Switzerland! (And Europe)
March 10th, 2004
one week! one freaking week until i go to EUROPE. i’ve never been outside the good ‘ol North America, so i think this trip is going to be flat out amazing.
i’ll be leaving a week from today, and arriving in Zurich, Switzerland around 8am the next morning (3/18). from there, i’ll be going to Wallbach, which is near Basel (roughly an hour away, right on the german border).
Sara, the girl i’m going to visit out there, is house-sitting from the 11th until the end of march, so i get a free place to stay with one of the most amazing girls i’ve ever met. quite a combo, if you ask me. right now, most of the plans are still up in the air, but i’m planning on seeing as much of that part of Europe as possible. i’m going to be gone for just over 2 weeks, so hopefully i can knock out a TON of sightseeing. i just bought a new digital camera, so i’m sure i’ll put it through it’s paces as well.
if i have my way, i want to get a bunch of snowboarding done in the Alps, see a lot of the cool little towns that seem to be scattered about the entire countryside of switzerland, and visit a lot of the historical areas around the country (castles, etc). i want to get into as much of Germany and France as i can, also. we shall see. i know from even going to NYC (i spent a week up there, and we did like … half of what i wanted to do, at best), that 2 weeks is not going to be nearly enough. this is going to simply ‘wet my whistle’ and set up a future trip there.
although, i have a feeling that once i get over there, i’m not going to want to come back. i’m sure Switzerland could use another graphic designer in the fall, right? i’m kind of joking … but kind of not. we’ll see what happens.
when i booked the flight out there, i was wondering why i got such a good deal for round trip airfare. well, upon further inspection, i found out. my trip out there is a direct flight … but coming back - Zurich to Paris (layover in paris), Paris to London (layover in london), London to NYC (layover), NYC to DC, (layover), and DC to ATL. all in all, it’s like 22 hours traveling. sweet peter, i’m going to be ready to jump out of that plane by the end!
(sorry for rambling, but i’m bored and excited about the trip. quite a combo.)
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March 11th, 2004 at 12:49 pm
you gonna screw some pussy while you’re over there? that would be excellent!!!
March 11th, 2004 at 12:58 pm
no comment.
March 11th, 2004 at 3:07 pm
obvious no. hahahaha
March 11th, 2004 at 3:12 pm
LMAO!!!!!
March 11th, 2004 at 7:25 pm
OMG!!! u guyz r funee
March 15th, 2004 at 9:40 pm
He won’t get laid.
Might I remind you you HAVE been outside the US. To the Bahamas. Which I paid for.
March 16th, 2004 at 10:11 am
YIKES…the claws are out my friend!!!! Someone having a bad day of unemployment?
March 16th, 2004 at 10:28 am
Didn’t I ask you to nicely stop snapping at everything I post? You and Rick.
All the above was true. He HAS been out of the country before.
Just stop. Ok?
March 16th, 2004 at 10:30 am
BTW, I *am* employed, so I’m tired of hearing about that. Do you know my personal life that well? Doubt it.
March 16th, 2004 at 11:30 am
I actually know nothing about you, which makes me happy!!!
March 16th, 2004 at 11:39 am
I would have figured you to be unemployed, suckling on the teet of the american working class… isn’t that what socialists want?
March 16th, 2004 at 12:18 pm
oh, and just to clarify:
“i’ve never been outside the good ‘ol North America”
the Bahamas are considered North America by most…
“Might I remind you you HAVE been outside the US. To the Bahamas. Which I paid for.”
he never said anything about the US, so Dan’s statement stands, and YOU should learn to read the post before you try to insult somebody. you’ve sunk to my level, but I like it down here…
March 16th, 2004 at 12:22 pm
Man you guys are assholes. Daniel you’re alright except when you gang up on me.
Rick, I was your friend when we lived together. I liked you. You were cool.
Erik I didn’t know you well. From what I read of your replies, maybe I don’t.
Matt dissapeared but I liked him too.
I don’t get this hostility towards me. I really don’t.
March 16th, 2004 at 1:40 pm
hahaha!!! you’re right, i’m an asshole because i pick on people. take the high road on this one buddy, you’re not gonna insult me by calling me an asshole. hahaha
March 16th, 2004 at 3:05 pm
People attack you for the sole reason that you are living in a fantasy world completly disconnected from reality.
March 16th, 2004 at 3:06 pm
gang up? i’ve said nothing to you. we did go to the bahamas, and you did pay for the trip, and it was super awesome. i never said otherwise. :)
but, if we’re going to get into semantics here, i did say that i had never been out of north america, not the U.S.
March 17th, 2004 at 10:10 am
well, maybe its just me, but i have always heard something like this phrase “offer valid only in the continental united states”
and we all agree that the US is on the North American continent, logic would then conclude that hawaii is not in North America so therefor the Bahamas would not either
X gets the square fuckers
March 17th, 2004 at 10:26 am
“when i booked the flight out there, i was wondering why i got such a good deal for round trip airfare. well, upon further inspection, i found out. my trip out there is a direct flight … but coming back - Zurich to Paris (layover in paris), Paris to London (layover in london), London to NYC (layover), NYC to DC, (layover), and DC to ATL. all in all, it’s like 22 hours traveling. sweet peter, i’m going to be ready to jump out of that plane by the end!”
it really took you further inspection to realize you had all those layovers
truely sad, are you sure you have wits about you and common sense to live in a foreign country for 2 weeks
March 17th, 2004 at 12:05 pm
Burt wears short shorts
March 17th, 2004 at 12:07 pm
BURT!!!!!
March 17th, 2004 at 2:07 pm
I was on WKRP in Cincinatti!!!
March 17th, 2004 at 5:18 pm
Well since all of you idiots seem to be arguing over Dan’s trip out here, I guess I might as well give my 2 or 3 cents worth as well.
Who cares what fucking continent the guy is visiting, at least he’s going somewhere right?
He’ll survive here for 2 weeks with a broad who speaks the lingo and knows where to ride…and yes that just might include him if he’s lucky…..still doubtful, yes fruity, or whomever you are. Sorry Dan, just the way it is.
Amber, girl you have some serious issues you need to work out, and leaving Dan and his friends alone might be a good start. As for all the hostility you are sensing, I don’t even live there and I know where it comes from…OPEN YOUR EYES!!!!
To the lads. Dan’s told me bits and pieces but from what I read here you all seem like stand-up friends….as for his trip out here. Well you’ll just have to hear about the “action” now won’t you?
p.s.
fruity I would appreciate it if you referred to me as Queen Pussy rather than just pussy in the future. Thanks
March 17th, 2004 at 5:24 pm
Hey!
Anyone else think this Amber bitch sounds jealous that this Daniel guy has another girl stashed away somewhere?
Deal with it!
March 17th, 2004 at 6:29 pm
sorry Queen Pussy, my apologies
March 17th, 2004 at 6:41 pm
anyone else wanna see a good chick fight?
March 18th, 2004 at 3:06 am
all i have to say is WHO GIVES A FUCK?? what the hell do you mean by “stand-up” friends? there’s not a single person in this circle of friends that we have that woulnd’t stick up for someone else. even though we talk a lot of shit to each other, you don’t know us, so dont lay judgement. sounds to me like theres a cat fight brewing, if theres lesbian sex involved at the end let me know
March 18th, 2004 at 9:05 am
and another thing
title of this piece was Switzerland!
then i see a fucking map of all of europe
where’s switzerland? where’s switzerland? ah, thar she blows … just like danny boy … were irish eyes… , nevermind forget it
March 18th, 2004 at 10:16 am
Can I go to Switzerland too? I need some chocolate and a new watch. I would deposit money, but I hear they screwed over the Jews a while back.
March 18th, 2004 at 10:40 am
Hey Rick, “stand-up guys” is a complement not an insult. You can take it to mean “good guys”. It’s a figure of speech. I think it comes from the idea of a guy who ’stands up’ when a woman arrives at a table. It means you have manners and principles.
March 18th, 2004 at 12:18 pm
Ok, I’m glad I’m not the only one who noticed that. I couldn’t understand why Rick got all bent out of shape over “stand-up” guys. I thought I misunderstood something.
March 18th, 2004 at 10:22 pm
Once again, people who do not know me should not be talking about me. If you have read previous posts on this board, you will see I am constantly insulted. That’s ok. Just shows insecurity.
Daniel and I are cool. No problems. I wished him a very safe trip and to be careful and take lots of pictures to post.
Rick apologized today and I respect that very much. Thank you, friend. (hugs)
Sara, I don’t know you, anything about you. I don’t know how you can now attack me as well. I’m sure you’re a great person. Don’t stoop to the level of others.
>Amber, girl you have some serious issues you need to work out, and leaving Dan and his friends alone might be a good start. As for all the hostility you are sensing, I don’t even live there and I know where it comes from…OPEN YOUR EYES!!!!
What issues? I don’t mess with anyone anymore than they mess with me. Where does it come from? Funny I said to them ‘open your eyes’ in a previous post and I was flamed. Only hostility I feel is when I am ragged on for no reason. It’s uncalled for.
>Hey!
Anyone else think this Amber bitch sounds jealous that this Daniel guy has another girl stashed away somewhere?
Deal with it!
Piss on the bitch? How am I a bitch? Stashed away? Deal with it? Would this be you Sara posting again extremely close to the time of the previous post? Please don’t. I am a nice person. If I am wrong and accused you, I apologize, but I don’t get why everyone just gangs up on me. I really don’t. People do have feelings.
As you can see from just this post, I was deemed unemployed, a socialist leech, i live in a fantasy world, I have serious issues of some type, I apparently bug Daniel & his friends, a jealous bitch that needs to be pissed on and deal with ‘it’ .. whatever ‘it’ may be. Why? Why all that? What did I say to warrant that? Nothing.
-Amber
March 18th, 2004 at 10:39 pm
hey, i’ve retired from the shit-talking, don’t blame me!!!
March 19th, 2004 at 12:16 am
Internet is fun isn’t it? Just posting whatever you want, don’t have to let facts or information get in the way. We have people who insult other people because they have basic knowledge of Geography. We have other people posting who haven’t read the other posts but will comment on them anyway just to add her money’s worth as if it added up to 2 cents anyway. I believe most people wouldn’t listen to a person who refers to themselves as an article of gentilia, so why even bother? To be happy not to know someone is to give great affirmation to the saying “ignorance is bliss” and to be prejudice towards a person you are happy to know nothing about adds to your whole persona of being a person of lesser value, so I doubt people actually listen to what you have to say. Now to refer to someone as Bitch and to continue to insult them by saying to urinate on them is in fact quite an agressive and angry statement, one might think that you have a personal stake in hurting this person. So this leads me to believe that maybe you are jealous since you are the only person attacking in this situation. I could be wrong, you could just be mean and cold and have nothing else better to do but I would like to think you have more substance to yourself than that right, “Piss on the bitch”? I consider it very sad that a post about a joyous event about a friend being able to visit a foreign land is corrupted by a few unscrupulous remarks that have nothing to do with the subject of the Topic. I hope maybe in the near future that people will stay closer to the topic at hand and refer to information sources such as a map or globe before trying to debate geographical facts and maybe then and only then will the internet and the world be a better place?
March 19th, 2004 at 6:59 am
I’m impressed with the writing. Who is this?
March 20th, 2004 at 3:23 am
unsocial entity wrote quite a nice piece indeed. but i did read the posts, so please don’t make nasty remarks about people making assumptions when you do the same.
amber i did not write this “piss on the bitch” thing, ufortunately for some people who seem to assume that i did, i appreciate you having asked first amber. thank you, but the answer is no. contrary to what others may think i am not that low. as for any genitalia comment i was going with what fruity had wrote and decided to throw some humour back at him. i don’t take myself that seriously.
as for the stand up guys comment thank you for clarifying that cory, at least someone understood what it meant. and i was paying a compliment to daniel’s friends whom he speaks so highly of. if some of you want to take that in a negative way, by all means feel free.
dan is here and safe and has already seen the matterhorn, and seems pretty stoked about being in this tiny country. but i’ll let him fill you all in on that.
BicMan, whomever you are, I’m sure Switzerland would be happy to have you consume their chocolate.
March 20th, 2004 at 10:57 am
sweet peter … did this get out of hand or what?
March 23rd, 2004 at 2:24 pm
I just wanted some chocolate.
March 30th, 2004 at 1:53 pm
I usually just read these things, but I felt it was time to comment….This is the most entertaining post EVER!!
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