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minus-squareRememberTheApollo_@lemmy.worldcakelinkfedilinkarrow-up21·4 个月前Acronym for being in the middle of nowhere. “Bum Fuck Egypt” or some odd variant of that.
minus-squarejaybone@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up18arrow-down3·4 个月前I’ve heard of “Butt Fuck Nowhere.” But never BFE or Egypt.
minus-squareRememberTheApollo_@lemmy.worldcakelinkfedilinkarrow-up17arrow-down1·4 个月前It’s been around a long time, at least since the ‘80s. You can now add it to your vocabulary.
minus-squaresomeguy3@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up9arrow-down15·4 个月前Or not if noone knows what it means and it makes no sense.
minus-squareRememberTheApollo_@lemmy.worldcakelinkfedilinkarrow-up16arrow-down3·4 个月前I don’t care, you do you. Nobody’s making you do anything. Plenty of people do know, so not like your lack of knowledge limits anyone else’s usage.
minus-squaresomeguy3@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down16·4 个月前Sounds like “I enjoy being indecipherable, not my problem!”
minus-squareᴍᴜᴛɪʟᴀᴛɪᴏɴᴡᴀᴠᴇ @lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9arrow-down2·edit-24 个月前Everybody I know knows what BFE is. Ask around. It does make sense. It’s hyperbolically saying it’s so far away it might as well be in Egypt.
minus-squarejecxjo@midwest.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·4 个月前A lot of us in the Midwest say BFI, with I being Iowa. Think it has more to do with none of us wanting to be in Iowa.
minus-squareNecroscope0@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·4 个月前It means out in the middle of nowhere. Most people know what it means, looks like it is just you here who doesn’t.
minus-squaresomeguy3@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down1·edit-24 个月前And you know the person that literally asked. And all the people that upvoted him. And if you look the comment saying he’s never heard of it has more upvotes than the comment saying it’s common. Brilliant analysis that it’s only me lol.
minus-squareThe_Caretaker@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down1·4 个月前Everyone said BFE and still says it, where I grew up.
Acronym for being in the middle of nowhere.
“Bum Fuck Egypt” or some odd variant of that.
I’ve heard of “Butt Fuck Nowhere.” But never BFE or Egypt.
It’s been around a long time, at least since the ‘80s. You can now add it to your vocabulary.
Or not if noone knows what it means and it makes no sense.
I don’t care, you do you. Nobody’s making you do anything. Plenty of people do know, so not like your lack of knowledge limits anyone else’s usage.
Sounds like “I enjoy being indecipherable, not my problem!”
Everybody I know knows what BFE is. Ask around.
It does make sense. It’s hyperbolically saying it’s so far away it might as well be in Egypt.
A lot of us in the Midwest say BFI, with I being Iowa. Think it has more to do with none of us wanting to be in Iowa.
It means out in the middle of nowhere. Most people know what it means, looks like it is just you here who doesn’t.
And you know the person that literally asked. And all the people that upvoted him. And if you look the comment saying he’s never heard of it has more upvotes than the comment saying it’s common. Brilliant analysis that it’s only me lol.
Everyone said BFE and still says it, where I grew up.