Follow Slashdot stories on Twitter

 


Forgot your password?
Close
typodupeerror
×
It's funny. Laugh. News

Tired of Mockery, Austrian Village Changes Name (theguardian.com) 190

Posted by msmash from the how-about-that dept.
Residents of an Austrian village will ring in the new year under a new name -- Fugging -- after ridicule of their signposts, especially on social media, became too much to bear. From a report: They finally grew weary of Fucking, its current name, which some experts say dates back to the 11th century. Minutes from a municipal council meeting published on Thursday showed that the village of about 100 people, 350km (215 miles) east of Vienna, will be named Fugging from 1 January 2021. Increasing numbers of English-speaking tourists have made a point of stopping in to snap pictures of themselves by the signpost at the entrance to the village, sometimes striking lascivious poses for social media.

Some have reportedly even stolen the signposts, leading the local authorities to use theft-resistant concrete when putting up replacements. Finally, a majority of the villagers decided they had had enough. "I can confirm that the village is being renamed," said Andrea Holzner, the mayor of Tarsdorf, the municipality to which the village belongs.
This discussion has been archived. No new comments can be posted.

Tired of Mockery, Austrian Village Changes Name More

Tired of Mockery, Austrian Village Changes Name

Comments Filter:

  • Those motherfuggers (Score:4, Funny)

    by nospam007 ( 722110 ) * on Thursday November 26, 2020 @06:02PM (#60768932)

    Fugging hilarious!

  • How many people kept acting little fugging idiots because of this?

  • In related news... (Score:5, Funny)

    by johnnys ( 592333 ) on Thursday November 26, 2020 @06:13PM (#60768954)
    "Dildo, Newfoundland" will be renaming itself to "Giant Dildo, Newfoundland".
  • It's a shame they missed the opportunity to give their village a positive-sounding name like the german word for "bright"...

  • Increasing numbers of English-speaking tourists have made a point of stopping in to snap pictures of themselves by the signpost at the entrance to the village, sometimes striking lascivious poses for social media.

    I guess they should be thankful it wasn't "Fukking" instead, which probably would've attracted a bunch of morons in white robes and masks.

  • Current name dates back to 11th century.... (Score:3, Insightful)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 26, 2020 @06:35PM (#60768990)

    yet is now wiped out of history becuase of humans being dumb cunts.
    yay human race.

    • I see it more as the residents not having a sense of humor about the whole thing, and perhaps leveraging it into a tourism-based income for their little village.

      • I see it more as the residents not having a sense of humor about the whole thing, and perhaps leveraging it into a tourism-based income for their little village.

        (Fugging Storyteller) "Gather 'round children, and let me tell you of the Great Awokening, when our ancient Fucking name was forever Fugging changed..."

    • Wiped from history? The attention has made the town more notable, if anything. But it seems like the people there would prefer the anonymity instead, seeing that they decided to change the name.

      But of course, the main factor in a town's historical prominence is... its historical prominence, which is probably none. As for its contemporary prominence, aren't these small sub-100 population villages in Europe mostly dying from people moving to the cities? I know that Spain has been trying to re-populate them fo

      • How about bringing some younger homeless out of the cities and giving them land to work?
        That did not work well when Mao took over China, and did similar bad in other Asian countries.

    • No it's wiped out of future. History doesn't change.

  • Monetize it (Score:5, Interesting)

    by bill_mcgonigle ( 4333 ) * on Thursday November 26, 2020 @06:44PM (#60769020) Homepage Journal

    Are there other reasons for tourists to come to town?

    Why not eat at the Best Fucking Diner and sleep at A Great Fucking Sleep?

    Hipsters would pay through the nose piercing for the selfies.

    • Unfortunately, the town has decided to say fuck you to the Fucking tourists.

    • Keep in mind that those Fucking tourists kept stealing the Fucking signs...

    • Re:Monetize it (Score:4, Insightful)

      by thegarbz ( 1787294 ) on Friday November 27, 2020 @03:14AM (#60769810)

      I'm sure residents who seem to want nothing to do with tourists really don't think insane commercialism is the answer to their problems.

      Not everything needs to be monetised.

    • Because the home language is German.
      A great Fucking Dinner would be a "GroÃYes Ficken Essen", which does not make any sense.
      Also using the word "fuck" in daily use is frowned uppon.

    • Re: (Score:2)

      by AmiMoJo ( 196126 )

      Apparently it's a village of about 100 people, so they probably don't have much in the way of tourism or facilities to take advantage of the name. Building something is unlikely to be viable as it's not like it's in the middle of nowhere, tourists can just drive there from somewhere more interesting, take a selfie and leave.

  • Their connection to the town of Fucking is specious anyway, so I expect them to keep the name. "Fugging Hell" doesn't quite have the same ring, does it.

  • No local Entrepreneurs? (Score:5, Interesting)

    by BarryHaworth ( 536145 ) on Thursday November 26, 2020 @06:50PM (#60769032) Homepage
    While I expect that the joke would wear thin, I am surprised that some local entrepreneur has jumped at the chance to make money off the tourists. Postcards, t-shirts, souveniers - the captions almost write themselves. Did nobody think that this is a golden opportunity to make money?

    • Re:No local Entrepreneurs? (Score:4, Insightful)

      by Waccoon ( 1186667 ) on Thursday November 26, 2020 @09:58PM (#60769376)

      If they were interested in making money, they wouldn't still be a small village of 100 people. Maybe they just like the peace and quiet.

      • Or they're all rich, having collectively founded a tech startup a few years back, and don't need tourists' f***king money.

    • Did nobody think that this is a golden opportunity to make money?
      Obviously not, as this is europe and not America. Who buy T-Shirts from a tourist spot? Only idiots do that. Now you could argue: there are so many idiots, it would pay off. I doubt so in a 100 people town.

      if I accidentally passed by, I probably would make some photos from the "Fucking t-Shirt Shop", but certainly buy nothing.

  • Seriously (Score:4, Interesting)

    by backslashdot ( 95548 ) on Thursday November 26, 2020 @06:50PM (#60769034)

    They couldnâ(TM)t turn it into a tourist attraction? They should have at least left a token area of it still named Fucking so they could make money off it.

  • At least it wasn't in France (Score:5, Funny)

    by BarryHaworth ( 536145 ) on Thursday November 26, 2020 @06:53PM (#60769038) Homepage
    It it had been, they would have demanded that the only real Fucking was what happened in the village, and anything else had to be referred to as "Excited Intimacy".

  • There is a small error in the location. (Score:5, Informative)

    by Sique ( 173459 ) on Thursday November 26, 2020 @07:12PM (#60769084) Homepage
    Future village Fugging is not east of Vienna as the article states, but west of it, close to the German border. The German town that lies closest to Fucking is called Tittmoning...

  • Fucked up in reverse (Score:3)

    by AndyKron ( 937105 ) on Thursday November 26, 2020 @07:27PM (#60769102)
    Next year Fugging will be fucked because they got used to all the tourist dollars that will dry up.

    • Next year Fugging will be fucked because they got used to all the tourist dollars that will dry up.

      Huh...all that Fucking revenue's about to get Fugging fucked.

    • Re:Fucked up in reverse (Score:4, Insightful)

      by thegarbz ( 1787294 ) on Friday November 27, 2020 @03:18AM (#60769820)

      What makes you think the town has any reliance on tourist money? What is it worth Americans and the assumption that everything is a profit center. Towns all over the world survive just fine without a single tourist ever visiting.

  • "Hey guys! I'm in Fucking watching Uranus!"

  • "They finally grew weary of Fucking" (Score:4, Funny)

    by Chris Mattern ( 191822 ) on Thursday November 26, 2020 @07:53PM (#60769146)

    Yeah, that happens to a lot of couples.

  • There was an entire episode of Amazon's The Grand Tour that made fun of this place. [youtube.com]

  • I'd embrace it and welcome tourists. Have a T-shirt "I was in Fucking, Austria!" or knick-knacks and bricker-brack that makes $$ money. So take the mockery and embrace it...and remind tourists in German an F-bomb is more "fik" like "fik mir" but that's not the worst mockery or insult in German. I could imagine a tourist tour where people stop at the town's sign and get their picture taken, for a modest fee of course. You can imagine the adveristing "We're not Fucking, German in Austria..." or "Come have som

  • - Where are you going?
    - Fucking
    - Uh, yes, but where?

  • Just for fugging kicks.

  • Scunthorpe Problem In Spades (Score:4, Interesting)

    by crunchygranola ( 1954152 ) on Thursday November 26, 2020 @10:12PM (#60769408)

    Scunthorpe [wikipedia.org], North Lincolnshire, England had a problem with being blocked because overly aggressive content fitlers found "cunt" in the middle of the name. That is nothing compared to the problem Fucking, Austria had.

    If you want to have content filters there are insoluble problems. The last name Cock exists, as does Sucker, so there must be someone named something like Cock-Sucker.

  • Meanwhile, in Dildo Newfoundland, things are going strong... and hard... and long...

  • Fucking got them noticed.

    • Love the sig. Mind if I steal it?

      • It belongs to Sandy Munro.
        However, /. keeps cutting it off.
        But I think that he would appreciate it if you spread it, though it would be nice to give him credit.
      • u might want to grab it now. Add a br after the quote and it will fit.
        I did change it SLIGHTLY, but it does not change the meaning and now, ppl can see who actually said it.
  • Would the town want to change their ducking name?

  • I'm more interested... (Score:3)

    by freeze128 ( 544774 ) on Thursday November 26, 2020 @11:51PM (#60769570)
    I'm more interested in this 'theft-resistant concrete' mentioned in the summary. Why does this exist? How is it different from normal concrete? Where is concrete theft such a problem (other than Fucking), that this needed to be invented?

  • Just wait until they find out that all they've actually done is create a new swear word that is a euphemism for intercourse.

  • Some oh-so-hip author from the 1950s -- Norman Mailer? -- thought he was oh-so-clever by using "fug" to allow his book to get past censors. Similarly there was the rock group "The Fugs" and their lousy song "Kill for Peace."

  • The people in the area of Hell [wikipedia.org], Norway [gonorway.no] are surely not going to be giving in so easily.

  • Apparently, some citizens believe "Fugging" is still too suggestive, and have suggested instead that the name be changed to "Koochlick".

  • From The Grand Tour episode [censored] to [censored]:

    The presenters travel to Wank, Germany, where May in a Bentley Bentayga, Clarkson in a Range Rover, and Hammond in a Jaguar F-Pace plan a road trip on the Romantic Road via Kissing, Bavaria, then Petting, Bavaria, to Fucking, Austria. After passing Landsberg Prison and staying overnight in Fucking, Clarkson and Hammond suggest to May that they should skip Wedding (Berlin) and head for the Nürburgring instead.

  • No, you flipping fake news outlet! Mockery was NOT the reason to change the name. The people living in Fucking are actually proud of their village.

    The original sources clearly state the sole reason to change the name is the constant theft of the town signs. Even after they started using special measures to lock the signs to the poles, people started to just cut off part of the pole.

    Fucking is a village of about 100 people. Having to replace the signs every few days imposes a heavy cost on the small village.

  • There was a beer brewery that made light beer there. Light in German is hell. The beer name was originally denied in Brussels, for being obscene. Regulators had to make a turnabout face when they were told it's brewed in the village of Fucking in Austria, and it's a light beer. Don't know where you can find it, but it should be available somewhere. Wonder if it tastes like shit. Or pussy. Or spunk. Now that would be really it's own name!

Slashdot Top Deals

Those who can, do; those who can't, write. Those who can't write work for the Bell Labs Record.

Close