477 sats \ 10 replies \ @0357218382 23 Feb \ on: Fun Fact Friday - Best Fun Fact Gets 10,000 Sats meta

Fucking Austria

Fucking is an Austrian village in Tarsdorf (Upper Austria) inhabited by some 106 people. The settlement is believed to have been founded in the 6th century AD by Focko, a Bavarian nobleman. The ending -ing is an old Germanic suffix indicating the people belonging to the root word to which it is attached, thus Fucking means: “(place of) Focko's people”.

Fucking is best known for the four traffic signs at its entrances, to which many English-speaking tourists flock to have their photograph taken beside. These signs however attract a terrifying type of criminal - British tourists armed with a sense of humour and a screwdriver, but more on that later...

It all started after World War II, when British and United States soldiers noticed the name and began traveling to the village to have their photos taken with the signs. The local residents - the Fuckingers - were bemused, as they had not previously been aware of their village's name's meaning in English.

The town's road signs were regularly stolen by souvenir-hunting vandals, costing 300 euros each to replace! This however was put to a stop in 2005, when the signs were upgraded to be theft-resistant: welded and secured in concrete. In 2009, the village installed surveillance cameras to deter tourists from continuing to attempt to steal the road signs.

Augustina Lindlbauer, the manager of a local guesthouse, said that the area had lakes, forests and vistas worth visiting, but there was an “obsession with Fucking”. She continued: “Just this morning I had to tell an English lady who stopped by that there were no F---ing postcards.”

The mayor of Tarsdorf said that tourists were still welcome, though the local police chief firmly stated: “we will not stand for the Fucking signs being removed. It may be very amusing for you British, but Fucking is simply Fucking to us. What is this big Fucking joke?”

There was a campaign launched in 2004 to change the village's name to “Fugging”, however it failed. A second was launched in late 2020 which finally succeeded.

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62 sats \ 0 replies \ @0xbitcoiner 23 Feb

27 sats \ 1 reply \ @oliverweiss 23 Feb

A second was launched in late 2020 which finally succeeded.

So is it going to be renamed? This is then a sad fact after all. I am kidding, it’s hilarious ;) And the police chief is a Fucking legend!

20 sats \ 0 replies \ @0357218382 23 Feb

Indeed it was renamed 1st January 2021, a sad day for all Fucking visitors. He absolutely is!

26 sats \ 0 replies \ @justanumber 23 Feb

This has to be the fucking winner! If this doesn't win I'm gonna be so fucking surprised.

21 sats \ 1 reply \ @SATsStandard 23 Feb

There sre 3 King in the world :

Smo King
Drin King
Fuc king 🙊

10 sats \ 0 replies \ @Nuttall 23 Feb

How about the two NGRY words:

Angry Hungry

For you pot smokers, Bongry.

For promiscuous Ladies, dongry.

I made the last two up. Try some on your own.

20 sats \ 0 replies \ @erict875 23 Feb

Lol. It's probably pronounced fooking

25 sats \ 2 replies \ @justanumber 23 Feb

the area has lakes, forests and vistas worth visiting

It sounds like a very nice place. Just as well it's not a horrible place otherwise people could have called Fucking Hell 😂

10 sats \ 1 reply \ @0357218382 23 Feb

Well that's ironic as there's actually a beer called Fucking Hell!

And in addition, the EU's trademark agency forbade them from marketing it, but in the end the brewery successfully argued that "hell" means "pale" in German, and that beer is produced in Fucking so after a year the EU gave in and granted them permission to use the name.

Here's a photo of the drink:

make sure to zap my original entry and not this one lol

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @justanumber 23 Feb

Omg this just gets better, too funny!! Ok good point, I gave you extra zaps on the original post (even tho' my mouse was hovering over this comment haha)