Facebook disses Effin Irishwoman An Irishwoman from the picturesque village of Effin is a bit put out that Facebook has unkindly dubbed her place of birth "offensive". Ann Marie Kennedy, 47, says she and several chums have repeatedly tried to enter the name of the hamlet, some 20 miles south of Limerick, as their "Hometown" on the social network, only to be …
If you want to have your internet within the bounds of a walled garden that's controlled by one bunch of admin guys in a different country, then expect to be told by them what is, and isn't, in their expert but limited opinion, appropriate and accurate on a website. And that's if you get any kind of response from them at all.
You want your town recognised on the web? Then put it on the web, not Facebook.
Your limerick doesn't have an acceptable metre, by the way.
"unkindly dubbed her place of birth 'offensive' "
However they allow people to say that they are from Wales? *
* insert another place as fits the humour/customs where you live, in place of Wales **
** No offence meant to Welsh peoples, I used it just for humour and because if I said Liverpool, they would've killed me.
Just image you hail from this little Austrian village:
http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=Fucking,+Austria&hl=en&sll=53.800651,-4.064941&sspn=14.118794,32.211914&vpsrc=0&hnear=Fucking,+Braunau+am+Inn,+Upper+Austria,+Austria&t=m&z=14
or a less offensive one:
http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=IBM,+Eggelsberg,+Austria&hl=en&sll=48.067412,12.950993&sspn=0.062289,0.125828&vpsrc=0&hnear=Ibm,+Braunau+am+Inn,+Upper+Austria,+Austria&t=m&z=14
:-)
http://www.legendsofamerica.com/loa-oddplacenames.html
Elephant Butte, Tingle, Truth or Consequences
Blue Ball, Climax, Fly, Knockemstiff, Three Legs Town (Ohio)
Coward, Due West, Ninetimes, Sugar Tit (South Carolina)
Bumpass, Croaker, Frogtown, Goochland, Goosepimple Junction, Mutt, Nuttsville, Ordinary (Virginia)
Bald Knob, Arkansas
Booger Hollow, Arkansas
I hereby volunteer my considerable marketing acumen to help redress this crime against the good village of Effin. First off, we need a publicity campaign, and I suggest the following tagline--Effin Proud!!!
Other possibilities that might draw a suitable response from the global public include:
-Effin Ireland!!
-Effin, eh?
-Effin Beautiful!!
Since since local festivals with cultural attractions are kind of de riguer in building a positive public identity, maybe we can cap off "Effin Proud" week with the "Effin Funny" outdoor comedy festival!!
And so, I must be going for now. Mine's the tarred-and-feathered one on the hook over there.....
My hometown of Hatfield isn't even in there. There are several alternatives it suggests that have Hatfield in the name, all of which are significantly smaller (although probably nicer to live in). My friends tend to use London or one of the other Hatfield alternatives, I've just left mine blank.
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