I find it humorous that the men’s winner defends himself by stating that he has been practicing for decades, yet loses in the mixed final to someone who had only taken up the sport last year.
Indeed. I am finding it hard to fire up some reason for conker beyond "it's yet another British drinking game". Perhaps because the name sounds like Conquer, as in William, The.
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“World conker champion found with steel chestnut, cleared of cheating” https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41844545 (5 days ago, 421 points)
I find it humorous that the men’s winner defends himself by stating that he has been practicing for decades, yet loses in the mixed final to someone who had only taken up the sport last year.
I wish the article explained wtf conker is.
Two people each have a chestnut on a string. You smack them against each other repeatedly and whoever's breaks loses.
Indeed. I am finding it hard to fire up some reason for conker beyond "it's yet another British drinking game". Perhaps because the name sounds like Conquer, as in William, The.
It's not a drinking game. It's a schoolyard game generally played around this time of year by children and younger teenagers.
Why is this on hacker news? It seems obscure and unrelated to business or technology or industry.
There was a suspicion that a chestnut got hacked. Enough for HN.