spastic" or the offender)
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