Abolish Switzerland it sucks, Get rid of Switzerland

[midlifebear]

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That's because they're all Borg.

LMAO! Jason, you have hit the nail directly on the suisse deutch head! Is it French with a German accent or German with a French accent? As for those who still speak Romansch? They number less than 5,000 people these days. And how the Hell did they ever become famous for chocolate? I've never been to a country so beautiful, yet so bland. However, the Italian Alps are an excellent place to ski. But down town Zurich is Borg Central.

And as for Bbucko's remark, by all means "¡Viva las Malvinas!" That small collection of windy rocks are the perfect background for the film version of Father Ted. Collectively, they're just like the fabled Irish "Crabby Isle", except the residents are much crabbier.


Sadly, I actually have a married niece with children living in Borgville. :frown1:

 

[Bbucko]

And as for Bbucko's remark, by all means "¡Viva las Malvinas!" That small collection of windy rocks are the perfect background for the film version of Father Ted. Collectively, they're just like the fabled Irish "Crabby Isle", except the residents are much crabbier.

:biggrin1::biggrin1::biggrin1:

FWIW, I prefer Belgian chocolate: bittersweet, much like myself.

 

[midlifebear]

I'm a BIG fan of Mexican-style beverage preparations served hot with the distinct kick of serrano chiles, cinnamon, and honey instead of sugar. However, Hershy's cocoa is great for throwing a teaspoon in with drip grind coffee (Sumatra or Java) and really does make the best mocha java.

And bittersweet, as well as dark, is the only candy form of the stuff I can stand. Yet my niece consistently sends me boxes of suisse-style milk chocolate bars. She's totally unaware of the 15th Century Spanish tradition of preparing hot dark chocolate as thick as frosting in which in which one is required to dip greasy churros covered in cinnamon and rock sugar. Yeah, how the white people co-opted chocolate is just one of those many stories one can learn about in a great book called Indian Givers by Jack Weatherford. But with the exception of the gifted few, having to read authentic history is beyond most posters here.

 

[Drifterwood]

Switzerland exists because the European magnates decided that they needed somewhere where their illgotten gains would be safe inspite of what fate dealt them.

It is the money whore of the world. Somewhere that noone would ever really want, just perhaps a route to somewhere else. So it becomes neutral and whatever atrocities you commit in gaining your filthy lucre, you can have somewhere safe to stash it. This is Switzerland.

It is perhaps a greater shame than the Holocaust itself, that Switzerland has refused to return the money of the victims. This defines Switzerland. Not that I don't know and like many Swiss individually.

 

[midlifebear]

Well, the country side in and around Lucerne is certainly bucoloic and will slip you into a pastoral zone out faster than 30 mgs of Valilum. And there are the brown Swiss Jersey hybrid milk cows, famously known for having the worst dispositions of any breed of milk cow in the world. :smile:

 

[Jason]

Now if we had a thread bashing the French, the Germans or the Italians I would join in. But there's nothing wrong with Switzerland!

Switzerland exists because the Swiss want it to exist. Good on them! They've built a prosperous and stable country.

Belgium will exist as long as the Belgians want it. The idea of a Dutch/French split is not new and yes it might happen. The idea of Brussels as Brussels "DC", ie a district outside the European nation states, might just suit the Eurocrats. Personally I think they would be daft to split. The Walloons would be a drop in the French ocean, while Flemmings are keen to say they are different from the Dutch and I can't see them happy ruled from Amsterdam.