Conkers and you

[Brazen]

Very timely thread, it reminds me I need to get out into the forest and harass some sweet chestnut trees.   

What the fuck? Why would someone adult to that?

SWEET chestnut. For eating 

[Brazen]

Definitely played inherited scores. I tried drying mine inn the airing cupboard and soaking in vinegar. In the end, a good, fresh structurally sound conker would win out. I came second in a local pub conker league challenge a couple of years back 

[Brazen]

Of course, they were originally brought over from France. By William the Conkerer.

[Maximus]

We had them in great numbers in Nova Scotia on and around yards. The nuts were great fun to run over with a lawn mower, especially if there were cars, windows or small kids nearby.

[Syt]

While we had conkers galore at home, they were only ever used for making stupid animals with toothpicks and/or matches. Mainly you hoped that in fall none of the spiky fuckers would drop on your head.

Starting October the Maroni-Standln open in Vienna where you can buy roasted Maroni (as sweet chestnuts are called here). However, tests in recent years have shown that out of a bag you buy about 1/3 tend to be bad, so you buy at your own risk (alternatively get some roasted taters that have been in the pan for a few hours ).

Good in theory, horrible in execution.

[CountDeMoney]

Of course, they were originally brought over from France. By William the Conkerer.

[Josquius]

I've always collected them but very rarely actually played the game. It just wasn't the done thing in the few years when I was a kid of relevant age

[Martinus]

Very timely thread, it reminds me I need to get out into the forest and harass some sweet chestnut trees.   

What the fuck? Why would someone adult to that?

SWEET chestnut. For eating 

Still. Why would an adult man do that? More importantly, what adult man with a stable job and no kids to humour with antics like that would consider going into the forest to "harass some sweet chestnut trees"?

I find his lifestyle atrociously disturbing.

[Martinus]

I've always collected them but very rarely actually played the game. It just wasn't the done thing in the few years when I was a kid of relevant age

Yes, I used to play with conkers too. Then I turned, like, 11. 

[grumbler]

Of course, they were originally brought over from France. By William the Conkerer.

She Stoops to Conker. 

[Brazen]

Of course, they were originally brought over from France. By William the Conkerer.

She Stoops to Conker. 

That's chestnut funny.

[mongers]

Very timely thread, it reminds me I need to get out into the forest and harass some sweet chestnut trees.   

What the fuck? Why would someone adult to that?

SWEET chestnut. For eating 

Still. Why would an adult man do that? More importantly, what adult man with a stable job and no kids to humour with antics like that would consider going into the forest to "harass some sweet chestnut trees"?

I find his lifestyle atrociously disturbing.

How ironic that a champion of diversity should utterly fail to understand what diversity means.

[Ed Anger]

Yeah, we have them here.  Ed probably wears necklaces made of them to football games (as to whether he admits to it I'm not sure).  We call them buckeyes.  People from Ohio are also called Buckeyes. 

And here's something to give you nightmares:

I have an inflatable Brutus for the yard.

[garbon]

Very timely thread, it reminds me I need to get out into the forest and harass some sweet chestnut trees.   

What the fuck? Why would someone adult to that?

SWEET chestnut. For eating 

Still. Why would an adult man do that? More importantly, what adult man with a stable job and no kids to humour with antics like that would consider going into the forest to "harass some sweet chestnut trees"?

I find his lifestyle atrociously disturbing.

How ironic that a champion of diversity should utterly fail to understand what diversity means.

It doesn't mean you have to tolerate everything. After all, that's essentially the slippery slope.

[Malthus]

Only god knows what tolerating conkers could lead to!