So I've been trying to make a getaway from Canadaland. It just feels like I've been on a circular track for so long, and I'm ready to make a run for a finish line elsewhere.
Anyway, the point of the story is I've applied to a handful of private and government labs in Japan, and yet every offer I get for prostituting my mind out there seems to be Swiss. I'd pick up on an offer if I didn't think that the European standard for scientific exploration is the grown-up equivalent of a nursery class enjoying LEGO day with hand-made paper shreds instead.
I always like to turn offers down with gentle humor, so that perhaps in the future I could remain an outsourcing consultant, but the Swiss seem to take it as an invitation to talk up the benefits of being situated exactly where their tuchuses lie in the space-time continuum.
Over the last few days I've heard tales of Swiss watches and their inspiration for the Japanese atomic bomb sights. I've learnt that Swiss actually take the Tom and Jerry level joke of swiss cheese imagery as a sort of national pride in the international cartoon industry. I've been introduced to Leatherman's competition as family run diamond-grade underpinnings of the hardware industry with Swiss business prowess going hand-in-hand as the next big industrial hope of weapon inspiration. I've been inundated with catch phrase upon catch phrase of how many patents the average person holds, how many people can boast about scaling the alps, the apparently highly misunderstood security of their bank accounts, being at the forefront of physics research, freedom's association with fending off gun laws and many other interesting facts that I have now given up trying to recall.
The damned swiss. Their life actually seems interesting. Now how does a country that has a population less than a third of Canada's manage such accomplishment?
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Originally Posted by Carthy
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