Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2019/09/05/rude-maps.html
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Some of these I wouldn’t consider to be rude whatsoever.
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Ah, but consider the likely consequences.
The name “Wilsfordcum Lake” might not be rude, but if you were out for lunch having a telephone conversation with someone who couldn’t hear you well and they asked you where you were yesterday and a random lull in conversation quietened the restaurant just as you shouted “I WAS IN WILSFORD CUM LAKE”, that might be rude.
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There’s no elegant way to tell someone that you live in Shitterton.
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It’s pronounced Shy-teer-tin. It’s Gaelic. /s
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At an earlier time in my life, I was a school teacher. One of the subjects that I taught was Geography.
I can attest that 8th grade boys find the name of the US state of Idaho to be endlessly amusing.
At some level, I wish I could have just turned them loose with this map for a few days to get it out of their systems.
Then again, I doubt that a few days would have been long enough, more likely a decade or so 
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I got it. I just never found the word “vagina” to be rude. It’s anatomy…but there are those people.
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“Well, now that everyone’s worked that out of their system, let’s talk about extreme geography. Shall we start with the highest lake in the world, Lake Titicaca…oh, damn.”
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I thought it was going to be something more like this:
I used to live in “Bellevue wasn’t white enough” but now I live east of “More Traffic” and south of “Cocaine.”
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Came for Intercourse and was satisfied.
Was disappointed that there was no Coxen Hole.
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I saw CockFROSTERS, near spit my coffee on the screen.
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No Bangkok?
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One town is very like another
when your head’s down over your pieces, brother.
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I’d have loved to see it go a little further east into “I only live here because I work for Microsoft” or “this is the only place I can afford to live” territory.
Other than that it mostly checks out.
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Isn’t that backwards?
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Does being Gay-lick add or subtract? 
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They left off these two gems from the north end of the South Island of New Zealand:
(Pronounced “moh-too-PEE-pee”)
(Also known as Pupu Springs… pronounced “poo-poo springs”)
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You had “Ta-Ta Beach” right there, and you went with “Motupipi?”
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i am saddened that there’s apparently nothing that qualifies as rude in Nevada.
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I was disappointed that the best Oklahoma could muster were the towns of Hooker and Beaver.
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