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[–] 38 points 3 months ago (13 children)

American English has “Buttfuck, Idaho”, possibly substituting more polite names, and/or other equally sparsely populated states. If it’s abroad, it becomes Buttfuckistan or some equivalent.

Not sure about a British equivalent, but I’ve seen “Invernowhere” used in a Scottish context (there’s probably a swearier version this was bowdlerised from), and Dylan Thomas named an imaginary Welsh town Llareggub (read it backwards).

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  • [–] 36 points 3 months ago* (2 children)

    Always heard Bumfuck Egypt, BFE being the more polite way to say it

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  • [–] 13 points 3 months ago* (1 child)

    Here in Texas it's always been BFE, butt-fucking Egypt. Never have I heard Idaho used in this context.

    However the context is different, because BFE refers to somewhere far away rather to being in the middle of nowhere

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  • [–] 17 points 3 months ago (4 children)

    In Dutch we have "Lutjebroek". Problem is, Lutjebroek is also a real village with about 2000 people in it. There's also "Schubbekutteveen" which does not really exists and roughly translates as scaled-cunt-ville.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    (Southern) Germany has Hintertupfingen, where "Hinter-" refers to "behind".

    It really sounds like some 1000 year old village with 20 inhabitants.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago* (1 child)

    Is that a real village? I only have a little knowledge of German but it sounds like a finger up the bum. Or a bum up the finger, I'm not sure

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago

    It's not real and nor does it refer to fingers or your bum.

    -ingen is a common suffix for towns in Baden-Württemberg. Tübingen, Reutlingen, Vaihingen, Villingen-Schwenningen are some of the bigger ones that come to my mind. But like half the towns are named -ingen.

    So it's more like Hinter-tupf-ingen if you want to lose the finger association.

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