Talk:Dwile flonking

during the August Christmas season

WFT? --Tagishsimon (talk) 20:04, 26 June 2008 (UTC)

Exactly. Without explanation what (if anything) this means, it is nonsensical. The reader should not be expected to click on external links to find out. Jooler (talk) 09:40, 27 June 2008 (UTC)

"although in the Australians' case this may have been a misprint"

It's somewhat subtle humor, but does it really belong on Wikipedia? AnonMoos (talk)

Removed as not supported by source.--Wikiain (talk) 00:23, 17 February 2014 (UTC)

Well...

The question of whether it should be on wikipedia or not depend solely on the accordance or discordance of its reality. If this is a real game than by every means it share a place among the rest of wikipedia. If you find though that it is totally false or reasonless than someone should report it to a higher. 永 (talk) 17:56, 1 February 2009 (UTC)

Added another external link (Council bans...). Seems real enough, although it's hard to say if it was something made up in the sixties that took on a life of it's own, or has some medieval origin. If you scout around on the internet, you can find videos of the game being played in various towns. --Jlowery2663 (talk) 15:24, 1 June 2013 (UTC)

It is mentioned in Cotswold Olimpic Games, though only as happening from 1966.--Wikiain (talk) 03:01, 16 February 2014 (UTC)

Link to video doesn't go to a video

It goes to a website filled with videos, and perhaps there is one of dwile flonking, but I couldn't find it. it is the "2008" link that takes you to www.hutc.com.

This is a hoax - hasn't really anybody cauoght on?

All the links are either dead or go to a bbc page last updated in 2003 (even those said to be from from 2012). Don't you think this particular joke has lasted long enough? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.137.15.164 (talk) 21:13, 31 May 2013 (UTC)

Dwile flonking does exist (I watched some students playing it in 1974) but, as the article says, it was invented by Michael Bentine as part of his It's a Square World TV show in the early 60s. There is now a widespread belief (amongst those people who have heard of it) that it's an ancient medieval game, which it certainly isn't. --Ef80 (talk) 22:54, 18 November 2016 (UTC)

That is correct. It was happening in East Anglia in the mid 70s. I expect the archives of the regional newspapers would yield something.Charles (talk) 10:10, 19 November 2016 (UTC)

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Earliest documented real-life game

The article did say Beccles, 1966, but this was changed to Seacroft, 1965, by Turbly (talk · contribs), who has no other edits to Wikipedia. The reference provided is probably not specific enough to verify, but attempts to change it back to Beccles have been reverted. I've restored some of what was removed, including a reference, but should the mention of the earlier game at Seacroft be removed? There were other changes made in the same edit - can these be checked? Peter James (talk) 15:22, 24 June 2018 (UTC)

Traditional

@Charlesdrakew: Editwarrig over dwile flonking? Are you serious? The first time you removed it, it was because some unsourced "satirists" had allegedly invented the game, this time it's because The Telegraph is full of shit. (other crap newspapers are available). That's two removals based on flimsy grounds. Especially the latter boils down to no more than WP:IDONTLIKEIT. Sources are not subject to your whims and WP:TRUTH applies. If you can find any published reference to this before the 1960s then it can be called traditional. Why the arbitrary line in the sand? Why not 1921, 1879 or 1747? How do you arrive at the 1960 as an (arbitrary) line in the sand? Kleuske (talk) 09:10, 27 June 2018 (UTC)

Two reverts with reasonable edit summaries is not edit warring and one journalist calling it traditional that does not make it so. An elderly physics teacher at school, a wise and gentle man, used to tell us never to believe anything we read in a newspaper. In my experience that is not bad advice. I mention the 1960s because the game seems to have been invented around 1966. Many of the nicer folk songs, often now mistakenly thought to be traditional, were also written in the 1960s by the likes of Ewan MacColl. We will need independent observations of the game further back in time to call it traditional. My regards to you.Charles (talk) 10:43, 28 June 2018 (UTC)

I don't understand why this is in any way contentious. There is absolutely no evidence of dwile flonking existing before Bentine's "It's a Square World" programme in 1963. It has no history at all. It only became well known because students started playing it during rag weeks in the 60s. It has the same status as things like the "Mick's Cafe Race", a rag week tradition carried out by Birmingham University students in the 70s and 80s. The article still gives the impression that this activity is some sort of longstanding rural tradition, rather than a few entitled middle class students pissing about. --Ef80 (talk) 21:02, 22 December 2020 (UTC)

Media representation

I learned about dwile flonking in Father Brown season 11 episode 1, around minute 10. The episode is set in 1955. Ceebdough (talk) 13:29, 5 September 2024 (UTC)