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World conker champion found with steel chestnut, cleared of cheating

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424 points notamy | 1 comments | 15 Oct 24 03:12 UTC | HN request time: 0.201s | source
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noobermin ◴[15 Oct 24 09:38 UTC] No.41846756[source]▶
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misja111 ◴[15 Oct 24 09:45 UTC] No.41846797[source]▶
I love how your comment is assuming that anybody here who's not British must be American. I'm Dutch and had never heard of conker before either.
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Super_Jambo ◴[15 Oct 24 09:49 UTC] No.41846822[source]▶
I think the assumption is more that someone who's offended that the Guardian didn't explain a mainstay British playground game to their readers...

Is probably from the USA.

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datavirtue ◴[15 Oct 24 10:40 UTC] No.41847144[source]▶
Mainstay? First I'm hearing of it. I thought it was an onion article at first. It's really hard to tell when British people are serious sometimes. "Conker King"...like, WTH?
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1. foldr ◴[15 Oct 24 10:51 UTC] No.41847201[source]▶
>Mainstay? First I'm hearing of it.

You say this as if you were British, but then the rest of your comment seems to suggest that you're not (in which case it's not surprising that you might be unaware of some aspects of British playground culture).