Sick of the Swiss

When Canada decided it needed some national nemesis other than the Americans (anti-Americanism having become ridiculously overdone at the CBC), we turned to our national comedy act, The Kids in the Hall. We've been at pretend war with the Swiss ever since.

When Cabinet decided New Zealand needed a national nemesis, they should have left it to the Topp Twins. Or, if they weren't available to hate on the Finns, Flight of the Conchords are almost as good.

Instead, we got this in the House from the Hon. Gerry Brownlee. (Vid HT: The Listener, who covers more of the controversy)

Brownlee goes just a bit over the top at 3:52.

But I did enjoy Federated Farmers's Twitter response to a quip about how they have Nokia and we have sheep:

@ChrisKeall 'More money selling a Nokia than a couple of sheep’? Nokia lost €954m in Q4 and sales were down 31%. C/W stats.govt.nz/browse_for_sta…
— Federated Farmers (@FedFarmers) March 26, 2012