This is the very first time I’ve ever heard of this. Not just the controversy but the actual sport itself.
<insert witty comment about men and their nuts competition here>
I was gonna make a Conker’s Bad Fur Day joke.
I was about to do exactly that untill I saw this comment.
afaik it’s just a british and irish thing, there are horse chestnut trees absolutely everywhere here. gotta do something with the seeds
My conker disintegrated in one hit, and that just doesn’t happen … I’m suspicious of foul play and have expressed my surprise
Whomst among us
That is a nuanced and insightful argument, unfortunately I have portrayed myself as the steel chestnut and you as the crying wojak chestnut
Good find. Important stuff. Riveting mystery.
the people deserve to know
I hope you post updates when available to see if they get to the bottom of the disintegrating pieces
idk if people who have English as their first language feel the same way about it, but conker, especially in a phrase like “men’s world conker championship”, always sounds like some regional British slur to me.
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If this copypasta??? Is conker some kind of inside joke?
Conker refers to the seed of a British chestnut, and is also the name of a game where you carefully drill a hole through the seed, feed a string through it, tie it so it becomes a tiny, organic wrecking ball. Your goal is to swing your conker at another child’s conker until one of them breaks.
It’s one of those old timey children’s games like chasing a hoop with a stick or playing marbles or smoking cigarettes at the age of 9.
tfw you don’t know what conkers are
sam@localhost:~$: cremPermission denied.sam@localhost:~$: sudocremIts a childrens game where you tie string to a chestnut then swing the chestnuts together trying to break them.
So the same person competing was prepping the conkers, including those for his competitors? That seems just poorly thought through from the start.
If your enemy must pack your parachute then see that you pack his as well
- sun tzu probably idk i haven’t had my coffee yet.
Jakins was responsible for drilling and inserting strings into other competitors’ chestnuts as the competition’s top judge, known as the “King Conker”.
So a competitor prepares other competitors’ “gear”? I guess if it’s small enough that the only people at the event are competitors.
this is fucked… hopefully he goes to jail
prison abolition except for this guy tbh
New cheating thread
There truly is no bottom to the well of human depravity.
I wrote a quick and dirty set of rules for conkers in D&D once. The idea was pretty much this article; some kid had come by a magic +1 chestnut and was cheating their way through the city conkers leagues and somehow the party got roped in to a quest to end the kids reign of terror. Like all the other kids in the city scraped up five gp or something to hire adventurers. I’m not sure if we ever got around to actually playing it.
Just go out and buy a +2 chestnut ezpz
How dare he defile this sacred Anglo tradition!
Democracy manifest
the conker plonker in world champion stonker makes everyone else somber
wtf this headline is breaking my brain aaa
