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[–] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 27 points 2 months ago (6 children)

American English has “Buttfuck, Idaho”, possibly substituting more polite names, and/or other equally sparsely populated states. If it’s abroad, it becomes Buttfuckistan or some equivalent.

Not sure about a British equivalent, but I’ve seen “Invernowhere” used in a Scottish context (there’s probably a swearier version this was bowdlerised from), and Dylan Thomas named an imaginary Welsh town Llareggub (read it backwards).

[–] scbasteve@lemmy.world 27 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Always heard Bumfuck Egypt, BFE being the more polite way to say it

[–] protist@retrofed.com 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Here in Texas it's always been BFE, butt-fucking Egypt. Never have I heard Idaho used in this context

[–] HAL_9_TRILLION@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 months ago

Same in Arizona, people will say stuff like "he lives out in BFE." I always heard it meant "Bum Fuck East" but is basically shorthand for "way out there."

[–] Maestro@fedia.io 12 points 2 months ago (2 children)

In Dutch we have "Lutjebroek". Problem is, Lutjebroek is also a real village with about 2000 people in it. There's also "Schubbekutteveen" which does not really exists and roughly translates as scaled-cunt-ville.

[–] DagwoodIII@piefed.social 7 points 2 months ago

"Podunk" is a real town in the USA, but people use Podunk to mean any small, unsophisticated town.

[–] yetAnotherUser@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

(Southern) Germany has Hintertupfingen, where "Hinter-" refers to "behind".

It really sounds like some 1000 year old village with 20 inhabitants.

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

Is that a real village? I only have a little knowledge of German but it sounds like a finger up the bum

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 2 months ago

Dylan Thomas named an imaginary Welsh town Llareggub (read it backwards).

Perfect! 😆😘👌🏼

[–] Septimaeus@infosec.pub 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

“Bumfuck Nowheresville” = variant I haven’t seen here yet

[–] Amnesigenic@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I grew up with bumfuck nowhere or just bumfuck

[–] recursivethinking@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

Also Bumblefuck

[–] FishFace@piefed.social 5 points 2 months ago

I think this "<...>-nowhere" construction is common and adapted to different areas - I have definitely heard of "Bally-back-o-nowhere" in Ireland.

[–] Jackcooper@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

I live in WA and I've only heard buttfuck nowhere

Because it's so boring and far away from everything the only thing to do is fuck butts