I remember playing conkers at school, spending hours searching for that perfect jem to fuck up some knuckles! But.. did anyone actually get any worse injuries, which would actually justify them being banned from school playgrounds?
Picture of my beaut I found today, just because.
(Putting NSFW just in case. I'm hoping for some juicy stories)
by LunarWoIfy
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I’m pretty sure that ban was something to do with one headmaster who banned them and the newspapers picked up on it.
Phwoar that is a beaut nice pick up
I have a small bald spot from a scar won by throwing big branches into tress to knock the conkers down. When log branch didn’t come down I walked under where it reappeared
I still have one stuck up my nose from childhood. I really wish I’d taken it out the shell first.
Yes in about 2000 or so my older brothers were fighting in the street, one of my brother’s friends picked up a conker and chucked it straight at my other brother. Next thing I heard was a loud scream and he began jumping up and down, the conker got him directly in the eye. My mother took him to the hospital and when he returned home he was sure that my other brother was the one that threw it at him. My father even believed it was my other brother, thing was I witnessed this directly happen and my brother’s friend ran off but when I mentioned this nobody believed me. Anyway my brother had a sore red eye that turned into a black eye the next day, my other brother began calling him one eyed jack after that. Took a few weeks to clear up.
Sore knuckles -> Crying child -> Annoyed teachers -> Ban
When I was 12, the school had an amazing conker tree behind the metal workshop classroom.
Got myself a lovely scar after discovering how gravity works. I was throwing cut down steel table legs up a tree to get conkers to fall and walked underneath as it fell onto my head.
Did the headless chicken run to the nurses office through the school dining room, and proceeded to make several people faint as my shirt was covered in blood.
My friends all got an hours detention each Thursday for a month, and got 6 stitches and a night in hospital.
Watched Puff the magic dragon, so wasn’t all bad.
My brother fell out of a tree, landed on his back and while winded was hit in the face by a conker still in its husk. Does that count 😂
When my sons were in year 4, their teacher successfully wrung the concession from the management team to have a conkers tournament. The risk assessment was absurd. On the day, most children came in with a single conker on a bootlace. Mine did too, but they also each strung a dozen or so conkers on extra laces and wore them like crossed bandoliers.
No children were injured that day. Much fun was had.
So, not me but witness to the guy who won this last year losing a tooth in the process. If you are in the area it’s a hoot to attend and watch.
https://peckhamconker.club/conker-competition
Not me!!! Our school instead on gloves and safety glasses when conkers was played! 😎
So in NW London circa 1995 we were doing conker fights on the playground, winner stays on type of thing.
Anyway this one girl had a massive conker but it was soft as shit, and the lad who was the current winner smashed it so hard that it flew over the nearby 8ft wall and smashed the window of the house next door to the school, like seriously the window was like 2ft away from the wall.
No injuries directly from the conkers but the ensuing stampede of over 60 kids running in the same direction lead to one kid running face first into a wall and smashing his two front teeth and various other scrapes and bruises.
Conkers were banned from then on.
My mate got a massive lump on his forehead after I launched one at him and clocked him square in the head, some time in the late 90s.
We were having a conker fight in the park so it was fair dos.
Only emotional.
I had a “granny” conker that was all wrinkly but was really hard and out lasted everyone’s.
Of course the kids didn’t like that so they all stomped on it 🙁
No, but just this afternoon whilst riding home from a burger king and a little conker picking, I threw a conker at my 13yr old whilst riding our bikes and it hit his back, rolled down his jumper and into his pocket, one in a million.
And no, nobody was hurt in the process of us throwing conkers around, we need not contact the NSPCC.
In secondary school, I remember the older students simply throwing conkers at each other, rather than playing the actual game. The worst thing that happened was a kid got hit in the eye. Not on the eyebrow, or near the eye, he got hit straight in the eyeball.
Well… growing up, our local event DJ was prince conker (I think he’d won the conker championship or something? He had a conker necklace!) I was at an event where he was dj’ing and I burnt my arm really badly with an iron. So that’s tenuously a conker related injury?
I mind when i was seven my older sister twelve at the time went climbing to get me conkers(cheggies) as we called them and the daft cunt fell out the tree and broke her pelvis.. its fair to say im in her debt for the rest of my life.
As a child, I managed to skewer my hand while trying to put a hole in a particularly tough conker I’d just taken out the oven.
Somehow managed to miss anything important and now I have a cool scar in between my inbetween my index and middle finger!
My sister (5 years older then me) back in the day, was trying to put a hole through her conker. She used a Swiss army knife and ended up stabbing herself in the hand.
I, in the infinite wisdom of the younger sister decided to tell someone what she had done, and demonstrated it for them with my smaller penknife. Fortunately I just nicked myself rather than the full on stabbing of hand my sister had.
I played conkers bad furr day so much it gave me carpel tunnel.
Back in primary school, the head teacher loved conker season and encouraged everyone to participate in conker battles. He always expressed clear rules for participating. Keep conkers held at arms length, don’t aim for the hands, play fair.
During one battle, a kid flinched when his opponent went to strike, his conker was still struck and flew back into his nose.
It wasn’t just his conker that broke that day.
Yes! I was knocked inconsious by one briefly when I was a kid. I don’t recall exactly what happened but me and the kid next door were playing conkers the traditional way (with gusto!) and the next thing I knew I was on the floor with my neighbours looking down at me with concern 🤣
The great conker massacre of 87. Never again
Did anyone else use Tipex to repair chips and cracks?
Our school had an “incident” where a kid hit another’s finger instead of his conker so it was banned after that so we used to huddle in a cubicle in our own secret fight club during breaktime.
When I was at school someone threw a conker, it hit me square in the eye, I couldn’t see from that eye for weeks, Now I have a permanent scar on my eye. My brain does some magic and mostly ignores it now but every so often I’ll see the scar floating in my vision, when I see it I struggle to lose focus of it for a bit. P.S, I don’t support a conker ban at schools.
Conkers! I’m collecting conkers! I’m trying hard to find the biggest and the best!
Was playing football last week … got kicked right in the conkers
A squirrel threw one at my head once.