Dumb place names

[Barbas]

We all know at least one. I'm looking at you, Albuquerque. I'm also looking at Bell End, Boghead, Muff and Twatt, because maturity continues to elude me.

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So, cringe-inducing place names are burned into your memory?

 

[DefunctTheory]

Intercourse, Pennsylvania comes to mind. And Fertility, Pennsylvania. And Mount Joy... Pennsylvania. And Leacock-Leola-Bareville. In Pennsylvania. And Lititz, Pennsylvania. And Blue Ball, Pennsylvania.

... We Pennsylvanians may have a problem.

 

[Elfgore]

Intercourse, Pennsylvania comes to mind. And Fertility, Pennsylvania. And Mount Joy... Pennsylvania. And Leacock-Leola-Bareville. In Pennsylvania. And Lititz, Pennsylvania. And Blue Ball, Pennsylvania.

... We Pennsylvanians may have a problem.

You forgot Butztown and King of Prussia.

But yeah, of all the city names I see at work that are god awful, New York, Pennsylvania, and Florida are the absolute worse. Some examples; Land O' Lakes, FL, Ozone Park, NY, Kissimmee, Fl, and about a dozen others I can't recall at this moment.

 

[Crazy Zaul]

Cockermouth. It floods literally every year now, and its called Cockermouth. Why the fuck do people still live there?

 

[WolfThomas]

I live in Wangaratta.

 

[Zontar]

Fucking [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fucking,_Austria] is a pretty dumb name for a town. Not sure who thought that was a good idea. I hear they have a high birth rate for some odd reason.

 

[The Madman]

There's a tiny community not too far from where I live named Balzac, a name inevitably followed by a childish giggle and a muttered 'hah, ball-sack' on my part because I have the maturity of a five year old apparently.

 

[Tayh]

Shamelessly stolen from qdb.us:
(meander) Newfoundland is like calling a place Untitled Document
(meander) i bet its the default name for discovered land
(meander) and they just clicked Ok
(meander) now all other countries have to start out as Newfoundland 2

 

[Dimitriov]

Dildo, Newfoundland. Because those Newfies are a crazy bunch.

Seriously, Wikipedia says the name goes back to like 1711... but so does the word dildo with the meaning we all know.

 

[lionsprey]

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

 

[Rastrelly]

In Kharkiv Oblast (Kharkiv District, if you will) there's a settlement called Pekelne. it'd be all right, if in Ukrainian it wouldn't mean Infernal.

 

[I can't enter my old name]

Eromanga, Queensland is something I stumbled upon while googling something.

 

[Level 7 Dragon]

Russia has a lot of weird village names.

Graz, which means filth and Mussorka, which means trash can.

 

[Thaluikhain]

Fucking [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fucking,_Austria] is a pretty dumb name for a town. Not sure who thought that was a good idea. I hear they have a high birth rate for some odd reason.

And tourists keep nicking their signs.

Shamelessly stolen from qdb.us:
(meander) Newfoundland is like calling a place Untitled Document
(meander) i bet its the default name for discovered land
(meander) and they just clicked Ok
(meander) now all other countries have to start out as Newfoundland 2

Naples comes from Neopolis, "New City", which used to be a common name for cities.

Personally, I wonder why it's called "New South Wales". It's in the south, and it's new to the person naming it, but how is it anything like Wales?

 

[MeatMachine]

Welcome to Shitterton, England.

 

[Rastrelly]

Graz, which means filth and Mussorka, which means trash can.

Both are historical oldies: one is called for black soils around, and other one originally meant something like "lakeland" (mu for land, sor for small lake, pre-russian stuff; the term trash - "мусор" - is a result of long process of word meaning changes).

 

[McElroy]

A village in Finland called Myrkky. This is also the Finnish word for 'poison'.

Also apparently a country in South America is called U r gay, but I'm not sure that's legit.

 

[Buckets]

There is a village near us called Wetwang. Must have been a weird council meeting when that was named.

 

[MetalDooley]

Here's a few Irish ones that always make me giggle...

Muff
Nobber
Termonfeckin
Hackballs Cross
Bastardstown
Cum

 

[EHKOS]

There's a few, Walla Walla, Coucamunga, BUT.
There's a city called Seattle. Makes me laugh every time.