Fucking, Austria changes name to Fugging

Post by dredmorbius » Thu, Nov 26, 2020, 10:44 PM UTC

flowerlad wrote: post #8

Well, 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...

Post by conformist » Thu, Nov 26, 2020, 10:53 PM UTC

klyrs wrote: post #2

> The village was first officially inhabited in about 1070, but local lore suggests that a sixth-century Bavarian nobleman called Focko actually founded the settlement. A map dating from 1825 used the spelling Fuking. Weird (to me, an english speaker with no knowledge of modern or 11th century Austrian) that they went with Fugging and not, say, Focking.

Post by bartread » Thu, Nov 26, 2020, 10:55 PM UTC

flowerlad wrote: post #8

Well, 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...

Post by scoot » Thu, Nov 26, 2020, 10:57 PM UTC

monksy wrote: post #19

flowerlad wrote: post #9

A lot of people don't know this, but it takes about 30min to go from Petting to Fucking. See https://www.google.com/maps/dir/Fucking,+Austria/83367+Petti...

You need to reverse the directions there.

Post by 83457 » Thu, Nov 26, 2020, 11:02 PM UTC

flowerlad wrote: post #8

Well, 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...