Is that just well-known in the UK though? I've mentioned this to people outside the UK and only occasionally have they known it.

Nobody outside the UK has heard of Scunthorpe because it can't make it through the filters.

(There's a ridiculously large list of innuendo place names for tiny villages: https://anglotopia.net/ultimate-list-of-funny-british-place-... )

One of Douglas Adams' lesser-known but still hilarious works: https://www.panmacmillan.com/authors/douglas-adams/the-meani...

Hey now, it's not Bielefeld. In Ohio at least, the word it's concealing is taboo enough that nobody who does know wants to explain to their more-sheltered coworkers why the situation is funny. (Clearly the filter wasn't designed in Australia.)

> Nobody outside the UK has heard of Scunthorpe

The Register has lots of readers outside the UK, and it has never shied from -- on the contrary, seems it positively delights in -- blowing this stuff up in its pages.

I'm also in the UK, so I don't really know. I thought/assumed it was fairly well-known among software engineers, HN, etc. (not discounting the day's 'lucky 10,000' of course) but not so much by others, regardless of country. :shrug:

I’ve seen it called the clbuttic problem