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World conker champion found with steel chestnut, cleared of cheating
(www.theguardian.com)
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notamy
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15 Oct 24 03:12 UTC
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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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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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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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