Cultural differences
(midwest.social)
Curated TumblrIn Greek it is: στου διαόλου τη μάνα, which means "at the Devil's mom"
Meanwhile in Chile: "A la conchade su madre" (Literally: "Towards your mother's c**t")
In Hebrew, the closest we have is טיזינבי (tizinabi), which doesn't mean anything in Hebrew but comes from Arabic طيز ٱلنَّبِي where it apparently means "the prophet's butt". TIL.
UK does have the idiom "bumfuck, nowhere" a fictional town in the fictional county of nowhere
A Levant arabic way of saying it is "في طيز العقرب" which literally means "in the scorpions ass"
We have a few in Spanish, one of my favourites is "Donde Cristo perdió el mechero": Where Christ lost his lighter.
Much better the "a tomar por culo" , translate that
That’s literally the first time I heard that hungarian version, that’s not what we use, we use “az isten háta mögött” which is “behind gods back” to refer to places in bumfuck nowhere
Some others in English: East Jesus, fuckbutt point, cow country.
We called it BFE growing up, Bumfuck Egypt.
"We can't stop here! This is cow country!"
- Fear and Loathing in Cornwall
In Scotland, we say 'middleae fucking naewhere' or 'Largs'.
In French: trou du cul du monde, or World's asshole.
could also be at the fictional town "triffouilli-les-oies".. litteraly at "fondling-the-geeses"
Yeah we have a bunch of these.
Icelandic has "lengst úti í rassgati" which means as far as you can go to an asshole. There's also the leas common "í langtíburtistan" which is in Far-away-istan
This may be the first post I've ever come across where I wish there was an "Upvote All Comments" button...
These could all be made up for all I know, but they are all very entertaining! 😄
I 100% agree 🤩
In Polish we've got "gdzie psy dupami szczekają" or where dogs bark with their assess.
Huh, so in Southern Germany we like to reference Buxtehude as a place that's really far away and probably doesn't exist (even though it is a very real city near Hamburg). ^1
And I just learned that there's also a saying about Buxtehude, that it's the place where dogs bark with their tails. ^2
Apparently, they refer to bells as dogs in their local dialect.
I did also randomly find a reference to Buxtehude being where dogs bark with their ass, in a German text. ^3
So, maybe you guys also just dump on Buxtehude like we do. 🙃
people from stockholm call everything that's outside of the city spenaten, "the spinach".
That's nicer than the people of Antwerp, who call the rest of Flanders a parking lot
Parking lots generally have better asphalt
Antwerpen is t stad en de rest is parking.
isn't that pretty accurate for the entire area?
Sure for some parts, but the entire area includes:
Ghent
Bruges
Leuven
pretty shit parking at those first two, i'll give you that
Strange, if it is all parking I would think there'd be plenty of space ;)
you've only showed one angle, could be like an ikea parking lot behind the camera or something
There’s also tjotahejti, which is a spin on Otaheiti, an older name for Tahiti.
a local one i like is "Finnpörtimansbo"
Ha! How local is that? I've never heard that in my life! Like, one little pub in like, Finspång?
more like three guys in bjurs
Mmmm spinach
In Slovenia we either use the serbian one or we say Bogu za nogo/hrbtom. Meaning behind god's leg/back.
In Québec, we say "Saint Clin-Clin Des meuh-meuh"; "Saint", because a lot of towns here are named after a Saint, "Clin-Clin" because of another expression "ti-clin" which means some random person, so "Clin-Clin" means a random Saint, and "des meuh-meuh" because a lot of towns here have some kind of suffix like "des Saults", or "de Brandon", so "des meuh-meuh" (like moo-moo) is the sound a cow makes, and I guess it sounds rural or something. Also, when we talk about somewhere very far away, we say "au diable vert" "at the green devil"; not sure about the origin of this expression, though.
I think it's important to also mention Wabush, a very remote town mostly known for being referenced in "chu parké à Wabush", which means "I parked my car in Wabush", thus implying that said parking spot was very bad which resulted in a long walk to the desired destination, often causing one to be late.
Never heard about Wabush; is it a regional thing?
The real expression is originally from France «au diable Vauvert».
We also say «aux îles Moukmouk» which is actually a real single remote island in Abittibi, l'Île Moukmouk.
You're absolutely right on both points, I didn't remember until you mentioned it! Didn't know Moukmouk was a real thing, though... The more you know!
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).
“Bumfuck Nowheresville” = variant I haven’t seen here yet
I grew up with bumfuck nowhere or just bumfuck
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
Always heard Bumfuck Egypt, BFE being the more polite way to say it
Here in Texas it's always been BFE, butt-fucking Egypt. Never have I heard Idaho used in this context.
However the context is different, because BFE refers to somewhere far away rather to being in the middle of nowhere
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."
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.
"Podunk" is a real town in the USA, but people use Podunk to mean any small, unsophisticated town.
(Southern) Germany has Hintertupfingen, where "Hinter-" refers to "behind".
It really sounds like some 1000 year old village with 20 inhabitants.
Dylan Thomas named an imaginary Welsh town Llareggub (read it backwards).
Perfect! 😆😘👌🏼
I think this "<...>-nowhere" construction is common and adapted to different areas - I have definitely heard of "Bally-back-o-nowhere" in Ireland.
In Spain we have "en el quinto pino": in the fifth pine, and "estoy a tomar por saco", which badly translates to "to go get fucked in a bag".
Also, if a bit more vulgar, "el quinto coño" ("the fifth cunt"). And don't forget "donde cristo perdió el mechero/ la chancla" ("where Christ lost his lighter/flip-flop").
“Where Christ lost his flip-flop” is amazing haha
In Romanian it's „unde și-a înțărcat dracul copiii” which means "where the Devil weaned his children".
In Latin American Spanish we say "Donde el diablo perdió el poncho" that translates as "Where the devil lost his poncho" or "Donde cayó el avión" / "Where the plane crashed"
Portuguese "onde Judas perdeu as botas". where Judas lost his boots.
If you go there, pls bring the boots.
If its even further away it's "onde judas desistiu de achar as botas". Where judas gave up trying to find his boots
Romanian
dracul
That sounds so stereotypical lol.
Hang on, is "Count Dracula" just Romanian for "Lord Devilish"?
I mean there's a reason Bram Stoker picked the name "Dracula" for his character ya know...
In belgian french, we have "Outsiplou-les-Bains-de-Pieds". Made up town name that both sounds funny and too long to actually exist, but the Outsiplou part kind of means "listen if it's raining" in walloon. And "Perpète-les-Oies". Which you could translate to "Far-away Geese", which is plain gibberish but sounds like a lot of real places in France. There's plently of variations but they mostly try to invent a name that sounds like a stereotypical countryside village name.
In Flemish (Belgian Dutch) we say: "In 't hol van Pluto" = literally in the arse of (The greek god of the underworld) Pluto.
Ooh I always thought it was Outsiploutte. In my area of France we have Perpète-les-Andouillettes (which kind of translates similar to les oies) and Pétaouchnoque.
TIL it's not called "hutsilpu" and actually has as story behind it lol
i'd never seen it spelled out or the long version, so i just assumed x3
In Italian we say we are in culo ai lupi which means in the ass of wolves or at inculandia which translates to in the ass land
In British English there's:
- arse-end of nowhere
- the sticks
- back of beyond
and probably more
In Australia we have "the outback", which isn't really "the middle of nowhere" but, it's also nowhere in particular.
I don't really know but I suspect it arose in the colonial era, when settlements were on the coast, and the hinterland was settled agricultural properties, but "out the back" away from the coast its dry, arid, and not much to see.
"The Australian Outback" refers to a class of landscape, rather than a place, but if you're in the outside back you're in the middle of nowhere.
In Danish you can say "where the crows turn".
Or "out where the crows bring a packed lunch"
Dont forget; "in Lars Diarrhea's field"
To anyone not Danish reading this, the Danish word for diarrhea is diarré, but this expression (på Lars tyndskids mark) utilizes another word - tyndskid, literally translated as "thin shit".
But unfortunately I think diarrhea is the English word that comes closest, but still doesn't capture the magnificent imagery of tyndskid
I always liked “east jabip” and “east jahunga” (sometimes jahunga road or Jahungaville)
Dogpatch is an interesting one bc I’ve heard it used to mean “middle of nowhere” and also “where poor people/hillbillies live”. It’s got history too since Lil Abner comics were set in Dogpatch, and there’s a San Francisco neighborhood of that name.
Danish: Lars Tyndskids marker
Lars - being a name, Tyndskid - being running shits, marker - being fields
Lars Running Shits' fields.
It is easy to see which countries have poetic mindsets and which have been shaped by sloppy drunks.
There's also "Hvor kragerne vender" - "Where the crows turn", so we're not completely unpoetic (not going to dispute the drunk part).
Very true, lol! A little credit to our forefathers is in order!
