The Austrian town named F***ing

The Austrian town named F***ing

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:15):
This week on in fact of the day, it's things
that to change their name week okay, And I want
to start with a place you thought would have changed
their name. A Canadian town, the town of Swastika, Ontario.
Oh yeah, found that in nineteen oh eight. A dropped
its name years before the Nazi Party got the swastika
during World War two. Of course, of course Canada is

(00:36):
of the British Commonwealth. Yeah, they removed the swastik assign
from the sign and replaced that with the town they
ran out of the town Winston. Well, as soon as
the World War two was over, the residents were live
it and they said no way, and they would put
the swastik assign and said to hell with it.

Speaker 3 (00:51):
We came up with it first. And so you can
still visit Swastik or Ontario. You do that thing.

Speaker 4 (00:57):
We subtly change up the pronunciation or something, yeah, and
they'll be like, oh, it was pronounced like yeah. People
have always said it swas like for years. That's yeah fustker.

Speaker 3 (01:14):
Yeah, So they didn't here are some places that did.

Speaker 2 (01:18):
There was a town in the Philippines called Sussman, but
apparently it sounds like sex Mons. So everybody formerly known
as six Mon officially known as six Man because it
was a place, and this was something I learned.

Speaker 3 (01:30):
I'm dealing with towns. But lots of like lanes.

Speaker 2 (01:33):
And stuff, were places where women of the night congregation,
and they all had horrendous names that were actually printed
like grope and all gropes of something. Grope that lane
and the right, all that sort of stuff. Actually get
yourself a bar, grope, gropes. But six Mon was a

(01:55):
place and Spanish friars. Of course, the Spanish colonized invaded
the Philippines and they were like, no, it's called Sasmo.
And they're like, no, it's not six Mone, And so
everybody completely ignored.

Speaker 3 (02:08):
That it was called that, although it is.

Speaker 2 (02:10):
It is officially now changed to sasmoan Susman in nineteen
ninety one.

Speaker 3 (02:14):
Yeah, you're gonna hit the now softens it without a doubt.

Speaker 2 (02:17):
In my research of places that have changed names, without
a doubt, worldwide, the most changed place names are because
it had the N word in the title. Oh wow,
and there are heaps United States and Cassada.

Speaker 3 (02:32):
What's that? I just feund the neat to say, don't
say them? And so I was at the United States
Canada makes sense?

Speaker 2 (02:40):
There were so many and then the heaps of them
have been changed, some of them as late as like
not that in.

Speaker 3 (02:46):
The last last years. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (02:48):
Yeah, so twenty first of July twenty four he might
be thinking that that's typical of those terrible nations.

Speaker 3 (02:55):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (02:55):
Well, remember in twenty sixteen when New Zealand had that
twenty sixteen when I had to name rename three locations.
That's right, Inward Head, Inward Hill, and Inward Stream. We're
all officially called that until twenty six then in New
Zealand got changed.

Speaker 3 (03:12):
Not remember that at all.

Speaker 2 (03:15):
So so and the one that I want to finish on,
the biggest one you probably would have seen the signs
is the film The Austrian Town on the German border
of if You Yeah the Full, people would have their

(03:38):
photo second with it. People would steal the signs, the
main reason they started. They changed it in twenty twenty one.
They changed it to thugging If you g G I
n G yep from the Full the Full swee with
I n g on the end.

Speaker 3 (03:52):
Is it because they were like, oh, it's a defensive.

Speaker 2 (03:55):
Oh my gosh. It was because the signs kept getting
stolen and they're like, we they simply can't.

Speaker 3 (04:01):
Keep up with this. But I mean, fugging is still
really funny.

Speaker 2 (04:06):
Yeah. So in two thousand and four it failed. The
locals were like, no, we will not change it to fugging.
But then in late twenty twenty they agreed, and then
twenty twenty one their official spelling changed down the signs better,
really concrete them in one of that. That was another
thing about some of the places that have changed their
names or had names that people found very funny is

(04:27):
they literally had to make their road signs huge engraved stones. Yeah,
so they couldn't be stole. They did this and there's Austrian. Yeah,
that's it. That's welcome to Welcome to this town. Yeah,
they did that and someone still managed to steal it.

Speaker 1 (04:40):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (04:40):
I know. I always remembering your Plymouth short there's a
Shortland Street and that's on a really tall sign signpost.

Speaker 3 (04:46):
Ah, hold in Holden Road or something.

Speaker 2 (04:49):
Holden Street and Hamilton was the same, right at the
top of a really tall post.

Speaker 3 (04:53):
Because people get stealing them. There's other places. Yeah, that's crazy. Yeah,
so today's fact.

Speaker 2 (04:59):
To the day, lots of places have changed their name
due to terrible choices throughout our history, but sadly, in
twenty twenty one, the Austrian town of you know changed
its name officially to the Austrian town of Fugging