Flying Squid@lemmy.worldM to Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world · 5 months agoStill saying sweet things to each other after all these years...lemmy.worldimagemessage-square41fedilinkarrow-up1675arrow-down118
arrow-up1657arrow-down1imageStill saying sweet things to each other after all these years...lemmy.worldFlying Squid@lemmy.worldM to Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world · 5 months agomessage-square41fedilink
minus-squareFlying Squid@lemmy.worldOPMlinkfedilinkarrow-up29·5 months agoAnd this is how I find out that the closest place name to that word is “Cunta” in Indonesia. Lame. However, the road the brothels were on in English towns were apparently known as “Gropecunt Lane,” so I learned that today. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gropecunt_Lane Ah well, there will always be Dildo, Canada.
minus-squareblargbluuk@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up15arrow-down2·5 months agoDildo is in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. We have provinces here, that’s kind of like saying you’re visiting Phoenix, USA.
minus-squareFlying Squid@lemmy.worldOPMlinkfedilinkarrow-up15·5 months agoPeople say that sort of thing all the time when not from the U.S.
minus-squareccunning@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up6·5 months agoHuh - I had no idea we have more than one Phoenix…
minus-squarePwnTra1n@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·5 months agoPeople aren’t original. See: New ___
minus-squareThe Assman@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up18·5 months agoEven old New York was once New Amsterdam
minus-squaregrue@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·5 months agoWhy’d they changed it I can’t say
minus-squareThe Assman@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up7·5 months agoPeople just liked it better that way
minus-squareJimbo@yiffit.netlinkfedilinkarrow-up6·5 months agoSee: New Zealand, and also the names of the two islands that make it up… North Island and South Island
minus-squarecan@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up6·5 months agoScunthorpe does come to mind however
And this is how I find out that the closest place name to that word is “Cunta” in Indonesia.
Lame.
However, the road the brothels were on in English towns were apparently known as “Gropecunt Lane,” so I learned that today.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gropecunt_Lane
Ah well, there will always be Dildo, Canada.
Dildo is in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. We have provinces here, that’s kind of like saying you’re visiting Phoenix, USA.
People say that sort of thing all the time when not from the U.S.
Huh - I had no idea we have more than one Phoenix…
People aren’t original. See: New ___
Even old New York was once New Amsterdam
Why’d they changed it I can’t say
People just liked it better that way
See: New Zealand, and also the names of the two islands that make it up… North Island and South Island
Scunthorpe does come to mind however