Austria’s most famous village changes its name
mainIt will be known in future as Fugging, reports say.
It seems tourists keep stealing the signs.
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I’m starting to worry about the author of this blog…
anal… fu*…ng?
Pathetic…
Lighten up!
Maybe it’s just my fear to end up like the author when I am 72 years old: Posting infantile anal and f * jokes because this is what my audience of mostly academic male 60+ calls fun? In combination with the author’s grooming of Yuja Wang’s Instagram account I find this creepy…
But hey, I try to lighten up – Fucking is fun and Yuja is sexy, right? Long live classical music!
I’m surprised Norman couldn’t figure out a way to link this non-story with the length of Yuja’s skirts….
The fucking PC police! Whatever happened to pride of place?
“Whatever happened to pride of place?”
I agree 100%. They should name their whole country “Fucking”. 😀
Mother-Fuggers!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fugger_family
In proper English that would surely be “Mothers fugger” I believe…
Norman, Norman, Norman… yesterday it was Germany’s ANAL programme, and today it’s Fucking. What next? Calling out people who live on Wien’s Kolschitzkygasse? Better yet: how about an annual retelling of why a Croatian diva named Zinka had to change her family name?
Wank and Wanker are German/Austrian surnames.
I once saw a pantechnicon parked, with WANK in huge letters emblazoned on the sides and back.
I wondered if it was an instruction to drop my trousers ?
Years ago a friend and I were at the Tate. When we exited there was a bus of German tourists with “Fucking” emblazoned on the side. We laughed for an hour about “the fucking bus.”
So the Austrians have come full circle. Rather than naming their village after a rude word, they have named it after Mohamed Al-Fayed’s mispronunciation of said rude word.
(h/t Private Eye)
Am also sure the “esteemed organ” once published a photo – suspected to be fake – of a spa town called Bad Fucking…
In case of need, Norman, there is a place named Condom in France.
It’s the safest place in the country.
It’s fucking over..
Christoph Poppen
http://www.christophpoppen.com/index.mobil.html
No relation to Intercourse, Pennsylvania I assume?
I passed through Fucking in my XK 120 on my way to see Wank mountain at least it has not changed.
The ravages of globalization.
It was originally spelt Vuking, in 1829 it was changed to Fuking, sometime during the 19th century, a c crept in. It all started at the end of the war, when allied troops started getting photos by the sign. Once package holidays and the internet started it was a magnet for Brits who often stole the signs as souvenirs. Alas they never had any Fucking postcards.
We have some great places in Ireland folks.
Cock Hill, Co. Cavan
Dicksboro, Co. Kilkenny.
Doodys Bottoms, Co. Wicklow
Cum, Co. Mayo.
Bastardstown, Co. Wexford.
Lower Balix, Co. Tyrone.
Lousybush, Co. Kilkenny.
Fannystown Co. Wexford
Strange that nobody mentioned famous Russian town Tемная Oборотная Cторона in the Ural area.