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.
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Ping pong dash over here in Japan
belletje trekken
Ding-dong Ditch, bitches!
This is all I've ever heard it called.
U wot m8?! U 'avin a giggle? The right bananas I say it is!
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...
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FedEx calls it 'Failed Delivery'.
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.)
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.
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.
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He's oozing with jealousy more than anything else.
Damn.. It's just called "Knock and Run" in Australia.
Does Australia finally have one thing we say completely normal?
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.
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That is way closer to this image than I thought english people ever actually got IRL
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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.
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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.
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And here class is a perfect demonstration of how quickly ingroups and outgroups can form in a society.
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.
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I regret to inform Gemma that calling it Chappy is also some "Charles Dickens shite"
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Tha fuk, Am I having a stroke?
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