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UK does have the idiom “bumfuck, nowhere” a fictional town in the fictional county of nowhere
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
In Scotland, we say ‘middleae fucking naewhere’ or ‘Largs’.
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
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.
I called it it that because the cultures describe it differently, which is a difference 🤷🏻
But mostly because I couldn’t come up with a better title 😁
It wasn’t really a complaint, but just noting that it shows both differences and yet also similarities.
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.
Today I’m learning it’s not a real place. I just never questioned it and I’ve been hearing it all my life.
In Greek it is: στου διαόλου τη μάνα, which means “at the Devil’s mom”
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
Meanwhile in Chile: “A la conchade su madre” (Literally: “Towards your mother’s c**t”)
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.
Some others in English: East Jesus, fuckbutt point, cow country.
“We can’t stop here! This is cow country!”
- Fear and Loathing in Cornwall
We called it BFE growing up, Bumfuck Egypt.
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.
A lot of them seem to mention butts for some reason lmao.
Probably a derivative of “the ass end of nowhere” or similar
A Levant arabic way of saying it is “في طيز العقرب” which literally means “in the scorpions ass”
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
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.
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
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
