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".
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"
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.
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.
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
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).
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.
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.
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 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 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
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").
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.
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.
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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.
...in american english i've heard "out in indian territory" and "butt-f*cking egypt", and while i understand the etymology of the former, i have no clue where the latter came from...
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. 🙃
1. Er ist aus Buxtehude, wo die Hunde mit dem Arsche bellen. – Reinsberg VI, 124. 2. Geh nach Buxtehude, wo der Pfeffer wächst. Scheint eine blosse Zusammenziehung zweier Redensarten zu sein. Wir sagen häufig: Geh nach Buxtehude! und: Wär er im…
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.
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
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
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.
Huh, I hadn't thought about the origin of the wop-wops but it checks out. Also I thought people who said woop woops were townies but apparently they are Aussies.
I find it funny that the title is "cultural differences", but the content is actually showing how all these cultures needed someway to describe being in the middle of nowhere.
In Central American Spanish, we sometimes call it "donde el Diablo perdió la chaqueta" (lit. "where the Devil lost his jacket"). Or we downright translate the first German one
In New Zealand we say 'in Waikikamukau' (pronounced "Why kick a moo cow") because it's juuuuust enough like actual place names here that people don't instantly pick up on the alternate meaning.
In my hometown we usually say "a Puttemburgo" (literally "Whoreburg") or "in culo ai lupi" ("up the wolves' arsehole") or "a Tron di Dio" ("on God's throne").
Oh well, for someone who only ever had one year's classes of a related language (Spanish) over 20 years ago (fuck, I'm so old lol), that's a pretty good non-assisted guess IMO 😁
In oldworld French, Trifouillis-les-oies is a favourite of mine (it's a fictional village name, meaning something like... Fiddledy-the-geese). Saint-glin-glin is for a date, here.
Since there's surprisingly no Russian here yet, here are a few I know (some are probably regional):
Где раки зимуют [Gde raki zimuyut] - "where crayfish spend their winter"
У чёрта на куличиках [U chyorta na kulichikah] - "on the devil's little Easter breads" (there's also a version "on the devil's horns")
За тридевять земель [Za tridevyat zemel] - "beyond threenine (i.e. 27) lands" feels somewhat fairytale/archaic, haven't heard anyone use it unironically
В жопе мира [V zhope mira] - "in the ass of the world"
Зажопье [Zazhopye] - a made up placename roughly meaning "b
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Since there's surprisingly no Russian here yet, here are a few I know (some are probably regional):
Где раки зимуют [Gde raki zimuyut] - "where crayfish spend their winter"
У чёрта на куличиках [U chyorta na kulichikah] - "on the devil's little Easter breads" (there's also a version "on the devil's horns")
За тридевять земель [Za tridevyat zemel] - "beyond threenine (i.e. 27) lands" feels somewhat fairytale/archaic, haven't heard anyone use it unironically
В жопе мира [V zhope mira] - "in the ass of the world"
Зажопье [Zazhopye] - a made up placename roughly meaning "beyond ass", evocative of many toponyms which start with the same prefix (e.g. Замосковоречье [Zamoskvorechye] - "beyond river Moscow")
Мухосранск [Mukhosransk] - made-up town name, roughly translatable as "where flies shit"
Ухрюпинск [Ukhryupinsk] - corrupted name of the town of Uryupinsk, probably on account of it being far away from my birthplace
Подзатворожинск [Podzatvorozhinsk] - made-up town name, roughly "[place which] started to turn into cottage cheese" or "under the [place] beyond cottage cheese" or some combination of the two
But honestly the most likely phrase I'd use in an informal context is a boring чёрт знает где [chyort znayet gde] - "devil knows where"
As @CryptoKitten@sh.itjust.works pointed out, the origin of the expression is "au Diable Vauvert", or "at the Vauvert Devil". I just read about it, and Vauvert is a castle in France, reputed in the Middle Ages to be the home of the Devil, for one reason or another. It just means "somewhere very far away".
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.
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
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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
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).
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in reply to Kirp123 • • •Portuguese "onde Judas perdeu as botas". where Judas lost his boots.
If you go there, pls bring the boots.
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in reply to Viking_Hippie • • •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.
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i'd never seen it spelled out or the long version, so i just assumed x3
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in reply to matelt • • •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 !
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The greek god would be Hades.
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in reply to lime! • • •Sure for some parts, but the entire area includes:
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in reply to ArcaneGadget • • •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
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in reply to Viking_Hippie • • •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).
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in reply to scbasteve • • •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
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in reply to Maestro • • •(Southern) Germany has Hintertupfingen, where "Hinter-" refers to "behind".
It really sounds like some 1000 year old village with 20 inhabitants.
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in reply to MinnesotaGoddam • • •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.
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in reply to AllNewTypeFace • • •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
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in reply to Viking_Hippie • • •In British English there's:
and probably more
fizzle
in reply to FishFace • • •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.
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in reply to Viking_Hippie • • •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.
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in reply to Nangijala • • •I think most countries out there are firmly in both categories...
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in reply to Viking_Hippie • • •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.
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in reply to nowherelord • • •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.
au diable Vauvert — Wiktionnaire, le dictionnaire libre
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in reply to Milenya • • •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. 🙃
Buxtehude
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in reply to Milenya • • •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.
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These could all be made up for all I know, but they are all very entertaining! 😄
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in reply to Viking_Hippie • • •(Literally: "Towards your mother's c**t")
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But mostly because I couldn't come up with a better title 😁
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in reply to Viking_Hippie • • •Anyone remember "BFE"?
As in,
"Where are you?"
"I'm in the middle of BFE."
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in reply to Kaput • • •Hmm lemme guess.. To the place of no parts?
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in reply to Viking_Hippie • • •Since there's surprisingly no Russian here yet, here are a few I know (some are probably regional):
- Где раки зимуют [Gde raki zimuyut] - "where crayfish spend their winter"
- У чёрта на куличиках [U chyorta na kulichikah] - "on the devil's little Easter breads" (there's also a version "on the devil's horns")
- За тридевять земель [Za tridevyat zemel] - "beyond threenine (i.e. 27) lands" feels somewhat fairytale/archaic, haven't heard anyone use it unironically
- В жопе мира [V zhope mira] - "in the ass of the world"
- Зажопье [Zazhopye] - a made up placename roughly meaning "b
... Mostrar másSince there's surprisingly no Russian here yet, here are a few I know (some are probably regional):
But honestly the most likely phrase I'd use in an informal context is a boring чёрт знает где [chyort znayet gde] - "devil knows where"
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in reply to Viking_Hippie • • •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.
carldiortus
in reply to Viking_Hippie • • •* 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
Etterra
in reply to Viking_Hippie • • •groet
in reply to Viking_Hippie • • •German also has a few other interesting ones that refer to actually real places.
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
Rumo161
in reply to groet • • •Bielefeld.
ImWaitingForRetcons
in reply to Viking_Hippie • • •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.
MolochAlter
in reply to Viking_Hippie • • •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).