Rumor has it that even Swiss employees of certain (formally) large Swiss banks (the 3-letter and the 2-letter one) use the endearing term "Swissie" to describe the Swiss Franc (AKA CHF).
I happen to spend substantial time as a foreigner in a sothern European country in parallel to my time in Switzerland. And I can assure you that being a foreigner there is _a lot more_ pleasurable than in Switzerland.
Reading 20 Minuten this morning ... girl stabs and kills guy in park after they had xxx ... 17-year old abducted at gunpoint ... 19-year-old severely beaten by youths because he asked them to throw their beer cans in the trash ... young gang members from St. Gallen posing with (real) guns on Internet sites ... and that's only up to page 7.
Disturbing news indeed. I will wait to see whether those incidents are confirmed in Blick am Abend before forming my sweeping judgement on the entire country.
Why does everyone seem to think that queuing is something that everyone except the Swiss does, the last time I was in the UK I almost got trampled under in the rush to get on a bus, and as for the pasta, handbag or shopping bag on the next seat well it seems that is a phenomenon seen the world over especially reserved for rush hour trains as I’ve often encountered in London. Nowadays it’s everyone for themselves
I know this one. She routinely shouts at people who are browsing through the magazines, trying to decide which one to buy at twenty chuffs a throw, even if they've just picked the bloody things up!
At least she's a bit further away, now they've redesigned the kiosk. Before, she'd simply squat in her little turret in the middle and yell across the shop, to the utter shame and humiliation of anyone within earshot. Now she has to leave the safety of her distant kaugummi-clad counter and waddle right across the open floor to get to the freeloading foreigners at the other end, leaving her exposed and vulnerable to aerial, projectile or verbal attack for a good three seconds every time she wants to spew her miserable, unfulfilled and possibly sexually frustrated bile upon the hapless buggers who just want to see what's in this month's Wallpaper magazine...
Does anyone know where I can get hold of some Greek fire?
Ah yes, that formidable well of excellent journalism, 20 Minuten. A perfect paper to use to form well thought out opinions and get perfectly objective news. Try the Bund or the NZZ.