Irish towns recognized in the World’s Rudest Place names - Effin and Nobber make the list

Some years ago on the Late Late Show, some guy told Gay Byrne how he had suffered a stroke after driving through Strokestown, County Roscommon, Connacht/western Ireland. Which only goes to show you how carefully you need to be about where you drive through. No telling what may befall you. I'll be sure to give the town of Hackballscross, County Louth, Leinster/eastern Irelans a miss on driving from Dublin down to Belfast visiting my Protestant inlaws next time.

Many full-blooded Americans, including a few cousins of mine whose parents were Irish natives, take great pleasure in disparaging, ridiculing and even maligning everythin Irish as they flaunt what they perseive to be their superior American intelligence. But there are many in the U.S. who are sveral generations removed from Ireland who prounly proclaim the Irishness. I've also heard of people in Ireland who mock and ridicule visitors from the U.S, because of their interest in the Irish language.

As an American, I have nothing negative to say about the names of any towns in Ireland or anywhere else. We have Intercourse, PA in the U.S. which many Americans find amusing. Lots of jokes about it. These names are what they are. Anyone who is really offended must have very little going on in his/her life.

@StevenAllCaps, well, isn't that just too bad. No one in America cares what you think about anyone's ancestry. It's none of your business. Try to understand the difference between recognition and appreciation of one's ancestral roots and culture and "stealing" it. It's Ireland who is encouraging all those with Irish ancestry to come "home" to Ireland in 2013 for a visit and to spend money there. Why don't you get busy and complain to the Irish government??? BTW, no one is forcing you to read IC, so quit whining.

STEVENSTAIR: YEs you are the authority on who is and who is not Irish. Now go back to your Manchester U, and BBC.

WELL AS MY GREAT GRANNY USED TO SAY ..IF IT LOOKS LIKE A DOG, BARKS LIKE A DOG AND ACT LIKE A DOG.. GUESS WHAT ITS A DOG..... WELL THE SAME GOES, IF YOU BORN IN AMERICA , YOU SPEAK WITH AN AMERICAN ACCENT AND YOU LOOK AMERICAN... THEN GUESS WHAT ? :) YOUR AMERICAN.. BE PROUD OF YOUR OWN CULTURE AND NOT TRYING TO STEAL MINE.... IM TIRED OF HEARING ALL THESE FAIRY TALE FANTASY STORIES OF GREAT AUNTY MARYS, AND UNCLE JOHNS LEAVING FOR AMERICA 167 YEARS AGO AND NEVER COMING BACK TO IRELAND ... THATS GREAT BUT IT DOESNT MAKE YOU IRISH... IM SORRY !!! IM 100% IRISH I WAS BORN HERE AND LIVE HERE AND IM GETTING VERY TIRED OF ALL THIS GOBIL DEE GOOK BEEN WHEELED OUT IN THIS PUBLICATION WEEK AFTER WEEK..

Those are English names for towns STEVEN, so maybe it;s the english with a sense of humour?

I'm not sure how Stevenstar defines "Irish" and "American" who,according "poles apart". U.S people who are keenly interested in Ireland usually have ancestors wh came from the Emerald Isle as immigrants and transmitted their DNA to their descendants, but is up to the geneticists and sociologists to determine. In the final exam of my sociology course in college (under the G.I. Bill), I gota a 100 and that put me very far apart from my full-blooded American classmates who scored in the low 80s, 70s and high 60s. If the test had included questions on humor, I probably would have failed it.

beaver lodge, now that conjures up all kind of thinking

Stevenstar - you might be right on that one! :)

@@SMYRNIAN...EVERYONE WHOS AMERICAN GETS ITS YOU MEAN... HAHAHAH THE IRISH AND AMERICAN SENSES OF HUMOR ARE POLES APART.. TRUST ME ON THAT HAHAHA !!!

These names sound funny because they're in English.

It just means you need to get out more, Stevenstar. Everyone else gets it. HA! HA!

SEE THIS IS WHY AMERICAN AND IRISH CULTURE AND PEOPLE ARE SOOOO DIFFERENT.. THESE WORDS YOU THINK ARE FUNNY LIKE EFFIN..NOBBER...MUFF... ARE NOT FUNNY TO US OR DONT HAVE DOUBLE MEANING ...YOU GUYS ARE SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO FUNNY HAHA!!!

Shouldn't Piscataway, N.J. be considered for this list if it were extended?