Nesting Cuckoos

Don't be so gloomy. After all it's not that awful. Like the fella says, in Italy for 30 years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love - they had 500 years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock.

Harry Lime

I think it wrong to sit on a man. Soon, I shall think it wrong to sit on a horse. Eventually (I suppose) I shall think it wrong to sit on a chair.

G K Chesterton

Ah, Switzerland! Where plants have "dignity", there are dog licences–for the owners, where the rights and proper care of every pet from goldfish to rhinoceros is enshrined in laws written by politicians who are never anything save altruistic, and soon to be an alpine wasteland because the regulations for raising, keeping or in any way interacting with any flora or fauna makes it simpler to just exterminate the whole bloody lot of them and be done with it.

RinSpeed sQuba

Rinspeed of Switzerland have come up with a zero-emissions that is also amphibious AND can go underwater.

This is truly ambitious, but I hope they're aware that the plucky Brits are giving them some stiff competition.

RoboChef: Breakfast Edition

It put the cheese and ham in with the eggs before whisking it. IN with the eggs BEFORE whisking.

Clearly the Swiss are far behind us in omelette technology.

Cultural Suicide Part XIII

The Swiss government has a bit in its new constitution about the "dignity of plants" that makes PETA look like a barbeque rib restaurant chain.

Stand by for picking flowers to be declared a crime against... I honestly have no idea.

Major Boothroyd, Call Your Service

The Swiss have come up with a concept car that is capable of operating underwater (sadly, it's open cockpit).

Once again, MI6 was there thirty years before.