World conker champion found with steel chestnut, cleared of cheating

The British are living proof of the fact that amazing things[1] can be achieved when the place you live in is extremely boring.

[1] For varied definitions of "amazing", such as "conquer countries 10x your size", "invent 20 sports the entire world plays", etc.

I'm sure you meant it in good humor but please don't post nationalistic flamebait to HN. Its expected value is flamewar hell (even if we dodged it here).

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

(there's probably room for a conquer <-> conker joke though)