No more brownies in Canada,

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And so it continues.

The Canadian Girl Guides have banned the word ‘brownie’ from its list of terms as it deemed to be offensive .
They will now be known as ‘embers’.

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EMBERS!!!?!

Whatever next. I thought they were named, albeit a tad unimaginatively, as brownies because they are, well, brown.

Crickey! Really

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Will they rename the biscuit thing next?

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Absolute tosh.

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Good grief… the world really is going mad… (in my view, others are free to quietly disagree… :wink: )

I was a Brownie… brown dress and beret… Nan knitted me a brown cardigan… I loved being a Brownie…
moved up into Girl Guides…
Then discovered The Beatles etc and “Guiding” fell by the wayside… :roll_eyes: :rofl:

Years later went into Scouting… as volunteer, then Akela, then as Group Scout Leader… marvellous fun times.

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Never did the scouting thing unfortunately Stella. I had to follow family tradition and join the parish church choir. Started when I was seven and did seven years. It was actually good fun as we had a football and cricket team. The social side of it was good. The church bit which included two evenings per week of practice was a drag though the highlight was saturdays and the pocket money from the wedding services !

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In Scotland Brownies are a bit like leprechauns only more helpful and living in your house.

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Still have meetups with some of my cub, scout and venture scout friends great times but oh boy how its changed now!

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It’s never too late to learn your knots… :rofl: :rofl:
I still have several books on interesting stuff… :+1: :+1:

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Spoken like a true Akela.

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Castro’s love child is going all out to wreck the place. Where’s Comrade Makarov when we need him?

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Mention of Girl Guides, and when I was a Boy Scout they were mentioned frequently :joy:, didn’t they change their name to Girl Scouts at some point in the recent or distant past?

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Interestingly, a girl can be an (American) Boy Scout Girls can now join Boy Scouts -- but not everyone is prepared to like it | CNN

but a boy can’t be a (British) Girl Guide https://www.girlguiding.org.uk/globalassets/docs-and-resources/programme-and-activities/programme-renewal/faqs-for-girls..pdf

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Well it’s the same old same old isn’t it, boys’ activities are prestigious so girls can aspire and magnanimously be granted access what a privilege, whereas everyone knows activities for girls are inferior so no boy wants to go there, pfffffff. Like clever girls going off to boys’ school VIth forms (so those schools do better in the league tables). Unfortunately it is often a self fulfilling prophecy.
Actually I think it is good for girls to be doing their own thing, until such a time as stereotyping ceases.

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A British girl can be a scout

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In mine we had the Borrowers. Less helpful but good for excuses.

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Hmmm, while we’re in the process of rewriting history:

“brown trousers” to become “ember trousers” - red hot poker anyone ?
“brown shirts” to become “ember shirts” - that’ll teach those national socialists a thing or two
“brown paper bags” to become “ember paper bags” - hot as they come and instantaneously inflammable

I give up .

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I don’t really understand why ‘ember’. Maybe it ought to be ‘amber’

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I thought they all were now, as I said above. :thinking:

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I was a Brownie. We had to sing silly songs. And knit squares, which I detested. I only lasted a week. Much later in time my son was a Beaver for about the same length of time. So many people seem to have enjoyed all that. I think we must be antisocial…