Knock knock game - you have to stay in front of the door as long as possible.
Or
Ding dong ditch - you’re just a pest to the neighbourhood.
Also did anyone do the thing where you stand on each side of the road and pretend to tug of war an invisible rope to troll cars. That one made adults crash out hard.
I’m not going to post what it was called where I grew up because it’s gross and likely violates hate speech or epithet rules.
Fucking midwest US.
Ding dong ditch
Ooh you touch my tralala
Oooh my ding ding dong!
I can feel the greasy sweat from just the memory of that music video…
Urgh same memories…
The only answer
Knock knock ditch is also acceptable
It’s really not. You should go.
Same energy
Nah ding dong ditch runs closer to generally benign naming convention common in the English speaking areas of North America where it could be something benign or it’s something mildly horrific like Willy Pete (White Phosphorus) or Bouncing Betty (A type of land mine).
Mh? Is knicky knocky nine doors malevolent? I thought the dickensesque characteristic meant whimsical and old timey, which fits for ding dong ditch imo
I was referring to how ding dong ditch is less in the dickensesque category and more in the North American is this fine or a euphemism for a war crime category. Ding dong ditch could just as easily fall aling blow bang suck as it could along Willy Petes surprise.
FedEx calls it ‘Failed Delivery’.
They don’t knock.
No, that’s the Feds.
That would be if they arrived at the wrong door.
And then shot your dog.
Classic Feds giving the ol “shoot an innocent being” tactics
No that’s Mr. White
FedEx in Sweden doesn’t even leave their warehouse to succeed in making their failed delivery. Same with UPS. It’s honestly impressive how successful these two companies can suck at doing the only thing they’re enlisted to do.
I can see in tracking that my packages first get scanned upon arrival to their regional warehouse, and then within 15-30 minutes it becomes “failed delivery, no one home”. Even if I was to be their first stop, driving from the warehouse to my house would take at least 2 hours. Maybe they’re actually trucking it at 300km/hr, but then I’d notice the police chase. But no truck ever seen. Many days I worked from home because I was to get an urgent package that never came.
After the first few times, I joined their “My Choice” and “Delivery Manager” or whatever they call it… but that did absolutely nothing, even if I explicitly choose “leave the package at my doorstop, I don’t care if someone steals it”, the shit still never leaves their warehouse!
I have never seen the face of a single FedEx or UPS man in real life, despite having 30+ packages from them over the years. Maybe they don’t dare to show themselves after screwing me over for so many years…? But then they could at the least just throw my packages outside my door and run for their life instead of hoping I’m going to drive to your warehouse and pick it up myself!
If I want to buy something and don’t see a PostNord or DHL option, I’m not buying. And if it ends up being FedEx/UPS somehow, I contact the seller to choose something else, or to just give me a refund directly, because it’s not gonna arrive.
And what might come as a surprise for some Germans, DHL here works wonderfully basically 100% of the time. Thank you Germans for doing your jobs ❤️
Funny you should mention PostNord. In Finland (at least a couple of years back) “LostNord” seems to be the delivery option people complain the most about. As in people yelling at the telephone going “I was home all day and I could see the van driving right past the house around the time the tracker says the attempt failed” and then they get to have a week long ordeal figuring out which warehouse their parcel is in.
(Apparently they blame the contractors. Also, can’t say much about this myself, all of the stuff I’ve gotten over PostNord were letterbox-size parcels which got delivered fine.)
After the first few times, I joined their “My Choice” and “Delivery Manager” or whatever they call it… but that did absolutely nothing
Quite incorrect! It forced you to personally confirm and link together your full name, address, phone number, residential IP address, and your mobile device’s various advertising ID numbers. This information is much more valuable to them than any postage you will ever pay.
“But GDPR, they can’t just…” lol, the enforcement agencies don’t touch these American conglomerates and they know it.
Place I used to live would occasionally get FedEx and never get UPS. I had to rent a mailbox to get them to deliver consistently. The company I rented the mailbox from was right next door to me, btw.
Here in Romania most of the local delivery companies (the big internationals usually hand off to a local affiliate once it’s imported, so that covers your FedExes and the like) have drivers who you’ll get to know by name and have their number in your phonebook - typically I’ll get a quick “hi, I’ll be there in 5 minutes if you’re in?” courtesy call before delivery, and if you’re not home but in a coffee shop round the corner or the like they’ll happily divert to you or make another arrangement.
It’s one of those weird areas (and I’m in no way claiming this across the board) where quality of life can actually be better in a poorer economy than a rich one - when labour is cheap enough that you can employ actual people to do actual jobs, you just get better stuff (like delivery drivers that know your name, or parks that actually have park keepers and litter pickers, and all those other little things that as a country gets richer become just too expensive.) I welcome that the country is getting wealthier obviously, but you can already feel some of that slipping away and there’s a tinge of sadness.
Back on topic though - ugh, DHL though are the one I dread. Not that their local delivery guys aren’t fine, they are, but my God the amount of paperwork they demand you complete before they’ll actually release an international shipment for delivery is nuts. Very Germanic (bless them.)
Those FedEx scumbags creep up to your door like a ninja, slap the sticker tag on your door, and sneak off with the package still in the van.
That’s if they knock at all
False, FedEx don’t knock
Ding-dong Ditch, bitches!
This is all I’ve ever heard it called.
Ping pong dash over here in Japan
That is way closer to this image than I thought english people ever actually got IRL
FORCEY FUN TIME, jesus christ XD
Struggle snuggle
I don’t see cold on the cob, which is my favorite.
I prefer being american than talking like this lowk 😭🙏
It’s why there are so many independence day celebrations dotted around the world.
Independence days are the chief export of England
Makes sense, i wouldn’t like to be a br’tish colony either
Most of those aren’t real lol
I swear I heard like a third of these said by Alex in A Clockwork Orange
This couldn’t be written by a brit, dont they call gravy brown sauce and white sauce?
No, brown sauce is brown sauce.
What the hell is brown sauce.
It’s brown…. sauce.
~Duh. Pay attention.~
Hp sauce. It’s like A1 sauce.
Damn… It’s just called “Knock and Run” in Australia.
Does Australia finally have one thing we say completely normal?
Ding dong dash is what we called it in the Midwest, US.
No you sound ridiculous calling it that /s
This is why I hate the Internet.
You should be free to say that without /s
I am ridiculous.
Ding dong ditch?
I have heard that one.
It was called “Knock and Run” in the UK too - at least in the bits of the UK I lived in.
You guys have a different dialect for every block in your city though.
Well yeah, obviously. I wouldn’t want to speak like those inbred idiot web-footed freaks who live a hundred metres away.
Knock and Run in my part of the UK growing up.
Where I grew up in Vic it was called going ‘knick knocking’ in the 80s
Yeh, we called it that in Liverpool
In the US south they use a racial slur, because of course
Mhm, midwest US and N***** Knocking was what we were told it was called, because of course.
It became Ding Dong Ditch once we grew up a little.
Yeah this was my experience. People used the slur n***** knockin’ through all of my childhood 70s and early 80’s but as a young adult in the 90s it was doorbell ditching.
Can confirm as an eighties kid in California
i might be a titch younger than you, i grew up in california, hit maturity right around the turn of the millenium and i learned the term when i moved to Utah in my 20s (early 2000s). california’s pretty big tho, shasta is not san diego.
my parents and friends all referred to it as doorbell ditching (or ding dong ditching), at least when i was around
I knew it as Ding Dong Ditch and then kids in my neighborhood told me it was called [Hard R] Knocking. This was mid-90s. I also spent ages 10-15 living in a trailer park in Florida, which probably explains this.
If it came from the old world as “Knicky Knocky,” it would make sense* that the racist US version would sound similar to that.
/* As much as any racist shit “makes sense,” of course.
Honky Hookin’
Not sure what OP’s mom has to do with anything
Rural southern person here we called it Knock, Knock, Dash how is that racist?
I grew up in a very bigoted Southern town that was still firing people from schools for being gay in the 2000s, and they still frown on interracial marriage. The N Word was a regular part of life growing up.
We called it Ding Dong Ditch.
Heard that one too. And I grew up in racist state and town they had open KKK stickers on their bumpers but still never heard a racist version. Which guess I am grateful for.
It apparently used to be called ni**er knocking. I’m in the rural south too, and I’ve always known it as dong, dong, ditch.
But then again my mom was arrested at a civil rights rally (on the side of black people being equal), so my upbringing might have something to do with it.
Crazy! and my mom and dad are both racist, my dad more so and never heard that version. But probably more my dad being that racist to him probably frown on such behavior or more he was shelter enough never to learn of such things. He did grow up on a farm.
I do unfortunately had tons of racist jokes told to me which sucks having those rattling around in my brain pan.
sucks having those rattling around in my brain pan.
we aren’t responsible for everything what got put into our heads, just everything we pass on from them.
if it helps, sometimes i take that shit, write it down (and burn all evidence of it) to see if it gets it out of the brainpan. like how listening to the song you’ve had stuck in your head gets it out finally.
In 1980s deep south (not even rural) I definitely heard it called n* knocking.
Your experience does not disprove mine, as a fellow southerner
it’s not. but you’re not the only one down there and you were, apparently, raised right. ;)
Spent some childhood in coastal Mississippi and I can attest this is the case
belletje trekken
I like this one
Tolkien’s first draft
The Fuckoffship of the Ring
Huh, never heard that one. My teacher once said “arrêtez donc les conneries avec les sonnettes” so we called it “connettes” but I’m fairly sure that was just a handful of grade 4s, that one year.
On dit sonne-decrisse a Montreal ntk
I regret to inform Gemma that calling it Chappy is also some “Charles Dickens shite”
FYI chap is Scots for knock. So it’s essentially called Knocky. That ain’t very Dickens.
Dictionary proof: https://dsl.ac.uk/entry/snd/chap_v1
Obviously it’s Ding Dong Dash.
No, it’s Ding Dong Ditch!
I’m Gen X and it was always Ding Dong Ditch.
I agree modern USA variant is Ding Dong Ditch, however it couldn’t have always been that as the game predates doorbells. What was dinging and what was dongin for those early trailblazers?
The name came first, then they invented doorbells to match,
Bells are quite old. Maybe people sometimes targeted houses that used them instead of door knockers or just knocking and called it Ding Dong Ditch back then too! probably not tho.
Door bells are quite old. The ones that go ding-dong not so much.
I’ve lived in the USA for my whole life and only ever heard the dash variant to my memory.
I bet you also call all soda a “cola”.
I bet you call all fizzy wizzy slurp slurps “soda”
Found the Brit
I live at the crux between “soda pop” and “coke” as generic names for soda.
Of course
I want a god damn literacola!
Knock Up the Neighborhood?
I think that’s a different game involving more than a few poor decisions by all parties…
Yeah I would find it comical if kids picked out houses with ring door bells, walked up yelled “Ding Dong” and then just ran away.
I would laugh every time I saw someone having to check their phone at work and just have a kid yelling at them.
About 3 months ago a teenage girl, like 13 or so, strolled up to the door, pushed the button, and bolted. Like no attempt to be stealthy, wasn’t even moving speedy until the press. My cam records 24/7 so it’s not like it only records once pressed, the camera screen lights up when you approach, Home Assistant greets you at the same time. You know that it knows that you are present, painfully clearly.
I dunno if getting older is accelerating it, but damn kids these days are dumb as hell. At least scope out places without cams…
Maybe she wanted to ask something and then just got scared?
I remember as a kid we were playing hide and seek over at a friend’s house. Someone got all upset because he said one of us went into his garage and shut the garage door. None of us would have done that, but I do wish that guy would have had a camera so he would have had evidence that no one was in his garage or doing anything on his property.
I have a feeling a family member shut it or he just forgot and when he saw a kid not even in his yard running around he thought he still had it open and blamed it on “hooligans.”
Camera would have been exceptionally rare back then though… That had to be 97?
Nah, to reach the button you have to trigger both the screen and the greeting, and even if you are quick there’s still enough time to pause and think. I can also see my closest neighbor’s door, which would be the closest/fastest alternative if you needed something but were startled; they went the other direction, the shortest route to break line of sight, with no hesitation after the press.
You all also had another name for it…
I’m genx it was always Nicky nine doors. Ain’t no one in the country have doorbells in the 70s.
Canadian boomer here. We called it Nicky Nicky Nine door when we did it.
Us millennials call it that aswell, we probably use the name our parents taught us.
Please get off my continent
Sorry. I don’t understand? What did I do to warrant you telling me to get off this continent?
OUR continent
What the fuck does this even mean?? And why nine specifically?
I found this for the origin.
“Nicky Nicky Nine Doors" comes from the Cornish Nickanan Night, a feast day where youths partake in minor mischief”
Ah yes, the jolly sport of Rap, Tap, Flee!
Dash??? What the fuck?!
My cohorts called it (n-bomb) knocking. Glad I never participated in it with them.
I did, and I called it that. Grew up in the middle of Arkansas and didn’t know any better. I learned better eventually, and I regret things I did and said back then.
South Florida myself, which there isn’t a great divide between the two culturally.
Missouri checking in.
Florida is the Arkansas of the Gulf Coast.
I’ll argue that, that honor belongs to Louisiana. Think about it; swamps, strange dialect, big French influence.
In Japanese, it’s ピンポンダッシュ which is a transliteration of “ping pong dash.”
Could also just translates to Pin Pon Dash. Yes ピンポン can translate to Ping Pong the game but it literally says Pin Pon which is Japanese onomatopoeia for the doorbell sound.
I guess, but that would be the transliteration of the Japanese onomatopoeia as “pin pon” afaik doesn’t really mean much in English. I thought with “ping pong,” we at least associate with the sound.
ding dong dash ?
