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17.03.2011, 12:10
| | Re: Damn I hate this country | Quote: | |  | | | Yeah, that's part of why I'm reading and posting on this forum. And now let's hear your German and French. | | | | | I speak Spanish, Italian, English, Dutch and Quechua. I am only learning German. | This user would like to thank for this useful post: | | 
17.03.2011, 12:11
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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!
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17.03.2011, 12:12
| | Re: Damn I hate this country | Quote: | |  | | | II 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?
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17.03.2011, 12:13
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| | Re: Damn I hate this country | Quote: | |  | | | I criticize my country constantly. | | | | | 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.
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17.03.2011, 12:13
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| | Re: Damn I hate this country | Quote: | |  | | | No, I'd be lying if I said so. And I most definitely don't have a problem with others criticizing aspects of living here. What prompted my reaction is the OP's saying that he hates everything about this place, including all Swiss. | | | | | 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? | 
17.03.2011, 12:16
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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.
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17.03.2011, 12:16
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| | Re: Damn I hate this country | Quote: | |  | | | I speak Spanish, Italian, English, Dutch and Quechua. I am only learning German. | | | | | That's it? Gosh! You are so limited! | This user would like to thank Nil for this useful post: | | 
17.03.2011, 12:17
| | Re: Damn I hate this country | Quote: | |  | | | 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. | | | | | I've said it before. The most interesting and entertaining posters have the most groans | The following 2 users would like to thank for this useful post: | | 
17.03.2011, 12:17
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| | Re: Damn I hate this country | Quote: | |  | | | That's it? Gosh! You are so limited!   | | | | | Had you said " Hungarian " .. then we would have had a discussion here..
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17.03.2011, 12:18
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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*
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17.03.2011, 12:26
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| | Re: Damn I hate this country | Quote: | |  | | | What reaction did you expect from Swiss forum members? | | | | | 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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17.03.2011, 12:27
| | Re: Damn I hate this country | Quote: | |  | | | Dawiz, seriously, what the hell man. Almost everyone on this forum are UK, Canadian, Australian etc expats. None of us need Switzerland. Switzerland needs all of us. If "immigration" read this, they'd offer to supply us with free language lessons/counselling because they, unlike you, provably know a good thing when they see it. If it weren't for Switzerland we'd be programming, accounting, teaching and banking in New York, London or rural Greece. If not for us, Switzerland would begin a quick slide into the ocean. | | | | |
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?
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17.03.2011, 12:28
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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
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17.03.2011, 12:28
| | Re: Damn I hate this country | Quote: | |  | | | Thx for the groan Eco, but it wasn't aimed at you in person  | | | | | | The following 2 users would like to thank for this useful post: | | 
17.03.2011, 12:30
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| | Re: Damn I hate this country | Quote: | |  | | | 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...
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17.03.2011, 12:31
| | Re: Damn I hate this country | Quote: |  | | | 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? | | | | | 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.
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17.03.2011, 12:35
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| | Re: Damn I hate this country | Quote: | |  | | | I speak Spanish, Italian, English, Dutch and Quechua. I am only learning German. | | | | | not good enough. come back when you can speak german, all swiss german dialects, french and romanche.
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17.03.2011, 12:37
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| | Re: Damn I hate this country | Quote: | |  | | | | | | | | Ok ok , it isn't over till the fat lady of medium girth mod sings..
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17.03.2011, 12:37
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| | Re: Damn I hate this country | Quote: | |  | | | I criticize my country constantly. | | | | | 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. | Quote: |  | | | I hate the swiss key board zyzyzyzy!!! | | | | | 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.
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17.03.2011, 12:38
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| | Re: Damn I hate this country | Quote: | |  | | | 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.. ?
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