Most Offensive Place Names
Hello….welcome back to Most Amazing, I am your host Rebecca Felgate and today we are
taking a rude, lude and downright crude trip around the globe!
Eeesh…coming in at number 10, we have the town of Swastika.
Oh dear.
Swastika Ontario was founded in 1908 prior to the formation of the Nazi party who took
the ancient religious icon that means creating and effecting life as their own.
These days though, Swastika’s are synonymous with the third Reich and have come to be a
dirty image and a dirty word.
I for one would not feel great living in a place called Swastika, nor would I pose next
to a sign saying Swastika..….
So it seems strange that they would not change the name.
Heritage IS important, but they could start a new heritage with a meaningful name to the
town!
Would you rather live in Hell then Swastika?
You decide at number 9.
Hell Is a town in Livingston County, Michigan.
If anyone has ever told you to go to hell…then presumably they mean here.
The locals embrace it, though!
The local country store has a devil on the sign.
The population is a little over 300, which to be honest does sound like hell to me.
I am more of a city gal.
8 - Butt Hole Road Butt Hole is located in Conisbrough, Doncaster,
South Yorkshire, England.
It’s been butt hole for years but residents found being the butt of tourists jokes wearing.
In the end, they paid 300 pounds to have the road name changed to Archers Way.
BOO them…what butt holes!
Luckily, residents of similarly named Butthole Lane in Shepshed Leicestershire are proud
of their roads name!
Apparently Butt means target, and the road was named after a former target practice site.
same same but different, at number 7, we have ANUS.
Anus is a town in Burgundy, France…so they make good wine near Anus.
Anus is an ancient parish, dating back hundreds of years.
I have always wanted to go to Mexico, but I am not sure how I feel about spending a
sunny week in poop….yep…that’s right at number 6 we have…
6 – Poop, Mexico On air BNB it seems you can stay in poop for
around 20 dollars a night!
Poop is in Yuc, Mexico and is just a 15 minute drive from the ancient site, Chichen Itza.
Poop.
Hi!
I am from poop!
Unacceptably racist at number 5 – we have a Nigger Head Reef in Queensland Australia.
No place should be called after the N word.
The problem is, in Australia, when the invaders started naming places, the N word was more
regularly brandished around, especially at the Aboriginals.
Luckily, it was recently announced that the area off the coast of Queensland would be
changing its name.
Let’s get this list back to the cheekier side of things and leave those unacceptable
racial slurs behind us.
I couldn’t be happier to see bob’s knob at number 4….
Bob’s Knob is the summit of a mountain in McDonald County, Missouri and a local hiking
spot.
So, locals may say sentences like I am going to be climbing around bob’s knob today.
BOB!
Who needs bob’s knob, when you have dildo!
Yes…These crazy Canadian’s keep em rolling….coming in to number 3 we have Dildo.
Hhooowhoooaaaa there!
The raunchy town of DILDO is in Newfoundland, Northern Canada.
You can find the Dildo tourism page on Trip Advisor!
The Town mascot appears to be a fisherman holding a sign that says Captain Dildo…so….make
of that what you will!
I actually googled Dildo…and it looks like a really nice place….although I am not totally
sure I could visit without giggling at all the locals.
Anyone watching from Dildo, Canada!
2 Twatt in Shetland In some ways I love it, the Scottish Highlanders
having being giving any bobs knobs about what people think since pretty much the dawn of
time.
They say what they see.
Twatt is in the Shetland Islands and people seem to very much enjoy posing next to the
settlement’s signs.
You would though, wouldn’t you!
I actually can’t say our number one out loud in this video but it rhymes with plucking…..so
yeah…coming in to number one, we have plucking with an f.
Plucking is a village in Austria that is plucking sick of its street signs being stolen.
Reportedly the villagers want to change the name of their home because people keep stealing
their road signs.
They have said they’re tired of English speakers posing semi nude in compromising
poses near their street signs.
SO….yeah….
some of that was cheeky, most of that was unacceptable… that was the top ten most
offensive place names….there really is some gold out there if you look hard enough.
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