How Swiss see the world

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  1. If Switzerland’s distribution looks like this, then what is France’s?

    If we’re going to generalize, let’s at least do it seriously.

  2. Don’t half-ass what you do and expect good results.
    Put your back into it, put your ass into it.

  3. I’m a native Kraut, but I work in Zürich for years now … had to go to Munich for 2 days for a conference … was pissed off how dirty everything looked … got mad, that the shuttle train to the airport was 9 minutes late … rolled my eyes when some Germans talked too loud in the Tram back in Zürich … I also write my neighbors complaint letters, if they play loud music after 22:00h (I have yet to become “Bünzli” enough to call the police and yell “Aazeig isch dusse”)

  4. American grades: A, B, C, D, E: Great to ok, F: not ok
    Swiss grades: 6-4: great to ok, 3.5: you fucked up, 3: you really fucked up: 2.5 absolutely pathetic, 2: holy shit did you even try 1.5: why *do* you even try 1: literally the lamppost next to you could’ve gotten the same grade

  5. Honestly, I don’t really feel this is accurate even as a joke.

    I feel most of it is kind ‘it’s fine’, ‘could be better’ but not terrible.

    not overly entusiastic, but also not overly negative. Complaining happens but even then it’s not ‘everything is terrible’

  6. Well if that, I don’t recomend you visiting Lebanon. The streets are already a big garbage but still you will be a billionaire there, everything has became cheaper ( for you, not for us)

  7. My garage has a sentence on their service feedback rating site that says something like this:

    >”We know people in Switzerland hesitate to give the highest grade on a scale. But we want to inform you that our international car partner that requests these feedbacks will see anything below the highest grade as insufficient. While a grade 4/5 may be a high praise for swiss standards, if you really want to say you were satisfied with our service please leave a 5/5.”

  8. My wife is American, I’m Swiss. The overlap of “that’s awesome” and “ehat’s this garbage” is sometimes very confusing

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