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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).
people from stockholm call everything that's outside of the city spenaten, "the spinach".
That's nicer than the people of Antwerp, who call the rest of Flanders a parking lot
In Romanian it's „unde și-a înțărcat dracul copiii” which means "where the Devil weaned his children".
Portuguese "onde Judas perdeu as botas". where Judas lost his boots.
If you go there, pls bring the boots.
Romanian
dracul
That sounds so stereotypical lol.
I mean there's a reason Bram Stoker picked the name "Dracula" for his character ya know...
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).
Always heard Bumfuck Egypt, BFE being the more polite way to say it
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
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.
"Podunk" is a real town in the USA, but people use Podunk to mean any small, unsophisticated town.
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.
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.
We have a few in Spanish, one of my favourites is "Donde Cristo perdió el mechero": Where Christ lost his lighter.
In Lithuanian we have these:
In Polish we've got "gdzie psy dupami szczekają" or where dogs bark with their assess.
Italian: "in culo al mondo"/"in culo ai lupi" (in the butt of the world/in the butt of wolves)
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.
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
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"
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".
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").
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
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 British English there's:
and probably more
A Levant arabic way of saying it is "في طيز العقرب" which literally means "in the scorpions ass"
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.
In Slovenia we either use the serbian one or we say Bogu za nogo/hrbtom. Meaning behind god's leg/back.
In Scotland, we say 'middleae fucking naewhere' or 'Largs'.
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! 😄
I guess closest turkish version I ever seen used is "ebenin götünde," which translates to "in your midwife's butt."
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 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.
Meanwhile in Chile: "A la conchade su madre" (Literally: "Towards your mother's c**t")
UK does have the idiom "bumfuck, nowhere" a fictional town in the fictional county of nowhere
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.