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[-] loutr@sh.itjust.works 4 points 31 minutes ago

In French: trou du cul du monde, or World's asshole.

[-] ooli3@sopuli.xyz 1 points 17 minutes ago* (last edited 17 minutes ago)

could also be at the fictional town "triffouilli-les-oies".. litteraly at "fondling-the-geeses"

[-] kamee@lemmy.zip 4 points 47 minutes ago

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

[-] TwodogsFighting@lemdro.id 4 points 53 minutes ago

In Scotland, we say 'middleae fucking naewhere' or 'Largs'.

We have a few in Spanish, one of my favourites is "Donde Cristo perdió el mechero": Where Christ lost his lighter.

[-] liking625@lemmy.world 1 points 15 minutes ago

Much better the "a tomar por culo" , translate that

[-] Drekaridill@lemmy.wtf 4 points 1 hour ago

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 4 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

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 2 points 1 hour ago

I 100% agree 🤩

[-] lenya@piefed.blahaj.zone 10 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

In Polish we've got "gdzie psy dupami szczekają" or where dogs bark with their assess.

[-] Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world 7 points 3 hours ago

In Slovenia we either use the serbian one or we say Bogu za nogo/hrbtom. Meaning behind god's leg/back.

[-] nowherelord@lemmy.world 11 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

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 7 points 3 hours ago

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.

[-] CryptoKitten@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 hours ago

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.

[-] lime@feddit.nu 34 points 5 hours ago

people from stockholm call everything that's outside of the city spenaten, "the spinach".

[-] huppakee@lemmy.world 9 points 3 hours ago

That's nicer than the people of Antwerp, who call the rest of Flanders a parking lot

[-] KurtVonnegut@mander.xyz 3 points 2 hours ago

Antwerpen is t stad en de rest is parking.

[-] lime@feddit.nu 2 points 3 hours ago

isn't that pretty accurate for the entire area?

[-] huppakee@lemmy.world 2 points 25 minutes ago

Sure for some parts, but the entire area includes:

Ghent Ghent

Bruges Bruges

Leuven Leuven

[-] lime@feddit.nu 1 points 15 minutes ago* (last edited 15 minutes ago)

pretty shit parking at those first two, i'll give you that

[-] huppakee@lemmy.world 1 points 7 minutes ago

Strange, if it is all parking I would think there'd be plenty of space ;)

[-] lime@feddit.nu 1 points 3 minutes ago

you've only showed one angle, could be like an ikea parking lot behind the camera or something

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[-] cout970@programming.dev 12 points 4 hours ago

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 8 points 2 hours ago

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 2 points 57 minutes ago

“Where Christ lost his flip-flop” is amazing haha

[-] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 24 points 5 hours ago

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).

[-] Septimaeus@infosec.pub 2 points 55 minutes ago

“Bumfuck Nowheresville” = variant I haven’t seen here yet

[-] Amnesigenic@lemmy.ml 1 points 44 minutes ago

I grew up with bumfuck nowhere or just bumfuck

[-] Jackcooper@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago

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

[-] scbasteve@lemmy.world 23 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

Always heard Bumfuck Egypt, BFE being the more polite way to say it

[-] protist@retrofed.com 6 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

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 2 points 46 minutes ago

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 9 points 4 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 6 points 4 hours ago

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

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[-] Mok98@feddit.it 12 points 4 hours ago

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

[-] FishFace@piefed.social 11 points 4 hours ago

In British English there's:

  • arse-end of nowhere
  • the sticks
  • back of beyond

and probably more

[-] fizzle@quokk.au 2 points 1 hour ago

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.

[-] Kirp123@lemmy.world 32 points 6 hours ago

In Romanian it's „unde și-a înțărcat dracul copiii” which means "where the Devil weaned his children".

[-] trolololol@lemmy.world 25 points 6 hours ago

Portuguese "onde Judas perdeu as botas". where Judas lost his boots.

If you go there, pls bring the boots.

[-] Dagnet@lemmy.world 3 points 39 minutes ago

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 13 points 5 hours ago

Romanian

dracul

That sounds so stereotypical lol.

[-] smeg@feddit.uk 15 points 5 hours ago

Hang on, is "Count Dracula" just Romanian for "Lord Devilish"?

[-] FishFace@piefed.social 13 points 5 hours ago

I mean there's a reason Bram Stoker picked the name "Dracula" for his character ya know...

[-] cgTemplar@sh.itjust.works 20 points 5 hours ago

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.

[-] matelt@feddit.uk 3 points 3 hours ago

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.

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[-] Danarchy@lemmy.nz 5 points 4 hours ago

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.

[-] SmoothOperator@lemmy.world 12 points 5 hours ago

In Danish you can say "where the crows turn".

[-] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 5 hours ago

Or "out where the crows bring a packed lunch"

[-] ArcaneGadget@nord.pub 2 points 58 minutes ago

Dont forget; "in Lars Diarrhea's field"

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