Comment by ThrowawayR2
5 years ago
> "How do you think they can monetize it?"
Presumably the same way Hell, Michigan did. Apparently they sell souvenirs and hold events.
5 years ago
> "How do you think they can monetize it?"
Presumably the same way Hell, Michigan did. Apparently they sell souvenirs and hold events.
Although one theory of the origin of the name is the German word for light or bright, most people these days don't find the word Hell particularly offensive and it's not sexually explicit. Fuck or Fucking is still considered "extremely offensive" by some people and it's sexual.
But more to the point, if people in Hell, Michigan choose to monetize the name of their town instead of change it, hey, that's their choice and it should in no way dictate what people in Austria choose to do about the problem they currently have with the issues caused by the name of their town.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hell,_Michigan
I don't know why people in this discussion feel like their solution or suggestion is more correct than what locals decided they wished to do about the problem. It's not like their solution involved sacrificing babies to a dark god.
Why does it matter if something is considered offensive for sexual or religious reasons?
Like, with a brewery?
Unfortunately they were a bit late with that, the beer that uses the village as it's namesake, Fucking Hell, is from a business a few miles over the border in Germany. (they surely won't rebrand though)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fucking_Hell
Why exactly would anyone buy the officially licensed Hell shirts when there is nothing stopping anyone from printing that town name on anything?
How many people are going to hold an event in Fugging specifically because the name means a sexual act in a different language?