Grüezi mitenand. Today we will have links about the Confederatio Helvetica. They will be neat, orderly and on time. One could say like a Swiss watch. And, if they did, I would chuckle and down some kirschwasser. Proschtli!
- Switzerland is quite tight with its’ citizenship, but chock full of foreigners. I knew 2 of the three places you find most of them without even giving much thought. See if you can guess all three.
- At least one canton has its head on straight. Zug, baby, Zug.
- I might not care about soccer (football, whatever) but even Swiss amateurs get fightin’ mad about it.
- Swiss newspapers/news sources. Most in German, some French or Italian. A few in English. I love the sometimes bitchy and gossipy tone of Inside Paradeplatz (warning – in German) and wish the American business press was more like them. [Examples: A story about the top 3 executives at a small bank, Raiffeisen, has a headline with them crying “bullshit” at the news of huge bonuses for themselves. The article is really snippy, mmmm! Second, and more delicious, the paper gets in many digs at the Swiss financial regulator, FINMA, because the head of the agency has twice left his wife for another woman….at the business he was a top exec of at the time. Can you imagine some US paper ragging the SEC chief over his or her personal life…non-stop? Yeah, me neither.]
And there you have it. Now, here is a picture of cheese.
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167 responses to “Saturday Afternoon (Swiss) Links”
A fine country but their cheese is meh compared to Italy and France (plus a couple of Spanish).
the cheese is okay but nothing special. Their wine is hard to get outside the country cause they export little and consume most. I have nothing to say of their beer or their women as I have not had the pleasure
Samichlaus Bier used to be Swiss but is now produced in Austria. It is good beer.
I have a few Schmidt-Rubins. They are interesting rifles.
I’ve had some Swiss red wine. It’s OK.
I’ve also not had the pleasure of meeting Swiss women.
That tells me you haven’t had a fine Alpage or Raclette.
my friends who live in the land of the Swiss generally describe it as nice but boring. which is good i guess.
Zurich, Geneva, and feel the Berne.
Even if I’m wrong, I’m still right.
…and badly hungover…
You didn’t take my advice about the French 75s I hope.
Nope. Standard vodka & cokes.
Then some cider…
vodka and wuuut ?
Are you in highschool ? Cuz that sounds like a highschool cocktail.
Vodka and coke. Now I get it. You shot some vodka and then snorted some coke.
My bad. Carry on.
Dude, if it was just vodka with soda, I wouldn’t be hungover.
Do you even Glib, bro?
I can see the future: I see a future me with cigar and alcohol breath…like in 4 hours. Then I see a hungover Jimbo in about 20 hours.
Seriously, drink a beer. You’ll feel better.
Just one? Hmm… I think I’ll revise your plan.
From Modern Drunkard Magazine:
It’s the third to the last slide, but I can’t find a way to get a direct link to it.
Same Boat, BP. I’m gonna tough mine out.
Lay back on your chesterfield and have one of the orphans bring a cool cloth to your brow (ostrich feather fans optional). It’s funny that I never get sick until I get hungover. No colds or flues for decades. Mind you, I still weigh the same as i did when I was thirty so I got that goin’ for me.
Random anecdote. When me and some friends had to drive from France to northern Italy, we went by Switzerland to save money cause the one year highway tax in Switzerland was less than the tolls we had to pay in France and Italy. I think it was 40 francs a year.
If there are any other bassists here, have some porn.
I wish I had the money…
This is what I thought bassist pr0n was.
I think I’m going to stick with my definition in the future.
You want to buy an Ernie Ball Stingray?
they mostly seem to be going for about a grand used. I’d let mine go for ~$800 if you want it. (very lightly used, well maintained)
Its a black w/ rosewood like this one
https://reverb.com/item/882686-music-man-stingray-neck-through-4-string-bass-black-with-case
For some reason your link takes me to the fender homepage.
But to me, my favorite bass has always been the fender p in sunburst, a tort guard, and rosewood fingerboard.
I think I own 3 of them at this point and 1 in that color scheme jazz bass. Can’t get enough of them.
Happy day – was down in MD at the good liquor store and found Dragon’s Milk; will crack a bottle open here shortly.
I love me some Stout and Porters.
That’s a solid one. Is it the standard one or one of the reserve ones? And if you like bourbon as well, New Holland also sells a bourbon that was finished in the same barrels that aged Dragon’s Milk.
Standard, but this was your recommendation after my mention of the Jameson Caskmate – which was quite tasty. Will look for that bourbon next.
It’s a really good bourbon, at a reasonable price (at least in my neck of the woods). It picks up just a bit of the sweet malt notes from the Dragon’s Milk.
Dragon’s Milk is good stuff.
It is indeed. It was chasing down seared tuna steak, rice and spinach salad.
I just opened an Icelandic Wee Heavy from Einstök. I like it.
Dang….nice!
SS (OMG! Is Swiss a Nazi?!): The Irish are good at fucking things up, but their corp tax rate is very nice. Hopefully, the EU won’t make them change it.
I qualify for Italian citizenship, and one of my escape plans for if the Hildebeast had won was to use that to get into Switzerland. It’s still a backup option for the derpocalypse, but knowing my luck, they’ll probably get rid of their policy of letting in EU citizens just in time to leave me stranded in the country my ancestors purposefully abandoned.
I could have qualified for Canadian citizenship, but Mom renounced hers when she moved to the US.
Oh well, I’d be even homelier with dot eyes and a flapping head.
The Change will happen whether you like it or not, it’s in your blood, traitor.
Don’t call me traitor, buddy!
Shit! Shit!
If you understand this it’s too late.
No… NO! … Watching SCTV and Kids In The Hall… it wasn’t supposed to do this… *have to stop…*
Well, you know, it could be worse. I’ll go downta Tim’s and get a donair and a double-double with a splash of homo and add a bit of alcool.
*Screams runs away*
THAT’S ONTARIAN! KILL IT QUICK BEFORE IT GETS AWAY!
Can you work in Switzerland with an EU passport?
As of now, yes.
I’m just a tad too far removed from my Irish ancestors to qualify for Irish citizenship.
Vintage Swiss music for the Servator
Bonus track
What would a Swiss themed theme park be like?
Admission is free with the deposit of artwork or bullion.
I used to describe Switzerland as what it would be like if Disney were a country.
Ha…Schweizer Burger.
Oregon voters may decide to toss constitutional ban on duels
“Should ongoing discussions in Salem [the state capital] materialize, voters would see a question on their general-election ballots asking if a 172-year-old ban on dueling by public officials — as in, the old-fashioned way of resolving fights — should be erased from the Oregon Constitution.
“The constitutional ban in question is Article II, Section 9, which says anyone who offers, accepts, knowingly participates in a ‘challenge to fight a duel … or who shall agree to go out of the State to fight a duel, shall be ineligible to any office of trust, or profit.’…
“Today though, says [Republican Senator Brian] Boquist, chief sponsor of the proposal, it’s an archaic rule that’s unnecessary for obvious reasons in modern times….
“The sole public testimony came from Dan Meek, a Portland attorney and Oregon Progressive Party spokesman, who opposes Boquist’s proposal for two reasons.
“‘This resolution would allow the candidacies of persons who give or accept challenges to fight duels,’ Meek wrote to the committee. ‘Also, there is a cost to removing obviously unenforced and unenforceable provisions in the Oregon Constitution, including the cost of processing and printing this resolution on millions of ballots and processing the results.’”
All political races should be decided through dueling.
+1 President Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho
Of course a Progressive would be opposed to removing an aspect of gov’t – even one as obsolete as this. But the derptasticness of “a cost to removing obviously unenforced and unenforceable provisions” is truly a wonder of false economy.
You think they’re progressives just because it says so in the party name?
Lucky guess.
Seattle’s personal combat/fight club rule seems to work ok.
Should Scotland join Canada?
I was with him on the idea of a Scottish cultural super-bloc in this country until Far from abandoning any future Scottish bid for the EU, Mr McGoogan argues that Scotland could apply to join with Canada.
Why on earth would you want Canada to latch onto that sinking ship?
I like the idea that countries coming apart and being put together in different ways can become a thing.
Well… we already included the Maritimes so…
The Motherland! er, no thank you.
I just got back from shooting my new VEPR 12. If you have ever seriously contemplated what is truly best in life, I would argue that sending 10 rounds of 12 gauge downrange in 1.5 seconds as fast as you can pull the trigger definitely makes the short list for top contenders.
What’s the technical difference between a VEPR 12 and a Saiga 12? (aside from merely who makes them)
This video explains it in detail, but the main features (other than you can’t buy new saigas anymore cause of Obama) are the magazine well (straight in not rock n lock like an AK), much better reliability, true last round bolt hold open with a bolt release, and much more user friendly controls. The new ones do not have a folding stock, but if you really want one you can spend the extra coin and get it. I had a saiga 12 back in the day and I can tell you with absolutely zero doubt that this gun is worlds above the saiga in every way. I wouldn’t even look at a saiga compared to a VEPR.
Cool. I want one.
Society Failed Them = Putting the Conclusion in the Lede
yeah, when some moozy nutjob murders people screaming devotion to allah, my first thought is = clearly Western society has failed
I think the editor softened up the actual idea they were trying to express to the point of incoherence, because only a graf or two ore and its a little different =
Usually in these sorts of articles, the thing usually being bemoaned was not that ‘maybe left-wing ideas about assimilation were flawed‘, but rather ‘the “Far-Right” benefits from these attacks!” That latter version was pretty much what you read in every story in 2016 – now, you see even the MSM press starting to suggest that they can’t just pretend forever that their warm-embrace of muslim refugees has been an unmitigated good.
my first thought is = clearly Western society has failed
You and Pat Buchanan, but he with a sincere absence of sarcasm and irony.
I visited Sweden back in the 1980’s and had a wonderful time even though it was much more expensive than West Germany. I went back to Sweden in 2013 and walking around Malmo felt like walking around a cooler version of any middle eastern city. The Swedes screwed up by allowing up by virtually unrestricted immigration from the middle east and in 2016 (according to the Swedish gov.) 23.2% of people were born abroad of born to two parents who were born abroad. (And that number doubled the 2004 percentages) There is no way any country on Earth can assimilate that many people of a completely foreign cultural background in that short or period.
Compounding the assimilation issue is the elites of Swedish society do not insist that the newcomers accept and embrace Swedish societal norms. There is a sexual assault problem in Sweden with multiple sources citing Sweden as the most “rapey” society among the industrial nations. Is the solution to imprison and then expel rapists? No, it is to tell women that they should change their behaviors so not to “inflame” the muzzies.
It is sad to see a former Norse (aka Viking) society to completely wimp out. I will not be going back to visit Sweden again, sorry grandma Ruth.
The capacity for denying reality is the dominant trait among the left and right. The left just happens to have more presence in the halls of power and media.
Oh shit guys, the normies found out about the Meme War!
…and their reaction is about as insightful as you’d expect.
Aha! The truth about Bacon Magic comes out.
We were memers once… and young.
Oh man, that’s hilarious! These people really don’t get it.
Do you want Cthulhu awakened? Because this is how you get Cthulhu awakened.
Oops. Try again: This is how you get Cthulhu awakened.
Andrija Mohorovičić, call your office.
This is how you get a Dr. Who series
I remember being really, really scared when I first saw it.
Just a good ol’ boy… never meanin’ no harm….
The crazy adventures of Florida man continue…
Please tell me it was a camaro. Please, it has to be a camaro. I guess a mustang would work as well, but a camaro would be so much better.
I agree, but – Firebird.
T-top.
Biden approves!
Man fined for not following leash law.
Well this should be an easy one to beat.
Next on The Scales of Justice!
*narrows gaze*
“He was literally asking me to put a rope around my snake,”
Richard Quest again?
A few weeks ago, I was listening to the BBC world service and they had a very strange report about Russia, wikileaks, and the US election.
What made it strange was there was no discussion at all about whether the leaked information was true. They only cared about who did it and who would be hurt by it.
It was a really bizarre glimpse into pure tribalism.
This isn’t new. No one, not even fox news has even broached the subject about the veracity of the leaked intel. The mere fact that SOMEONE meddled is apparently the only salient point.
By saying the Russians meddled, it kinda points to not the veracity of the information. If the info was false then it could be shown to be false and felt with like a rational being. Since it is not false, they have to make up diversions away from it.
Okay, who here runs this this site (NSFW)?
They’ve actually been around for freaking ever. I remember checking them out before I was drinking age.
Not me, but I have been meaning to get my t-shirt site up for months. I can’t decide on a name though.
Libertees?
Eh, taken
I am leaning toward, “Bloody Fingers T-shirts. Using only cheap shirts manufactured by child labor in foreign sweatshops. If you don’t like it, don’t buy one bitch.”
Seems a bit long, http://www.bftuocsmbclifsiydlidbob.com doesn’t exactly roll of the fingers either, although I’d be willing to wager the domain is available.
After more research, bloody fingers is out!
That is disgusting.
Very nice.
There are basically 3 kinds of derp, which I categorize as:
wrong: 2 + 2 = 5
very wrong: 2 + 2 = -17
not even wrong: hammer + tomato = January
This is solidly in the last category.
President Andrew Shepherd has a quick word for those who think dropping bombs is presidential
So….the pretend President is better because he feels bad about killing innocent people but does it anyway? Are they implying that policy should be based on what happens in fiction? Or that presidents should be judged according to what happens in Aaron Sorkin’s imagination?
I am baffled.
I think it’s quite Presidential.
The Presidency is all about unbridled power and killing people who happen to get in the way.
Oh, and Sorkin is an idiot.
Yes. He sure is.
Spot the Not: Aaron Sorkin
1. I like writing idealistically, romantically and swashbucklingly.
2. I consider plot a necessary intrusion on what I really want to do, which is write snappy dialogue.
3. I take anywhere between six to eight showers a day. I’m not exaggerating. I’m not a germaphobe: it’s all about a fresh start.
4. Good writers borrow from other writers. Great writers steal from them outright.
5. The validity of the ideas is less important to me than how dramatic and noble they sound.
6. Heroes in drama are people who try hard to reach a virtuous ideal. And whether they succeed or fail really doesn’t matter – it’s the trying that counts.
Imma go with 5. For some reason, I can’t imagine Sorkin admitting his characters ideas may not be grounded in reality.
I know he didn’t originate #4 – that’s a quote from someone older (Twain?), but that doesn’t mean Sorkin never said it.
I was going to say 4, too.
#4 is not Sorkin.
Heinlein said something similar, but I think he was just stealing from whoever first said it.
The not is #4, isn’t it? I’m pretty sure someone else said that.
never mind. Apparently he did say it, but he borrowed it from another writer (T.S. Eliot)
You sometimes begin to think that Progressives are sort of Chance the Gardner – TV defines their reality.
Obnoxiously insufferable and speaking in trite clichés? Yup, defines progressives to a T.
Random thought:
I have heard a lot from progs about their desire to build a global society based on tolerance, equality, and all that good stuff. They feel they would be able to live happily with people of all colors and creeds….
…and then the next moment, they ranting and raving about how much they hate conservatives/libertarians/Christians and how they refuse to interact with them.
Tolerant people don’t tolerate intolerance.
I ask “strong feminists” how they support widespread muzzie immigration with no expectation that they assimilate to our culture and not us to theirs? When they reply “all societies have value and we should embrace them” I silently open a ISIS video showing a woman being stoned to death and just hand them my phone so they can watch it without saying a word. The reactions have generally produced anger, mostly at me and not ISIS, since I just rubbed their noses in the values of the caliphate.
I believe the US should openly and warmly embrace those who will join the “American Stew” from wherever they are from. But this is our club and if you want to join you should embrace equality before the law, minimal government intrusion into citizen’s lives, mind your own business & I will mind mine and that the only way an American should look at a politician or government employee is to look down on them.
equality before the law, minimal government intrusion into citizen’s lives, mind your own business & I will mind mine
Where do I sign up for this place you speak of?
Agreed.
I won’t even go as far as you. For immigration, I believe that you should be allowed into the country as long as you have no violent felonies, no current warrants, post a bond that will pay for travel back to your home country (this one I’m willing to compromise on), and if you are from an area with a (real) epidemic you get quarantined for the time necessary to verify you aren’t contagious. After that, you’re allowed into the country, you pay taxes, but do not qualify for any welfare, food stamps, WIC, disability, voting, or any other federal aid programs. You commit a felony, you get deported. Other then that, welcome to our country, and thank you for coming.
Citizenship is another story.
The only way that would remotely viable is if we also sterilized them on entry to the country. Because I can guarantee that as soon as one of them has a kid, there will be a Brazilian and a half, “think about the children,” sob stories demanding that they get government benefits.
That’s why that part is non-negotiable. If nothing else, it can point out that most of those arguing for more immigration aren’t being honest about why they want more immigration.
Something like that could help end the immigration law quagmire. Pay a real “damn this hurts” fine, get a card that normalizes your presence, keep out of legal problems, pay your taxes and you can stay. Want to get US citizenship? Leave to your country and apply to get readmitted as a potential citizen. Back of the line for you.
I would also end chain immigration for all. Become a US citizen and you can sponsor your spouse and children under the age of 14. Period. Want to see your parents, siblings, aunts and uncles? By a plane ticket. By doing this we open space to bring in people with the skills that can benefit those people and the larger society (as a byproduct and not as a qualification).
I do find the disconnect between tolerance of Christianity vs that of Islam almost funny.
Dude, The Crusades…
So the counter attack to displace an invader is wrong but the initial invasion was okay?
As any historian will tell you, the Muslims were just peacefully minding their own business, when the Pope called a Crusade for absolutely no reason whatsoever.
They do seem to think that the rest of the world shares their values and the US is uniquely full of yokels.
Realize that most of them think the US is one of the more racist countries in the world. That’s the level of their ignorance.
Uruguay Legalises Recreational Cannibas
I have not been to Uruguay but I’ve heard good things about it.
I haven’t been either. I don’t know anything about it. I have heard great things about Peru and Chile.
A friend of mine from my undergrad years went to Peru and loved it.
I have relatives in Ecuador. I visited them two years ago. It was a nice trip, and there are some nice things about Ecuador, but I do not want to live there.
I lived in Uruguay for a while. One of the reasons it was legalized (which is thought happened a while ago) was that cannabis was literally everywhere. You would smell it more often than regular cigarette smoke. (Yes it’s hyperbole, but Uruguay is where it learned the smell of marijuana, so much so that it’s would hardly notice when i smelled it.)
Ugh. I spent several working seasons living in a motorhome with my bro. I stopped smoking weed at 30 because it made me paranoid once in awhile. The stench was nauseating. Every 15 minutes he’d have a hit and the bugs were so bad that if you opened the door for even three seconds you’d spend half an hour trying to track them down before beddie-bye.
Should you stand or walk on the escalator?
My pet peeve. Walk! Or you deserve this.
I used to be like you, now i only bitch about the standers that refuse to move aside
Also my pet peeve. Stand! I have a theory that walkers are the reason they go out of service all the time. Plus, why would I exert any more energy than I have to? That’s madness.
I was at LAX years ago. I had to quickly get to my car, so I went up the Down escalator. It stopped. I decided to run very quickly and GTFO of there fast.
Funny story Re: your “up on the down stairs” in a CA airport. I believe it was John Wayne/OC/Santa Ana.
Going down a beautiful set of stone stairs, I think to baggage claim, I decided about half way down I want a soda. I seem to recall a “No Reentry From This Point” sign, but I don’t think I had gotten that far. I turn around, and not 2 steps back up, flashing lights and a beeping alarm go off, and the police officer/TSA/SS at the top of the stairs HAS HIS HAND ON HIS SIDEARM, screaming “Turn around and go back down the fuckin stairs!”.
It affected me such that I’m now very (scornfully) aware of going the wrong way on stairs and escalators for fear of being shot 🙁
(I’m not a snowflake and have had guns actually drawn on me by ne’er do wells, but IDK, this may have been a Libertarian/anti-authoritarian awakening for me)
Those who stand, stand on the right, and let us walkers pass you on the left. Otherwise, a bloodbath may ensue.
Walkers should take the damn stairs.
Morning rush hour at the station and you’ll see one dude standing, holding up everyone else. Not rush? IDC either way.
I have never seen that when people follow the stand-on-the-right rule. Don’t people follow that there?
Yes, but during the morning rush hour, usually both sides are used for walking.
The one I take every day is very long like the pic in the linked article. No way I’m walking up that shit.
No way. Stand. If you want to walk, take the non-electric stairs.
https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=clam+digger+wheel+of+fortune&view=detail&mid=EA6CBA207F997F480EDBEA6CBA207F997F480EDB&FORM=VIRE
I am on my tablet.
This is hilarious!
wow.
Clam Naggers!
That was funny too. But hell, this was real. Sajak’s comment had me rolling.
How do you not guess any other letter in that situation? God, call out a letter that’s already in use. Call out the yen-sign or the number 7. Anything but that, moron?
I mean, just start with ABC! “bigger” is a real word even if “clam bigger” doesn’t mean anything!
Well handled, Pat.
Fake but funny
RUSSIANS!
I’m surprised that Dallas has a network of “emergency sirens”. Please NYC don’t adapt this idea thanks.
They’re for tornados.
I’m against the death penalty, but I’m willing to make exceptions under certain circumstances.
This popped up on my Twitter feed. I chuckled.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C85lNo_XcAATGj5.jpg:large
Fuckin Russians!
That has just the right amount of labels.
That Grecian frog ain’t dead, he’s jes sleepin’!
Well, until he is forced to close as he admits is happening to everyone else in the very next sentence. Dummy.
Oh, man, I got scooped by Zardoz.
Like into his giant peg-toothed mouth? Did you shite your red diaper? Come to think of it, there is a reason for those suspenders…
He’ll make it up in volume.
Have these people never cracked a textbook? When you devalue anything by making more of said thing it loses value. Could be tulips, might be Scarlett Johansen’s toenail clippings. Fucking idiots. I don’t wanna be the guy that paid good money for my “project” just to have it wiped out by some “Johnny-come-lately”.
“might be Scarlett Johansen’s toenail clippings.”
Is that you, SugarFree?
“At this point, does it matter?” (Cackles)
Currently binge watching John Landis’ entries in the “Trailers from Hell” series
I discovered it when i mentioned The Naked Prey the other day; little did i know he narrates a few dozen similar films.
i think i enjoy them because i just like Landis. He reminds me of a lot of the better professors i had over the years.