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I honestly can't believe you're British and have never heard of conkers. It is a part of our culture, like pubs, pooh sticks, morriss dancing or cheese rolling
by mattmanser 2y ago
I honestly can't believe you're British and have never heard of conkers.
It is a part of our culture, like pubs, pooh sticks, morriss dancing or cheese rolling.
It would be a totally valid citizenship question.
Maybe you're a city child?
- bombcar 2y agoI’m not even British but I’ve read enough novels to know of those things.
- whalesalad 2y agoWhat is a pooh stick and is it related to a poop knife
- louthy 2y agoYou and your friends get a stick each, together you drop it off a bridge over a stream (upstream side), then you run to the other side of the bridge, whichever stick appears first is the winner.
- ChoHag 2y agoWe have conkers in London.
- sandworm101 2y agoMorriss dancing isnt a real thing. It is just something silly invented by the BBC as a self-deprecating joke, like Canadians street vendors selling fried beaver tails.
- mattmanser 2y agoI've been to this, it's great: https://strawbear.org.uk/ https://strawbear.org.uk/ It's a load of different morriss dancing troops dancing around the town with a parade with the lot of them. And there are a lot. Bloody freezing some years though! Also, in the same vein, this weekend I think there's the annual Sea Shanty festival in my home town. https://harwichshantyfestival.co.uk/ https://harwichshantyfestival.co.uk/ The videos are quite bad at conveying how great some of the groups are, especially sitting in a smallish pub with a pint listening to some amazing singers do sea shanties. Quite magical.