My LBS understands me!

[Trek420]

<quiet voice> For political reasons I no longer buy GS cookies nor BS popcorn.

We were pretty active in scouting (when I was a kid, and when SKnot was little) but the banning of 10% of the population from scouting (both parents and kids) and the scouts' refusal to allow SKnot's activities in a *Unitarian* church to count for a religion badge cut us off.

Knott, I think the GS don't have that policy.

I get GS cookies, especially thin mints, and Tom, one of my best friends at work has a daughter in GS who I can't say no to (his kids are so cuuuute), and it's so important that girls have activities/sports and all, and....

From the "Scouting for All" website:

Lord Baden Powell the founder of the world scouting movement in 1907, intended scouting to be for all youth not just some youth. In fact where scouting was founded, in England, Girls, Atheists / Freethinkers, and Gays are accepted into the program.

I can't believe they denied SKnott a badge based on being another church, that's sad and discriminatory but buy those GS cookies!!

So march right up to the table of those little pushers at the store door, don't be the one to say "oh, maybe on my way out" Do your civic duty to support the next generation of TE'ers. heck, I'd probably get the popcorn too, I think the points being made, alternatives are now out there and even individual troops are more tolerant.

Back above the line and back to the LBS, sorry for the thread hijack.

I vote for your peanut butter choco chip cookies, yum

[KnottedYet]

Limp as "don't ask, don't tell;" but fine, I'll buy Girl Scout cookies. If I find any.
http://www.glbtq.com/social-sciences/girl_scouts.html

But I'm NOT buying BSA popcorn.

[Trek420]

Yeah but your pb & choco chip are the best.

and...don't want girl scouts, send the kids here

www.girlsrockcamp.org

[KnottedYet]

Picked up Flossie last night. Again with the ooohs and aaahs from the assembled crowd.

I didn't have time to make cookies or buy the guys beer. Damm.

[Geonz]

I brought fudge (made it myself: bag of chocolate chips and can of sweetened condensed milk. Nuke 3 minutes. Stir. Pour in greased pan on top of slivered almonds. Wait for it to cool.) Unfortunately it was the same day Trek had brought tons of candy.
One of those days this week somebody came in with a 12 pack of Sam Adams and some organic snacks and said (probably with a wink and a nod), "This was out there, sitting on the stoop!" and put it behidn the counter. I have no idea the rest of that story but it has something to do with leaving offerings for the good hermits at their shrines, I think... (but this is the shop where the fondly remembered Fritz asked "can I see your helmet?" and then brought it back to me with a pigsnout on it...)

[KnottedYet]

One of the new cables didn't get capped and crimped, so I think I'll ride in with a bag of cookies and ask them to finish the cable end and give 'em cookies to thank them for their work.

Better late than never?

[KnottedYet]

Rode Flossie for my work commute today. New headset and stem!

Headset: didn't even notice it (that's a good thing!) Bike steered like butter.

Stem: Wow! I can use the drops! I almost feel too close to the bars when I'm up on the hoods, but I figure that's a good thing as I really prefer to be in the drops. Was nice to be able to use both, and my back and neck felt very different. No problem steering, so the shorter reach really didn't change the function, just the fit. Very happy with the new stem.