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[-] Maestro@fedia.io 14 points 8 hours ago

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 points 8 hours ago

"Podunk" is a real town in the USA, but people use Podunk to mean any small, unsophisticated town.

[-] yetAnotherUser@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 8 hours ago

(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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