Not even Dr Ashens is maniacally irresponsible enough to invent the sport of Dwile Flonking. I believe that accolade must go to the renowned English maniac, Michael Bentine.
Also amazing that he taught a version (not involving beer) to my scout leader in the late 1980s. Said scout leader also lived in the Norwich area, so it's possible a teenage Ashens set this up as a very long con.
I do remember seeing this 'sport' being featured on 'About Anglia' in the 1970's. It was one of those 'We came up with this when we were pissed' things, like 'Bog Snorkeling', and that one where heavily refreshed rural Johnnies attempt to pole vault over a drainage ditch, or something. Then there's the ancient pub game of 'Shittles', where a contestant squats on a pub bar with a coin clenched between their buttocks, and attempts to drop it in a pint pot on the floor. A game of skill, invented centuries ago, by the Monty Python team.
Well, this is definitely a pleasant surprise. Didn’t expect to see this channel upload for a few more months yet- can’t wait to see you and Nerd3 back together again
I'm genuinely surprised you didn't mention the chamber pot being called a "gazunder" (because it "goes under" the bed.) The wikipedia article also has other funny words.
Imagine going round to your mates and saying you're going to publicize your horror film by showing everyone a video you made years ago about a semi-fictional medieval sport that involves big sticks, chamber pots, and Anglians, and then having said video WORK as promotion for your horror film.
I am probably one of a tiny number who are subscribed to the extras channel and not the main. Mostly because I enjoy the advent calendars so much so this video is a wonderful treat pre festival season
Are the rest of these exclusive bonus videos going to be uploaded? (I purchased them all during the Polybius Heist campaign and am actually glad to have this one conveniently on UA-cam as well.)
Floorcloth. Dwile? I’m not sure. When I write “Dwile”, it dot-underlines it with red. “Flonking”? The word is also dot-underlined with red. And it kinda somehow sounds like something Meme Man or Succ Man would say when he wants to say “Flocking” or something…
Flonking is not a made up word. It is in the Oxford English Dictionary. flonc, variant of fling, v. To throw with violence or hostile intent; to hurl as a missile. to fling down: to throw to the ground
Flonking is a pretty good term here, because it does actually sound like an action similar to what you do in dwile flonking. To me flonking sounds like it would be throwing or tossing something with the intention to hit someone with said object, particularly in a way to cause that person a small amount of harm. Like throwing a ball extra hard and hinting someone in the head hard enough to leave them with a bruise that hurts for a good while is an action I'd consider a flonk, but a true flonk would be throwing something that isn't usually thrown and causing harm- the more random the more flonky the flonk is. So flonking a dwile and having said dwile get a person in the eye would be a highest tier flonk! Can we please make flonk a real word? I don't know how no one has just decided to coin is already, it's just so flonking fun to say! I'm sure we've all wanting to give someone a good flonking at one point in our lives, mayhaps even multiples times in the day. Go out and flonk someone today, for flonking sake :)
Flonking is a real word. It is in the Oxford English Dictionary and has been in use since the 1300s. flonc, variant of fling, v. To throw with violence or hostile intent; to hurl as a missile. to fling down: to throw to the ground.
@@BertsMountain neat, so my interpretation wasn't miles off the actual definition then! We should re-introduce this word into the modern-day vocabulary, I think. It's a fun word! If anyone disagrees, just flonk miscellaneous objects at them until they change their mind.
I am currently typing this comment from Ludham, Norfolk. And I can attest that this, without a shadow of a doubt, beyond any refutation, and utterly verifiably, is some old bullshit I've never heard of and I don't know if it's real. I wish I had been at the Dog Inn on saturday 12th of august 2017 to witness the fateful day. I was under drinking age though so it would probably have been shit.
It appears there was a law of some sort specifically in Norfolk that banned drinking contests of any sort. The only references to it I can find are in articles about the dwile flonking championship that got banned in 2010. No telling if the law is still in effect.
Is it possible flonking a word in another language or something Maybe it happened when somebody got drunk meant to say something else and flonking came out of their mouths instead Either way great video
Flonking is a real word. It has been around since the 1300s. The Oxford English Dictionary has the following definition: flonc, variant of fling, v. To throw with violence or hostile intent; to hurl as a missile. to fling down: to throw to the ground.
@robertswann3142 spelt different so thats why it means nothing and oxford the most useless dictionary ever and what stoopid people use it Maybe the stuff about this game being older then ashen said true and they changed the spelling in the 60s
@@ihartevil The Oxford English Dictionary is one of the world's most respected dictionaries. It is very clearly the same word despite being spelt with a C instead of a K. Numerous words have variations on their spelling.
@robertswann3142 really then why am I unable to find your comment about it and I think thats the one letterbox uses so you can shove rainbowy some place because I never except that as a word
Folk round here tell terrible creepy tales, like the 'Rotating Yellow Nun of West Runton', or the horrid 'Creeping Cowshit of Costessey'. I was once frozen in fear by the tale of the 'Coughing Rectums of Holt', and once heard the tale, told in hushed tones, in a pub near Stalham, of the ghost who always leaves a pool of piss on the toilet floor, near drinking up time. 'The Humming Whelk of Wells-Next-The-Sea' is another terror. Some say that if you can name the tune, then the world will end (it sounded like the 'Eastenders' theme to me, actually.) Then there's the dread, and eldritch 'Flying Wheelbarrow', which haunts parts of the Norfolk Broads. With a crew of accursed weekend sailors, it can be seen at dusk, and at any other time of day, crashing into other craft, jetties, embankments, ploughing through reedbeds, etc., before sailing serenely under Potter Heigham bridge without twatting it. The terrifying 'Black Plop' can be found at Long Stratton. It resembles a black rubbish sack full of liquid dogshit. Interestingly, much smaller versions have been seen dangling from trees near Tasburgh. Folkloric terrors, all.
Very skillful of you, Ashens, making the Wikipedia article for this back in 2006 so we'd believe you when you said you didn't make this up.
Not even Dr Ashens is maniacally irresponsible enough to invent the sport of Dwile Flonking.
I believe that accolade must go to the renowned English maniac, Michael Bentine.
Also amazing that he taught a version (not involving beer) to my scout leader in the late 1980s. Said scout leader also lived in the Norwich area, so it's possible a teenage Ashens set this up as a very long con.
@@Raymondocha Truly, his machinations span eons.
I do remember seeing this 'sport' being featured on 'About Anglia' in the 1970's. It was one of those 'We came up with this when we were pissed' things, like 'Bog Snorkeling', and that one where heavily refreshed rural Johnnies attempt to pole vault over a drainage ditch, or something. Then there's the ancient pub game of 'Shittles', where a contestant squats on a pub bar with a coin clenched between their buttocks, and attempts to drop it in a pint pot on the floor. A game of skill, invented centuries ago, by the Monty Python team.
I have a hard time believing anyone would be sober at the start of the game, much less at the end.
Well, this is definitely a pleasant surprise. Didn’t expect to see this channel upload for a few more months yet- can’t wait to see you and Nerd3 back together again
Yes im looking forward to the christmas advent calendar this year what horrors await.
@@jamesfry8983 Slepp only knows… wonder how long it’s going to take for the grass masks to show up this time?
That's goofy, I love old Ashens content.
He really hasn't changed.
I can't wait to have money to support this film!
From a reduced view of the thumbnail, I thought I was looking at a sunflower pissing on dwarves
It’s not Christmas yet
3 new ashens videos recently, and promise of a new movie, it has to be!
I'm genuinely surprised you didn't mention the chamber pot being called a "gazunder" (because it "goes under" the bed.) The wikipedia article also has other funny words.
Very clever, using against us man's age-old inability to hear about obscure sports without wanting to crowdfund a horror movie.
Imagine going round to your mates and saying you're going to publicize your horror film by showing everyone a video you made years ago about a semi-fictional medieval sport that involves big sticks, chamber pots, and Anglians, and then having said video WORK as promotion for your horror film.
In Dutch, a 'dweil' (pronounced roughly as 'dwail') is a rag to clean floors.
It's also the prime-minister.
I would watch the Olympics if Dwile Flonking was a part of it
Funny, in Dutch we call such a piece of cloth a 'dweil'. Guess that's where it came from :)
The word was introduced to England by Flemish weavers during the Middle Ages.
Lots of Dutch folk in Lincolnshire and Norfolk when the fens were drained. They probably picked it up then. 😁
Thanks for clarifying that the chamber pot should be clean
that thumbnail is very barshen-esque
I'm starting to understand how the rules for Quidditch came to be.
being from there i can confirm that east anglia is not real
East Anglia is, though.
It's an automobile, right? Like the flying one in Harry Potter.
No it doesn't. You're thinking of Right Anglias.
Tone wise, this is almost exactly "Vinnie the Voles Existential Nightmare"
You sound so different in the old video. It's like you have on your best Telephone Voice.
I've always liked the videos from Ashens like this - like the Human Killing Machine one
You've flonked my Dwileship.
I am probably one of a tiny number who are subscribed to the extras channel and not the main. Mostly because I enjoy the advent calendars so much so this video is a wonderful treat pre festival season
Can’t wait to see the ferret legging and toe wrestling segments
Should I call myself British since I know about both of them?
That title card is very Linton of you. I almost got my hopes up...
You had me at "chamber pot"
Those things are great. I don't know why we ditched them for toilets.
This has the same energy as the "techno babble" video of the guy just talking on and on about what all the parts of a big machine does
Do not disrespect the turboencabulator!
Was hoping to see a dwile flonked. :(
On the plus side, your production values have improved.
of course it's East Anglian
Old Ashens voice is nostalgic.
Ive never flonked my dwile before. Now I know how to do it!😄
It more a pub game rather than a sport
But yes “He not making it up” (look it up on Wikipedia)
Hay nice to see this channel getting used. Although the the best vid on this channel will forever be the “violin” one. 😄
This feels like a lot of set-up for a drinking game
That sounds like something Framble Tromwibbler would enjoy.
Flonking genius!
Are the rest of these exclusive bonus videos going to be uploaded?
(I purchased them all during the Polybius Heist campaign and am actually glad to have this one conveniently on UA-cam as well.)
I remember hearing about these series forever ago when you mentioned putting weasels(?) Down trousers, and was so mad when the link was already down
Bloody wars, I remember seeing this when it first went "live".
Floorcloth. Dwile? I’m not sure. When I write “Dwile”, it dot-underlines it with red. “Flonking”? The word is also dot-underlined with red. And it kinda somehow sounds like something Meme Man or Succ Man would say when he wants to say “Flocking” or something…
Obsolete media storage in a box of different obsolete media storage lol.
For a flonking good time!
He made this up
Oh no he didn’t
I've played this... I thought it was Dwyle Flunking though, not flonking 🤔 it was good fun 😂
See you all at Christmas
Turned out to be way more interesting than I thought haha
so the modern version would be called "Soaked Towel Yeeting"?
you cant come up with that fancy name while drunk.
We use the word "dwile" in dutch (spelled "dwijl") in the same meaning. Also to mean "a weak, useless man", someone you would mop the floors with.
So... it'll be half pints for losing days on this year's advents?
as a british "person", I am proud to be a dwile flonk enjoyer (i had never heard of it until today)
Well if I ever become 20 years younger and a pro wrestler I just found my name Dwile Flonking.
Flonking is not a made up word. It is in the Oxford English Dictionary.
flonc, variant of fling, v.
To throw with violence or hostile intent; to hurl as a missile. to fling down: to throw to the ground
The Dutch word for that cloth more or less is Dweil, which is used to you guessed it, clean the floor! :D
One time, at Dwile camp...
Sounds like a great game to play in a fraternity locker room.
This game was tailored for me. Funny fact a dwile is "dweil" in Dutch and pronounced the same.
I don't get it: where can I watch the rest of these?
Why is there a video that is not advent calendar related, on this advent calendar channel
My grandparents used to do this, and my grandparents have the official rules somewhere. There's also a song to go with it.
Don't you end up on some sort of registry if you are caught flonking your dwile in public?
I've flonked a few Dwiles in my time
I remember reading about this ages ago and not being sure how much of it was made up
Why does this have the same energy as the “terrible old games you’ve probably never heard of” series, down to the audio quality and pacing.
Because it was made in the same era, naturally
I swear I've seen this on here before... why is this video familiar...
He had a link many years ago if you backed his first film
Maybe that's where I saw it. Or wasn't this on Barshens or something years back?@@turokforever007
Wasn't this a special from the Gamechild super special supporters digital pack?
Ya know, if give that a try but also would hate my self the day after
Warning : this is infact a real thing. Thank you for your time.
When he is making a movie we get a lot more content please keep it up also the folklore of black shook is terrifying look it up
I can't believe you made this up. I literally can't, because you didnt.
Nice
I heard you can get your dwile flonked in the red light district for $50.
The English used to be a superpower.
it's probably called something else, but only drunk people are asked what it's called
My only question is when is this going to be in the Olympics?
Flonking is a pretty good term here, because it does actually sound like an action similar to what you do in dwile flonking.
To me flonking sounds like it would be throwing or tossing something with the intention to hit someone with said object, particularly in a way to cause that person a small amount of harm. Like throwing a ball extra hard and hinting someone in the head hard enough to leave them with a bruise that hurts for a good while is an action I'd consider a flonk, but a true flonk would be throwing something that isn't usually thrown and causing harm- the more random the more flonky the flonk is. So flonking a dwile and having said dwile get a person in the eye would be a highest tier flonk!
Can we please make flonk a real word? I don't know how no one has just decided to coin is already, it's just so flonking fun to say! I'm sure we've all wanting to give someone a good flonking at one point in our lives, mayhaps even multiples times in the day. Go out and flonk someone today, for flonking sake :)
Flonking is a real word.
It is in the Oxford English Dictionary and has been in use since the 1300s.
flonc, variant of fling, v.
To throw with violence or hostile intent; to hurl as a missile. to fling down: to throw to the ground.
@@BertsMountain neat, so my interpretation wasn't miles off the actual definition then! We should re-introduce this word into the modern-day vocabulary, I think. It's a fun word! If anyone disagrees, just flonk miscellaneous objects at them until they change their mind.
Is he making this up?
I am currently typing this comment from Ludham, Norfolk. And I can attest that this, without a shadow of a doubt, beyond any refutation, and utterly verifiably, is some old bullshit I've never heard of and I don't know if it's real. I wish I had been at the Dog Inn on saturday 12th of august 2017 to witness the fateful day. I was under drinking age though so it would probably have been shit.
A game to be played at barcadia ?
I say you told me too if ok with you Stuart 😂🤣😹
England has laws against "Speed Drinking"?
I think every country should
It appears there was a law of some sort specifically in Norfolk that banned drinking contests of any sort. The only references to it I can find are in articles about the dwile flonking championship that got banned in 2010. No telling if the law is still in effect.
Heh, you said foreplay
Sooooo how many rounds of this game have you played Ashens? It’s only a proper explanation of the game if you’ve played it yourself 😆
I think you’re making this up
Bizzarri lol.
Did you get to watch the championship yet?
Is it possible flonking a word in another language or something
Maybe it happened when somebody got drunk meant to say something else and flonking came out of their mouths instead
Either way great video
possibly someone misspoke flocking
Flonking is a real word. It has been around since the 1300s.
The Oxford English Dictionary has the following definition:
flonc, variant of fling, v.
To throw with violence or hostile intent; to hurl as a missile. to fling down: to throw to the ground.
@robertswann3142 spelt different so thats why it means nothing and oxford the most useless dictionary ever and what stoopid people use it
Maybe the stuff about this game being older then ashen said true and they changed the spelling in the 60s
@@ihartevil The Oxford English Dictionary is one of the world's most respected dictionaries.
It is very clearly the same word despite being spelt with a C instead of a K. Numerous words have variations on their spelling.
@robertswann3142 really then why am I unable to find your comment about it and I think thats the one letterbox uses so you can shove rainbowy some place because I never except that as a word
But it's not Christmas
Ah, rambling syd rumpo's favourite sport. Well until the court order
Folk round here tell terrible creepy tales, like the 'Rotating Yellow Nun of West Runton', or the horrid 'Creeping Cowshit of Costessey'. I was once frozen in fear by the tale of the 'Coughing Rectums of Holt', and once heard the tale, told in hushed tones, in a pub near Stalham, of the ghost who always leaves a pool of piss on the toilet floor, near drinking up time. 'The Humming Whelk of Wells-Next-The-Sea' is another terror. Some say that if you can name the tune, then the world will end (it sounded like the 'Eastenders' theme to me, actually.)
Then there's the dread, and eldritch 'Flying Wheelbarrow', which haunts parts of the Norfolk Broads. With a crew of accursed weekend sailors, it can be seen at dusk, and at any other time of day, crashing into other craft, jetties, embankments, ploughing through reedbeds, etc., before sailing serenely under Potter Heigham bridge without twatting it.
The terrifying 'Black Plop' can be found at Long Stratton. It resembles a black rubbish sack full of liquid dogshit. Interestingly, much smaller versions have been seen dangling from trees near Tasburgh.
Folkloric terrors, all.
This was definitely made up by Douglas Adams. It is also a shameful waste of beer.
wot....
4 minute video, a whole quarter of which has nothing to do with the title.
It's way too obvious that you only make YT videos when you have something to sell.
Second
Can’t wait to see the live action version on the main channel
Are you flonking kidding me?...
You might not be making it up but, someone did!