Ireland Go Brrt

[random crag]

They were "invited" to our IVS and did nothing but start fights, steal stuff and cause trouble

[oak belfry]

We locked on into a portapotty and rugby tackled it down

[feral leaf]

@oak belfry has leveled up! (1 ➜ 2)

[random crag]

They stole our patrol flag that we had bought just before the camp for €90

[oak belfry]

They stole our 4 mascots at one stage and destroyed one of them

[random crag]

Good to know it's not just us that hate them lol

[oak belfry]

Most groups in galway dislike them due them being annoying

[random crag]

I don't get why they were invited to our camp

It was an intervarsity between college rover groups

[oak belfry]

That just seems dumb to have them there

[random crag]

They kinda just like tagged along bc it was close to them

We were in oranmore

[oak belfry]

Oranmore are a nice enough group but they annoyed our group at county camp

[random crag]

Is rinville a different group to oranmore

[oak belfry]

I don't know, maybe as i haven't heard of a renville group

[random crag]

Maybe it's just oranmores camping place

Renville park

[oak belfry]

Renville park do a bunch of scout stuff so that may be likely

[random crag]

It was a nice place

There was a coffee van there for the weekend which was very much appreciated

[oak belfry]

haven't been there for a long while so idk how much it has changed

[random crag]

Probably not much

There was some work being done in the field next door though

[steel loom]

All SI Rovers are invited to IVs now because there's no other national rover competition

I think that's the reason I heard

[random crag]

There wasn't any other groups invited this year

They were the only ones

Afaik

[dry igloo]

when does everyones group go back?

[raven blaze]

Our ventures started yesterday

Scouts a week before that

[steel loom]

Yeah we're starting back this week

Said goodbye to the ones moving up yesterday 😔

[tropic dagger]

We're back in full I think

[steel loom]

Venture Sword is this weekend, should be good!

[tropic dagger]

I'd be there but I've group camp and a wedding lol

[raven blaze]

I’d be there but my dad and granny are coming over from England

[dry igloo]

im not even sure the ventures in my group know its a thing

[tropic dagger]

Btw
Person in your snap story has an epic surname

Nó bias ofc

[dry igloo]

i ahve you added?!?!?!!?

daneil hayes????

[raven blaze]

NO WAY

IS THAT WHAT THE H STANDS FOR???

[tropic dagger]

Lmao

[tropic dagger]

Fortune favours the bold

[raven blaze]

Brave

Fortune favours the brave

[dry igloo]

i swear it was bold no?

wait

[raven blaze]

SAS

[dry igloo]

thats from a doritos add

[raven blaze]

Imma keep calling you Robin Hood

[tropic dagger]

It's bold

Family motto

Well one of three

The one I remember the most lol

[tropic dagger]

Love the instinct to immediately send me a snap

[raven blaze]

It’s both apparently

Translated from Latin

[dry igloo]

its just the right thing to do

[tropic dagger]

Huh

[raven blaze]

It’s a Latin proverb but is translated as bold or brave

[tropic dagger]

One of the other mottos are something in Latin aswell
Like my will is God or my drive is God or guide or something like that.... Now I gotta go find it

[dry igloo]

it feels weird knowing you are now a real human

[tropic dagger]

Meeting Patronimo was so funny at first

As soon as he walked away Síofra or Charlie said something about it being really awkward

Good craic after though

[dry igloo]

it was deff siofra

[tropic dagger]

Probably
But we got a raven chanting for the curlews

So yk
Vibes all around

[dry igloo]

you should have gone to cruinniu

it was acctualy good

like i was not expecting it to be good

[raven blaze]

In all fairness

It was

[dry igloo]

are you tall?

[raven blaze]

Average

[dry igloo]

how tall is that

i want to see if you would tower over me

[raven blaze]

I’d say I’m taller but not that much

I’d check but like

Effort

[dry igloo]

this is me in comarison to the other reps

so i feel like you would tower over me

[tropic dagger]

Ngl
Wanted to go to cruinniú
But bookings were full and I think I had a better weekend hanging around with a Waterford scout

[dry igloo]

woah buddy

[tropic dagger]

Nah
Funny sure
Awkward no nay never

[dry igloo]

siofra would not be happy with that statment

[raven blaze]

It was a very long handshake

[tropic dagger]

Hopefully gonna meet up with other ventures from phoenix throughout the year

Like athy aswell

[dry igloo]

are you taller than siofra?

[tropic dagger]

Loved to meet with balbriggan guys

[raven blaze]

Meee?

[tropic dagger]

And ofc Patronimo owes me a tour

[tropic dagger]

Ye

[dry igloo]

oh lord

by how much

[tropic dagger]

I'm only like 5'11"

[dry igloo]

ONYL

[tropic dagger]

I'm not the lanky man himself

[dry igloo]

WHAT

[tropic dagger]

The ginger giant

[dry igloo]

THIS IS ME COMPAIERED TO SIOFRA

[tropic dagger]

Lmao

[raven blaze]

Ohhh I remember Síofra

[tropic dagger]

I'll find one with us beside eachother

Probably shield or something

[dry igloo]

ik the one your on abt

siofra always reminds me that ye won somthing at sheild

[raven blaze]

Yeah they did

They won the shield

[tropic dagger]

Ima make this gonzo in a minute

[raven blaze]

lurking

[tropic dagger]

Actually I should find a better one

I was like a meter behind em

[raven blaze]

that’s the lurking photo

[tropic dagger]

One of many

BY ACCIDENT

[dry igloo]

anna is tiny tf

[tropic dagger]

Not that much taller

Though that was march

[dry igloo]

your not THAT tall

[tropic dagger]

Anna is a 2ft thunder

[raven blaze]

Anna is smaller than most of 142st

And that’s impressive

[tropic dagger]

Yeh but she's also Anna so yk

[dry igloo]

shes deff smaller than my friend hannah and she tiny

[tropic dagger]

Living legend

[raven blaze]

Aoife and Sophia

[tropic dagger]

Anna should've been pl for shield and phoenix

I will mention this every time

[raven blaze]

Anna was barking at a scub

[tropic dagger]

Charlie?

[dry igloo]

thats justified

scubs are thw worst

[tropic dagger]

Checks out lol

[raven blaze]

No some random kid ran up to her and started barking

And she barked back

[dry igloo]

WIA

[tropic dagger]

Nah, we usually have decent scubs, 2 of em made it to phoenix

[tropic dagger]

Mup

Lmao

[dry igloo]

i thogutn you meant barking as in like shouting tf

[tropic dagger]

Nah that'd be boring

Shoutings my thing

Copyright infringement yk

Just got a snap from Diarmuid lol

Timing

[dry igloo]

in one word how would you describe scouts to someone who isint a scout?

[tropic dagger]

Scouty

[raven blaze]

Here yous can use this to gauge my height

[dry igloo]

thats fairly tall

[tropic dagger]

Nah
You're approximately one Robin tall

Minus like one forehead I think

[dry igloo]

im like just above anna😭

[raven blaze]

Yeah pretty much

Couple inches anyway

[tropic dagger]

You need to get a pic with cillian

Lanky himself

[oak belfry]

Is anyone doing Mountain Havoc

[raven blaze]

Robin

I’m not doing Connaught but maybe Leinster

[tropic dagger]

Tís the plan

Still need to get a leader to book it since I'm waiting on my account and another group

But all going well I'll be there

[oak belfry]

Im registred but my team has left me high and dry

[tropic dagger]

Srsly? What group?

[oak belfry]

There was 2 of us registered so we was going to get one more but he left to go with another group and now I dont have one

[tropic dagger]

I mean if you still go then you'll be put with other people anyway

[oak belfry]

yeah im still going

[tropic dagger]

Idk how many are gonna be in my team since I'm from 5th carlow and tagging along with 31st Waterford

Just waiting on info rn

[oak belfry]

I like meeting new people so maybe doing with randoms will be fun

[raven blaze]

Your my.scouts account?

[tropic dagger]

Yeh

Rn it's a scout account

Idk if I can change it myself

[raven blaze]

Don’t think so

[tropic dagger]

Ye

Is yours a venture account?

[raven blaze]

I’ll have to check

Wouldn’t say so

[tropic dagger]

If it is can you have a look at the registration thing

Like if I need to put down my team mates on it while registering

If I don't then I can book it tomorrow

Otherwise I have to wait

[raven blaze]

Nah still scout

I’ll get them to change it next week

[steel loom]

Venture Sword was WET

Good craic like

[raven blaze]

I'll bet

Who won in the end?

[steel loom]

Clonnard

They won phoenix last year, it's the group who's leader owns IOAC

[raven blaze]

yeah Adrian

nice guy

[raven blaze]

finally eating the swiss roll I nicked after phoenix

[tropic dagger]

I ate that after a pl meeting

Best Swiss roll ever

[raven blaze]

my lawyers have advised me against it but I'm gonna try to the funny to some americans

[tropic dagger]

Why do you pay me if you aren't gonna listen

[raven blaze]

I have no friends.

[tropic dagger]

That's because you keep paying me with their livers

But as your lawyers I suggest you keep doing it

[tropic dagger]

The ploughing

Is

Interestinh

Pissing rain

[steel loom]

RIP

[random crag]

I always thought ploughing was on a weekend

[tropic dagger]

Nah

Started yesterday I think

Goes till Thursday afaik

[raven blaze]

Guys we have the most messages out of every topic

Go us

[tropic dagger]

You're telling me Irish people talk alot?

Slander

Nó nay never

Nó nay never nó more

You're being kicked out of ventures
You'll play a wild rover no more

[raven blaze]

Not slander

Just a fact

As of this message there are 1223 messages

[tropic dagger]

Fair enough lmao

[dry igloo]

we're just better

[raven blaze]

Amen

[tropic dagger]

This is the way

[steel loom]

Mup us

Also lads if any of ye go to a university/college with no Rover Society it is your moral DUTY (and mandatory) to set up a Rover Society

[tropic dagger]

Aye aye capn

[raven blaze]

It would be an honour

[random crag]

This

UCC Rovers on top

[raven blaze]

Apparently our three heads of government and the health minister are all in the US right now

Right as the Dáil comes back

Convenient

I say we start the coup right now

[steel loom]

Quick, while they're not around

[tropic dagger]

Scout takeover of the nation

They will rue the day they crossed us

All will hail to the blue rabbit

And all will munch on breadsticks

[tropic dagger]

Wait does anyone have the 2023-2024 calendar for scouting Ireland?

[oak belfry]

Only ones I found are of horrible quality

[tropic dagger]

Crap
Need to fill out me calendar so I can do as much as possible

[oak belfry]

I'm just keeping a keen eye on my account's calendar

[tropic dagger]

My group leader still hasn't updated mine

[tropic dagger]

Where did you find this btw? So I can get a jumping off point for another search

[oak belfry]

I got this from a friend. I'll ask if they have a better quality one

[tropic dagger]

Thanks

[steel loom]

It should be on the issuu

They haven't posted it there yet :/

[zenith plume]

I was born in a Dublin street.

[steel loom]

Here's my one I got at Cruinniú, I know the quality isn't great (RIP phone camera) but hopefully it's slightly more legible than before 😅

[zenith plume]

Where the royal drums did beat.

[tropic dagger]

What are the black and orange bars do you know?

Oh wait it says it lol

[tropic dagger]

@proven jungle
Could this be pinned?

[zenith plume]

The loving English feet the walked all over, us.

[tropic dagger]

Thanks

[zenith plume]

And every single night, when me da would com on tight. He'd invite the neightbours out with this chorus.

And if i sing further you'll notice what song im singing and probably kick me...😅

😰

[steel loom]

I knew from the first line lmao

[zenith plume]

Ik, but... Yeah, i should just shut up.

[steel loom]

@tropic dagger this is the colour coding they used :))

[steel loom]

You don't want to get Irish Women's football team'd 😦

[raven blaze]

^

[tropic dagger]

Oh no

[zenith plume]

Xd, no color

[raven blaze]

I need to figure out how I'm getting to essex...

[tropic dagger]

Nah
Colours fine

[tropic dagger]

1. GO WITH ANOTHER GROUP

Or
2. Do venture challenge

But id try for Essex first

Because by the looks of it I won't be able to do challenge this year

[raven blaze]

Do we have a contingent?

[tropic dagger]

Uhhhh

Good question

Not that I know of

[raven blaze]

Yeah quick google search says no

[tropic dagger]

Do you know any close by groups going?

[raven blaze]

Nah

[dry igloo]

Got the feature on the scouting ireland news letter

[tropic dagger]

Ok

Found out

Last 3 days of venture challenge is just closing ceremony and doss aparently

So I can do both

@raven blaze
Full tux for venture ball yeh?

Ok

Mpcs for ventures
Anyone know team numbers?

[oak belfry]

A pdf copy of the calendar

[tropic dagger]

Thanks

[steel loom]

Be sure you don't miss assessments

[tropic dagger]

Yuo

Meant 2

Not 3

2nd last day is doss and closing ceremony

Last is leaving

Fun days I'm told but I need to catch the ferry lol

[steel loom]

Ah yeah, day 9 is closing ceremony and day 10 is site break so be grand

I was staffing it this year, it was good craic

[tropic dagger]

Ye
Getting my woggle is gonna be a pain probably

[tropic dagger]

Cillian won't shut up about his woggle lol

Lanky himself

[steel loom]

They can give your awards to your partner and your partner can give them to you if you're not there I think

[steel loom]

What a lovely fella, he's so gas

[tropic dagger]

Oooh
So if i do it with someone not going to Essex I'm sorted

Or if I know anyone staffing it could that work?

Idk
I'll figure it out closer

[steel loom]

Yeah, they'll always do their best to get it to you

Like, you could arrange to get it from the team at Cruinniú or Venture Sword

[tropic dagger]

Getting it at sword would be great lol

Actually I saw balbriggans phoenix pl was at the sword this year

He's a bloody legend

[dry igloo]

Got to go to NYCIs yoing voices core group on behalf of SI today

[steel loom]

Have fun!!

[steel loom]

beagnach windy

[raven blaze]

Forecast is worse now

[steel loom]

There's nothing like the weather-related illnesses acquired on scout camps

I've been sick as a dog since Venture Sword

[dry igloo]

that was me after cruinniu

i was down and out for like 3 days after and still feeling the after effects

[steel loom]

RIP, I'd say Cruinniú must've been really stressful for you guys since NYA hasn't ever been held in that format before

[raven blaze]

Do any of ye know Brian Manion?

[tropic dagger]

@buoyant fractal
We gots here for Irish shtuff

[buoyant fractal]

Yuppie

[dry igloo]

no bcs none of even knew how long we were getting or what was going to happen so we were just told to plan the whole weekend for our section and then we had a meeting and all for it and then less than a month b4 we were told we only had an hour

and then one of my workshops even got cancled, everything was just hectic for us

thank god we have a review meeting soon

and we have all agreed to try get the reps a proper NYA next year

[steel loom]

Welcome to the Irish channel 😎

[steel loom]

Christ that's rough

[dry igloo]

wasnt even the worst of it

none of us knew what would happen about sleeping arrangements or even getting to larch hill

the times were fair bad and if they just even kept one overnight we would have had so many more bookings

[steel loom]

💀

[steel loom]

Hopefully it will be better for you guys next year

I went with the cub team and our team lead (Keith <3) was the one who organised it for us so idk if it was painful for programme teams or not

[dry igloo]

id say it should have too bad for ye bcs ye only had the stands

[steel loom]

The stand was great craic

Just sat about, telling people about Cub Challenge and Cub Survivor, having the time of my life

[tropic dagger]

Gotta get François to the sun

[dry igloo]

he is plauging the scouts story

[tropic dagger]

I know
It's great

I don't regret starting it

[dry igloo]

i could just get rid of you from the story😭

[tropic dagger]

Ah
But I've also infected it with the blue rabbit

I was only the beginning

[dry igloo]

dear lord

[tropic dagger]

The spread has already begun

[dry igloo]

oh no

[tropic dagger]

I spread the blue rabbit to at least 7 other patrols at phoenix

Plus this guy

Sooooooon

[raven blaze]

Soon we will enact our plan

Just you wait

You will be powerless to stop it

[tropic dagger]

Our very organised plan

Very very organised and planned plan

[feral leaf]

@dry igloo has leveled up! (6 ➜ 7)

[raven blaze]

Organised down to the last detail

[dry igloo]

one clikc

[tropic dagger]

They say I was banned from every scout group chat on snap from that one click

But they also say the world's flat so idk

Remember kids

Check your sources

[raven blaze]

https://tenor.com/view/thanos-avengers-chris-hemsworth-thor-finger-snap-gif-17954583

[tropic dagger]

Damn
I got mettalicspork snapped

Snorked

I got snorkled

[raven blaze]

Crazy

[tropic dagger]

I am

Inedible

Well I am edible

I just don't taste good

[raven blaze]

Proof?

[tropic dagger]

I ate my arm

[raven blaze]

Can I have a slice?

[steel loom]

The national calendar has a few mistakes on it (particularly with the Venture events), on my troop website I added all the national events to the calendar with the dates fixed so give it a look if you're interested 👍

https://kilmacudscouts.ie/Events.html

I'm . . . Still figuring out a few UI bugs 😅

[raven blaze]

THEY WEREN’T SUPPOSED TO FIND OUT

[tropic dagger]

Right
Summon the puddle pirates
We've found a use

[raven blaze]

nahhh fr

If the DF’s struggling to recruit just use scouts

Easy fix

[tropic dagger]

You see

You joke

But

[raven blaze]

Who said I was joking?

[tropic dagger]

The ammount of scouts ik that wanna do military shtuff

Myself included

[raven blaze]

Straight facts

[tropic dagger]

I know one guy who skipped ty specifically to join the Irish navy

The man's a lanky giant and jacked to go with it

[tropic dagger]

Ireland have air scouts?
That'd be epic

I know an athy guy who's joining the air force

Well plans to anyway

[steel loom]

There's one air scout troop left in Ireland afaik

[raven blaze]

sign me up

[steel loom]

They're in Wexford I think, it's the troop the rep head facilitator is from

[tropic dagger]

Right beside carlow

Be grand
Can't be more than an hour away right?

[raven blaze]

My English teacher/TY coordinator asked us who'd fastrope out of a helo today

Actually she said they ARW were winced onto the ship

Not even winched

Which they weren't

She also called it a trawler

As in the ship

Not the trawler

Which she did indeed call a trawler

[tropic dagger]

@raven blaze

There's fan art now

It is glorious

[tropic dagger]

At the end of the day we're all fans of François trynna get him to space

[raven blaze]

C’EST FRANÇOIS!!1!1!1

[tropic dagger]

Wait a minute
I know that guy
That's the guy from the thing

[raven blaze]

MON PETIT AMI

[tropic dagger]

HE'S SPEAKING 6 WEEKER GET HIM

[raven blaze]

Uhhh no it’s not

That’s the other guy

From the other thing

That you don’t know about

[raven blaze]

?

[tropic dagger]

Idk what your on about

Clearly that's the yellow snow pl

[raven blaze]

Shiße

[tropic dagger]

Frenchies lasted 6 weeks in ww2

[raven blaze]

Non tu ne comprends pas

[tropic dagger]

Ich spreche keine frankozische

And with that I've spoken more German in the Irish part of the server than I have irish

[raven blaze]

Я доктор

[raven blaze]

Auf die heiden schrüber heiden ghlübe heist?

Or something along those lines

I better do my 5 duolingo languages

Brb

[tropic dagger]

Neither me nor Google translate know wtf that means

[raven blaze]

Erika

Clearly my friend speaks awful German

Auf der Heide blüht ein kleines Blümelein
Und das heißt

[tropic dagger]

Btw
@dry igloo
Is there a massive gc aswell?

[dry igloo]

huh

[tropic dagger]

Why am I asking bout snap on discord?
Idk

But since there's a massive story I'm wondering if there's a massive gc

[dry igloo]

kind of

i also happen to own it

[tropic dagger]

Noice

Btw you're national rep persons

You know how to go around making neckers?

[dry igloo]

im well aware

[dry igloo]

as in like getting your own printed?

[tropic dagger]

Yup

For François ofc

[dry igloo]

0-0

.....

[tropic dagger]

I've got at least 7 people interested in em already

[dry igloo]

ive been getting complaints about that thing

[tropic dagger]

Srsly?

[dry igloo]

ya

[tropic dagger]

Tbh seems bang on dumb humour for scouts

[dry igloo]

i love running that story

[dry igloo]

💀

[tropic dagger]

Listen
Could be worse
The blue rabbits only spread to one person via the story

Granted there's at least 18 groups that I've spread the blue rabbits word to, alot of during phoenix

[dry igloo]

im hungry

[tropic dagger]

But yk yourself

[tropic dagger]

One guy was eating François, he could probably share the biget

[tropic dagger]

Btw i found that the fire necker is an actual groups necker

200 ballymun

[raven blaze]

Interesting

[dry igloo]

i met ballymun scouts at cruinniu and they thretened to tie me to an icelandic

[dry igloo]

@tropic dagger thanks for leaving me on opened

[tropic dagger]

Opened it at break then had to do a thing
Gonna get to it when I can
In art using notifs response rn

[oak belfry]

Who is francois and why is he on the Snapchat story? I am very confused

[raven blaze]

Join us.

[tropic dagger]

This is where it started

And now I'm working on getting neckers

Someone else is looking into woggles for me

Being as cheap as possible without being shjt ofc

[oak belfry]

I got some confused looks when francois appeared with the hindenburg

[tropic dagger]

There's fan art and everything

I regret nothing

[dry igloo]

he got eaten

[tropic dagger]

That too

But it takes more than that to kill François

Considering we launched him to the moon to finally kill him before

[raven blaze]

Hey I’m a Martian

Getting mixed signals here lads

Not that you can’t be both I suppose

[tropic dagger]

Gone overseas maybe?

Ping em

[raven blaze]

I don’t wanna be rude

[tropic dagger]

Ah the ever lasting plight of irish

Being polite unless caught in the moment

[raven blaze]

Oh also my cubs now know about François

[tropic dagger]

GOWAN

MUP YA BOYA

Listen
Your cubs doing the challenge?

[raven blaze]

Yeah they did it the year just gone too

They did shite though so I wouldn't count on them qualifying

Red snow patrol came 1st, 2nd and 3rd

[raven blaze]

Boyne Valley's gonna become a national park

[tropic dagger]

The only thing I know about the boyne is that it's in a song that I can't remember

And iz a rivva

[raven blaze]

Battle of the Boyne

Newgrange I think

[tropic dagger]

I only learned that exists now

I was thinking of red is the rose

[raven blaze]

Sorry I thought you said you did second year history?

Did I hear wrong?

[tropic dagger]

I meant I only learned the song existed today

But also I've no clue what the battle of the boyne is, no

[tropic dagger]

Second year history was all sleep

All I remember was the guy who wrote the argument stuff was a killer shot

[tropic dagger]

Wait... Who told you I did?

[raven blaze]

citizensinformation.ie

You legally have to do it for jc

[raven blaze]

O’Connell?

[tropic dagger]

Could've been

[tropic dagger]

Legally you're meant to do rse in primary school aswell

That never happened

Welcome to Carlow lol

We probably covered it and I just didn't pay attention in this case though

[raven blaze]

Ah sure we barely did it

[tropic dagger]

What book did ye use for jc history?

[raven blaze]

Artefact

[tropic dagger]

We didn't
At all

[tropic dagger]

Ok so definitely a thing of I didn't pay attention then

[raven blaze]

We did like

Puberty

[tropic dagger]

Plus
Based on the fact the song is a unionist one
Me don't thinks I'd register it at all

[raven blaze]

lmao

[tropic dagger]

Nice
I learned about it through osmosis
It just got to a certain point and people assumed you knew

[raven blaze]

Osmosis?

[tropic dagger]

Never had a conversation or talk about it

[tropic dagger]

Cultural osmosis is like.... I've never watched highlander, it's never been described to me, but I can tell you the premise of it

[raven blaze]

Right

[tropic dagger]

Damn filter

How much do you wanna bet this channel has triggered it the most?

[raven blaze]

||Ik some people in my year have learned from experience||

[raven blaze]

Here or general

[raven blaze]

Fair

[tropic dagger]

You see
I can't really bounce off that without going into an oopsie area lmao

[raven blaze]

Same…

[tropic dagger]

But anyway
Let's bury this so it can be forgotten

[raven blaze]

Yup

[tropic dagger]

Oppinnions?

[raven blaze]

Until next week

[tropic dagger]

Personally I don't drink tea

[raven blaze]

Same

[tropic dagger]

We're starting a weekly show?

[raven blaze]

Woah

Calm yourself

[tropic dagger]

Where every episode ends with a really awkward moment

And then everyone gives an emotionless stare at the camera

As it zooms out with eery silence

And cuts to an upbeat credit sequence

I didn't read that

But mods have it now

[raven blaze]

Fgs

[tropic dagger]

Dms are a magical thing lmao

[raven blaze]

Yeah

[tropic dagger]

Oh yeh

[dry igloo]

MANDATORY EQUIPMENT LIST.
Rain jacket and leggings, walking boots (not takies).
Backpack/Small rucksack (for holding all the gear in)
Headtorch with spare batteries (not the torch on your phone), Warm clothes (not jeans),
Hat and gloves,
spare clothes,
water,
preferably a hot drink,
snacks/food,
small/personal first aid kit, bivvy bag, emergency blanket, whistle, compass (can be purchased from Radar Stores, Foxes Bow, 10% discount available if you tell them that it’s for scouts)
and a map of the area if you have one.
Fully charged phone.
Leaders will bring the group shelters/Kisheau
This for a hike on Wednesday. Does anyone else think some of this is a bit much

[tropic dagger]

Who's doing a hike on a Wednesday?

Bit odd

[dry igloo]

its like right after school too💀

its the night our ventures meet up

and they invited the oldest scouts (me and hannah) to go on the hike too

[tropic dagger]

Hah oldest

We meet up at fridays
Ventures at the den at 8 and scouts at a school who's hall is bigger at 7.30

[dry igloo]

our den is used everyday

beavers are mondays and tuesdays and then cubs are on wednsday and ventures are after with cubs on a thursday too

and then scouts on a friday

[tropic dagger]

Ye
We used to have beavers on Monday and Tuesday
Cubs Wednesday and Thursday
And scouts and ventures friday

But they had to close the Thursday night cubs since they didn't have enough leaders

[dry igloo]

we have too amny leaders in some sections

yk parents joining with the kid

it leaves a huge imbalance

[raven blaze]

We’ve the same problem sometimes

But that said last week the only cubs leaders that showed up were me, another venture, a rover and a leader who joined two weeks before

[raven blaze]

M50 vibes

[dry igloo]

help, ive to go on a like 4 hour hike in about like 30 minutes

on a wednesday💀

[raven blaze]

fun

[steel loom]

how did it go?

[dry igloo]

it didnt live up to the amazing fantasy i had planned

and it rained

[steel loom]

RIP 😦

[steel loom]

Guys the neckerchiefs for TUDublin Rovers have arrived and they look unreal

I actually jumped up and down in front of other real people when I opened the package

[raven blaze]

Yoooo that’s sick

[tropic dagger]

Niiice

[random crag]

V v noice

I love Ucc's ones but I'm biased

[dawn rapids]

thats a shock. It's TUD

[steel loom]

We're finally back in business after dying over COVID 🥹

[tropic dagger]

We got two national rover reps in Dst lol

[steel loom]

I'm a former national rep XD

[tropic dagger]

Jear desus
Gray took your spot then

And melka too

[steel loom]

Yeah! They're both lovely 😄

[raven blaze]

Hell yeah

Just got back from Comhairle

[dry igloo]

i love melka

[steel loom]

Gray fully did take my spot, we're in the same troop and both had the Dublin Province seat as a rep 😅 . It's all part of the Kilmacud plan for island-wide domination

[raven blaze]

I got elected chairperson of my school’s student council today

[steel loom]

Congratulations!

[raven blaze]

Ty

[dry igloo]

ive finally decided to make a tesco account

inflation be hitting hard lately😔 😔

[raven blaze]

thank you

I have tesco stocks

[steel loom]

The clubcard deals are pretty good tbf

[oak belfry]

My jambo badges are finally on

[steel loom]

WOW

That's so cool!!

[oak belfry]

Thank you. Still have to put on some Kanderstag and some Irish ones

[raven blaze]

Junior cert results tomorrow

[steel loom]

Good luck!!

[raven blaze]

ty

[tropic dagger]

Wait a minute, I did that thingy too

[raven blaze]

Indeed you did my friend

[dry igloo]

any distinctions?

[tropic dagger]

Nope
Got all merits and higher merits

Cept Irish and religion

They passed

[oak belfry]

Got my results. 6 higher merits, 2 merits and 1 distinction

[raven blaze]

English and Business

Merit in tech and the rest were higher merits

[tropic dagger]

Mup the big brains

[raven blaze]

I just realised

Over 1 in 100 people in the country did the jc last year

That’s like

A lot of people

[hollow pulsar]

i went shield last year

won the log book award that was it this guy kicked down our cooking area lmao

[raven blaze]

Which shield?

[hollow pulsar]

hmm liffy vally star wars themed or something

[raven blaze]

Yeah I won that shield king

Liffey West yeah?

[tropic dagger]

Damnit
The dubs are spreading

[hollow pulsar]

yeah ! oops liffy vally 😂

[feral leaf]

@hollow pulsar has leveled up! (0 ➜ 1)

[hollow pulsar]

woah

[raven blaze]

I'm actively trying to remember who won the logbook this year...

[hollow pulsar]

me

[tropic dagger]

It was me barry

[random crag]

It was me

[raven blaze]

Nah Barry's one of ours

[tropic dagger]

Can confirm

[hollow pulsar]

it was 73

[tropic dagger]

I was marking it

[raven blaze]

Clondalkin?

No

Rathcoole?

one of them anyway

[hollow pulsar]

yeah rathcoole

[raven blaze]

Always mix you guys up

Because nobody calls you by your number

[tropic dagger]

Yup the fifth

Tbf i don't know of any group that goes by their number

Cept dubs like 212th

[raven blaze]

Are ye going on the county hike this weekend?

[raven blaze]

We go by both

[hollow pulsar]

yeah

[raven blaze]

Because there's a lucan south

[raven blaze]

Nice

[tropic dagger]

Ditto
But people'll say carlow before they'll say the 5th

Since there's 2 5th carlows

[raven blaze]

Makes sense

[tropic dagger]

Ofc

[raven blaze]

Is one the Carlow side and then one the Laois side?

We need to do a poll to find out the best represented geographical and scout counties

[tropic dagger]

Statistically it should be dubs

I think

And since we've like kilmacud I think that may be bang on

[raven blaze]

What about scout counties though?

[tropic dagger]

I can think of 3 in carlow kilkenny that are in the server

[raven blaze]

Oh yeah

[tropic dagger]

Idk what way Dublins split

[raven blaze]

I forgot your counties are bigger than geographical ones rather than smaller

[tropic dagger]

Ye

[raven blaze]

There's like 7

[tropic dagger]

Kildare and Dublin are chucked in together I think for some reason and that hurts me

Well
Kildares in your scout county anyway
Since an athy scout i was talking to was able to go to the camp you staffed

[raven blaze]

Dublinia, Liffey West, Dun Laoghaire, Dodder, Cluain Torc, Mountpelier, Cois Farraige, Three Rock and Tolka

[tropic dagger]

In lucan

[raven blaze]

Nope

Because there's a 23rd Kildare

[tropic dagger]

Three rock wins for decent names

[raven blaze]

And a 23rd Lucan

[tropic dagger]

Wouldn't take that as ground evidence
There's 3rd carlow, 3rd kilkenny and 2 5th carlows in separate towns

[raven blaze]

South Eastern Scout Province

There are 7 counties in the Province.

Carlow-Kilkenny Scout County
Cill Dara Scout County
Cill Mhantáin Scout County
Slieve Bloom Scout County
South Kildare Scout County
Waterford Scout County
Wexford Scout County

That's off wiki

[tropic dagger]

Waterford is the promised land

Best county by far

[hollow pulsar]

yeah waterfords nice

[raven blaze]

Alex is from there so ofc it is

Queen

[tropic dagger]

Alex?

[raven blaze]

Idk her surname

[tropic dagger]

....

[raven blaze]

But she has my necker except it's a woggle now

[tropic dagger]

Fair

[tropic dagger]

Wait the what

[raven blaze]

She's a rover

Staffed Phoenix

[tropic dagger]

Got a picture?

[raven blaze]

Of?

[tropic dagger]

The woggle necker

[tropic dagger]

Damn
A necker to trade and it became a woggle

[hollow pulsar]

i am always losing my woggle

[tropic dagger]

Blood knots are the best

[raven blaze]

Yeah I gave it to her at the end of 2022 and she came with it as a woggle on 2023

[tropic dagger]

Ahhhh

But also how

That sounds cool af

[hollow pulsar]

i am terrible at knots i can do a wonderful square lasing thats about it

[raven blaze]

I think she cut the bottom off it and then rolled it in some way

[tropic dagger]

For most times me thinks it's just whatever works

So having a good lashings all you really need

[raven blaze]

That's Alex

[hollow pulsar]

yeah square lasings are very handy

[raven blaze]

Or someone that looks a lot like Alex

[tropic dagger]

Chances

[tropic dagger]

Secretly it's bill from wyoming

[raven blaze]

damnit

always gets me

[tropic dagger]

Bill likes to dress up every now and then, let him have it

[raven blaze]

Bill's a funny guy

[tropic dagger]

They say he's hiding out in the mountains

[raven blaze]

Has he forgotten how to speak English by chance?

[tropic dagger]

He has
Hasn't gotten a haircut either

[raven blaze]

And he says to yer man in the centra

Oh a lay la

[tropic dagger]

So this is what it's like

To not get the reference

Oh how the turns tables the have

[raven blaze]

A very ticky tumba

A mazza mazza mazza?

[tropic dagger]

A mazza mazza mazza

[raven blaze]

Oh a lay oh lay oh la

[raven blaze]

About damn time

[tropic dagger]

It's about damn time

Is another song

Except the singer just starts speaking jiberish after

So I can't remember it

Tbf
Most of my song reference are well known Irish songs

[raven blaze]

Turn up the music?

Turn down the lights

I got a feelin

[tropic dagger]

Everythings gonna be alright

[raven blaze]

I’m gonna be ok (ok)

Alright (alright)

It’s about damn time

[tropic dagger]

That's the one

[hollow pulsar]

lizzo?

[tropic dagger]

Is it?

[raven blaze]

Something like that

You asking the wrong person

[tropic dagger]

Idk man

I was force fed a load of songs after phoenix

[raven blaze]

I’m currently being given out to for not having watched Hocus Pocus

[tropic dagger]

Haven't watched it either

And I'm perfectly fine

So you're grand

[hollow pulsar]

i watched iit it was ok

[raven blaze]

@tropic dagger

[tropic dagger]

Huh

Wah

[raven blaze]

All star is just my go to now if I haven’t seen/read something or I don’t know of it

[tropic dagger]

I can factually confirm with all power invested in me that not knowing all star is worse

Also we're the group now?

[raven blaze]

Sure

Why not?

[tropic dagger]

HIVE MIND FUCKS YEAH

[raven blaze]

Not a cult

[tropic dagger]

What?

No

[raven blaze]

Anyway I’ve work tomorrow morning

[tropic dagger]

Oof

[raven blaze]

Going into a data centre

Well

It’s like

“Work”

Anyway

Goodnight peoples

[tropic dagger]

Gn

[steel loom]

62nd/71st/90th Kilmacud is a mouthful to say when we introduce ourselves

[tropic dagger]

Nó nó no
You introduce yourself with one number the first time

Then if anyone asks you swap number

[steel loom]

Lmao that would be gas

[tropic dagger]

Also.... How? Is it groups merging throughout years?

Nah
Just stopped and came back a few times

Like those journals people start and forget about

And then you put em all together when you realise that they're all basically the same

[steel loom]

It's basically that we have separate nights so separate numbers, and 90th used to be air scouts so they don't exist anymore. 71st came first for a while and then when we got bigger and added a second night, 62nd was added (as far as I remember). 90th existed purely for the air scouts but we keep the number since it's part of the troop history

There's two Mount Merrion groups in our county (different numbers) and they're both called Mount Merrion because one was with CBSI and the other was with SAI

[raven blaze]

Shoutout to all me Cark langers

[tropic dagger]

As of Saturday I think

Phoenix will have been 69 days ago

[raven blaze]

yay

[raven blaze]

We let this die guys

Revival time

[tropic dagger]

Ok spoopy season

Lets goooo

Can't wait to have arson at Halloween proper

[dry igloo]

i had an english exam today and i thought i was going to kill it like i usally do with english exams but i think i was the one that got killed

[tropic dagger]

We've been chucked into work experience while everyone's doing exams

Thank the fucks it's over

9 to 5s don't like me

[raven blaze]

Swear

What were you in?

Office job or sm?

I got to lead our campfire tonight

[tropic dagger]

Mechanics

When there was work

It was legendary

But there's so much standing around waiting

[raven blaze]

Same

I was in a kayaking shop

[dry igloo]

are any of ye going to skills fest this thursday up in dublin?

[tropic dagger]

There's a skills fest?

[dry igloo]

well

its easier if I show you

hole momenterily

[tropic dagger]

Holes go brrt

[dry igloo]

https://www.youth.ie/event/youth-skills-fest-making-our-skills-count-shaping-inclusive-societies/

[tropic dagger]

Ah

Nope

[dry igloo]

idk what it is but i went to one of the last events didnt really like it and now im going to this one

[raven blaze]

No but that’s the Maldron Hotel in Tallaght

I’m going to EPIC on Thursday though

[tropic dagger]

Oddly reminds me of the thing that you can make any noun or adjective as a verb

I will frog you

And your brain brains it to sense make

[raven blaze]

Umm

Ok

EPIC is a museum but sure

[tropic dagger]

The epic museum

Plays power metal 24/7

[steel loom]

The Irish Emigration museum? They're supposed to be pretty cool

[raven blaze]

Yeah apparently it's really good

[dry igloo]

anyone else almost get hit by a firework last night?

[raven blaze]

Yup

[tropic dagger]

I counted 12

Strange Halloween yesterday

Chanting something with a crowd of maybe 25 Spanish students

They were up on a hill in the park so yk, had to join em, haven't a clue what I was saying though

Was looking at the shapes in the water from the bridges, so people stopped to talk me down from 2 of em, which is cool that people stopped to make sure I wasn't going to even though I wasnt

Played rock paper scissors with a drunk banana man too

[raven blaze]

It's nice that you can do all that without the fear of getting stabbed, shot, punched, kicked, spat on or concussed

Among other things

[steel loom]

Came out of work in the city centre and thought a bomb went off because the fireworks were exploding so close to the ground RIP

[tropic dagger]

Didn't hear about any garda cars on fire this year

Probably will when school starts back

[steel loom]

Just got an international necker today and I'm so happy, they're so gorgeous

[raven blaze]

amazing

[hollow pulsar]

I lost my woggle the only scout shop left js all the way in brey

[raven blaze]

There’s one in town

Near the Jervis centre

And you can order them online

https://thescoutshop.ie

[hollow pulsar]

Ohhh that's great thank you

[dry igloo]

i never even knew there was one in bray tbh

[sick grotto]

U can always make ur self one with a thick stick or loom bands as some of our youth have been doing

[dry igloo]

Might have been for uniform

[sick grotto]

True but woggles are just woggles lol we don't really police it all we care about is the uniform lol unless we are doing a gard of honor at a funeral then we ask for all black woggles

[hollow pulsar]

Yeah I use thr diy one but leaders want me to get a proper one

[steel loom]

For competitions you need an SI woggle for uniform inspection

[steel loom]

@dry igloo well done on the panic attack post, the mental health Mondays is a class idea

[raven blaze]

Personally I hate the SI woggles with a passion

They just always fall off

[tropic dagger]

Fall off?

[steel loom]

Your're meant to double wrap them

[tropic dagger]

Only ever seen cillian do it with his venture challenge woggle tbh

[sick grotto]

They wreck nicely folded neckerchiefs there not even a nice woggle lol

[raven blaze]

What does that mean?

[tropic dagger]

Like your necker goes in em twice

[raven blaze]

Oh right

That's like

Wrong though

[tropic dagger]

Like I said, I've only seen it once

[raven blaze]

If you say otherwise I will fight you

[tropic dagger]

Also i didn't know the western province did their own venture ball till a day or two ago

Dunno if I'll be able to go though, Dec 16th

[dry igloo]

oh, thanks, its just a thing i was testing because of the motions

[raven blaze]

Apparently half of 9 year olds in Ireland have a phone

Like wtf?

[tropic dagger]

9 year olds

9
Nein
Naoi

Neun

[raven blaze]

Neuf

[sick grotto]

Of course cuz modern day society can't deal with having no phones 😂

[raven blaze]

Apparently the government is "asking" parents not to buy their kids phones until secondary school

I only got a phone in May 2020

I was in 6th class so yk

[tropic dagger]

I had a Nokia blokia till lock down so I could still talk to my friends

[hollow pulsar]

Yeah I only get a phone when going in to secondary

[steel loom]

country full of iPad children

[tropic dagger]

We all know what this means

I CAN BRING A SWORD AND WEAR A CAPE

[raven blaze]

Please do

"Strongly encouraged"

[tropic dagger]

You going?

[raven blaze]

Possibly

[tropic dagger]

Ah gowan
I'll give you a sh-tty crown and all

[raven blaze]

it better be from burger king or I won't go

[tropic dagger]

I was gonna get a Christmas cracker crown for ya but burger king works too

[random crag]

Party at the Naas ball let's go

[tropic dagger]

You going?

Muppa

[random crag]

I don't think I fit the criteria for being a venturer anymore lol

[tropic dagger]

Ah
Damn
Lol

Sneak you in

[random crag]

I've never actually went to one of those balls

[tropic dagger]

Noonell suspect a thing

Ditto
Been told its good craic though

[random crag]

Yes a huge bearded American football lineman amongst 15-18 year olds

I'll blend in perfectly

[tropic dagger]

Tbf
We also have a 6'8" ginger and I've seen a decent amount of ventures with full on beards

[random crag]

I'll shave the beard make meself look more like a weeun

[tropic dagger]

Exactly

Sure that's all you need

Be grand

Don't look a day over 15

[dry igloo]

has anyone here gone on like a forgien exchange with scouts before but like for a few weeks?

my group is offering one for 2 of the lads to go to america

but ikd if i should apply

[sick grotto]

@dry igloo what u mean

Ur group must be the only loaded group here lol

If they can send off to America lol

[dry igloo]

See only 2 of us can go

Its for about 5 weeks maybe 6

And we are goimg to be with another group

Ive to pay for flights, the troop im america is covering almost everything else

But idk if i should go

[sick grotto]

If u want to go y not there's nothing to loose out on

[dry igloo]

Id miss like the WHOLE summer

With my friends yk

And no leaders would be going or anything

We would be in our own till JFK airport

[raven blaze]

I’ve flown on my own plenty of times

Sorta

[dry igloo]

Like, i dont mind the flight i travel myself all the time its the airports yk like JFK

[random crag]

I went to LHR on my own last week it's grand

Everything is signposted

[sick grotto]

@dry igloo that's what scouting is about lol experience new things

[raven blaze]

Heathrow is brilliant

[steel loom]

I remember going through Madrid airport as a 16 year old and they gave out to me because they needed to search me but no one could consent to me being searched because I was by myself and under 18 XD

[sick grotto]

Lol

I remember as a kid going back to Hong Kong and done a day visit to macu an island of it and the port authorities thought my family was trying to illegally take me out of the country even tho we were waving my irish passport they said it was fake lmao

[dry igloo]

Currently at the top of carruntohil

[hollow pulsar]

There are dolphins in cork

[dry igloo]

Have there not always been?

[hollow pulsar]

I don’t know it was on the news dolphins swimming through cork

[raven blaze]

The one that was there either left or died

So all them Dingle people were sad

[dry igloo]

Wasnt its name like fungus in dingle

And what made it popular is hs was solitary

And dolphins are pack animals

[raven blaze]

Fungi

[hollow pulsar]

Oh yeah I see that one once

[dry igloo]

i need help

i never made a plan for what each week for mental health monday would be

and now i dont know what tommorow is going to be

give me ideas

[hollow pulsar]

How to calm down for panic attacks and for helping?

I don’t really understand the question lol

[steel loom]

Understanding the difference between panic attyand anxiety attacks?

The different ways that ADHD can present is another topic? I know that ADD was absorbed into the ADHD umbrella and is now known as inattentive ADHD and how it goes majorly undiagnosed

[hollow pulsar]

Sensory issues and overstimulation

Give people space

Jf overestimated

[tropic dagger]

Spraoi is on the same weekend as national fora this year

Big sad

Can't remember the date, I'll probably find out from the minutes

[tropic dagger]

21st of March I'm told

[dry igloo]

NYF is 23-24 i think

[feral leaf]

@dry igloo has leveled up! (7 ➜ 8)

[tropic dagger]

Huh

Ima check my shtuff then

Eh be grand, I'll see
Think Ima try provincial rep anyway

[sick grotto]

Cruinniú 2024 is confirmed 👌

[tropic dagger]

Muppa

[dry igloo]

they better not do NYA there again

its a nightmare for the poor reps who have to plan it

and we all want a day

just for us

atleast this year they have stuff to go off

[tropic dagger]

In larch hill?

[dry igloo]

at cruinniu

it was a mess

[tropic dagger]

Ok
I plead the stupid here