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Old Posted Nov 26, 2020, 6:32 PM
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Austrian village of 'Fucking' decides to change its name

Austrian village of 'Fucking' decides to change its name


November 26th, 2020

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The small Austrian village of Fucking will get rid of the unfortunate name that has seen a brisk tourism trade and frequent thefts of the town sign, the town council announced Thursday.Mayor Andrea Holzner told Austrian broadcaster Oe24 that the name would be changed to Fugging from January 1, 2021.

- The small community in Upper Austria of around 100 people has been pushing for a name change for years, the German Press Agency reported. The name of the town, which lies north of Salzburg near the German border, has no meaning in German. — Fugging apparently better reflects the pronunciation of the town by locals. It is unclear what will happen to the current town signs. No news has yet emerged about possible name changes to the nearby hamlets of Oberfucking and Unterfucking. The town has been known as Fucking for around 1,000 years.

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Old Posted Nov 26, 2020, 6:41 PM
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Mayor Andrea Holzner told Austrian broadcaster Oe24 that the name would be changed to Fugging from January 1, 2021.
So, no one's gonna tell them?
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The town has been known as Fucking for around 1,000 years.
Damn.

Headline should read: "Years of repeated vandalism by immature, disrespectful outsiders forces locals to rename 1000+ year-old town."

I hate people sometimes. Especially my fellow anglophones. We are not the center of the universe.
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immature, disrespectful outsiders[/B]
what a bunch of fucking assholes
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I think they should call it Fusking.
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Or, they could just keep the Fucking name.
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Fugg all you bitches!

See? Still works!
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Old Posted Nov 27, 2020, 1:06 AM
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what a bunch of fucking assholes
hahahahhaha
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Damn.

Headline should read: "Years of repeated vandalism by immature, disrespectful outsiders forces locals to rename 1000+ year-old town."

I hate people sometimes. Especially my fellow anglophones. We are not the center of the universe.
Also blame the scotsophones. They were the ones who spelled it that way originally. Middle English had it as most frequently spelled as "fukkinge" of "fukkynge".
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Doesn't THAT word have the same meaning in German, since it is from an Anglo-Saxon root? So 1000 years ago it had basically the same meaning, didn't it? Beowulf would have had a good chuckle too. Are there any bordellos in the town? No need to advertise.
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Damn.

Headline should read: "Years of repeated vandalism by immature, disrespectful outsiders forces locals to rename 1000+ year-old town."

I hate people sometimes. Especially my fellow anglophones. We are not the center of the universe.
If it makes you feel any better the village of Shitterton, England found a solution to the same problem. They had to stop using signs to announce the name of their town, and instead had it chiseled into a 1.5-ton boulder too big to steal. No reason poor Fucking, Austria couldn't have done the same.
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you really were compelled to make a fucking thread header here spelling it right out, huh?


also, disappointment the article did not take the opportunity with this line:

The town has been known as Fucking for around 1,000 years.

The town has been known as Fucking for around 1,000 fucking years.
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Maybe the word Fuck isn't so insulting after all. Maybe language isn't insulting.

Maybe adults should grow up and behave like grown ups for once.

Or maybe we cancel everything and go back to cave paintings, although that might offend cattle.
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Just change the U to an O

FOCKING

Still works well
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Fugging, The act of hugging and Farting at the same time.

Must be the Austrian beer.
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What a lame fucking sign to steal. Now here was a sign worth stealing (before they changed it to hwy 491):

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Austrian village of 'Fucking' decides to change its name


November 26th, 2020

Read More: https://www.dw.com/en/austrian-villa...ame/a-55740967





Those Fuckers.
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So, no one's gonna tell them?
Farnsworth: I'm sorry, Fry, but astronomers renamed Uranus in 2620 to end that stupid joke once and for all..
Fry: Oh. What's it called now?
Farnsworth: Urectum.
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