Dumb place names

[sageoftruth]

If you ever visit Newfoundland, feel free to stop by Dildo. Yes, there's a town called Dildo.

 

[LongAndShort]

I live in Wangaratta.

I feel like all we need to do is produce a map of Australia and that'd be it. Just, done.

Wagga Wagga, Dubbo, Paramatta, Woodbridge. To be fair, a bunch of them are taken from Aboriginal names, and sound weird in English, and most of the rest are regular British style names, Gagebrook, Lauderdale, Tranmere. But seriously, Dubbo, like what the hell guys.

My vote's for the home state-Tasmania. We had it made, we were called "Van Diemen's Land". Like, you don't get more badass names than that, it's literally pronounced "Van Demon's Land", and then somehow we lost that. A tragedy beyond compare.

I hear you mate. If it was an Aboriginal name, I'd be fine with it. Nothing wrong with acknowledging the original names of the places we live. But it's not. They took the totally bad-arse name that the westerner who realised it was there named it and decided that naming it after him was better. I mean, fuck, if he wanted to name it after himself he would have! It didn't need to be fucking changed!

 

[Vicarious Reality]

Thailand

I bet nonaya know why that is funny

 

[Jute88]

Nokia. It's not really dumb or anything, but foreigners give me confused looks when I mention I'm from there.

 

[Barbas]

Thailand

I bet nonaya know why that is funny

Because it's where Thai fighters are produced?

OT: Phuket. Try saying it five times fast in company.

 

[vare]

well there is this place in Sweden called Trosa which means panty.

Oh, reminds me of the joke.
"Handen ligger mellan Trosa och Fittja"

Spoiler

For you non-swedes out there, there are three towns called Handen (The hand), Trosa (panties) and Fittja (basically meaning pussy), that are positioned (south to north) Trosa, Handen, Fittja.
So, the hand is between panties and pussy.