Fotze is High German, Futz(e) is Swiss German and yes, it's real down-at-the-bottom-of-the-gutter language, so use sparingly

& heres some more product placement ...

Italian toilet paper ....

This is not a toy. Seen today at Migros...

I can't stop laughing

not from the shops though,
in KT Berne there is a village called Wankdorf

Ah, placenames. We trawled through some classy ones earlier on, eg:

New to Skiing - the nightmare

And what's more, there's a factory with the huge sign "Handwerk" painted on one wall in Wankdorf, you can see it as you pass it when travelling on a train

They sell lemonade called "Pshit!" in Alsace.

OK, not whilst out shopping, and maybe not funny if you speak German, but anyway...

I was browsing in my local Erotikmart recently and saw this poster. You'd think that the advertising agency would have gotten someone with even the barest minimum of English language skills to proofread it first wouldn't you?

(Caution: All the following sentences are only obliquely related to previous posts.)

Once I met a woman in Hongkong named Fanny Sit. (Too bad I lost her business card when I moved to CH.)

Windy is the first name for a few Chinese-Malaysian beauty pageant contestants I've read about in the dailies -- a creative variation of Wendy, I suspect.

Driving out of Zug, somewhere, I'm always fascinated by a town named Rapperswil and wonder about its inhabitants' speech patterns.

...only had time to take a snap with my mobile phone. Would someone please tell me what Murmeltier Fett (Marmot fat) is used for?

http://www.apotheke-lagger.ch/Marmol

Although the link sends you to a German language drugstore, the gist of the recommendation for marmot fat is that it is an old home remedy, is rich in vitamins E and D and you use it to rub into your skin for sore aches and pains. The other product in your picture is "Melkfett" - basically a non-sterile type of vaseline which you can rub anywhere you want or need....

Flash .... is this your house ?

Close. But if it was my house there'd be a jar of Murmeltiere lube!!

Beware of the giant slugs if shopping at Geneva airport.

you have been warned....

Anything to relieve the boredom of Geneva airport is welcome.

this graphic, found on a t-shirt in manor, was quite a shocker.
btw, i always thought this was all about both the lower "east" and the "west" sides?

... So there we were, in the Music Hug in Zurich HB, looking in the Bollywood section, when this title caught our eye...