Do you do "happy ends" Love?

Yes, with defibrillators...

Good idea

The papers today are reporting that the authorities are looking for ways to close the loophole which allows 16-year-olds to prostitute themselves legally. Last week Geneva became the first place in Switzerland to ban this.

Anyone else think this is something which should have taken priority over banning minarets? As in, this is a real problem....

Let's take a trip...

...to Burg im Leimental where the home of the discoverer of LSD Albert Hofmann is for sale for a cheap 2.5 million Francs.

Nice house with a "unique panoramic view in the middle of 30,000 square meters of agriculturally zoned land".

He lived to be over 100. What did he know that we don't???

Coke introduced to Switzerland's biggest supermarket chain.

Yes indeedy, it's true!

Coke, first patented in 1887, is now available (sorry, awailable) in Switzerland's biggest supermarket chain - Migros. In addition, other tools of the Devil such as Pampers and Nescafe coffee are also on sale now.

Let's make a big song and dance about this! Let's celebrate modernity arriving to Helvetia!

Read the flyer here.

Read an interview about this monumental move here.

If it's all too much for you, click here.

Euro groups drawn

So England are in Switzerland's group for the Euro 2012 qualifiers.

The last time English fans came, they based themselves in Zurich for the match in Vaduz. Unsurprisingly they got out of hand.

One group got the shock of their life when the barman in a pub in the Niederdorf/Old Town pulled out a gun and shot one of them in the leg.

Tough on crime, tough on the causes of crime. That's the Swiss!

That'll teach you to be late!

Train 5 minutes late?

Not acceptable.


Solution: put the train driver in hospital.

No Deal

After 6 years of being on air, Deal or No Deal is to disappear from our screens. Like most things that are successful, I don't understand the attraction, not least the cocky presenter - Roman Kilchsperger.

Still, doesn't seem to make business sense seeing as it was getting 30% audience share. Presumably it had to go to make way for ALF re-runs.

Can't wait!

Stop thief, I wanna have a drink with you....

So you're on your way home and you see three teenagers about to break into an apartment.

Do you:

a) walk by, it's none of your business

b) find the nearest phone to alert the police

or

c) invite them all back to your house for a drink whereupon they threaten you and steal your money?

That's what this guy in Switzerland did!

UEFA

One thing I do like in Switzerland is the fake advertising you sometimes see put up as part of the Swiss Project Mayhem.

I spotted this sticker on a door in the city center recently.

Cervelats - National Task Force Created

I don't know about you, but the story of the summer so far for me has to be which foreign country will save our saussies with their intestines...

South Africa, Paraguay, and Uruguay are all worthy suppliers of intestines, but you really can't beat Brazil for its footballers, women, and its cows' intestines from native Zebu cattle.

Z-List celebs in Switzerland are called Cervelat Promis - maybe there's a solution in there. Let's find a use for people like Roman Kilchsberger and Baschi by ripping open their guts and using them to sheath our beloved cervelats....harsh but fair I know.....