Nah, mate; Freckles is a game.
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And they were used to make explosives in the world wars
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All hale the conkering hero!
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Well, playing conkers has been a school playground game in most of the UK (not just England) as far as I know, for generations. I don’t believe there is anything regional about it.
The world championship in question has been going since 1965.
Bloody hell - that’s exactly my old school tie!
(But I guess its colours are not uncommon for school ties.)
And for those noting other weird UK sports…
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I think swinging together two turds on strings would be a slightly different game. 
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That article mentions record holders for the shortest times for swimming the bog, but not the longest times.
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Amateurs.
No snorkels.
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In German, what the horse leaves behind is called Pferdeäpfel, i.e., “horses’ apples”.
(The nut in question is a Rosskastanie, Ross being a more upmarket synonym of Pferd.)
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It involves drunk squaddies, so maybe?
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I guess this could be described as conker’s bad fur day
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The men’s world record was set by Neil Rutter in 2018
Believe it or not, I went to school with this guy.
Nice Bloke, we used to spoonerise his name, and now you know why.
Have to add an edit:
Sorry, folks, this is a guy with the same name who looks weirdly like my old schoolmate but, unfortunately, the age and dates do not match, so it cannot possibly be the same guy.
Still, brought back some nice memories for me, so not a total waste of my time.
(Maybe a total waste of yours though, soz).
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Does that count as nominative determinism?
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You wouldn’t get this kind of intrigue in the world of competitive worm charming:
But definitely a possibility in the cesspool of morality that is Welly Wanging:
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I can still feel that movement in the core of my being. It was THE toy at the beginning of the 1970s, for a couple of years.
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They were EVERYWHERE !
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Clack ALL the clackers!!!
