about 4 months ago - No comments
In the category of dumbest religion ever, a new challenger has arisen: Kopimism, a new Swedish religion based on the belief that information wants to be free. Their holy icons are the CTRL+C and CTRL+V and their patron saint is Julian Assange. From the BBC here: A “church” whose central tenet is the right to…
about 1 year ago - No comments
I got out of work tonight and was wandering this great section of Zurich and saw a pub that had body piercings tools and studs in the windows. “Repulsive!” I thought. Then I saw a sign for Budweiser for 6.50 CH, and I thought “Attractive!” I went into the bar and ordered the beer and…
about 1 year ago - No comments
Frozen Zurich Marketway, originally uploaded by BelchSpeak. So far this week I’ve been in Geneva, but this afternoon and evening I moved over to Zurich. Geneva, as a city, is a depressing gulag of a town. The citizens seem dispirited and every wall surface below eight feet tall is covered in graffiti and vandalism. Yeah,…
about 1 year ago - No comments
Blogging may be light for a while. I’m about to go to Switzerland because I need to learn how to yodel and play the alphorn STAT! My throat is a bit scratchy, but I think they give away Riccola cough drops at the airport parking lot. They say its cold there now, but I think…
about 2 years ago - 2 comments
I had no idea until yesterday that you could go to another country for the expressed purpose of committing suicide. But you can in Switzerland. A company there called of all things, “Dignitas” will murder you with your consent and then dump your remains in a jar at the bottom of Lake Zurich. And for…
about 2 years ago - No comments
Those Haitian aftershocks are tough! It appears to have weakened the floors beneath a weight-watchers clinic in Sweden. And they say Americans are fat! From the Telegraph here: As the dieters queued to see how many pounds they had shed, the floor beneath them in the clinic in Växjö, in south-central Sweden, began to rumble,…
about 2 years ago - 2 comments
Good for the Swiss. They drew a line in the snow and said to the Islamic immigrants that no, you are not going to litter the countryside with gigantic dildo-shaped towers from which you will blast screeching ear-melting music five times per day. From a Pissed-off Associated Press here: Swiss voters overwhelmingly approved a constitutional…