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23.01.2023, 23:54
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| Quote: | |  | | | People still watch TV? I think the last time I had the TV TV on was during the World Cup. Otherwise it's only Netflix, Amazon Prime, Sky etc.
I prefer to read my news ... | | | | | If I didn't occasionally scan the channels I'd have missed out on gems such as Mortimer and Whitehouse: Gone Fishing. This is the problem of on demand/streaming - you miss out on stuff that is brilliant and you wouldn't ordinarily watch.
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25.01.2023, 19:15
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| | | Re: You know you've been in Switzerland for too long when...
...when you automatically start sitting diagonally opposite everyone, even your your own wife, on public transport!
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25.01.2023, 22:30
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| | | Re: You know you've been in Switzerland for too long when...
| Quote: | | | | | ...when you automatically start sitting diagonally opposite everyone, even your your own wife, on public transport! | | | | | immer in Fahrtrichtung… and if those seats are occupied, I patiently wait for someone to get off  |
26.01.2023, 10:10
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When you go back home to visit family and accidentally do the kiss-kiss-kiss thing when you first see your Mom.  | | The following 3 users would like to thank Pancakes for this useful post: | |
26.01.2023, 10:48
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You consider taking your own "house shoes" with you when going to a friends for dinner  | | The following 3 users would like to thank Island Monkey for this useful post: | |
26.01.2023, 13:20
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| | | Re: You know you've been in Switzerland for too long when...
| Quote: | | | | | You consider taking your own "house shoes" with you when going to a friends for dinner | | | | | You have "house shoes" for guests.
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27.01.2023, 15:10
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| Quote: | | | | | I read a study once that claimed most Italians learned Italian from TV after it became widespread, before that they mostly spoke only local dialects. | | | | |
Always thought they mostly spoke with hand signals
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27.01.2023, 15:28
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When you say "Jühhh......" at cute things
(I think that is how its written.....)
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27.01.2023, 16:35
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| | | Re: You know you've been in Switzerland for too long when...
| Quote: | | | | | When you say "Jühhh......" at cute things
(I think that is how its written.....) | | | | | I assume the "J" is silent as in "elephant".
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27.01.2023, 16:37
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| | | Re: You know you've been in Switzerland for too long when...
| Quote: | | | | | When you say "Jühhh......" at cute things
(I think that is how its written.....) | | | | | I use
Jöööööö
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27.01.2023, 16:51
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I think Roegner's spelling is right. Ive said Jööööö in Ireland a few times and people have looked at like Ive lost the plot.
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27.01.2023, 19:03
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| | | Re: You know you've been in Switzerland for too long when...
The thing about house shoes made me laugh - I took a bag of them to my sister in Scotland because she had new carpets |
27.01.2023, 19:07
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You get a strange kind of joy when seeing that your neighbour has put their huge newspaper bundle out on Karton collection day. And it’s still there The day after collection day.
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28.01.2023, 21:55
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when you visit back home and greet the neighbour with "grüssach" (or how ever we write it...) and get the look of WTF
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28.01.2023, 22:03
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| | | Re: You know you've been in Switzerland for too long when...
When you forget that the northerners speak German!
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29.01.2023, 10:06
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| | | Re: You know you've been in Switzerland for too long when...
| Quote: | | | | | When you forget that the northerners speak German!
Tom | | | | |
That's when you've been in Tecino too long.
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29.01.2023, 11:01
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They are north from la côte too. On the other side of the Fossé de Rösti.
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29.01.2023, 11:12
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| | | Re: You know you've been in Switzerland for too long when...
| Quote: | | | | | ...when you automatically start sitting diagonally opposite everyone, even your your own wife, on public transport! | | | | | Is there another way to sit?
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29.01.2023, 12:27
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29.01.2023, 12:39
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| Quote: | | | | | | | | | | The only difference being - here all other passengers will politely look away (360 degrees vision)
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