Fucking, Austria changes name to Fugging • Hacker News Board

Re: Fucking, Austria changes name to Fugging

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

KMnO4 wrote: post #5

I wonder if the residents will continue to get free [0] Pornhub Premium? [0]: https://www.pornhub.com/premiumplaces (Note: SFW webpage, but still on the PH domain)

Seems they fugged up there!

Re: Fucking, Austria changes name to Fugging

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Post by DNied » Thu, Nov 26, 2020, 11:04 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.

> Weird (to me, an english speaker with no knowledge of modern or 11th century Austrian) that they went with Fugging and not, say, Focking.

All the time, they would have had people scraping away some paint turning the "o" into a "u"...

Re: Fucking, Austria changes name to Fugging

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Post by 83457 » Thu, Nov 26, 2020, 11:05 PM UTC

Should have gone with Hugging for wholesome tourism.

Re: Fucking, Austria changes name to Fugging

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Post by [deleted] » Thu, Nov 26, 2020, 11:07 PM UTC

83457 wrote: post #33

Should have gone with Hugging for wholesome tourism.

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Re: Fucking, Austria changes name to Fugging

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Post by amiga-workbench » Thu, Nov 26, 2020, 11:09 PM UTC

Great, now its going to fuel Spurdo memes instead.

Re: Fucking, Austria changes name to Fugging

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Post by kebman » Thu, Nov 26, 2020, 11:13 PM UTC

Let's hope they change it back once they notice the acute loss in revenue from tourism.

Re: Fucking, Austria changes name to Fugging

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Post by howlgarnish » Thu, Nov 26, 2020, 11:14 PM UTC

softbuilder wrote: post #25

I misread the title as "Australia" and I was only slightly surprised and kind of impressed.

Australia has plenty of fun place names too:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tittybong,_Victoria

Re: Fucking, Austria changes name to Fugging

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Post by ASalazarMX » Thu, Nov 26, 2020, 11:19 PM UTC

purerandomness wrote: post #11

Does that mean their beer, "Fucking Hell" [0] will have to rebrand? [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fucking_Hell

Fugging Heck

Re: Fucking, Austria changes name to Fugging

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Post by ASalazarMX » Thu, Nov 26, 2020, 11:24 PM UTC

vmception wrote: post #29

ahahaha that's not better! quick trip to Urbandictionary.com folks

Ah, Urban Dictionary, where you can search for any random word and it will have a sexual definition somewhere.

Re: Fucking, Austria changes name to Fugging

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Post by eyelidlessness » Thu, Nov 26, 2020, 11:25 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...

Humptulips, WA