Some Weird Facts About Switzerland?

[shaan888]

please provide some first hand information about some of the most fascinating facts about Switzerland. thank you :)

[Peter Pedant]

// The Teachers actually get a decent and deserving wage!//

but the kids are not obviously better educated

( unlike Hong Kong Peking or Malaysia - can you imagine a north korean leaning over a relucant times-tabler - and saying - you learn seven times table or you get hankie in mouth ? )
Heavens no I cant

[maggiebee]

There is a 500-year-old statue of a man eating a sack of babies in Bern, Switzerland, and nobody is sure why.

[Tilly2]

,,,,and there's a bear in a pit!

[Tilly2]

,,,,or there was when we visited. Maybe it's not there now.

[Dinapal]

Social Services are inept.William Tell has still not been asked to explain himself.

[Peter Pedant]

there is a statue in Brussels called the mannekin-pis
and that is quite near switzerland
and by contrast it is obvious why it is called that

[Jackdaw33]

There's also one in Rouen, France.

[Peter Pedant]

no one knows the name of the swiss president
( not surprisingly - they seem to have one a year. )

OK it is Doris Leuthard

[Dinapal]

Yesterday it was Doris Blew-Hard

[Peter Pedant]

is that why the swiss have recently banned the sale of gob-stoppers?
I think we shouldbe told

[DTCwordfan]

You can not wash your car on Sunday (serious)