In Lithuanian we have these:
- Dievo užmirštame kampelyje - In the little corner God forgot about (typically meaning a beautiful place)
- Giliame užkampyje - Somewhere deep, behind the corner
- Pasaulio pakrašty - At the end of the the world
Italian: “in culo al mondo”/“in culo ai lupi” (in the butt of the world/in the butt of wolves)
In Italy we have “in culo ai lupi”, literally “up the wolves’ arses” and variants involving Satan’s or god’s respective asses depending on how blasphemous you’re feeling.
Also, in my area, the madeup town name is “Vergate sul Membro” a play on real town and river names that sound similar (Vergiate and the river Lambro) which translates to “rod strikes to the member” (i.e. penis).
In English, I say that I’m in the middle of Bumfuck, Nowhere.
I guess we all have a tendency to envision anuses as being the middle of nowhere, even if we almost certainly love glutes.
In South Africa, we say “halfpad tussen Pofadder en Putsonderwater”
Which translates to halfway between Pufadder (named after the snake) and well-without-water town.
Both are real places, with the stereotypical names that already play on the fact that there is very little going on there.
The open stretch between the two with no roads, no farms, no railways.
These days, it does not work in reality as their built the Square Kilometer Array there, as it was probably the quietest place (radio signal wise) in the world where you could build radio telescopes.
German also has a few other interesting ones that refer to actually real places.
- Buxtehude (small town near Hamburg)
- Timbuktu (ancient town in the Sahara)
- Pampa (grassland in agentinia)
The last one makes historical sence since many Germans migrated to that region of south America in the 1800, and then more Germans got replaced in the soviet union and moved there and then many Nazis fled there after the surrender. So its just a synonym for a place very far away. Not sure where the rest come from
Dont forget that the ass of the world is a real place in germany. Bielefeld.
Literal ass would be Darmstadt (Colon-City)
In America we also have “fuck-ass nowhere,” “bumble fuck,” and “bum fuck.” And that’s before you get creative and start making shit up.
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
Antwerpen is t stad en de rest is parking.
Parking lots generally have better asphalt
isn’t that pretty accurate for the entire area?
Sure for some parts, but the entire area includes:
Ghent
Bruges
Leuvenpretty shit parking at those first two, i’ll give you that
Not if you have a boat
Strange, if it is all parking I would think there’d be plenty of space ;)
There is, provided your are parking a Bicycle or a canal boat.
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
We have “the boonies”, referring to “the boondocks” or, um, there was a song. I wanted to fuck with you a little but you are so nice.
In Romanian it’s „unde și-a înțărcat dracul copiii” which means “where the Devil weaned his children”.
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”?
The father of Vlad Tepes, or the Impaler, was known as Vlad Dracul. Though it wasn’t because people thought he was a devil but because he was a member of the Order of the Dragon which in Latin is Societas Draconistarum. The word “dracu” in Romanian originates from the Latin “Draco” so the connection was easy. Which means the Dracula in this case means “son of Dracul”.
I mean there’s a reason Bram Stoker picked the name “Dracula” for his character ya know…
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”
Is this a reference to the crash in the Andes?
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).
Always heard Bumfuck Egypt
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.
Is that a real village? I only have a little knowledge of German but it sounds like a finger up the bum. Or a bum up the finger, I’m not sure
It’s not real and nor does it refer to fingers or your bum.
-ingen is a common suffix for towns in Baden-Württemberg. Tübingen, Reutlingen, Vaihingen, Villingen-Schwenningen are some of the bigger ones that come to my mind. But like half the towns are named -ingen.
So it’s more like Hinter-tupf-ingen if you want to lose the finger association.
Dylan Thomas named an imaginary Welsh town Llareggub (read it backwards).
Perfect! 😆😘👌🏼
“Bumfuck Nowheresville” = variant I haven’t seen here yet
I grew up with bumfuck nowhere or just bumfuck
Also Bumblefuck
I think this “<…>-nowhere” construction is common and adapted to different areas - I have definitely heard of “Bally-back-o-nowhere” in Ireland.
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
I always liked “the ass end of nowhere”, so I guess you could combine the two to get someplace even further in the boonies as “the ass end of buttfuck”
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.
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 Flemish (Belgian Dutch) we say: “In 't hol van Pluto” = literally in the arse of (The greek god of the underworld) Pluto.
Roman* god.
The greek god would be Hades.
Fair enough
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.
I’m sure there’s a bunch of versions anyway ! Each of my grandmas would surely have said it the differently from each other, although they were born 25km from each other.
I do love how Perpète-les-Andouillettes rhymes !
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. 🙃
https://www.buxtehude.de/portal/seiten/von-wegen-maerchenhaft-buxtehude-ein-ganz-realer-ort-900000008-20351.html ↩︎
https://www.buxtehude.de/downloads/datei/LjXS_MtU4foGTmT_02Ch1TNuZzk3c29QTTQzMitnNFlLcXE3a1NLZEN0YTJnUlBKM2lpODlNMXNHQ1lyMnQ1UGt2Rjl5QUNLajFMRDdVVFRIU2VCdVFETVc2MkpKOVhzRkJtSFFsellpa082a2FBT2FIbThHRXFSYWR6bFFXQlRzRlkzOU1ML0k0MlFKSTZOM0ZHTGdBWVNKM2E2aEJGdWlSTU9KUT09 ↩︎
https://proverbs_de.de-academic.com/3485/Buxtehude ↩︎
there’s also zadupie, which literally means “behind-the-ass place”, and also wypizdowie, or wypizdów, which i can best translate as “fuck-off place”
my friend group also uses Wypizdów Dolny, the context for which is like that one spongebob episode with Bikini Bottomer (or -est, i don’t remember), but wypizdów edition.
Oh, so out near this little guy’s neck of the woods? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ei6trd4kd4
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
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!
Jamais entendu Aux îles Moukmouk, tu es de quel coin?
Montréal, au Québec, et toi?
Tbh, des îles moukmouk, dans le centre de la France
Is the green devil cannabis?
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 Sardinian, we say a casinu (at the brothel), because often brothels were located far from towns. And if that isn’t enough, you can say a casinu 'e Pompu, combining it with the name of a real place that’s already in the middle of nowhere by itself
