It has been used both to insult and praise them, but the Swiss are sometimes referred to as “a nation of watchmakers.”
How about “filthy stinking Swiss bastards?” Too strident?
Gruyère-eating not-even-getting-involved-so-they-can’t-even-surrender monkeys.
Swede. People confuse them with the swedish often and that annoys them. I have a swiss friend who never failed to get angry when i called him a ‘filthy swede’. All in good humor, of course.
I for one cannot think of a rude term for the Swiss - and I live less than 100 miles from Switzerland. They have been extremely inoffensive these last few centuries.
If your friend were an actuall Swiss (as opposed to someone of distant Swiss ancestry) there would be a viable insult: calling him a German, Frenchman or Italian (depending on what linguistic region he is from) 
I second calling him a Swede. Or a Big, Dumb Swede.
Yep. Swede ought to get him. I have a friend from Ecuador and I always refer to him as El Salvadorian. Always a good laugh on that one
Frankly, I cannot think of anything worse than ‘Swiss.’
According to Brewer’s Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, the nickname of a Swiss is… COLIN TAMPON?
If that doesn’t get his (mountain) goat, I don’t know what will.
I was going to say that. Although I was going to mention I got it from Monty Python 
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I dunno, if you want to be offence maybe you could work in something about them helping the Nazis hide the stuff they stole from the Jews. Why shouldn’t Godwin’s law work in real life?
From Monty Python? Really? My apologizes.
I checked the Racial Slur Database (motto; 'Making the World a Better Place) and found no entries for Swiss. I urge you all to go to the RSDB and make contributions.
Oh, well, no, I was just remembering as show where they (on a show within the show of course) were looking for an offensive thing to call Belgians and one of the entries was “Belgian”. But if you came up with the idea independently, no apology necessary of course.
But we’re getting off track, let’s get back to hating the Swiss…
Many thanks to everyone, especially to Paul In Saudi for the link to P.J. O’Rourke. I’m going to print up this whole thread and some of the O’Rourke pages (don’t tell P.J…) I talked to my pal yesterday, and I read him some of this thread. He doesn’t have a computer. :rolleyes: He likes “cheese knees” and “Cheesehole” a lot.
By the way, his sister’s research turned up a black slave great-grandmother and a grandfather who had changed a Z to an S, which created the Swiss-to-Bohunk confusion in the first place. Now he’s trying to sand the corners off his new self-description; something like, “Cheesehole/Mick/Injun/Cottonpicker.”
Your friend must admit, however, that “cuckoo clock fucker” has a certain zest, ja?
I’d heard that the worst thing that you can call a European is “Belgian”.
I believe the phrase they settled on was “blackballing Belgian bastards.” Not that I would call anybody such a name.
“The Amish, called “The Plain People” or Old Order Amish, originated in Switzerland about l525. They came from a division of the Mennonites or Anabaptists (Re-baptizers).”
A schnitzer
Winkelried.
I guess these days banker could be considered an insult in and of itself.
Not to get off topic, but I think Switzerland would do pretty well during a zombie plague. Lot’s of firearms, all the men have been in the army, civil defence, and cold weather.