On Thu, Nov 24, 2005 at 06:21:14PM +0300, Ashok Hariharan wrote: > the last one I was told by a rather upset swiss gentleman, who had asked > me what i thought of switzerland (unfortunately > i revealed that i had travelled a bit there...) - and i said that i didnt > like it very much because the country is what the > rest of europe would have been had hitler won the world war.
Oh, that'd gotten his (mountain) goat's panties in a bunch, no doubt. The Swiss are widely regarded as the super-Germans, so your description is pretty apt. To produce another stereotype, the average Schweizerperson differs from a common Kraut in that they're a) rich b) have a job ;) > Maybe i went in the wrong season, it was dull, dreary and humorless place > where everyone appeared to be insanely > obsessed with 'quality of life' :o( the only bright side was that I hadnt > gone there for a holiday. -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org";>leitl</a> ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.leitl.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE
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