Topic: Conkers, it's bonkers

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/gloucestershire/8277197.stm

Seriously why is this even making its way onto the news.. ?

NK

Re: Conkers, it's bonkers

Like two weeks of Micheal Jackson on Headline News here in the US while Iran was in the middle of a turbulaent election?




.............omg i just read it......... The journalist and editor should be shot.

I see that the royal navy just seize a shipload of cocaine.... X(    limies tongue

DH (ave/\/\an

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Haha, yes, the Navy are spoil sports tongue

I wonder how much of the stuff wasn't reported or went missing... hmmm

NK

Re: Conkers, it's bonkers

public class noobs{

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        System.out.println("Cool story bro");
    }

}

Not many people know this, but I own the first radio in Springfield. Not much on the air then, just Edison reciting the alphabet over and over. "A" he'd say; then "B." "C" would usually follow...

Re: Conkers, it's bonkers

what...is it o_O ?

till the end of time..

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I hope you aren't suggesting that conkers isn't important X(

tweehonderd graden, dat is waarom ze me mr. fahrenheit noemen, ik reis aan de snelheid van het licht, ik ga een supersonische man van u maken

7 (edited by [TI] Sitting Duck 28-Sep-2009 21:52:37)

Re: Conkers, it's bonkers

..btw, @Nemeara. Conkers are horse chestnuts. School children drill holes through them, lace them on an old shoe lace and take turns hitting each others conker with their own. The conker that breaks first loses

tweehonderd graden, dat is waarom ze me mr. fahrenheit noemen, ik reis aan de snelheid van het licht, ik ga een supersonische man van u maken

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freud would be amused tongue

till the end of time..

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....in England there was a championship held (i believe it was in worcestershire but i may be mistaken) and they had "referees" to ensure no cheating (which to my understanding is frowned upon in the conker community....and yes there is a conkering community) i think that although conkers is a game children have played for many,many decades it does not do our image any good with other countries...and it is yet another victim of this zelous health & safety thing other here with conkers being "banned" in several areas/counties because of the risk of injuries (although according to figures released by RoSPA there are over one hundred people admitted to hospital each year due to conker related injuries....but when you compare that to washing machine injuries it is "small-fry")....it is a bastion of Englishness and should be protected from these "nutters-with-clipboards" before it is lost forever....i used to boil mine in vinegar to make them harder....my best was a "twelver" then some fat kid stomped on it sad

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> [RPA] Arocalex wrote:

> public class noobs{

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        System.out.println("Cool story bro");
    }

}



=o_O=

"So, it's defeat for you, is it? Someday I must meet a similar fate..."

Re: Conkers, it's bonkers

what?

Not many people know this, but I own the first radio in Springfield. Not much on the air then, just Edison reciting the alphabet over and over. "A" he'd say; then "B." "C" would usually follow...