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World conker champion found with steel chestnut, cleared of cheating

(www.theguardian.com)
424 points notamy | 1 comments | 15 Oct 24 03:12 UTC | HN request time: 0.248s | 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. cupantae ◴[15 Oct 24 11:02 UTC] No.41847263[source]▶
“That’s an odd name! I’d a called em fuzzwozzers.”

It certainly is a mainstay. A yearly treat which children love. In Ireland I was taught this song in school: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bhebvq0O4GY (and I still remember all the words)