How would you feel if you lived aa Fucking, Austria green center located just a few kilometers from Salzburg, targeted every year by thousands of British tourists, of revelers eager not only to take a photo but also to steal the road signs with the fateful written to show some pride at home or in pubs? Certainly the citizens of Fucking are now exacerbated by the jokes and the teasing began in 1945 on the occasion of the liberation of the city by the Allies. The city has existed for 800 years, probably founded by a Mr Fuck or Fuck by a family who moved that far in the area, while the suffix "ing" was added later. If before 1945 nobody knew that this innocuous name in German meant something else in English, now the big question "Where are you from?" Citizens already know what the reaction of the person who stands before. In 2005 he proposed a referendum to change the name to the town but was rejected by traders very happy with this name that attracts tourists galore Anglophone decades. The road signs we are armed to resist these sacks with heavy concrete blocks applied to the lower ends of the same. What, never would go to live in Fucking?
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