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 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 ❤️
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.
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.)
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.
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.)
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Hmm.... That didn't seem right to me, so I looked it up
The “knock, knock, ginger” is linked to a 1967 Childhood in Poetry book by John Mackay Shaw. Behold these glorious verses:
Ginger, Ginger broke a winder,
Hit the winda—crack!
The baker came out to give ‘im a clout,
And landed on his back.
However, we’ve also seen the game called knock down ginger.
This may actually be more accurate, as “knock down” is a term dating to the late 18th century. It refers to knocking on a door by pulling the door knock striker.
Plus, ginger was a common term then as it meant to “ginger up” (move smartly). So, knock the door, leg it in timely fashion.
Redheads still have it rough, but it's gotten a lot better over the years. In the US we still use "redheaded stepchild" to mean someone or something clearly unwanted and mistreated. Especially in the form of "to beat like a redheaded stepchild"
Where ginger is to move "gingerly" i.e. cautiously or carefully. Can't comment on how valid that is but that website says the term has been in use since the 19th century.
Likely some casual irish racism in a similar vein to the Southern US calling it n* knocking, although in my town no one ever called it that, it was ding dong ditching
We call it Doorbell Ditch It. Because, obviously, the game here is to ring the doorbell and run. It's not a common game anymore, because, first, people don't answer their door unless they're expecting someone, and, B) A lot of people have the front door state surveillance cameras installed. But, also, III) there's a small danger some 2A moron will answer the door with a gun in hand.
I think older GenZ were the last to really enjoy it.
there's a small danger some 2A moron will answer the door with a gun in hand.
About a decade ago, I was stationed in South Carolina with the US military. While briefing us on the local area, they told us that Halloween is usually spent at the local high school football field, in an event called "Trunk or Treat."
Basically, adults would line up their cars on the field and then hand out candy to trick-or-treaters from the trunks of their cars. I had never heard of Trunk or Treat before.
Turns out, some young boy and his father went up to a door a few years prior for trick-or-treating and the guy who lived there was tripping out on meth or something. When the doorbell rang, he thought the cops were there to bust him, so he grabbed a rifle and unloaded a clip through the door, killing the little boy and his dad. Ever since, the town held Trunk or Treat as a safe alternative to going up to strangers' doors.
Traditional trick-or-treating still existed in the town, but it was an at-your-risk event. I lived in a pretty nice new neighborhood, so we had tons of visitors. But every military family I knew sent their kids to the Trunk or Treat.
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.
I always heard it referred to as "ding dong ditch" in the 90s. But I'm Canadian and my only exposure to American terminology was sanitized thru TV broadcasting rules. Was there some kind of racist/sexist/homophobic term floating around or something?
Yes. I won't repeat the whole phrase but it was called "n-word knocking" by some of the older kids on the playground. For reference, I'm an elder millennial.
I’m in that age bracket too and remember it being referred to as this by some people. I came to the comments to see if it was a common thing or if I was just neighbors with racists…I guess a bunch of people were neighbors with racists.
Oh you musta grew up in one of them fancy non-racist areas. Yeah, we definitely had this version even in the upper-midwest, along the rust belt. Elder millenial as well.
Elder millennial in the rust belt checking in. I didn't hear it called ding ding ditch until the next generation came along. The racial slur was the only way I had heard it, but I was definitely the typical white male that looked like he fit in with the rural good ol boys crowd. Sadly still look the part until one of them accidentally mistakes me for an ally in their racist shit.
I grew up in Kentucky in the 80s and I grew up calling it a racial slur... and there was no shame around my neighborhood in calling it that because that's just what it was called. I had no idea what the word meant until years later and now looking back on it I'm disgusted at all of the adults in my neighborhood who let us call it that.
Last week I watched O Brother Where Art Thou with my almost 10 year old daughter and at one point in the movie after it had been said a few times my daughter turned an looked at me and asked "What does 'negro' mean?"... and with that I feel like I've done a good job at stopping institutional racism in my family line.
I'm a little further north of you and had the same experience. That's just what it was called. I didn't know the racial bent to the word at all for a long time. Good on you for not letting it continue in your home.
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.
It was called knocky door ginger when I was growing up, and ive since learned that my neck of the woods boasts the highest percentage of variation in shades of ginger hair in the UK.
Canadian here. We used both “Knicky knocky nine doors” and “ding dong ditch,” but if I remember correctly, the first was more prevalent, and definitely is the first thing that comes to mind for me personally.
Also a Canadian (Ontario) millennial, I don't think I've heard "ding ding ditch", but would've called it "nicky nine doors", no "knocky", and no "nicky nicky".
Never really thought about why it was called that 😛
Nicky Nicky Nine Doors or Ding Dong Dash were the only names I heard as a child. Never played since we lived in a rural area and too much distance between houses. My cousins in the city talked of it though.
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.
Well, knocking on doors is some 19th century tech level stuff, so Charles Dickens is actually really fitting.
I personally don't know of a single house/apartment around my home that doesn't have some form of electrical bell.
Is this some British cultural thing not having door bells?
Interesting, quite different from the parts of Germany that I have lived in. Some houses still have (mostly historic) knockers, but everyone knows they are just ornamental and nobody would think about actually using them (but would look for the bell button instead).
I live in the USA, and I used to deliver food. I would always use people’s knockers if their door had them. 9/10 times they were like “what the hell is that sound? Ohhh the knocker! I’ve lived here X years and no one’s ever used that before!” became probably my favorite part of an otherwise boring job 😂
Lol.
I can totally imagine that happening here exactly like that!
No sane person would even consider using the metal thing on the door, except perhaps for master real-life trolls like you clearly are! :-)
In Germany though most accommodation is in flats, right? Even if in smallish blocks rather than high-rises... I wouldn't expect those to have knockers...
No, it's not just the flats.
I grew up and lived in many rural area were the towns consisted of tightly packed, often very old town houses (predating the arrival of electricity by decades or centuries).
Basically no multi-apartment buildings at all.
Still every house had an electrical bell. No exception.
That's the reason I am so flabbergasted to hear this to apparently be different in the UK.
It comes completely unexpected to me, I always considered having at least one doorbell at every house's entrance to be a given. Like having windows or a drainpipe. Standard feature.
I am from Germany, which also has some ancient building stock.
The town houses in the area in which I grew up typically are between 100 and 200 years old, some even much older. All had an electric bell retrofitted.
Hence the name of the game consequently was "Klingelmännchen", which is hard to translate, as English is missing a diminutive word form.
Best translation is something like "little bell man".
So I am surprised that door-knockers are still a widespread thing in Britain, as someone mentioned in another comment.
Guess it really is some cultural thing.
It must be more than just the apartments.
I was raised in a rural area with only single-family houses and a practically nonexistent apartment percentage, and also typically very old buildings, most predating the availability of electricity by decades or centuries.
Still every house had an electric bell.
Maybe in Germany at some point there was a widespread excitement for the new technology, making it the expected standard early on, while the Brits valued their traditions more?
I guess so. I grew up in the country and never had a doorbell on any of our houses. New builds did have bells, and the big posh houses had old mechanical bells. I remember one having internal bells in each room that would ring the kitchen to get staff help.
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ScarlettStunningSpace@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 191 pts · 3d
Ding dong ditch
OrteilGenou@lemmy.world · 28 pts · 3d
The only answer
Clusterfck@lemmy.sdf.org · -21 pts · 3d
Knock knock ditch is also acceptable
LazyOldPervert@lemmus.org · 51 pts · 3d
It's really not. You should go.
Akasazh@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 3d
Ooh you touch my tralala
Rolive@discuss.tchncs.de · 10 pts · 3d
Oooh my ding ding dong!
SoloPhoenyx@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2d
I can feel the greasy sweat from just the memory of that music video...
Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 2d
Urgh same memories...
wieson@feddit.org · 1 pts · 3d
Same energy
vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 3d
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).
wieson@feddit.org · 2 pts · 3d
Mh? Is knicky knocky nine doors malevolent? I thought the dickensesque characteristic meant whimsical and old timey, which fits for ding dong ditch imo
vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 3d
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.
Rcklsabndn@sh.itjust.works · 127 pts · 3d
FedEx calls it 'Failed Delivery'.
finallymadeanaccount@lemmy.world · 26 pts · 3d
They don't knock.
JasonDJ@lemmy.zip · 6 pts · 3d
No, that's the Feds.
Adulated_Aspersion@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 3d
That would be if they arrived at the wrong door.
And then shot your dog.
Aneb@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2d
Classic Feds giving the ol "shoot an innocent being" tactics
OldChicoAle@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 3d
No that's Mr. White
kungen@feddit.nu · 21 pts · 3d
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 ❤️
ayyy@sh.itjust.works · 8 pts · 3d
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.
timochka@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 3d
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.)
JcbAzPx@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2d
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.
umbraroze@slrpnk.net · 1 pts · 2d
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.)
EvilHankVenture@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 3d
That's if they knock at all
itsgroundhogdayagain@lemmy.ml · 15 pts · 3d
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.
cheat700000007@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 3d
False, FedEx don't knock
ceenote@lemmy.world · 120 pts · 4d
That is way closer to this image than I thought english people ever actually got IRL
Peppycito@sh.itjust.works · 18 pts · 3d
I don't see cold on the cob, which is my favorite.
ceenote@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 3d
87Six@lemmy.zip · 14 pts · 3d
FORCEY FUN TIME, jesus christ XD
Varesti@lemmy.zip · 7 pts · 3d
Struggle snuggle
Axolotl_cpp@feddit.it · 10 pts · 3d
I prefer being american than talking like this lowk 😭🙏
khannie@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 3d
It's why there are so many independence day celebrations dotted around the world.
agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 3d
Independence days are the chief export of England
Axolotl_cpp@feddit.it · 3 pts · 3d
Makes sense, i wouldn't like to be a br'tish colony either
mrbutterscotch@feddit.org · 3 pts · 3d
Most of those aren't real lol
FrChazzz@lemmus.org · 6 pts · 3d
I swear I heard like a third of these said by Alex in A Clockwork Orange
DrPop@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 3d
This couldn't be written by a brit, dont they call gravy brown sauce and white sauce?
funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works · 18 pts · 3d
No, brown sauce is brown sauce.
DrPop@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 3d
What the hell is brown sauce.
dohpaz42@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 3d
It’s brown…. sauce.
Duh. Pay attention.funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works · 10 pts · 3d
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_sauce
starik@lemmy.today · 3 pts · 3d
Hp sauce. It’s like A1 sauce.
BigBoyShuanzee@aussie.zone · 59 pts · 3d
Damn.. It's just called "Knock and Run" in Australia.
Does Australia finally have one thing we say completely normal?
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 3d
Ding dong dash is what we called it in the Midwest, US.
ryannathans@aussie.zone · 9 pts · 3d
Ding dong ditch?
BigBoyShuanzee@aussie.zone · 1 pts · 3d
I have heard that one.
fakeman_pretendname@feddit.uk · 7 pts · 3d
It was called "Knock and Run" in the UK too - at least in the bits of the UK I lived in.
k0e3@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 3d
You guys have a different dialect for every block in your city though.
fakeman_pretendname@feddit.uk · 5 pts · 3d
Well yeah, obviously. I wouldn't want to speak like those inbred idiot web-footed freaks who live a hundred metres away.
mobyduck648@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 3d
Knock and Run in my part of the UK growing up.
r_13@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 3d
Where I grew up in Vic it was called going 'knick knocking' in the 80s
crapwittyname@feddit.uk · 2 pts · 3d
Yeh, we called it that in Liverpool
captainlezbian@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2d
No you sound ridiculous calling it that /s
BigBoyShuanzee@aussie.zone · 2 pts · 2d
This is why I hate the Internet.
You should be free to say that without /s
I am ridiculous.
RabbitMix@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 55 pts · 4d
I regret to inform Gemma that calling it Chappy is also some "Charles Dickens shite"
Zombie@feddit.uk · 9 pts · 3d
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
Elgenzay@lemmy.ml · 53 pts · 3d
I like this one
gnufuu@lemmy.ca · 30 pts · 3d
Tolkien's first draft
pruwybn@discuss.tchncs.de · 5 pts · 3d
The Fuckoffship of the Ring
OrteilGenou@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 3d
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.
Leviathan@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 3d
On dit sonne-decrisse a Montreal ntk
KoboldCoterie@pawb.social · 51 pts · 4d
Obviously it's Ding Dong Dash.
faltryka@lemmy.world · 233 pts · 4d
No, it’s Ding Dong Ditch!
harrys_balzac@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 93 pts · 4d
I'm Gen X and it was always Ding Dong Ditch.
Sanguine@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 26 pts · 3d
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?
binarytobis@lemmy.world · 24 pts · 3d
The name came first, then they invented doorbells to match,
WalrusDragonOnABike@reddthat.com · 11 pts · 3d
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.
Dultas@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 3d
Door bells are quite old. The ones that go ding-dong not so much.
atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works · 8 pts · 3d
I’ve lived in the USA for my whole life and only ever heard the dash variant to my memory.
surewhynotlem@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 3d
I bet you also call all soda a "cola".
atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works · 8 pts · 3d
I live at the crux between “soda pop” and “coke” as generic names for soda.
some_kind_of_guy@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 3d
Of course
musky_occultist@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 3d
I bet you call all fizzy wizzy slurp slurps "soda"
surewhynotlem@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 3d
Found the Brit
OrteilGenou@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 3d
I want a god damn literacola!
harrys_balzac@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 3d
Knock Up the Neighborhood?
kgbbot@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 10 pts · 3d
I think that's a different game involving more than a few poor decisions by all parties...
LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 3d
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.
wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 3d
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...
LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 3d
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?
wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 3d
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.
ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de · 3 pts · 3d
You all also had another name for it.....
whoisearth@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 3d
I'm genx it was always Nicky nine doors. Ain't no one in the country have doorbells in the 70s.
Bebopalouie@lemmy.ca · 10 pts · 3d
Canadian boomer here. We called it Nicky Nicky Nine door when we did it.
CultLeader4Hire@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 3d
Please get off my continent
Bebopalouie@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 3d
Sorry. I don’t understand? What did I do to warrant you telling me to get off this continent?
thethunderwolf@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 3d
OUR continent
Space_Cowboy92@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 3d
What the fuck does this even mean?? And why nine specifically?
Bebopalouie@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 3d
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”
SleeplessCityLights@programming.dev · 2 pts · 2d
Us millennials call it that aswell, we probably use the name our parents taught us.
VGpunx@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 4d
Ah yes, the jolly sport of Rap, Tap, Flee!
Space_Cowboy92@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 3d
Dash??? What the fuck?!
clifmo@programming.dev · 46 pts · 3d
In the US south they use a racial slur, because of course
nomy@lemmy.zip · 46 pts · 3d
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.
doingthestuff@lemy.lol · 21 pts · 3d
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.
Zannsolo@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 3d
Can confirm as an eighties kid in California
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 3d
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
FrChazzz@lemmus.org · 12 pts · 3d
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.
TexasDrunk@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 3d
Honky Hookin'
socsa@piefed.social · 14 pts · 3d
Not sure what OP's mom has to do with anything
nickiwest@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 3d
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.
Fredselfish@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 3d
Rural southern person here we called it Knock, Knock, Dash how is that racist?
chiliedogg@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 3d
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.
Fredselfish@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 3d
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.
village604@adultswim.fan · 11 pts · 3d
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.
Fredselfish@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 3d
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.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 3d
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.
mosspiglet@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 3d
In 1980s deep south (not even rural) I definitely heard it called n* knocking.
clifmo@programming.dev · 6 pts · 3d
Your experience does not disprove mine, as a fellow southerner
flandish@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 3d
it’s not. but you’re not the only one down there and you were, apparently, raised right. ;)
Scuzzm0nkey@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 3d
Spent some childhood in coastal Mississippi and I can attest this is the case
9point6@lemmy.world · 23 pts · 3d
As someone who grew up down south in the UK, it's "knock down ginger"
I have no idea who ginger is and what they have to do with prank knocking
socsa@piefed.social · 8 pts · 3d
If you rearrange some of the letters in ginger you get the hate crime version of the name from the US South.
9point6@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 3d
Hmm.... That didn't seem right to me, so I looked it up
https://professionalmoron.com/2022/04/18/history-of-knock-knock-ginger/
That feels a bit more like it to me, though surprised it's not even a century old, I figured it was Victorian
socsa@piefed.social · 6 pts · 3d
Yeah a poem about whipping gingers on the back. From 1967.
Space_Cowboy92@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 3d
captainlezbian@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2d
Redheads still have it rough, but it's gotten a lot better over the years. In the US we still use "redheaded stepchild" to mean someone or something clearly unwanted and mistreated. Especially in the form of "to beat like a redheaded stepchild"
Tikiporch@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 3d
Uh... Who is going to tell him?
beanson@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 3d
Also from southern UK and we called it knock down ginger. Looked it up and found this:
https://idiomorigins.org/origin/knock-down-ginger
Where ginger is to move "gingerly" i.e. cautiously or carefully. Can't comment on how valid that is but that website says the term has been in use since the 19th century.
MajesticTechie@feddit.uk · 2 pts · 3d
We called it "Knock a Door Ginger". Like you, never understood the Ginger significance
voxthefox@lemmy.blahaj.zone · -1 pts · 3d
Likely some casual irish racism in a similar vein to the Southern US calling it n* knocking, although in my town no one ever called it that, it was ding dong ditching
D_C@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 3d
I'm from pretty much bang centre of the UK and we called it Postman's Knock.
Do you want to know why? Well I've no fucking idea. My brother called it that so I called it that.
DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 4d
First, I checked that this isn't a British comm.
We call it Doorbell Ditch It. Because, obviously, the game here is to ring the doorbell and run. It's not a common game anymore, because, first, people don't answer their door unless they're expecting someone, and, B) A lot of people have the front door state surveillance cameras installed. But, also, III) there's a small danger some 2A moron will answer the door with a gun in hand.
I think older GenZ were the last to really enjoy it.
FishFace@piefed.social · 14 pts · 3d
Well duh, that's why you gotta run fast!
A_Union_of_Kobolds@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 3d
Serpentine, over bushes and shit 😂
cobysev@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 3d
About a decade ago, I was stationed in South Carolina with the US military. While briefing us on the local area, they told us that Halloween is usually spent at the local high school football field, in an event called "Trunk or Treat."
Basically, adults would line up their cars on the field and then hand out candy to trick-or-treaters from the trunks of their cars. I had never heard of Trunk or Treat before.
Turns out, some young boy and his father went up to a door a few years prior for trick-or-treating and the guy who lived there was tripping out on meth or something. When the doorbell rang, he thought the cops were there to bust him, so he grabbed a rifle and unloaded a clip through the door, killing the little boy and his dad. Ever since, the town held Trunk or Treat as a safe alternative to going up to strangers' doors.
Traditional trick-or-treating still existed in the town, but it was an at-your-risk event. I lived in a pretty nice new neighborhood, so we had tons of visitors. But every military family I knew sent their kids to the Trunk or Treat.
some_kind_of_guy@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 3d
What happens if you chose trunk?
timochka@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 3d
The kids get bundled into the boot of a car and renditioned by ICE?
slackassassin@piefed.social · 3 pts · 3d
Trunk or treat also happens in rural areas where the houses are far apart.
SalmiakDragon@feddit.nu · 3 pts · 3d
An agent of chaos is among us!
DakRalter@thelemmy.club · 2 pts · 2d
Everyone knows it's:
b)
cat)
JoeTheSane@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 3d
Ding-dong Ditch, bitches!
Jerb322@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2d
This is all I've ever heard it called.
YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today · 18 pts · 3d
My cohorts called it (n-bomb) knocking. Glad I never participated in it with them.
fyzzlefry@retrolemmy.com · 20 pts · 3d
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.
YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today · 8 pts · 3d
South Florida myself, which there isn't a great divide between the two culturally.
Rcklsabndn@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 3d
Florida is the Arkansas of the Gulf Coast.
YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today · 5 pts · 3d
I'll argue that, that honor belongs to Louisiana. Think about it; swamps, strange dialect, big French influence.
stringere@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 1d
Missouri checking in.
NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 3d
Tha fuk, Am I having a stroke?
danc4498@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 4d
Don't ask an American from 20-30 years ago...
Alabaster_Mango@lemmy.ca · 21 pts · 4d
I always heard it referred to as "ding dong ditch" in the 90s. But I'm Canadian and my only exposure to American terminology was sanitized thru TV broadcasting rules. Was there some kind of racist/sexist/homophobic term floating around or something?
Feidry@sh.itjust.works · 13 pts · 4d
Yes. I won't repeat the whole phrase but it was called "n-word knocking" by some of the older kids on the playground. For reference, I'm an elder millennial.
ricecake@sh.itjust.works · 26 pts · 4d
What the absolute fuck. I'm in the same age bracket and I've never heard that before.
blattrules@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 3d
I’m in that age bracket too and remember it being referred to as this by some people. I came to the comments to see if it was a common thing or if I was just neighbors with racists…I guess a bunch of people were neighbors with racists.
CH3DD4R_G0BL1N@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 3d
Also in that bracket, grew up in Kentucky and can confirm, was neighbors with racists that passed it to their kids.
moodoovoodoo@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 3d
Oh you musta grew up in one of them fancy non-racist areas. Yeah, we definitely had this version even in the upper-midwest, along the rust belt. Elder millenial as well.
WelcomeToDheghom@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 3d
Elder millennial in the rust belt checking in. I didn't hear it called ding ding ditch until the next generation came along. The racial slur was the only way I had heard it, but I was definitely the typical white male that looked like he fit in with the rural good ol boys crowd. Sadly still look the part until one of them accidentally mistakes me for an ally in their racist shit.
AmyAye@nord.pub · 1 pts · 3d
It's probably regional, but this is what I remember it being called in a rural area of the US in like, the 80s, probably 90s.
Tenthrow@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 4d
My aunt used to call it that.. I knew, even as a kid, that was not cool.
danc4498@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 3d
Elder millennial here too. Never lived in the south till I was older. This was the phrase I heard in elementary school.
BananaPeal@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 3d
Elder millennial from Maine. Can confirm.
mctoasterson@reddthat.com · 1 pts · 3d
First I've heard of that. Absolute insanity.
N0t_5ure@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 3d
Do you live in the south?
Feidry@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 3d
Nope, Midwest.
tyler@programming.dev · 10 pts · 3d
Am American from that time frame. We called it ding dong ditch, and so did everyone else I ever heard.
danc4498@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 3d
I didn't hear that phrase till I was an adult. My initial reaction was "Oh, that's a much better phrase".
Bob_Robertson_IX@discuss.tchncs.de · 6 pts · 3d
I grew up in Kentucky in the 80s and I grew up calling it a racial slur... and there was no shame around my neighborhood in calling it that because that's just what it was called. I had no idea what the word meant until years later and now looking back on it I'm disgusted at all of the adults in my neighborhood who let us call it that.
Last week I watched O Brother Where Art Thou with my almost 10 year old daughter and at one point in the movie after it had been said a few times my daughter turned an looked at me and asked "What does 'negro' mean?"... and with that I feel like I've done a good job at stopping institutional racism in my family line.
Feidry@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 3d
I'm a little further north of you and had the same experience. That's just what it was called. I didn't know the racial bent to the word at all for a long time. Good on you for not letting it continue in your home.
socsa@piefed.social · 2 pts · 3d
All I know is that you are supposed to say you are looking for spare knickers if you get caught.
danc4498@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 3d
Are you saying we all just pronounced it wrong?
remon@ani.social · 14 pts · 4d
Klingelstreich!
affenlehrer@feddit.org · 4 pts · 3d
Klingelmännchen
k0e3@lemmy.ca · 13 pts · 3d
In Japanese, it's ピンポンダッシュ which is a transliteration of "ping pong dash."
SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 3d
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.
k0e3@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 3d
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.
canopy@jlai.lu · 3 pts · 3d
ding dong dash ?
J92@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 3d
It was called knocky door ginger when I was growing up, and ive since learned that my neck of the woods boasts the highest percentage of variation in shades of ginger hair in the UK.
Twig@sopuli.xyz · 2 pts · 3d
Had to search "ginger" to see which variations would be mentioned here.
Knock Knock Ginger is what I was hoping to find, but that's close enough
DakRalter@thelemmy.club · 1 pts · 2d
Knock down ginger is what I remember it as, but I feel like there was another name they called it at school, I just can't remember what it was.
TomMasz@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 4d
Growing up in the NYC suburbs in the '60s/'70s we called it Ring 'n' Run.
OldChicoAle@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 3d
And here class is a perfect demonstration of how quickly ingroups and outgroups can form in a society.
bitjunkie@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 3d
FishFace@piefed.social · 11 pts · 3d
Knock-a-door-run, anyone?
serpineslair@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 3d
This is the correct one.
MurphysPaw@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 3d
Just knock door run for me
Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 3d
Yes. Can I raise you a 1,2,3 Home?
FluidBeef@quokk.au · 9 pts · 3d
The scouse version of this prank is they nick your telly and run off down the street with it.
GTac@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 3d
Belletje Lellen
Denjin@feddit.uk · 8 pts · 3d
It's cherry knocking and all of you are fucking heathens for disagreeing with me
OrteilGenou@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 3d
What if you buggin and knock too hard, Mary?
HexesofVexes@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 3d
"Knock-a-door run"
We are but a simple people.
MeatPilot@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 3d
Tap Tap Toodle-oo
Which also can double for when you have a one-night stand.
CyberEgg@discuss.tchncs.de · 7 pts · 3d
Doorbell prank.
MycelialMass@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 3d
Its called nicky nicky nine doors. Its even got a song.
Nounka@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 3d
Translated it would be : ( smal)bell pull
Cheesus@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 4d
Canadian here. We used both “Knicky knocky nine doors” and “ding dong ditch,” but if I remember correctly, the first was more prevalent, and definitely is the first thing that comes to mind for me personally.
Oh, and I’m a middle millennial.
psycotica0@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 3d
Also a Canadian (Ontario) millennial, I don't think I've heard "ding ding ditch", but would've called it "nicky nine doors", no "knocky", and no "nicky nicky".
Never really thought about why it was called that 😛
sudoMakeUser@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 3d
Canadian here, same here but I've ever only heard the first one as "knicky knicky nine door". But yeah that was the most common name here.
ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 3d
Canada, we called it Nicky Nicky nine doors.
rbos@lemmy.ca · 6 pts · 3d
Ding Dong Ditch in Surrey BC, 80s
OrteilGenou@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 3d
My dad called it "cut the shit" but... on second thought that might not have been a name
cheat700000007@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 3d
Nicky Nicky nine doors, Surrey, 90s
LaoiseFu@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 3d
Ireland : knockadolly
MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 3d
Knocky door run is what me and my friends called it (north east England)
jerkface@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 3d
Ohhhhhh, that makes more sense, I always heard, "Nicky-nicky nine doors"
MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 3d
A door prank?
Bubbaonthebeach@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 3d
Nicky Nicky Nine Doors or Ding Dong Dash were the only names I heard as a child. Never played since we lived in a rural area and too much distance between houses. My cousins in the city talked of it though.
ralph@lemmy.mayer.rocks · 4 pts · 3d
Schellabemberles would be the Swabian name
johsny@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 3d
Toktokkie
clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 3d
Just by the look of it, either Finnish or Korean?
johsny@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 3d
Afrikaans
clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 3d
Ah. Cool
NewSocialWhoDis@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 3d
Why not ring and run? Or ding and dash?
How do people get such dumb colloquialisms to stick?
InFerNo@lemmy.ml · 4 pts · 3d
Belleke trek
AliOski@feddit.nl · 2 pts · 3d
Ik was uit mijn schoenen geslagen toen ik hoorde dat er delen in Nederland zijn waar ze het "belletje lellen" noemen ipv "belletje trekken"…
Fleppensteijn@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 3d
Gewoon deurtje bellen bij ons
Hikermick@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 3d
Nobody else called it Knock-Knock Zoom-Zoom???
ayyy@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 3d
I’ve heard of most of the ones mentioned in the comments, but this one is new to me (Western U.S.).
dylanTheDeveloper@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 3d
That's the most European phrase i have heard so far
SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 3d
Ah yes the beautiful language called European.
Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 3d
Wikipedia says it's Canadian 🤷🏻♂️
Leviathan@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 3d
Canadian here, we call it ding-dong-ditch where I'm from. Never heard of that other one.
SoloPhoenyx@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2d
U wot m8?! U 'avin a giggle? The right bananas I say it is!
saltesc@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 3d
And now you probably realise how fucking dumb cock-a-doodle-doo sounds to people outside the UK.
decolo@piefed.social · 1 pts · 3d
the_ultimate_joy@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2d
Ping pong dash over here in Japan
skribe@piefed.social · 2 pts · 4d
Thunder and lightning where I grew up in Oz.
cantstopthesignal@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 2d
He's oozing with jealousy more than anything else.
Amir@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 2d
belletje trekken
stringere@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 1d
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.
cheat700000007@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 3d
It's Nicky Nicky nine doors
beejboytyson@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 3d
Someone likes maple syrup
Diddlydee@feddit.uk · 1 pts · 4d
Thunder and Lightning
Fizz@lemmy.nz · 1 pts · 1d
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.
kenw@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 3d
East Coast GenX: knock knock zoom zoom
glups@piefed.social · 0 pts · 3d
What do you call it when you dine at a restaurant and leave without paying?
ThisUsernameKillsFascists@piefed.social · 7 pts · 3d
Dine and Dash
kestrel7_7@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 3d
The original DND
some_kind_of_guy@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 3d
Tuesday
thagoat@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 0 pts · 4d
American here: Doorbell dixie
Feidry@sh.itjust.works · 14 pts · 4d
American here. I can't repeat what I was told this game was called.
Spiv@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 3d
Yeah, same for me, at least in the 70s and early 80s. I think later in the 80s, we started calling it "ding dong ditch"
Tenthrow@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 4d
Yeah that's what my Aunt used to call it. {{shudder}}
JusticeForPorygon@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 6 pts · 4d
Only American on earth that calls it that /s
Drekaridill@lemmy.wtf · 0 pts · 3d
Dyraat
Multiplexer@discuss.tchncs.de · -2 pts · 4d
Well, knocking on doors is some 19th century tech level stuff, so Charles Dickens is actually really fitting.
I personally don't know of a single house/apartment around my home that doesn't have some form of electrical bell.
Is this some British cultural thing not having door bells?
FishFace@piefed.social · 4 pts · 3d
Lots of British doors have a knocker or nothing, yes. But doorbells are common too.
Multiplexer@discuss.tchncs.de · 1 pts · 3d
Interesting, quite different from the parts of Germany that I have lived in.
Some houses still have (mostly historic) knockers, but everyone knows they are just ornamental and nobody would think about actually using them (but would look for the bell button instead).
kestrel7_7@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 3d
I live in the USA, and I used to deliver food. I would always use people’s knockers if their door had them. 9/10 times they were like “what the hell is that sound? Ohhh the knocker! I’ve lived here X years and no one’s ever used that before!” became probably my favorite part of an otherwise boring job 😂
Multiplexer@discuss.tchncs.de · 2 pts · 3d
Lol.
I can totally imagine that happening here exactly like that!
No sane person would even consider using the metal thing on the door, except perhaps for master real-life trolls like you clearly are! :-)
FishFace@piefed.social · 1 pts · 3d
In Germany though most accommodation is in flats, right? Even if in smallish blocks rather than high-rises... I wouldn't expect those to have knockers...
Multiplexer@discuss.tchncs.de · 2 pts · 3d
No, it's not just the flats.
I grew up and lived in many rural area were the towns consisted of tightly packed, often very old town houses (predating the arrival of electricity by decades or centuries).
Basically no multi-apartment buildings at all.
Still every house had an electrical bell. No exception.
That's the reason I am so flabbergasted to hear this to apparently be different in the UK.
It comes completely unexpected to me, I always considered having at least one doorbell at every house's entrance to be a given. Like having windows or a drainpipe. Standard feature.
snugglesthefalse@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 3d
I'm not sure I believe you've never knocked on a door.
deHaga@feddit.uk · 2 pts · 4d
UK has the oldest housing stock in Europe apparently
Multiplexer@discuss.tchncs.de · 2 pts · 3d
I am from Germany, which also has some ancient building stock.
The town houses in the area in which I grew up typically are between 100 and 200 years old, some even much older.
All had an electric bell retrofitted.
Hence the name of the game consequently was "Klingelmännchen", which is hard to translate, as English is missing a diminutive word form.
Best translation is something like "little bell man".
So I am surprised that door-knockers are still a widespread thing in Britain, as someone mentioned in another comment.
Guess it really is some cultural thing.
deHaga@feddit.uk · 3 pts · 3d
I guess it is down to type of housing. UK built a lot of terraced houses, whereas Europe built apartments. Apartments need a bell system?
Older houses have cast iron knockers and are seen as attractive features, which I guess is the same everywhere.
Multiplexer@discuss.tchncs.de · 2 pts · 3d
It must be more than just the apartments.
I was raised in a rural area with only single-family houses and a practically nonexistent apartment percentage, and also typically very old buildings, most predating the availability of electricity by decades or centuries.
Still every house had an electric bell.
Maybe in Germany at some point there was a widespread excitement for the new technology, making it the expected standard early on, while the Brits valued their traditions more?
deHaga@feddit.uk · 2 pts · 3d
I guess so. I grew up in the country and never had a doorbell on any of our houses. New builds did have bells, and the big posh houses had old mechanical bells. I remember one having internal bells in each room that would ring the kitchen to get staff help.
snugglesthefalse@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 3d
The house my parents live in is... about 120 years old iirc. There is a doorbell though.