Originally named Nashville due to all the incest, Gympie took its current name not from BDSM enthusiasts or cripples as one might assume
Originally named Nashville due to all the incest, Gympie took its current name not from BDSM enthusiasts or cripples as one might assume, but from the world’s most horrible plant. The gympie is a stinging tree covered in toxic needles, also known as the stinging brush or the suicide plant. Legend has it that an Australian World War II soldier shot himself after inadvertently using a gympie leaf as toilet paper. Like its botanic namesake, the town of Gympie is also dangerous, covered in needles and smeared with faeces. The Queensland craphole owes its existence to the discovery of gold in the local area, which saw the town swiftly filled with the sort of reprobates who would travel the world to stand in bollocks-deep water trying to find a shiny nugget just so they wouldn’t have to find a real job. The gold rush also marked the only time in history that anyone has ever been excited to visit Gympie. Consequently, Gympie is known as ‘the town that saved Queensland’, so we have them to tha...