I speak Spanish, Italian, English, Dutch and Quechua. I am only learning German.

I criticize my country constantly.

(I had to rewrite the phare 3 times!!)

I hate the swiss key board zyzyzyzy!!!

By the way I am enjoying a lot this thread! Lets go on!

I know isn't it fun?

So do I. But I don't go to Britain / Canada / the US or wherever, open a thread on a public forum and tell everybody how much I hate being there.

My daughter sometimes is a pain in the butt and I will say she can be trully annoying.... Does it mean she is like that all the time and that I don,t love her?

Well, I have to say, I learned a lot today. And I managed to double my groan count within about 35 minutes, that's go to be worth something.

That's it? Gosh! You are so limited!

I've said it before. The most interesting and entertaining posters have the most groans

Had you said " Hungarian " .. then we would have had a discussion here..

Can we all have a group hug now and say we never meant it and it was said in the heat of the moment?

*no homo group hug*

Come on, it's just venting. Happens once a month in the forum. Get used to it! Generalization is pretty common in Switzerland too ("nothing against Jugos, I know a few myself, but....blablabla). All my respect to the OP to try and open his own business.

And it is true, it is really difficult to make friends among the Swiss as we normally have our own clique and speak a language nobody understands even when learning for example Standard German. It's not helpful and leads to frustration sometimes.

At least when Anthony opens his bar we can visit him and destroy all the inventory.

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Ocean? Ever done geography Economisto??? You are of course perfectly entitled to make the above statement - which you have made before btw- but I do think it comes across as a tad .. arrogant and colonial. Maybe true in your field, but ... well, a bit of old fashioned sensitivity wouldn't hurt. Perhaps?

Sorry if I offended anyone here - you can believe me when I say that I'm not a racist (and not an SVP-voter for that matter, as someone further up seemed to indicate).

I try to keep an open mind and very much welcome the much-needed cultural diversity most of the immigrants here bring with them.

However, I still don't think it's appropriate to do culture-bashing on public forums. If you want to "vent", do so in your bathroom (but not after 10 p.m. or before 6 a.m.).

Peter

That I think we all can agree with... No personal attacks... The OP was venting... we all vented...

Lets spend the rest of this beautiful day planning to celebrate with St. Patrick...

Yeah, did geography, it would take a lot for Switzerland to slip into the ocean, and I'm well aware how it comes across. But hey, it's no different for anywhere else really either. You want to know what a country looks like who really rejects immigrants? There are two: North Korea and Zimbabwe. We all need immigrants - they're not our guests, they're our lifelines.

not good enough. come back when you can speak german, all swiss german dialects, french and romanche.

Ok ok , it isn't over till the fat lady of medium girth mod sings..

So do I. But that's different. As a comparison, while parents can complain about what annoying brats their kids are, they still don't want to hear it from other people.

Well, this goes under the category "hate it, what can I do about it". I personally switch the keyboard language, so if I press the key on my swiss keyboard that claims it is z, y will magically appear, as it should. Very easy to do.

Or just pop the z and y buttons out, and swap places.. ?