Cheese eating increased +0.8% in 2010!

Swiss people ate an average of 21.55kg of cheese in 2010.

WOW!

All this really means is that Swiss people now spend 0.8% more time in the gym trying to lose all this extra weight (170g)!

In addition to showing it live last Saturday, SF repeated the Mister Schweiz "contest" twice during the week.

I missed all 3 opportunities to see it.






Thank fuck.

Mike Shiva is a liar?

You take that back crazy aunt of Mike's!!!

Next thing we know you'll be claiming that he cannot see into your future using cards and an expensive phone line!

Pigs

So someone in work told me last week that there are more pigs than people in Canton St. Gallen.

I can believe this statistic.

Can't believe it came up in polite conversation though!!!

What is that smell?

Oh, it's just the stink of bullshit from the parliament in Bern...

Swiss quality

So Gaddafi had a Swiss bunker just like all of us in our houses. Bet the Tunisian and Egyptian leaders wish they had placed their trust in Swiss quality as provided by the Luwa firm 30 years ago - they might still be around if so.

Wonder if Gaddafi has to write in his wash days too?

Oscar night!

Exciting times as we wait to hear the winners at the Academy Awards.

Everyone is talking about the movie Black Swan.

Especially this guy in the Migros Magazin who also handily gives away the ending for those of us who will never see it.

Thanks for the spoiler gimp!

(Not that I was ever actually going to go see this film you understand, it's the principle of the thing)!

Good interview!

Interesting article on Donna Summer in Blick am Abend last week.

She talks about the destructive influence of drugs in the 1970s and her own drug use.

Later in the article she says that people in Zurich are very friendly and helpful.

Let this be a lesson to you kids - drug use can seriously impair your brain function - even decades later!!!

I do wonder about the readers of this blog...

Who the hell needed to translate Swiss cow fighting culture into Slovakian???

Please make yourself known to me!

Remember this guy?

It's "Goat Peter" from the Heidi film.

Stefan Arpagaus who played him was on Aeschbacher tonight.

I somehow don't think he's still dining out for free on this one anymore.



Now present-day Clara on the other hand...like Paul McCartney I think I could overlook her disability!

Smarten Up Swiss People

So the UBS wants to introduce dress code guidelines and people are up in arms.

Personally, I like my bank employees to look like bank employees and not renegades from a second hand store/tattoo parlor/Lord of the Rings convention/Mr Weirdy Tufty Beard Competition (delete as appropriate).

VOTE YES!

If you have voting rights, then please, please, please vote yes to the SP tax initiative on Sunday.

This is the best chance we'll ever have to rid this land of the scourge that is Phil Collins....

Festivals

If you are in serious need of some entertainment at this time of year (and now that the new Miss Schweiz has been crowned - who isn't?) may I suggest two festivals, one each from the French and Italian speaking parts of the country?

Cow fighting.
What more needs to be said!
(Note that the link leads to the "culture" section...)

Chestnut festival.
Expect large delays at the Gotthard Tunnel for this beauty!

That's the Swiss for you, 24 hour party people!