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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 …

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  1. relpy

    Presumably

    Twinned with Sc*nthorpe?

    1. Anonymous Coward
      Anonymous Coward

      No: twinned with Bastardstown :)

      http://wikimapia.org/6760291/Bastardstown

      1. Francis Boyle Silver badge

        Or maybe

        Far North Queensland.

  2. atomic jam
    Thumb Up

    Could be worse, she could be from Muff. (its a real place, Donegal)

    Read Title.

    1. JASR
      Coat

      The Village Muff

      And inevitably it has:

      http://www.muffdivingclub.ie/

      1. mike2R
        Happy

        Re: The Village Muff

        That is hilarious. I'm very tempted by one of these T shirts...

        http://www.cafepress.com/2509

    2. Patrick O'Reilly

      And another Muff in Nor' Meath

      As the name shows, on this blurry rock (surrounded by a suitably topiaryed bush), there's a Muff Cresent right outside Nobber (pronounced Nob-her), Co.Meath

      http://g.co/maps/vh9kw

    3. LaeMing
      Coat

      In the end,

      we all come from muff.

      1. Scorchio!!
        Thumb Up

        Re: In the end,

        Presumably Walking Bottom in Surrey will also present problems, and Fucking in Austria will definitely do so. As for people living in certain roads:

        http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gropecunt_Lane

        There is absolutely no effing chance at all. All we need is nanny Harriet to assist in the process of changing place and street names, as recently happened in the case of one Butts Lane not long back. It's just a fucking word, FFS.

      2. Goat Jam
        WTF?

        Surely, that would in be the beginning then?

  3. Turtle_Fan

    Well effin said

    See title

  4. Winkypop Silver badge
    Devil

    Facebook eh?

    Effin hell.

  5. ropie

    Effin' whoopee do! Does anyone remember Jack Tuat and the Whale?

  6. Rob Carriere
    Thumb Up

    Friday afternoon poetry

    Keep up the good work!

  7. Steve Graham

    Good Effin story, but...

    ...I don't think it's censorship. I think it's just the Facebook places software being seriously broken.

    At one time, you could create named locations willy-nilly, but then Facebook introduced some kind of vetting based on -- possibly -- a static dump of Wikipedia. So if your town "does not exist" you can't enter it, and you can't update the database (though I think there may be a loophole through the Facebook mobile site).

    But some of the old comedy ones are still available.

    1. Anonymous Coward
      Anonymous Coward

      Not just Facebook

      Wasn't there a Fort Gay incident (or something similar) with XBox Live?

  8. BorkedAgain
    Thumb Up

    More limericks, please!

    Good effort. I think, as well as the Playmobil re-enactments, some weekly doggerel round-ups might be in order...

  9. Christoph

    She's lucky she's not from the little Austrian village of Fucking.

    1. Just Thinking

      For some reason I read that as Australian, and it still seemed to make sense.

  10. Paul Dx

    An Irish lass called Ann Marie

    Thought Facebook was taking the p

    They wouldn't letin

    Her home town of Effin

    They said "It's offensive, you see"

    1. cloudgazer

      needs another syllable on line 3

      Perhaps:

      'coz they wouldn't let in

  11. Armando 123
    Devil

    I wonder

    if they will let you select Sugar Tit, South Carolina.

  12. R 11

    The Big Effen Bee

    I wonder if facebook ban it for the french too?

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1Z1V5cSWU4

  13. Kirbini
    Happy

    Much obliged

    ...for my first laugh of the day. That limerick is priceless. Any chance the Zuck reads el Reg?

  14. Field Marshal Von Krakenfart
    Paris Hilton

    Muff diving club

    I can understand why she's a bit pissed off, I wouldn’t like to give my home town as Limerick either, but, it could be worse, her home town could be Meanus, also in Co. Limerick.

    Have the Muff (Co. Donegal) Sub-aqua club set up a facebook page, they have a web page at http://www.muffdivingclub.ie/

    Other Irish place names likely to cause a problem:- Nobber (Meath), Bastardstown (Wexford), Termonfeckin (Louth), Meelick (Clare, Galway & Mayo), Mount Juliet (Kilkenny), and Spunkane (Kerry)

    By the way this is the same Facebook that continues to leave 1 individual spamming my facebook page with porn links dispite been notified 18 times (I won't unfriend the individual as I curious to see how long it takes facebook to ban them)

    Paris, also a member of the muff diving club.

    1. Rick Giles
      Pirate

      I'm sick of Facebook anyway

      You used to be able to create a page for an "alternate ego" but they took that away. How the hell am I supposed to rant about people I know without them knowing it's me?? Thank god Twitter lets you do that still... for know.

    2. Anonymous Coward
      Anonymous Coward

      There is also Killinaspick in Killkenny and Soldiers hole in Wexford

      and Asshaggard in Wexford. Ohh Killmacow in Wicklow i think.

    3. Stu_The_Jock

      spamming

      You are of course assuming it IS the individual spamming you not one of the many dubious apps that spam under users names,

  15. Jim 59

    Facebook

    Seriously ? Facebook devs don't know about lookup tables ? Or exceptions ? Or if...then statements ? Eg they couls allow Effin only if the county is Limierick. Go on a course you chumps.

    1. streaky

      Facebook Devs

      Why u mad bro?

      Seriously though knowing a couple - get a grip.

  16. CraigW

    Teacups ahoy

    Perhaps an 'of' in that page title and this story wouldn't exist. Afterall, the only deletion for was the page that was created. I have the same problem setting my own home town on my profile, and it is home to well over 5,000 people and has been around for 150 years.

  17. Nick Kew
    Go

    We need to know ...

    In the interests of research, tell us how folks from Penistone or Pratt's Bottom, or a range of villages on the river Piddle, fare!

    1. LaeMing
      Unhappy

      Penistone.

      I've had kidney stones and that was painful enough, thanks!

  18. Oor Nonny-Muss
    Happy

    Lucky...

    she doesn't have friends from Muff, Co. Donegal or Nobber, Co. Meath.

  19. zb

    Scunthorpe

    How long before they ban that town?

  20. Daniel Snowden
    Joke

    This reminds me of the time Scunthorpe was said to have been knocked off the internet

  21. Mad yakker
    Stop

    Not the first time...

    Reminds me of a story I heard years ago where residents of Scunthorpe fell foul of AOL's moral police.

    1. El Zed

      Wait, what?

      '..Scunthorpe fell foul of AOL's moral police.'

      AOL had morals?

      Feh!, who knew?

  22. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    I wonder if the residents of the Austrian village of Fucking have similar issues.

    1. Jeff Power
      Childcatcher

      Nope, I just made my hometown Fucking, Austria. Has a picture of the sign and everything. Might possibly be related to "community standards". I'm in Canada, and this sort of thing on a Facebook page wouldn't raise many eyebrows. I don't know how much the Catholic Church still dominates Ireland, but I can see the "community standards" being less relaxed in such a place.

  23. Psmiffy
    Pint

    Award

    Where can we vote for awards? Lester deserves a few beers for his limerick at least.

    1. DavidK
      Pint

      Award, award!

      Drink! Feck!

  24. Chris Comley

    No, facebook has done no such thing. it isn't banning her quaint village name out of spite, but merely out of stupidity. It doesn't allow ANY city name to be put in that it doesn't recognise. So I can't put MY village name (ballinger) in, I can't even put in the name of our nearest towns coz it doesn't recognise those either. I've given up and put "London" - all my friends know where I live, and anyone from american thinks we all live in London anyway...

    1. Rick Giles
      Headmaster

      London's not England?!?

      1. Don't feel bad, most people here now days are geographically challenged anyway. Besides, if you heard my accent you would probably ask if I lived in the backwoods in the great state of Georgia (which I don't).

      2. It's not "from american", it's "from America".

      1. Anonymous Coward
        Anonymous Coward

        You're both wrong; its 'from Yankeeland'

    2. Anonymous Coward
      Anonymous Coward

      @Chris Comley

      From experience I can tell you quite a few Americans think that England is in London

      1. Anonymous Coward
        Anonymous Coward

        @AC @CHRIS COMLEY

        Or the Chinese pandas that think Scotland is in England by having big ben on the side of the lorry bringing them instead of a more Scottish piccy

  25. Adrian Jones

    I bet they have a similar problem here:

    http://maps.google.co.uk/?ll=48.068157,12.864218&spn=0.044795,0.077162

    1. Field Marshal Von Krakenfart
      Happy

      Over to the right a bit....

      ....the town of "eggenham"

      1. Anonymous Coward
        Anonymous Coward

        I do not like them,

        Sam-I-am.

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