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Full disclosure: This happened back in November. But you know what? The world has been A Lot, so we missed it when it happened, and it’s funny and we really like that photo, so timeliness be damned, we’re going to cover it anyway. Pretend you’ve time-traveled to late November if you want, but only for this story, then hurry back to the present. Or just embrace the lateness. Anything goes! It’s your call! Choose your own context in which to read this story about how the goofy-ass shenanigans of a bunch of English-speaking, snort-laughing tourists drove the village of Fucking, Austria to change its name.
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Have you ever cross-checked the Austrian village called Fucking and Google search of the word immediately put out the most uncensored images available on the internet. Seems like the residents of this small village, located approximately 350 kilometres west of Vienna in Austria, are now tired of the name that has been put around for some 1000 years and have changed it to Fugging in desperation.
The local municipal council has decided that they will ring in the New Year under the new name, Fugging, which is closer to how the locals pronounce it.
Enough of mockery