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What’s wrong with you UK?
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When I was a kid we called it 'knock down ginger'. No idea why. We would just knock and run. Lots of fun. Once or twice we were chased by grown ups. I don't really hear of kids doing it today, probably because everyone has ring cameras or similar things nowadays.
it gets its name from the 1967 George McKay Shaw poem
Oh nice, I learned something new today! Thank you.
We called it Nicky-nicky-nine-doors. I've also heard ding-dong-ditch.
I heard it as knock down ninja
Yall had fun names. Ours was just ding dong ditch.
The ginger bit was anti-Irish racism from the people who have literally committed genocide multiple times against the Irish.
Well that not fun...jeeze.