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I have committed various terrible crimes

-Attempting to speak really really bad High German to Swiss people (I am maybe lucky to be alive)

- Folding a blanket the wrong way in a mountain hut.

-Drimking from a fountain marked "kein Trinkwasser" I got really shouted at. (it was obviously fine but the hut warden didn't get his 7CHF/L for bottled water.

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I knew I could count on you Martin.

Yes, you're lucky to be alive.

Very very much lucky to be alive. I mean - come on!

Potentially dangerous - but I guess in this case you were right.

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🤣

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Hehehe (chuckling and hope that is an appropriate response) I hope I have never annoyed a Swiss person - especially you, my friend!!! And as someone brought up in Germany, German is not my favorite language. My family wanted me to take German for the easy high marks but I protested. "No! I'm taking French!"

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Totally appropriate.

Haven't annoyed me - at least not that I remember. Way to go for taking French!

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Playing a game called "mens erger je niet" but at the end she was the winner. Which she deserved off course.

Just kidding, I always try not to annoy anyone. If I was in Switzerland or anywhere else.

Here in The Netherlands most tourists think we speak several languages. Okay, most of us do but not everyone.

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Which literally means "don't get annoyed". Love that game. Have fond memories of playing it with my grandpa. I am very competitive though so I'm glad I won.

I loved the other one we played - especially when the question was a country starting with 'z' and I was sitting there going "I know, I know, I know". Switzerland has a 'z' at the beginning in Dutch. Pronounced /s/. Don't get me started on that.

I do sometimes assume that everybody speaks English, but I don't have a problem if they don't.

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Luckily, my Swiss friend in Canada speaks English. And it's hard to imagine her being anything but incredibly tactful.

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Oh, we're the nicest people ever.

Unless people annoy us, then we're petty and grumply. I blame our big neighbor Germany. Whenever I speak German I feel like people think I am German and you can't have that.

Unless I'm in Germany and people make fun of my cute Swiss accent. Another way to annoy a Swiss German speaker (not to be confused with a speaker of Swiss German).

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I have just remembered by uncles story of annoying Swiss. He lived in Zug in the 1970s. Shortly after arriving a policeman stopped him in his car and asked for his licence. He didn't have it with him and apologised explaining it isn't required in the UK. "It's OK", said the policeman, "I quite understand. But tell me, do you have to stop at red lights in the UK?"

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It could be worse. My half French cousin gets asked if he is Belgian!

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Does it bother him? I like Belgian French 😊

I had to do French number math recently. My room was 72 (60+12). Much prefer Belgian/Swiss French with our septante deux.

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From the way he talk about it, yes! But yes personally I have always enjoyed Belgium and the Belgians.

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The sign we saw in Saas thst suggested there are problems with people being annoying to Swiss people. From memory it read "Village rules....... Unfortunately your non compliance has been forseen and the village guardians have been instructed to prevent marplots"

We had to look up marplots but it is a word and mean just what you think it meams

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OMD - that's so funny. They do get a lot of tourist up there. I'm sure that sign is there for a reason and I'm even more sure they don't just mean foreign tourists.

That's a good word. Still laughing. Thanks Martin.

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I also sometimes wonder what happened to the group of stereotypically loud, slightly drunk American 20 somethings on a balcony in Randa (very conservative, quiet village). I walked past at about 9.58pm. I suspect 2 minutes later they were in a lot of trouble.

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So much trouble! I bet they woke them up at 6 AM with very loud bells or something.

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Let me think .... I don't think so.

You annoyed a piece of Swiss cheese? Don't think I've ever achieved that. If we're calling it an achievement.

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