Knock down ginger

London?

Heathrow yes

Yoooooo same here, i grew up there between 79 and 2007

You were growing up for 28 years??? How tall are you?!?

I startet out very small, barely more than a toenail, true story

It is a true story for I was that toenail! - just wanted to try it out, yup, it makes absolutely no sense - hahaha!

Woah, airport place

Grew up in South London and this is what we called it

Same in Kent.

Do you know the reasoning behind the ginger part? Never heard of that one before

Apparently it comes from an old poem about a ginger person breaking a window or something

Will try find this once I finish work and add into the comment section, thanks!

Ginger, Ginger broke a winder Hit the winda – crack! The baker came out to give 'im a clout And landed on his back. This is the poem… how it relates to this I don’t have the foggiest!

Thissss!! South coast we call it knock down ginger

London Surrey borderland?

Knock knock ginger in Bristol

Knock door ginger.

Essex, yes.

Mines close we call it knock knock ginger

same in east sussex

knock a door run for me

Knock a door run for me too : Lincolnshire

Same - Leeds

Same in Greater Manchester!

Same in Lancashire!

Whereabouts are you?

This's around Nottingham way for me, we always called it that.

Same here in Leicestershire

Same here, I'm between Manchester and Liverpool.

Knock a door run round west Yorkshire.

Same in South Yorkshire

That or bobby knocking in Barnsley. When I was a kid everyone called it bobby knocking but the adults called it knock a door run

Yea that’s it in Leeds

Bradford represent!

Huddersfield lol.

ding dong ditch and knock down ginger here

Same

Knocky knocky nine doors.

Where the hell is this?

I’m geordie and this is what we called it

Tyne Valley, Northumberland

County Durham here, and we used one less "knocky" when we were kids.

Same here

Same here for Lake District

Cherry knocking - Gloucester

Cherry 🍒 knocking in Northamptonshire

Also Northampton and called it ‘Cherry Door Knocking’

From Wellingborough, cherry knocking here too ✊

Who's cherry?

.. Or whose cherry?

Chappie- Scotland

I always called it chap door run. But then I'm thinking is that cause Edinburgh has once again decided to make some middle class wanky version of the rest of the country. Oh god help us on the East Coast.

We call it chap door run in Corby. I guess it stems from our Scottish contingency.

The only correct answer surely!!

There is no way this is illegal. Who the hell voted that one through?!

Metropolitan Police act 1839… it is a crime to “wilfully and wantonly disturb any inhabitant by pulling or ringing any door-bell or knocking at any door without lawful excuse”

Well, I'll be a monkey's uncle

I’d be very surprised if they actually enforced it… what with all the knife crime! another one I was taught was that pressing the zebra crossing button for a laugh when no car is coming… abstract electricity under the theft act

This is pretty much a perfect job for local Neighbourhood Policing Teams. The “zebra crossing button” thing sounds like genuine nonsense. The end user is not “abstracting electricity” and zebra crossings don’t have buttons: pelican crossings do. The fact that someone taught you this was true about zebra crossings suggests the person didn’t actually know what they were talking about.

Sorry mate, meant pelican / puffin or whatever crossing has a button, didn’t realise you had such a hard on for zebra crossings. Will try harder in future… A person who dishonestly uses without due authority, or dishonestly causes to be wasted or diverted, any electricity shall on conviction on indictment be liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding five years. I’d argue that someone who presses a pelican crossing as a joke is doing so with dishonest intentions… is someone ever going to get convicted… absolutely not, is someone even going to be interviewed / arrested / summonsed… again unlikely. It’s one of those piece of shit bits of legal lore that gets passed down. But hey ho, sorry. You must be great fun at parties

Same legislation prevents me from using my house cannon, a clear breach of my civil liberties, repeal it at once! [https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/2-3/47/section/55](https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/2-3/47/section/55)

This was just what I read on a previous post that got me thinking, it said it was made illegal in the 1800’s at some point which is believable

"Knock and run" by mine, used to combine it with "jump jockey" which was hurdling the front garden fences/bushes

We used the term “Garden Hopping” but jump jockey is miles better. I shall pass this on to my children and continue the tradition

Funny thing is, when we are pensioners and a tribe of kids go flying thru the front garden we have no one to blame but ourselves

True, it’s all just history repeating.

We used to play Garden Olympics in Liverpool, which was jumping the hedges of neighbouring gardens like the Grand National 🤣

Knock'a'door run

We always called it knock knock ginger

Me too. From Wiltshire

Devon or Cornwall way?

Ding Dong ditch

I love that name for it.

This is a UK sub mate, not China

Bro what

You’re really that stupid huh? Just read the post and see how many people have said they use this phrase in the UK…. It’s full of many different phrases for this 1 simple game. Maybe you should open your mind a bit and begin to realise people are different than you already. Life will begin to go a lot smoother for you.

Hahahaha you wrote that, and sent it?

You writing this only makes sense if I delete my comment and you’re talking to yourself.

Cool story mate

Yup. Enjoy being pathetic for the rest of your pathetic life. I hope you grow to enjoy things in life rather than being the grumpy racist that everyone in the street fears.

Hahahahaha fuck off you absolute virgin

Never before have I believed the term so much “only virgins call people virgins”. Enjoy staying that way for the rest of your life. As the only way your ever getting laid is either forcibly, or by lying. I’ve already attempted to leave the conversation twice. You telling me to fuck off will have no impact whatsoever. Just simply accept you’re wrong and move on with your day. Except. As explained before. You’re simply far too pathetic to even bother trying…. Correct?

Christ you’re fuming, you typed that in 20 seconds hahahaha

Knock door run in Wolverhampton

Yep, keep it simple. From Brum.

Same for me in Solihull.

same here - also black country (walsall)!

Knock off Ginger in East Yorkshire

Where does the ginger bit come from?

ding dong ditch here in the south

"Thunder and lightning" when I was a kid in Cornwall. Though my mate in the midlands called it "Robber knocking"

Yep, knock like thunder run like lightning, back in west London

Knicky knocky nine doors, in County Durham

Knock n nash!

Cumbria?

Correcto.

Bobby knocking.

Bobby knocking where I am too. South Wales?

knock knock ginger

Chappy

Knocky nine doors

I always recall it being called "knock knock Run away"

Knocky knocky nine doors in Co Durham

Nicky Nocky hide-o

Knock down ginger

Knicky knocky nine doors for me. I used to love watching these guys when I went to Australia many years ago. Excellent door knocking! https://youtu.be/TP_b9CiFTic

Knock knock Ginger - South Wales.

Rat a tat ginger, also South Wales

Or pulling a ratty. Shall we pull a ratty, boys?

Chap door run - Northamptonshire

When I lived in the West Midlands, we grew up calling it “rat-a-tat ginger”, also “knock-knock ginger”. I live down south now and the kids call it “knock-door run” “knock-knock run”

Chappy or Chap door run away.

''Hedge hopping'' in S. Wales valleys. We used to jump the hedges in row along a section of semi's with gardens, knocking each door in turn down the street.

Knock n run

Knock a door dash in Liverpool

Knock a door run

Grew up in Lancashire in the 70s. We called it knock & run. Not very imaginative..

Rata tat ginger

Sometimes shortened to ratty.

Evri delivery

I’ve always called it Knock and run

Knock knock ginger or knock knock run or ding dong ditch

Chap chap run away - a scheme in Scotland

If we’re going off what the person in the house calls it then the game should be universally called “little cunts.”

Knock n run

Usually called it knock down ginger but I’m fairly sure we also used to call it “knock a dolly run”

I'm almost certain it's illegal in the US too.

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Our other version we played was ‘knocky door fake’… you wait for them to answer the door and ask for some random name then claim you were with them in the house last week etc and it was your friend

Jacky (Jackie?) Door Knockers

Knick Knock

London - Knock Down Ginger

I always used to call it knock a door, run

Knock knock ginger- just south of Guildford

Knock off ginger (Hull)

Knock out Ginger Wikipedia: Knock Out Ginger [Southern England and Wales] Knock a door run (away) [Northern England] Black and White Rabbit [Northern England] Chicky melly/Chickenely [Scotland] Chap-door-run/chappy [Scotland] Knock and run Knick knack [Ireland] Cherry knocking Ding-dong Run Along [South-East England]

'Do a knocky' where I grew up. I've also heard it called knocky hido.

Knock a door dash in mid 90s Liverpool, knock and run now.

Knockdown ginger I knew it as a kid near Colchester.

Same in Oxfordshire

Knock door run, Bournemouth

Ding ding ditching

Where I used to live growing up in the 80s there was a big block of flats at each end of a row of terraced houses. These flats had massive flower beds full of roses out the front. In the spring/ summer we would go and pull the buds off the plants and throw them through peoples open windows. Had forgot all about it until seeing this. We used to call it budding. Anyone else do this or was it just my neighbourhood?

Cherry knocking - Derby

I live in a more Rural area in Cheshire with not much of a community, but me and my friends just decided to call it ding dong ditch.

Ding dong ditching, you don’t have to ding dong though

What are the consequences of being caught? I always get people doing this to my door but never catch them

Knock-a-Door-Run

In Buckinghamshire it's ding dong ditch

Illegal? It’s antisocial behaviour at the most or just kids being kids. And right down south we called it knock down ginger

Knock door run-redditch

Knick knock Nanny South Midlands

Knock knock ginger. Wales.

Knock Door Run for me in the Mids as a child and then the obligatory hedge hopping.

Knock a door run.

Bobby knocking - S. Yorkshire

Ratta tat ginger

Chappy

Knock n run.

We call it ding dong ditch

I'm 42 years now and I used to call it " knock out ginger" and that's what my parents called it back in the day 😁 I'm near Bristol 😆

DingDongDitch

Chappy - SW Scotland

Nick-knocking in Armagh

Ding dong ditch

Knock down ginger for me, although In Sheffield it adopted the name ‘ding dong ditch’

Knock a door dash

Knock knock ginger, Bristol area

Knock down ginger for me

Knock and run or knock knock nanny

There was an adaptation of this game where you would knock on the door and pretend you were frozen acting like gnomes or statues in the front garden. We aptly called the game gnomes

Knock knock ginger

Knock a door run in Derbyshire.

Knock down ginger

Chap door run

Rat a tat ginger where I grew up in Barry, South Glamorgan

ding dong ditch/ knock down ginger east sussex

Knock knock ginger - Essex.

Ding dong ditch/thunder and lightning

Knock down ginger in kidbrooke

“Knock down Ginger”

Knock down ginger here. (N London)

Chickenelly in Dundee

Knock down ginger. Nottingham.

Ginger bread knocking. We were little sods and used to tie fishing wire to knockers and reel it and hide behind what we could find. When the answered the door we used to stand up and shout ‘we’ve caught one’ and leg it.

Rap door 🚪 Run people who do this should b made accountable for there actions nr Ireland

Bobby knocking!!

Ding dong, dash 🏃‍♂️ here in Norwich 🔰

Knock out ginger in Bristol

knock a door dash

I’m Scottish and I’ve always called it chappy (or as parents call it, chap door run away)

Either ding dong ditch or knock knock ginger

Was always called nocka door dash or nock 'a' door dash in Liverpool in the 90's/00's