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Residents of an Austrian village will ring in the new year under a new name -- Fugging -- after ridicule, especially on social media, became too much to bear. They finally grew weary of Fucking. Minutes from a municipal council meeting published Thursday showed that the village of some 100 souls 350 kilometres (215 miles) east of Vienna will be named Fugging from January 1, 2021. Increasing numbers of English-speaking tourists have made a point of stopping in to snap pictures of themselves by the signpost at the entrance to the village, sometimes striking lascivious poses for posting on social media. Finally, a majority of the villagers, and not just those who live near the signpost, decided they had had enough. bg/anb/gd/spm
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