Like weird place names on Google Maps, as an example.
Brad ( @Brad@beehaw.org ) 13•5 months agoIn Kentucky, between Louisville and Frankfort, there is a city called “Simpsonville” and it’s right next to a city called “Shelbyville”.
ArcaneSlime ( @ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) 2•5 months agoIt even clearly enumerates that they’re rivals, right under Finchville!
Call me Lenny/Leni ( @shinigamiookamiryuu@lemm.ee ) English4•5 months agoThere’s a town near where I used to live called Garbutt, it has less than ten residents.
Nomecks ( @Nomecks@lemmy.ca ) 4•5 months ago Cwilliams ( @Cwilliams@beehaw.org ) 2•5 months ago“I live at the intersection between pain and suffering. And no, that’s not metaphorical”
neidu2 ( @neidu2@feddit.nl ) 4•5 months agoFlorida
8000mark ( @8000mark@discuss.tchncs.de ) 4•5 months ago“This is Florida! The whole goddamn state is shaped like a gun! You can’t walk to your mailbox without tripping over three of them. God forbid you sell one to a cop!”
BigBananaDealer ( @BigBananaDealer@lemm.ee ) 3•5 months agothere’s some towns in austrailia that are absolutely insane. not going to list them here they are actually that bad. also not sure if they are still named what they are
Jimmycrackcrack ( @Jimmycrackcrack@lemmy.ml ) 13•5 months agoThis is definitely the most appropriate place to list them. Try a few at least.
BigBananaDealer ( @BigBananaDealer@lemm.ee ) 7•5 months agoNigger Creek is one. happy? i am not lol
HotDogFingies ( @HotDogFingies@kbin.social ) 3•5 months agoHoly shit, why
ArcaneSlime ( @ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) 2•5 months agoTbh, not sure I want to know why…
BigBananaDealer ( @BigBananaDealer@lemm.ee ) 2•5 months agoi looked it up and in 2017 they changed the name. there was actually TWO towns called that, one with North in front of it
Jimmycrackcrack ( @Jimmycrackcrack@lemmy.ml ) 2•5 months agoSuper annoying that they filter words here so I don’t know what “removed” was referring to. Instinctively I guessed cun* but could be any number of things. Thanks anyway.
Smeagol666 ( @Smeagol666@lemm.ee ) 2•5 months agoNot “crazy” per se, but west of the Mississippi, cities are set up on a grid, whereas eastern cities look like their planning was established by throwing a plate of spaghetti at a wall.
w3dd1e ( @w3dd1e@lemm.ee ) 2•5 months agoI can’t remember where it was, but I used to work at a title company. We processed a refinance on “Whiskey Dick Ln”.
Kolli ( @Kolli@sopuli.xyz ) 2•5 months agoFinland has many, but the big penis-shaped river is pretty good.
Edit: only discussion that is in English is over at Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/10zg4rz/in_finland_we_have_a_river_shaped_like_an/