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Yes, it is. It’s a game most news-reading-age adults will have played when they were at school as children.
by Finbarr 2y ago
Yes, it is. It’s a game most news-reading-age adults will have played when they were at school as children.
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- saretup 2y agoIf it is a serious game, I’m surprised they don’t examine the chestnuts first
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- 0110101001 2y agoThe alleged cheater was also the head judge of the tournament.
- triceratops 2y agoFurther evidence that it isn't a serious tournament. In what other sport does the referee also play?
- fy20 2y agoIt's a game you play as a kid. This is the first I've heard of there being a professional league. On the other hand, we also have competitions such as cheese rolling (trying not to get killed by a giant cheese wheel rolling down a hill), so I'm not that surprised. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-england-gloucestershire-69065807 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-england-gloucestershire-6...
- ackbar03 2y agoI know the version where you try not to kill yourself chasing the cheese. Are you saying there's one where the cheese chases and tries to kill you?
- riffraff 2y agoI feel we've entered Terry Pratchett territory in this thread, and I'm very happy about it.
- stoneman24 2y agoShhhh! The first rule of cheese-chase is never talk about cheese-chase. British coroners know the signs….
- buggeryorkshire 2y agoI did that race twice, dislocated my left shoulder each time. Scariest thing i've ever done. People have the misapprehension that you're supposed to catch the cheese. No idea why you'd think it's a good idea to catch a rock hard lump whilst running down a hill so fast that if you tense your legs once to slow down you do 3 cartwheels. Also just remembered - they have local rugby players to catch those who can't stop running from hitting the fence of the house at the bottom. Saw at least one person they missed who smacked into the fence and got carted off by St John's Ambulance.
- throwup238 2y agoGeez, we just had tetherball. No one tried to destroy each other’s nuts.
- worthless-trash 2y agoThey did at my school.
- fargle 2y agoroshambo. southpark style.
- jalk 2y agoIf we had those in my schoolyard, that would literally happen within 5 minutes -"spinny-spinny-whack-to-the-sack"
- red_admiral 2y agoYou're starting to get why the game used to be so popular.