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"
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 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.
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. 🙃
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.
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.
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 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").
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
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
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.
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 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.
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"
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 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.
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 😁
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.
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 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").
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 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
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.
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
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 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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lime@feddit.nu · 62 pts · 7d
people from stockholm call everything that's outside of the city spenaten, "the spinach".
huppakee@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 7d
That's nicer than the people of Antwerp, who call the rest of Flanders a parking lot
KurtVonnegut@mander.xyz · 5 pts · 7d
Antwerpen is t stad en de rest is parking.
Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 7d
Parking lots generally have better asphalt
lime@feddit.nu · 2 pts · 7d
isn't that pretty accurate for the entire area?
huppakee@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 7d
Sure for some parts, but the entire area includes:
lime@feddit.nu · 4 pts · 7d
pretty shit parking at those first two, i'll give you that
needanke@feddit.org · 2 pts · 5d
Not if you have a boat
huppakee@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 7d
Strange, if it is all parking I would think there'd be plenty of space ;)
SapphironZA@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 6d
There is, provided your are parking a Bicycle or a canal boat.
lime@feddit.nu · 1 pts · 7d
you've only showed one angle, could be like an ikea parking lot behind the camera or something
Dojan@pawb.social · 10 pts · 7d
There’s also tjotahejti, which is a spin on Otaheiti, an older name for Tahiti.
lime@feddit.nu · 5 pts · 7d
a local one i like is "Finnpörtimansbo"
Dojan@pawb.social · 2 pts · 7d
Ha! How local is that? I've never heard that in my life! Like, one little pub in like, Finspång?
lime@feddit.nu · 3 pts · 7d
more like three guys in bjurs
wander1236@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 7d
Mmmm spinach
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 7d
We have "the boonies", referring to "the boondocks" or, um, there was a song. I wanted to fuck with you a little but you are so nice.
Kirp123@lemmy.world · 44 pts · 7d
In Romanian it's „unde și-a înțărcat dracul copiii” which means "where the Devil weaned his children".
trolololol@lemmy.world · 35 pts · 7d
Portuguese "onde Judas perdeu as botas". where Judas lost his boots.
If you go there, pls bring the boots.
Dagnet@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 7d
If its even further away it's "onde judas desistiu de achar as botas". Where judas gave up trying to find his boots
Danquebec@sh.itjust.works · 15 pts · 7d
That sounds so stereotypical lol.
smeg@feddit.uk · 17 pts · 7d
Hang on, is "Count Dracula" just Romanian for "Lord Devilish"?
Kirp123@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 6d
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".
FishFace@piefed.social · 16 pts · 7d
I mean there's a reason Bram Stoker picked the name "Dracula" for his character ya know...
ChanchoManco@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 7d
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"
trolololol@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 7d
Is this a reference to the crash in the Andes?
AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space · 36 pts · 7d
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).
scbasteve@lemmy.world · 35 pts · 7d
Always heard Bumfuck Egypt, BFE being the more polite way to say it
protist@retrofed.com · 13 pts · 7d
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
HAL_9_TRILLION@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 6 pts · 7d
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."
Maestro@fedia.io · 15 pts · 7d
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.
DagwoodIII@piefed.social · 10 pts · 7d
"Podunk" is a real town in the USA, but people use Podunk to mean any small, unsophisticated town.
yetAnotherUser@discuss.tchncs.de · 6 pts · 7d
(Southern) Germany has Hintertupfingen, where "Hinter-" refers to "behind".
It really sounds like some 1000 year old village with 20 inhabitants.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 7d
Is that a real village? I only have a little knowledge of German but it sounds like a finger up the bum. Or a bum up the finger, I'm not sure
yetAnotherUser@discuss.tchncs.de · 2 pts · 7d
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.
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 7 pts · 7d
Perfect! 😆😘👌🏼
Septimaeus@infosec.pub · 6 pts · 7d
“Bumfuck Nowheresville” = variant I haven’t seen here yet
Amnesigenic@lemmy.ml · 8 pts · 7d
I grew up with bumfuck nowhere or just bumfuck
recursivethinking@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 7d
Also Bumblefuck
Jackcooper@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 7d
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
FishFace@piefed.social · 5 pts · 7d
I think this "<...>-nowhere" construction is common and adapted to different areas - I have definitely heard of "Bally-back-o-nowhere" in Ireland.
tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 7d
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"
cgTemplar@sh.itjust.works · 31 pts · 7d
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.
riwo@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 6 pts · 7d
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
CareHare@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 7d
In Flemish (Belgian Dutch) we say: "In 't hol van Pluto" = literally in the arse of (The greek god of the underworld) Pluto.
MolochAlter@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 4d
Roman* god.
The greek god would be Hades.
CareHare@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 4d
Fair enough
matelt@feddit.uk · 3 pts · 7d
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.
cgTemplar@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 7d
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 !
lenya@piefed.blahaj.zone · 26 pts · 7d
In Polish we've got "gdzie psy dupami szczekają" or where dogs bark with their assess.
trem@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 6 pts · 7d
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. 🙃
brachypelmide@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 7d
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.
tomenzgg@midwest.social · 1 pts · 7d
Oh, so out near this little guy's neck of the woods? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ei6trd4kd4
AbsolutelyNotAVelociraptor@piefed.social · 24 pts · 7d
We have a few in Spanish, one of my favourites is "Donde Cristo perdió el mechero": Where Christ lost his lighter.
liking625@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 7d
Much better the "a tomar por culo" , translate that
nowherelord@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 7d
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.
Shane_McGoomy@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 7d
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.
nowherelord@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 7d
Never heard about Wabush; is it a regional thing?
CryptoKitten@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 7d
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.
nowherelord@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 7d
You're absolutely right on both points, I didn't remember until you mentioned it! Didn't know Moukmouk was a real thing, though... The more you know!
MarieMarion@literature.cafe · 1 pts · 7d
Jamais entendu Aux îles Moukmouk, tu es de quel coin?
CryptoKitten@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 7d
Montréal, au Québec, et toi?
MarieMarion@literature.cafe · 1 pts · 6d
Tbh, des îles moukmouk, dans le centre de la France
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 7d
Is the green devil cannabis?
Mok98@feddit.it · 21 pts · 7d
In Italian we say we are in culo ai lupi which means in the ass of wolves or at inculandia which translates to in the ass land
RVGamer06@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 6d
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
cout970@programming.dev · 20 pts · 7d
In Spain we have "en el quinto pino": in the fifth pine, and "estoy a tomar por saco", which badly translates to "to go get fucked in a bag".
OfCourseNot@fedia.io · 12 pts · 7d
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").
Gerblat@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 7d
“Where Christ lost his flip-flop” is amazing haha
kamee@lemmy.zip · 19 pts · 7d
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
SmoothOperator@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 7d
In Danish you can say "where the crows turn".
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 10 pts · 7d
Or "out where the crows bring a packed lunch"
ArcaneGadget@nord.pub · 4 pts · 7d
Dont forget; "in Lars Diarrhea's field"
djmikeale@feddit.dk · 3 pts · 7d
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
FishFace@piefed.social · 18 pts · 7d
In British English there's:
and probably more
fizzle@quokk.au · 3 pts · 7d
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.
Drekaridill@lemmy.wtf · 17 pts · 7d
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
anon6789@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 7d
This may be the first post I've ever come across where I wish there was an "Upvote All Comments" button...
These could all be made up for all I know, but they are all very entertaining! 😄
KurtVonnegut@mander.xyz · 5 pts · 7d
I 100% agree 🤩
Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 7d
In Slovenia we either use the serbian one or we say Bogu za nogo/hrbtom. Meaning behind god's leg/back.
loutr@sh.itjust.works · 14 pts · 7d
In French: trou du cul du monde, or World's asshole.
ooli3@sopuli.xyz · 7 pts · 7d
could also be at the fictional town "triffouilli-les-oies".. litteraly at "fondling-the-geeses"
loutr@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 7d
Yeah we have a bunch of these.
SmackemWittadic@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 7d
A Levant arabic way of saying it is "في طيز العقرب" which literally means "in the scorpions ass"
TwodogsFighting@lemdro.id · 14 pts · 7d
In Scotland, we say 'middleae fucking naewhere' or 'Largs'.
NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de · 13 pts · 7d
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.
Jankatarch@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 7d
A lot of them seem to mention butts for some reason lmao.
kalpol@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 7d
Probably a derivative of "the ass end of nowhere" or similar
carldiortus@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 6d
In Lithuanian we have these:
balsoft@lemmy.ml · 12 pts · 7d
Since 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"
luciferofastora@feddit.org · 1 pts · 6d
I think that has to be my favourite, but "beyond ass" is a strong contender
syaochan@feddit.it · 12 pts · 6d
Italian: "in culo al mondo"/"in culo ai lupi" (in the butt of the world/in the butt of wolves)
straussbelial@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 7d
Meanwhile in Chile: "A la conchade su madre" (Literally: "Towards your mother's c**t")
spittingimage@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 7d
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.
gwl@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 9 pts · 7d
UK does have the idiom "bumfuck, nowhere" a fictional town in the fictional county of nowhere
Jankatarch@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 7d
I guess closest turkish version I ever seen used is "ebenin götünde," which translates to "in your midwife's butt."
Kaput@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 7d
In Québec we also use au milieu de nulle part. But abetter option is Saint-Glin-glin des meuh-meuh. Saint-ding-dong on the moo-moo.
fibojoly@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 7d
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.
Kaput@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 7d
Donc, je te rend ton argent, à la Saint-glin-glin,
fibojoly@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 6d
Exactement! 😂
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 7d
Hmm lemme guess.. To the place of no parts?
MarieMarion@literature.cafe · 3 pts · 7d
In the middle of no-where
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 7d
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 😁
Kaput@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 7d
No juat a direct translation no where. Nulle is none. And part well i dont know why but we use it as where.
Danarchy@lemmy.nz · 8 pts · 7d
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.
MolochAlter@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 4d
Holy shit I had not heard the name Lil Abner for decades.
jacksilver@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 7d
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.
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 7d
I called it that because the cultures describe it differently, which is a difference 🤷🏻
But mostly because I couldn't come up with a better title 😁
jacksilver@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 7d
It wasn't really a complaint, but just noting that it shows both differences and yet also similarities.
100_kg_90_de_belin@feddit.it · 7 pts · 7d
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").
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 7d
One of these is not like the others 😄
luciferofastora@feddit.org · 2 pts · 6d
God's Throne is in the Whoreburg up the wolves' arsehole, noted.
MolochAlter@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 4d
Fellow northern Italian, or are these more widespread than I thought?
100_kg_90_de_belin@feddit.it · 2 pts · 3d
Northern Italy gang
MolochAlter@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 3d
Ghe sei mai stat a Vergate sul Membro?
100_kg_90_de_belin@feddit.it · 2 pts · 3d
No, però sono stato a Scroto sul Mento
MolochAlter@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 3d
Località pittoresca, devo passarci anche io.
olenkoVD@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 7 pts · 7d
In Greek it is: στου διαόλου τη μάνα, which means "at the Devil's mom"
SapphironZA@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 6d
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.
Kolanaki@pawb.social · 5 pts · 7d
"Buttfuck, Egypt" is my favorite version of this expression.
Darkonion@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 7d
Similarly, people would say "B.F., Africa".
csolisr@hub.azkware.net · 4 pts · 7d
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
DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 7d
Anyone remember "BFE"?
As in,
"Where are you?"
"I'm in the middle of BFE."
kalpol@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 7d
Came here looking for BFE
ImWaitingForRetcons@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 5d
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.
Dave@lemmy.nz · 2 pts · 7d
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.
Baggie@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 7d
Today I'm learning it's not a real place. I just never questioned it and I've been hearing it all my life.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 7d
The English version of in the middle of nowhere is "aaaa where the fuck am I" which means "where the pigs turn to sausage"
groet@feddit.org · 2 pts · 6d
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@feddit.org · 1 pts · 5d
Dont forget that the ass of the world is a real place in germany. Bielefeld.
groet@feddit.org · 2 pts · 5d
Literal ass would be Darmstadt (Colon-City)
nowherelord@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 7d
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".
Etterra@discuss.online · 2 pts · 6d
In America we also have "fuck-ass nowhere," "bumble fuck," and "bum fuck." And that's before you get creative and start making shit up.
MolochAlter@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 4d
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).
myrrh@ttrpg.network · 1 pts · 7d