• Honytawk@lemmy.zip
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    1 month ago

    Hahaha, such silly names!

    Who would even want to live in a town called Glasgow?

  • FelixCress@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    Nothing beats, Fucking, Austria:

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fugging,_Upper_Austria

    "Fugging (German: [ˈfʊkɪŋ] ⓘ), spelled Fucking until 2021, is an Austrian village (…)

    Augustina Lindlbauer, the manager of an area guesthouse, said that the area had lakes, forests, and vistas worth visiting, but there was an “obsession with Fucking”, and she had to explain to a British tourist “that there were no Fucking postcards”.

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    1 month ago

    The best part about Shitterton is that the name comes from “sewer town.” Not another language, no alternate meaning, it is just as it sounds in modern English.

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      1 month ago

      The sign for Shitterton had to be carved out of a big chunk of local stone, because the normal metal ones kept getting nicked. Obviously.

  • ditty@lemm.ee
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    1 month ago

    I just confirmed that all of those places are real as depicted

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    1 month ago

    I am equally impressed that the journey is over 1k miles, considering the entire island is about 600 miles top to bottom. An extra 400 miles of no straight roads.

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      1 month ago

      I heard the phrase, “as the bird flies” recently in reference to the 600 miles type of measurement and thought that was neat

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      1 month ago

      I’ve only learned the name “Scunthorpe” recently because I was reading up on a band I really like from there. I remember noting that it was about the ugliest name for a town I could think of that doesn’t actually contain any recognizable words… but I would assume it’s a perfectly lovely place regardless of that

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    1 month ago

    They weren’t exactly shy about what places were for in the middle ages. This is where the brothels used to be.

    Also, Shitterton is literally called that because it was downstream from where all the sewage was flowing.