You need to aim your pendantry at Graham Greene, or more pedantically still, the character Harry Lime in the Third Man.

You can stay long enough to get citizenship and vote against them every chance you get.

But, I prefer the mocking idea, the tie is a little too subtle, maybe take some inflatable sheep along to public events and try to be caught on camera just being friendly and laughing with 75% of the population at the 25% that seem to these posters are cool

No, as the sentence was not quoted and the source was not statet.

I suspect the poster thought it was fairly common knowledge.

And it would be rather odd to think that an EF poster could come up with something like that.

Common knowledge in Forums is that if you don't quote and don't give a source it reflects your personal view. Everything else leads to missunderstandings and it's not helpful in a discussion.

the point about not welcoming criminal inmigrants into Switzerland is valid.

No nation would like to award nationality to criminals, that is why there is a criminal record check, not only for naturalisation but also even for C and B permits.

The problem is that SVP ( UDC pour le romands ) is manipulating this into xenophobic campaigns.

No person is perfect or free to fall into temptation, a lapse of desequilibrium etc. we could all find ourselves one day breaking a law. And obviously we deserve to be punished for it.

But the point is here, once you have settled as a permanent resident or were born here, there is no point in using your fall to kick you out of the country that is what they want to do.

Under the same logic, you could also deprive of the swiss nationality to any swiss that is found to be a paedophile or rapist and kick him out of the country isn't it ?

After economisto's suggestion I'm now confused between EF posters and EF posters.

I see you still have to learn allot about Switzerland ,EVERY Swiss German would understand what was written there . Now all you have to do is translated in French and Italian ,The Ratoroman can also read Italian How about write a weekly Column or Daly In the local newspaper,form your own Party /Organization.The French way go on strike.Don`t fool yourself the Swiss in Foreigner country Facing the same problem

I definitely think people should quote and give sources. I've mentioned it before.

I'd be surprised if someone (especially an expat in Switzerland) didn't know the famous Third Man quote though . . .

Mike B The first one to be Deported

I hope I'm not being pedantic, but the spelling, grammar, punctuation, and spacing is atrocious; much worse than normal. You been on the Labatt Fitty again? Or hanging out with the Separatists too much?

[Insert SMILEY here for the pedantic pedants and their trolling friends to indicate fun/sarcasm/whatever]

Not really.Quoting this particular quote shows that the quoter is ignorant of Swiss history. The fact that it's a quote from the Third Man (and was inf fact written by Orson Welles, and is only part of the published script as a footnote) doesn't change that.

In fact it's one of those quotes that regularly surfaces and regularly gets debunked. Welles mucked it up.

My mistake, I meant Welles.

The debunking has a sad result: Much warfare and bloodshed, but not even a cuckoo clock to show for it.

The quote is great event if it's not historically true. The wit makes a point and holds some truth immediately recognized by anyone who knows Switzerland.

Def sounds like a good to question to ask at the citizenship interview: where were cuckoo clocks first produced?

Ironically, it's only from expats here in CH that I've heard that it is, incorrectly, from CH. Historically though, cuckoo clocks from CH were a big deal in the late 19th century; all the rage as they would say. So one can see where the mis-fact may have developed.

Simple ;To get Results at the Voting pole.Did you see any of the posters about obama It works Don`t get me wrong i am not in favor of it

Correction;700+ years,cuckoo clocks are from "Schwarz Wald ""Black Forest" But you are a Fussball Fan ,I have to forgive you for this .Gute besserung

Not at all, I am not a paedopille,therefor it doe`s not apply to me

Yes, it was a little talk before your post.
And you're wright, it doesn't matter who was picked on... But incidentally the almighty statistics some people love to bring on into disscusions to justify their hate were not even supporting their "point"! In fact they were far far away from it..Big surprise for Ms Shoggi I guess.

The title of this thread reminds me of this song.