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minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink21•19 days agoAcronym for being in the middle of nowhere. “Bum Fuck Egypt” or some odd variant of that.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish18•19 days agoI’ve heard of “Butt Fuck Nowhere.” But never BFE or Egypt.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink17•19 days agoIt’s been around a long time, at least since the ‘80s. You can now add it to your vocabulary.
minus-squareBarqsHasBitelinkfedilink9•18 days agoOr not if noone knows what it means and it makes no sense.
minus-squareᴍᴜᴛɪʟᴀᴛɪᴏɴᴡᴀᴠᴇ linkfedilinkEnglish9•edit-218 days agoEverybody 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-squarejecxjolinkfedilinkEnglish3•18 days agoA 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-square@[email protected]linkfedilink16•18 days agoI 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-squareBarqsHasBitelinkfedilink1•18 days agoSounds like “I enjoy being indecipherable, not my problem!”
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish3•18 days agoEveryone said BFE and still says it, where I grew up.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish3•18 days agoIt means out in the middle of nowhere. Most people know what it means, looks like it is just you here who doesn’t.
minus-squareBarqsHasBitelinkfedilink1•edit-218 days agoAnd 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.
BFE?
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.
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.
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!”
Everyone said BFE and still says it, where I grew up.
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.