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[–] 191 points 2 weeks ago (11 children)
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    [–] 128 points 2 weeks ago (13 children)

    FedEx calls it 'Failed Delivery'.

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  • [–] 21 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

    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 ❤️

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  • [–] 121 points 2 weeks ago (16 children)

    That is way closer to this image than I thought english people ever actually got IRL

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    [–] 60 points 2 weeks ago (11 children)

    Damn.. It's just called "Knock and Run" in Australia.

    Does Australia finally have one thing we say completely normal?

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    [–] 55 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)

    I regret to inform Gemma that calling it Chappy is also some "Charles Dickens shite"

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    [–] 53 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)
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    [–] 53 points 2 weeks ago (30 children)

    Obviously it's Ding Dong Dash.

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    I'm Gen X and it was always Ding Dong Ditch.

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  • [–] 26 points 2 weeks ago (12 children)

    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?

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    [–] 46 points 2 weeks ago (18 children)

    In the US south they use a racial slur, because of course

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  • [–] 46 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 12 points 2 weeks ago

    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.

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    [–] 23 points 2 weeks ago (10 children)

    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

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    [–] 22 points 2 weeks ago (8 children)

    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.

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    [–] 19 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)
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    [–] 18 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

    My cohorts called it (n-bomb) knocking. Glad I never participated in it with them.

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  • [–] 17 points 2 weeks ago

    Tha fuk, Am I having a stroke?

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  • [–] 14 points 2 weeks ago (20 children)

    Don't ask an American from 20-30 years ago...

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  • [–] 21 points 2 weeks ago (13 children)

    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?

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  • [–] 13 points 2 weeks ago (12 children)

    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.

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    [–] 14 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

    In Japanese, it's ピンポンダッシュ which is a transliteration of "ping pong dash."

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    [–] 11 points 2 weeks ago

    Growing up in the NYC suburbs in the '60s/'70s we called it Ring 'n' Run.

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