QUOTE(Radien @ Aug 18 2011, 05:54 AM)

Holy crap. Became a brony as a result of Boy Scout camp?? I'm an Eagle scout, and I can tell you that that is ironic, and for SO many reasons more than the fact that it's called Boy Scouts.
For those of you non-scouts, I'll sum it up: in my experience, nowhere do run a greater risk of being made fun of for being a pansy than at Boy Scout summer camp. It's not like I never had any fun at it, but it's usually a bad idea to put 10+ adolescent boys out in the woods with nothing to do, unless they're at least partially supervised. And there aren't enough adults to supervise 100% of the time.
I can't claim to know what things were like when you were a scout, but the majority of the people in my troop have always been enormous nerds. Round here, scouts tend not to be the manliest bunch. And most of us were already fully aware of MLP's recent popularity, so it just ended up not being a huge deal. I mean, we all joked about it and stuff; him and I constantly threw the words "furfag" and "ponyfag," respectively, back and forth jokingly, which was pretty amusing. But it's not like he was ostracized for it or anything. He's one of the higher-ups anyway (17, Life, in the Senior Patrol), so it's not like the younger kids really had that
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I'm curious whether he brought any pony-related items to the camp. If he did, my mind is officially blown. That kid would have to have more balls than the NBA.
I don't think he did. Would have been pretty awesome if he did, though, looking back on it.
Edited by Beta Link, 18 August 2011 - 03:35 PM.