Sometimes we print weird signs. Especially before Christmas 🙂 Someone has ordered an aluminum sign with the famous Austrian village name FUCKING on it as a Christmas present! Do you think it’s a great Christmas present? Here is some more info about Fucking Village…
The village’s name is spelled and pronounced the way you think and the people who live there have no idea why English speaking people find it so funny. In fact, according to some reports, the entire village, which boasts a population of just over 100 people, didn’t realize that, to people who speak English, the name of their humble little hamlet was also amongst the harshest and most versatile swear words in their language. Amusingly, this fact is said to have only came to the attention of residents of when English and American soldiers began visiting from nearby Salzburg purely to have photos taken in front of the road sign leading into the village.
“The Germans all want to see the Mozart house in Salzburg. Italians and Russians always celebrate New Year here. Every American seems to care only about ‘The Sound of Music’ The occasional Japanese wants to see Hitler’s birthplace in Braunau. But for the British, it’s all about Fucking.”
Along with taking photos in front of the sign, British tourists generally cause a nuisance by attempting to steal it (thefts of the Fucking sign are apparently the only reported crimes in the small village) and are occasionally caught having sex in front of it. Residents were so annoyed about drunk assholes stealing the sign that in 2005 the village’s 100 something residents clubbed together to buy special, theft-proof ones as well as install a 24 hour CCTV system to deter people from getting their fuck on in front of it.
Still, it hasn’t stopped people from making a pilgrimage there to take selfies, prompting one resident to wonder out loud:
“What is this obsession with Fucking?”