Sort-of memes that are cracking you up at the moment

Not really a meme but….

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My wife's cousin is staying with us atm whilst he's looking for a new place and she got so fucked of by the state of his socks that she's bought him 20 new pairs 😂

KnockDownGinger.com
No offence, was what it was called without the internetz suffix bitd

KnockDownGinger.

That's what it was called when I was growing up in London I the 80s (had no idea what it meant then and still don't now) moved back up north in the 90s and it was called knock a door run. No nonsense.

Knocking? What pre door bell era y’all from?

I’m over 40 and even at that knew it as Ding Dong Ditch.

Never thought that the distinction between northerners (solid, practical, intelligent) and southerners (idiots, fools, scoundrels) was more clearly expressed than the knock a door run / knock down ginger dichotomy. Genuinely thought someone was having me on when they told me about that knock down ginger bullshit.

You English types are all way off. It was either Thunder and Lightning (knock like thunder, run like lightning) or Belfast (ring the bell and run fast). At least we had a logic to the nomenclature.

In the Midlands (Coventry) it was 'Rat-tat-ginger' when I was growing up - https://www.coventrytelegraph.net/news/local-news/national-dialect-day-coventry-words-6523710
Some etymology and other options here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knock,_knock,_ginger
'Ping pong dash' in Japan apparently!

Ding Dong Ditch

Surely not uk that?

I am bang on 40 but bell or no bell, hoofing the door as hard as you can was half the fun.

Hull .. Knock Off Ginger. That was the early seventies when people came to the door. In our little gang, when gangs were innocenter (sp) things , usually picked on the doors of the curtain twitchers, dodgy old men and girls we fancied houses.
Wonder what kids do now for harmless fun... ..

Knock Off Ginger

early seventies

dodgy old men

Sounds about right

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Ding dong dust round my ways but we all knew what knock down ginger meant. Apparently it comes from an old poem

They send pictures of their own genitals to each other on Snapchat.

Yeah, Inverness and Glasgow.

I guess it was more likely that you’d knock and run but I remember the name reflecting the development of the door bell haha!

Tbh I don’t really remember it having a name when I was off the age where I’d have been doing it but if you asked me now, definitely ding dong ditch.

'Knock out ginger' in Bristol (it wasn't a violent game by the way, we just called it that)

Good list of variations on that wiki page and then you read further and the list of ways Americans have responded by kidnapping, shooting and killing kids by chasing them down in a car and driving them off the road! Americans do really appear to struggle to take a joke…

Saying that its so bloody British that we have made a specific law for it
“ the Town Police Clauses Act 1847, it is a criminal offence to "wilfully and wantonly disturb any inhabitant, by pulling or ringing any door bell, or knocking at any door" punishable with up to 14 days' imprisonment.”

“ the Town Police Clauses Act 1847, it is a criminal offence to "wilfully and wantonly disturb any inhabitant, by pulling or ringing any door bell, or knocking at any door" punishable with up to 14 days' imprisonment.”

Epic WTF thread

Knock down Ginger in London when I was growing up.

We took it to the next level on occasion, attaching a long string to the door knocker and hiding behind bushes or a garden wall on the other side of the road.

Also a variation with fireworks at a local cop shop one year, will elaborate later.

Americans do really appear to struggle to take a joke…

That probably explains their lack of success in TV, cinema, theatre, literature, and stand up.

Sarcasm is not only the lowest form of wit, it is also here deployed to create a false dichotomy. Clearly, 'merkins can make jokes, but that speaks little to nothing about their willingness or ability to take them. Obviously, a diversion into US media culture to illustrate how it reflects and reinforces a wider culture almost entirely devoid of the concept of self-deprecation would be unwelcome, but such a ludicrous comment surely invites one.

A kid knock and runned our house tonight. I didn't think it still happened, maybe it's the 90s revival thing

Sarcasm is not only the lowest form of wit, it is also here deployed to create a false dichotomy. Clearly, 'merkins can make jokes, but that speaks little to nothing about their willingness or ability to take them. Obviously, a diversion into US media culture to illustrate how it reflects and reinforces a wider culture almost entirely devoid of the concept of self-deprecation would be unwelcome, but such a ludicrous comment surely invites one.

For fucks sake! I came here for easily sharable memes not thoughtful discussions on dichotomy (true or false).

And this whole thing about US media culture just boils my piss!

Moor Memes Pleze...

Gun-toting, trump-lovin…

Probably some stupid tick tock "door knock challenge 🤣🤣🤣"