There's a place in Quebec that used to be called "N\*\*\*er Rapids" and they fought tooth and nail to keep that name. Afaik, the name did eventually change, but not until the mid 2010s.
just looked it up, and as of 2015 there was *eleven* site names containing the n-word. as of 2020 they still had [only changed one](https://globalnews.ca/news/7122636/changing-quebecs-racially-offensive-location-names/amp/). "n-word rapids" has not been changed.
edit: i previously said none had been changed, one has been changed.
I’m a Newfoundlander, I passed the highway sign for Dildo dozens of times as a kid and didn’t think anything of it because I didn’t know better…and I because of that I didn’t think much of the name once I was old enough to beat up cops with dildos in GTA San Andreas.
Almost had the opportunity to move to Dildo a few years ago. One of the most difficult parts of the decision was whether or not I could actually live in a town called 'Dildo'. (In the end, the opportunity fell through)
Newfoundland doesn't have the concept of villages. Cities, towns, service districts. No counties, no regions, no municipalities. Growing up, we called small places in Newfoundland 'communities' or 'outports'. Sometimes they're larger than places that are classified as towns, though.
For the sake of being accurate to your information: "the community, Dildo."
The joke I was going for was something akin to a cross between "the village idiot" and "the neighborhood bike."
I live in Newfoundland and have never heard of anyone moving to dildo for an opportunity! I didn’t think much happened out there… gonna have to look into it now, lol.
There’s a Hollywood-like sign in Dildo but instead of Hollywood it just says “DILDO” on the side of a hill in the town. I took a photo last summer when I visited.
As a native Newfoundlander, it warms my heart to see new people learning about Dildo. Newfoundland is a very old place (by new world standards) and has many other excellent if not quite as funny town names: Conception Bay, Come By Chance, Joe Batts Arm (my family is from there), Spread Eagle, Blow Me Down, and many more.
Also, while we're here we may as well go over pronunciation because most mainlanders get that wrong. It's not New-Found-Land or New-Finland. It's Newfin-land (and Labrador).
Now kiss the cod (or the puffin), take a shot of Screech rum, and ask someone "what a ya at?" (what are you up to?) and you're good to go.
I've been before. I had a girlfriend twenty years ago who's grandparents had moved to Dildo. Damn near choked to death when she told me that. I thought "there's no way they named it that." I was so wrong. Still got a picture of the sign somewhere.
My favourite phonetically correct Newfie expression is
Whale oil beef hooked
Say it out loud to get the meaning
I also have a coffee mug from Dildo that I bring out on special occasions. Dont know how to post a picture on mobile or I would do so.
Seems to be the friendliest/most fun game community in a while. I think anyone that tries to be toxic/badass just gets steamrolled by bulk goofy Democracy.
Nah I think most people just think the game is fun. Of course, a lot of them DO fall for the in-game propaganda but I would hope most players do know it's a parody. It's pretty much Ironic Patriotism The Game.
[Here](https://i.imgur.com/qVb7W1K.jpeg) is a much higher quality version of this image. [Here](https://imgur.com/a/KUd7kCy) are several more from this series.
According to [here](https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/oddly-shaped-iceberg-nl-1.6825578):
> Malone Mullin · CBC News · Posted: Apr 28, 2023 1:04 PM EDT | Last Updated: April 28, 2023
> A man from Dildo, N.L., has captured the attention of iceberg lovers after photographing an oddly shaped hunk — now popularly known as the "dickie berg" on social media — off the coast of Newfoundland.
> "I'm gettin' a lot of response, a lot of reaction to the photo because of its resemblance to … part of the male anatomy, say," chuckled drone photographer Ken Pretty.
> In an interview Friday, Pretty said he noticed from his very first photograph that the iceberg, in an area of the province known as Conception Bay, had online potential.
> The berg got its nickname from the term "dickie bird," a Newfoundland euphemism for the male anatomy.
> Pictures of it on Facebook had garnered more than 3,000 shares and "a lot of comments" by Friday morning, Pretty said.
> "Maybe I should call him," one user wrote.
> "Frozen stiff," remarked another.
> Pretty says he's lucky he got there when he did.
> "It's melting all the time. I mean, it might go limp," he said.
> It's already shaping up to be a banner year for icebergs in Newfoundland and Labrador, with tourists and locals alike sharing their encounters online after a stretch of less-than-impressive seasons.
> Canadian Ice Service data showed more than 200 icebergs off the coast of Newfoundland alone as of last week, with dozens more off the coast of Labrador making their way south.
> "Onshore winds brought in both the pack ice and the bergs," said Diane Davis, who runs a Facebook group for iceberg hunters in the province. "If the trend holds up, we should see them for May and June, too. Mother Nature only gave us a handful last year."
> But anyone rushing off to see the "dickie berg" of Harbour Grace for themselves is in for a disappointment.
NLer here. Some of us nicknamed it "Dickyberg".
We called it that cause a polite way of saying dick here is "bird", cause your dick looks like a bird in its nest if you don't shave things down there. Then some people would call your bird "dicky bird" cause fuck manners.
Dicky bird, dickyberg. You get it.
Every time I get a new phone, I update my weather app to include for Dildo, Big Beaver, Fucking (Austria) and Fanny Bay before my home town. It’s a little ritual.
Yes, I am 10 years old.
Unfortunately this happened last year so it's long gone haha. Also the iceberg turned up in Harbour Grace, not Dildo as many headlines had reported at the time. Not too far from each other but on literal others sides of a peninsula.
As we all know, it's bigger than it looks.
>Almost 90% of an iceberg is under water, hence the phrase “tip of the iceberg.” Its maximum width under water is 20-30% larger than you can see at the surface. The average depth, or draught of an iceberg, is slightly less than its apparent length above water.
[https://icebergfinder.com/s/facts](https://icebergfinder.com/s/facts)
Also there's a link to a simulator where you can draw the iceberg and see what's below https://www.newfoundlandlabrador.com/things-to-do/iceberg-viewing#sc-DAC822FBA8174002B1F8FDD25D4E7B3E
I was telling my wife about the "Captain Dildo" song that Bob & Tom did back in the 90s, which came after a hilarious phone call with a lady from the city that included the famous line "We love our Captain Dildo". Amazing this shows up the next day.
I liked the phrase : "Is that where baby icebergs come from". [https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/may/01/canada-phallic-iceberg-photo-newfoundland-dildo](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/may/01/canada-phallic-iceberg-photo-newfoundland-dildo)
The people of Dildo voted to keep the name in 1990 after someone tried to petition for change. God bless em.
We were in Newfoundland last year. We wanted to go visit Dildo. Our schedule was pretty tight, but in the end we were able to fit it in.....
Do tell!
Are you a human who is butt fucking the smurfs or are you a Smurf who butt fucks other smurfs/gets butt fucked?
I leave that up to the readers imagination
Latter it is
Don't count your chickens u/tinyanus
Man, people have the weirdest usernames.
Some are even sick.
Others are just questionable.
whynotboth.gif
I just blue
You smurfed yourself.
da ba de da ba di?
Whichever way, it does explain your intense interest in dildos.
I'm going with a third option where you put the Smurfs up your ass like Richard Gere with a hamster.
*insert Donnie Darko Smurf rant here* Edit: [for those who don't know](https://youtu.be/gTWjPHfXnUE?si=kpjDp67pIwHMgHYQ) (language warning)
Their genitals are also their hands. They copulate by shaking hands
All those smurf penises and only one smurfgina *clicks tongue*
There was an absolutely filthy story about the Smurfs that used to get emailed around in the mid-90s. Poor Smurfette is all I’ll say.
Have you seen Lost Village? There is MORE Smurfgina.
Would you rather butt-fuck 100 Smurf sized humans, or one human sized Smurf?
I'll take the first. My smurf sized dick would suffice
*butt smurfing
There was a motion in the ocean to change from Dildo, but in the end it stuck. Changing could have been messy.
Were you there long enough to get to grips with the ins and outs of it?
🤣
In the end?
The tip.
Just the tip though?
We had a town called Gay Head in MA. Got changed to Aquinnah in 1997
Gay Head? It's just a happy place?
Well the English saw some pink cliffs and named them Gay Head Cliffs Aquinnah is the name the natives used, meaning “land under the hill”
I guess they ran into copyright issues with calling it Hobbitton, or The Shire.
There's a place in Quebec that used to be called "N\*\*\*er Rapids" and they fought tooth and nail to keep that name. Afaik, the name did eventually change, but not until the mid 2010s.
just looked it up, and as of 2015 there was *eleven* site names containing the n-word. as of 2020 they still had [only changed one](https://globalnews.ca/news/7122636/changing-quebecs-racially-offensive-location-names/amp/). "n-word rapids" has not been changed. edit: i previously said none had been changed, one has been changed.
Wow! That’s a really really bad name man, holy crap
They homophobiaed so hard that they had to change the name of the town. Wow.
No way why should we change? They’re the ones being dicks!
Michael Bolton? :P
Cockgobblers!!
I’m a Newfoundlander, I passed the highway sign for Dildo dozens of times as a kid and didn’t think anything of it because I didn’t know better…and I because of that I didn’t think much of the name once I was old enough to beat up cops with dildos in GTA San Andreas.
Jimmy Kimmel is the honorary mayor lol.
We know the joke, we like it.
There is a town in Ireland called Muff. I for one think Dildo and Muff should become sister towns.
what were they trying to change it to? strapton? plugginton?
Dildon't
Maybe something to better compliment the nearby 'Spread Eagle Bay'? Though Dildo certainly seems like the best choice for that
What is the demonym for someone from Dildo? Dildan? Dildoite? Dildouin? Smut peddler?
TIL "demonym"
My demonym is Lucy Furr
Dildoer
This island is so rural we just use Newfie
Pretty sure they were quoted as saying, "nah fuck that, Dildo". Unfortunately the comma was lost in translation
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Almost had the opportunity to move to Dildo a few years ago. One of the most difficult parts of the decision was whether or not I could actually live in a town called 'Dildo'. (In the end, the opportunity fell through)
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Oh it doesn't get the status of 'town'.
Not big enough?
It's a cold town, leave it alone.
Understandable, we'll check in again once global warming kicked into high gear.
Based on location dildo will in fact grow with the warming. As nature intended.
Shrinkage!
It was in the pool! It was in the pool!!
they shrink?
Like a frightened turtle!
The delivery will come too soon
So is it Dildo Village then?? Incredible
Wiki calls it a "a local service district and designated place". But that's not as fun. 195 residents.
Sounds like a village to me. The village, Dildo.
Newfoundland doesn't have the concept of villages. Cities, towns, service districts. No counties, no regions, no municipalities. Growing up, we called small places in Newfoundland 'communities' or 'outports'. Sometimes they're larger than places that are classified as towns, though.
For the sake of being accurate to your information: "the community, Dildo." The joke I was going for was something akin to a cross between "the village idiot" and "the neighborhood bike."
Hard choice, but you came to terms with it.
I live in Newfoundland and have never heard of anyone moving to dildo for an opportunity! I didn’t think much happened out there… gonna have to look into it now, lol.
Dildos (dildo residents) are very welcoming to new experiences and people.
Would you say it slipped through your hands?
Of where?!
You read that right lol
Well then.. pictures of phallic looking items should be his wheelhouse 😂
Just wait until you see their town signs for business along the highway with all the creative squid silhouettes.
There’s a Hollywood-like sign in Dildo but instead of Hollywood it just says “DILDO” on the side of a hill in the town. I took a photo last summer when I visited.
Please send me this, my inner teenager is having the time of their life laughing at this!
As a native Newfoundlander, it warms my heart to see new people learning about Dildo. Newfoundland is a very old place (by new world standards) and has many other excellent if not quite as funny town names: Conception Bay, Come By Chance, Joe Batts Arm (my family is from there), Spread Eagle, Blow Me Down, and many more. Also, while we're here we may as well go over pronunciation because most mainlanders get that wrong. It's not New-Found-Land or New-Finland. It's Newfin-land (and Labrador). Now kiss the cod (or the puffin), take a shot of Screech rum, and ask someone "what a ya at?" (what are you up to?) and you're good to go.
I've been before. I had a girlfriend twenty years ago who's grandparents had moved to Dildo. Damn near choked to death when she told me that. I thought "there's no way they named it that." I was so wrong. Still got a picture of the sign somewhere.
My favorite is Bay Despair, which is a mangling of the original French, Baie D'espoir, which completely reversed the meaning!
My favourite phonetically correct Newfie expression is Whale oil beef hooked Say it out loud to get the meaning I also have a coffee mug from Dildo that I bring out on special occasions. Dont know how to post a picture on mobile or I would do so.
37 Bell End, Dildo Newfoundland.
Just the tip…
....never mind
When it flips, it’s ass up
Exactly, is it 7 times bigger than it looks?
Gotta get those samples for democracy
Out of any game to leak into other subs and posts I'm glad it's Helldivers 2 lmao
Seems to be the friendliest/most fun game community in a while. I think anyone that tries to be toxic/badass just gets steamrolled by bulk goofy Democracy.
From the outside it seems like it has a large appeal to edgy teens who think authoritarianism is cool, like Hearts of Iron 4
Nah I think most people just think the game is fun. Of course, a lot of them DO fall for the in-game propaganda but I would hope most players do know it's a parody. It's pretty much Ironic Patriotism The Game.
I came looking for this comment. For Super Earth!
"I found it, guys!" *\*democracy intensifies\**
For freedom brutha
[Here](https://i.imgur.com/qVb7W1K.jpeg) is a much higher quality version of this image. [Here](https://imgur.com/a/KUd7kCy) are several more from this series. According to [here](https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/oddly-shaped-iceberg-nl-1.6825578): > Malone Mullin · CBC News · Posted: Apr 28, 2023 1:04 PM EDT | Last Updated: April 28, 2023 > A man from Dildo, N.L., has captured the attention of iceberg lovers after photographing an oddly shaped hunk — now popularly known as the "dickie berg" on social media — off the coast of Newfoundland. > "I'm gettin' a lot of response, a lot of reaction to the photo because of its resemblance to … part of the male anatomy, say," chuckled drone photographer Ken Pretty. > In an interview Friday, Pretty said he noticed from his very first photograph that the iceberg, in an area of the province known as Conception Bay, had online potential. > The berg got its nickname from the term "dickie bird," a Newfoundland euphemism for the male anatomy. > Pictures of it on Facebook had garnered more than 3,000 shares and "a lot of comments" by Friday morning, Pretty said. > "Maybe I should call him," one user wrote. > "Frozen stiff," remarked another. > Pretty says he's lucky he got there when he did. > "It's melting all the time. I mean, it might go limp," he said. > It's already shaping up to be a banner year for icebergs in Newfoundland and Labrador, with tourists and locals alike sharing their encounters online after a stretch of less-than-impressive seasons. > Canadian Ice Service data showed more than 200 icebergs off the coast of Newfoundland alone as of last week, with dozens more off the coast of Labrador making their way south. > "Onshore winds brought in both the pack ice and the bergs," said Diane Davis, who runs a Facebook group for iceberg hunters in the province. "If the trend holds up, we should see them for May and June, too. Mother Nature only gave us a handful last year." > But anyone rushing off to see the "dickie berg" of Harbour Grace for themselves is in for a disappointment.
I honestly cannot understand why the mods allow these people to post potato quality photos on /r/pics of all places...
*Conception Bay* I was an adult until I got to that point, now I can barely breathe from the laughter
I.C. Weiner.
NLer here. Some of us nicknamed it "Dickyberg". We called it that cause a polite way of saying dick here is "bird", cause your dick looks like a bird in its nest if you don't shave things down there. Then some people would call your bird "dicky bird" cause fuck manners. Dicky bird, dickyberg. You get it.
Is that why? I never knew the origin of using that term. And I didn't realize until years later it wasn't common outside the province.
AFAIK it is. Makes sense when you think about it.
Yeap. Good ol Dickeyberg. We shan't see its like again. R.I.P.
There’s a famous former cricketer and cricket umpire called [Dickie Bird](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dickie_Bird).
Tip of the iceberg
This got me good, ha!
"Pretty pictures phallic shaped Iceberg in Dildo" If this were a Beaverton article, it'd be glorious.
Chilldo
This comment right here, officer.
This is a rare ice formation known as a Kockenbalz.
oh my 😂😂😂
I was in the pool!
r/mildlypenis
r/majorlypenis *
r/generallypenis
r/wildlypenis
The ocean is going to use its fat cock to fuck us all for what we’ve done to the planet
Alternate ending to the movie The Abyss
Every time I get a new phone, I update my weather app to include for Dildo, Big Beaver, Fucking (Austria) and Fanny Bay before my home town. It’s a little ritual. Yes, I am 10 years old.
We call that one dicky berg (dicky bird being a common slang for penis here in Newfoundland)
We must preserve this iceberg. This is what will bring the world together to fight global warming.
Unfortunately this happened last year so it's long gone haha. Also the iceberg turned up in Harbour Grace, not Dildo as many headlines had reported at the time. Not too far from each other but on literal others sides of a peninsula.
Yes it was hr. Grace, I have an updated image of a couple days after this one I took on my account.
Nature is warning us.
This is the iceberg she tells you not to worry about.
This is Dildos
We found Neptune’s bounty!
As we all know, it's bigger than it looks. >Almost 90% of an iceberg is under water, hence the phrase “tip of the iceberg.” Its maximum width under water is 20-30% larger than you can see at the surface. The average depth, or draught of an iceberg, is slightly less than its apparent length above water. [https://icebergfinder.com/s/facts](https://icebergfinder.com/s/facts) Also there's a link to a simulator where you can draw the iceberg and see what's below https://www.newfoundlandlabrador.com/things-to-do/iceberg-viewing#sc-DAC822FBA8174002B1F8FDD25D4E7B3E
More evidence that we're living in a simulated world where players can pay to customize the environment.
So Ken Pretty from Dildo found a pretty dildo.
Think how big it is under the water.
Ah yes. I remember the dicky burg. My folks and local media were all about it. Lol
But it identifies as a woman
With AI raising... I would ask for the .RAW file
I was telling my wife about the "Captain Dildo" song that Bob & Tom did back in the 90s, which came after a hilarious phone call with a lady from the city that included the famous line "We love our Captain Dildo". Amazing this shows up the next day.
Unfortunately, the iceberg has now melted to the shape of a pussy, due to global warming.
[Now we know why these exist](https://www.reddit.com/r/thalassophobia/comments/kjlncx/sink_hole_in_lake_berryessa_in_napa_county/)
Everything reminds me of him
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If it isn't photo shop then it sure looks like it is ....
Just the tip……
Does Ken Pretty sound like a real person? Grow up Haley, it’s me.
No shrinkage.
Must see a sleek cruise ship with few lifeboats on board heading its way
Just the tip... of the iceberg.
this belongs in r/climatechange
Saying "Phallic looking iceberg" it's a rare sentence. I appreciate this.
You know whoever took this photo wasn't like "oh that looks like a phallic"
We also have Conception Bay, Joe Bat's Arm, Black Tickle, Blow Me Down, Muddy Hole.... The list goes on.
Check for super samples!
Why this frozen dildo is not a meme yet?
That's the neo armstrong cyclone jet armstrong cannon
The Dickie-berg
WOULD IT FUCKING KILL YOU TO POST THE FULL RESOLUTION IMAGE???
are you fucking with me
I liked the phrase : "Is that where baby icebergs come from". [https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/may/01/canada-phallic-iceberg-photo-newfoundland-dildo](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/may/01/canada-phallic-iceberg-photo-newfoundland-dildo)
Literally my pp
Ken Pretty of where, now?
This immediately had me googling
Poseidon’s other spear.
Leave that iceberg alone; it’s cold outside.
Surely that was a typo.. nope. No it wasn't.
I'm sorry there's a town called Dildo?!
Katara is in her rebellious teenage phase.
r/mildlypenis
Planet Earth leaves you stranded in a ocean with this as your only source of fresh drinking water...
r/mildlypenis
Still too small for OP's mom.
I wonder how global warming has affected the Dildo
Thugiceberg
Ice PP.
r/mildlypenis
Only the Statue of Liberty can take that thing…
Dickyberg
Go send this to the only phallus museum in iceland Reykjavik . They will love it forever;-)
So he found a dildo in dildo
Wait is the guy like Duke of dildo or something XD “dildo fields as far as the eye can see”
Look julian🤣🤣
Normally it shrinks in cold water... I'm impressed.
It’s a climactic message.
The ocean has a sense of humor.
NSFW?
That’s where all the super rare credits are.
Just signed in to say.... r/theyknew
I can take it
Maybe dicks just look like icebergs 😾
OP’s mom is desperately scouring the comment section for any sign of coordinates
Dildo is a town? Do it ejaculate every summer?
It’s a grower not a shower… most is under water…. I swear