Should have gone with Hugging for wholesome tourism.
They are austrians, not english.
English are more likely to hug than Austrians?
Fucking, Austria changes name to Fugging
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#162Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why are there irrational numbers? Why so many, why so different? Are rationals not enough?
> Why are there irrational numbers? Because, a line doesn’t have any holes and a fraction just gives you a point, such that no matter how close you are to another number there will always be gap.
Well, there is a gap in your answer, you speak about line, holes and points (domain of geometry, very well), but then you introduce numbers somehow. Also, I'd be more interested in relation between people, swearing and irrational numbers, not between irrational numbers and geometry. Unless you'll provide a mapping between geometry and people, that relates to irrational numbers.
Re: Fucking, Austria changes name to Fugging
#163Kumamoto in Japan has a similarly bad name in Swahili. If you break the city's name into 2 four-letter words, you get vagina (kuma) and hot (moto) in Swahili. Thankfully, Swahili speakers are not going to harass this city's residents anytime soon.
meanwhile in Turkey, Batman can be found.
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#164Does that mean their beer, "Fucking Hell" [0] will have to rebrand? [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fucking_Hell
That just reads like they wanted the name and came up with a story to fit. The village and the brewery aren’t even in the same country...
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#165Well, that's unfortunate that they decided to change the name. But there's always Intercourse, PA if you're looking for a fun sounding place to go: https://www.google.com/maps/place/Intercourse,+PA/@40.036806...
Sexbierum, Netherlands: https://goo.gl/maps/d2pWL7UhDfdJiNbAA
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#167Earlier quoted context omitted.
Is Austrian like Swiss German where "gg" is "k"? If so the pronunciation might have not/barely changed for locals, but is no longer funny for English speakers.
Locals don't speak a phonetically hard 'k' in the middle when refering to that village. If you heard them say the name, you'd not be sure whether to write it with gg or ck in the middle. (NB: I live in a village essentially next to Fucking)
This. I live in southern Germany (swabia) and many village names kind of have a 'standard german' spelling and a local pronunciation. I feel like Fugging might just be a change that reflects a more austrian pronunciation in the spelling.
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#168"Don’t people have any sense of humour these days?” asked one OOeN reader. Another noted: “They’re getting free publicity – they ought to have been happy to have a funny name." Free publicity that leads to sign posts being stolen. For a tiny village of 100 people, this is likely a serious hardship. If it isn't bringing in more money than it's costing them, it's an attractive nuisance , not free publicity.
Probably fair to assume that they weren’t raking in money from the “haha, the road sign has a rude word” tourism.
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#169Well, that's unfortunate that they decided to change the name. But there's always Intercourse, PA if you're looking for a fun sounding place to go: https://www.google.com/maps/place/Intercourse,+PA/@40.036806...
Muff, Donegal, Ireland
The famous spot for Muff Diving?
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#170Earlier quoted context omitted.
How about “My sister went to fucking and all I got was this fucking T-shirt” T-shirt’s.
That's not even funny. Maybe "My sister/friend/whomever went to Austria and I all I got was this Fucking t-shirt" would be sort of funny. But "She went to fucking and all I got was this fucking t-shirt" isn't really a good joke. There's no surprise element. There's no "gotcha." There's no epiphany of "Oh, I get it!"
That was sort of the meta joke! “All I got was this T-shirt” T-shirt’s are not funny in the first place