FabSwingers.com forum: What is Switzerland famous for

By *usman 199 OP Man
28 weeks ago

Stockport

Doesn't get mentioned very often . Let's get Switzerland in the spotlight

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By *ensuallover1000Man
28 weeks ago

Somewhere In The Ether…

Mountains and clocks

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By *zeroMan
28 weeks ago

A wretched hive of scum and villainy

Chocolate and Roger Federer.

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By *ife NinjaMan
28 weeks ago

Dunfermline

Brotherly love and cuckoo clocks (as inaccurately described in The Third Man)

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By *offiaCoolWoman
28 weeks ago

Kidsgrove

Clean air

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By *nightsoftheCoffeeTableCouple
28 weeks ago

Leeds

A knife with more tools than a smackhead leaving a premier inn car park.

The mr

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By *lderflowerappleWoman
28 weeks ago

Basingstoke

Toblerone

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By (user no longer on site)
28 weeks ago

Neutrality.

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By *ife NinjaMan
28 weeks ago

Dunfermline

A navy, without a coastline

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By *uzie69xTV/TS
28 weeks ago

Maidstone

So isolationist and racist that they didn't know who Oprah Winfrey was and questioned if she could afford the jewellery on sale.

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By (user no longer on site)
28 weeks ago

Suicide

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By *udding RoseWoman
28 weeks ago

Somewhere out there

Great ski resorts!!!

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By *ensible lady 1960Woman
28 weeks ago

Near Bishop Auckland.

Charlie Chaplin lived there.

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By *ackformore100Man
28 weeks ago

Tin town

Their navy

Hiding money

Funding the nazi war machine

Oh and holey cheese

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By (user no longer on site)
28 weeks ago

"A knife with more tools than a smackhead leaving a premier inn car park.

The mr "

Yep. Damn good knives.

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By *icolerobbieCouple
28 weeks ago

walsall

Watches & clocks. Very strict road laws with heavy fines if you break them. Beautiful scenery. Fantastic railway journeys.

and best of all ….. fondue!

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By *rcoupleCouple
28 weeks ago

Mid Glam

Cucko clocks

Chciclate

Watches

Nazi gold

Only giving women the vote in 1971

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By *ornycougaWoman
28 weeks ago

Wherever I lay my hat

Being feckin expensive

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By *r_reusMan
28 weeks ago

Coventry

CERN.

I don't know the precise details, but heard that Swiss mathematicians were instrumental in the creation of the internet.

Of course whether that's singing the country's praises or levelling a damning indictment against them is a matter of perspective.

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By *udding RoseWoman
28 weeks ago

Somewhere out there

The Sound of Music was filmed in various locations in Switzerland!!!

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By *or-QueeningMan
28 weeks ago

Manchester

"Brotherly love and cuckoo clocks (as inaccurately described in The Third Man)

A great speech, elaborated on by Welles from the original dialogue, but one that I believe is rather inaccurate and unfair - still, Harry Lime is hardly a reliable character

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By *obilebottomMan
28 weeks ago

All over

Roll

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By *rooklands BiMan
28 weeks ago

Hertfordshire

"Being feckin expensive"

This

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By *tylebender03Man
28 weeks ago

Manchester

Philippe Senderos

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By *uddy laneMan
28 weeks ago

dudley

School of economics.

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By *londebiguyMan
28 weeks ago

Southport

"The Sound of Music was filmed in various locations in Switzerland!!!

Mainly Salzburg , Austria.

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By *overboysteveMan
28 weeks ago

Colchester

Da da daaah, da da da-daaah.

Smoke on the Water...

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By (user no longer on site)
28 weeks ago

Celine Dion winning the Eurovision Song Contest for them in 1988.

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By *ensible lady 1960Woman
28 weeks ago

Near Bishop Auckland.

On her majesty's secret service was part filmed there.my mam took me to the pics in 1969 to see it.

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By *UGGYBEAR2015Man
28 weeks ago

BRIDPORT

Tony

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By (user no longer on site)
28 weeks ago

Running the world

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By *ophieslutTV/TS
28 weeks ago

Central

Ask Tom

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By *ellhungvweMan
28 weeks ago

Cheltenham

An airforce base hidden inside a mountain.

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By *icolerobbieCouple
28 weeks ago

walsall

"The Sound of Music was filmed in various locations in Switzerland!!!

Mainly Salzburg , Austria."

And Slovenia

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By *ohn 66Man
28 weeks ago

Birmingham

Their flag is a big plus

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By *cottish guy 555Man
28 weeks ago

London

Gun ownership is encouraged.

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By *exycarlashane181Couple
28 weeks ago

Leamington Spa

Chocolate and euthanasia

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By (user no longer on site)
28 weeks ago

Watches

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By *r and Mrs CACACouple
28 weeks ago

congleton

Mountains, chocolate, roger referee and the flag is a big plus lol

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By *ld4YCouple
28 weeks ago

mid Suffolk

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By *orny-DJMan
28 weeks ago

Leigh-on-Sea

Toblerone

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By *yzykMan
28 weeks ago

Stirlingshire

Being very expensive but spotless

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By *abioMan
28 weeks ago

Newcastle and Gateshead

"Celine Dion winning the Eurovision Song Contest for them in 1988."

Damn… you are telling people one of the best pop trivia answers… be off with you!!

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By *adyBugsWoman
28 weeks ago

cognito

Cheese.

And the most expensive burgers I’ve ever eaten

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By *oeBeansMan
28 weeks ago

Derby

Tax free savings

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By *rumpyMcFuckNuggetMan
28 weeks ago

Den of Iniquity

Not keen on Switzerland tbh ..

Too many red flags for me

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By *ucsherMan
28 weeks ago

Stevenage/Uxbridge

Swiss army knives!

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By *ildbillkidMan
28 weeks ago

where the road goes on forever

Banks, no one knows the account number

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By (user no longer on site)
28 weeks ago

"Celine Dion winning the Eurovision Song Contest for them in 1988."

Before I read this, I could’ve swore she was French.

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By *alm_one4Man
28 weeks ago

RM16

Red Cross

Never having fought a war

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By *C79Man
28 weeks ago

Caterham

I knew a girl from Switzerland, absolute stunner but sadly unavailable.

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By *abtastic Mr FoxMan
28 weeks ago

A den in the Glen

Swiss Tony?

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By *escourtesMan
28 weeks ago

hereford

The place where Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein.

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By *smith87Man
28 weeks ago

totton

Toblerone

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By *ocksareoffMan
28 weeks ago

Out n About

Clocks

Holy cheese

Banned all motor sport

Glacier Express

And the absolute daddy of all chocolate... Toblerone

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By *eptune1Man
28 weeks ago

The Bay

Rolex, AP, Patek

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By *ushandkittyCouple
28 weeks ago

Gloucester

Only country with a square flag.

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By *ildbillkidMan
28 weeks ago

where the road goes on forever

Guarding the pope

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By *im_1878Man
28 weeks ago

Formby

They decided to change their national anthem as it was too similar to ‘god save the king/queen’

Was told that by a Swiss diplomat in South Africa

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By *abioMan
28 weeks ago

Newcastle and Gateshead

"They decided to change their national anthem as it was too similar to ‘god save the king/queen’

Was told that by a Swiss diplomat in South Africa

Ooh… different fact about the anthem, you can actually sing it in 3 different languages… German, french and Italian…..

Ooh.. education day!!!

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By *anky_PankyWoman
28 weeks ago

Filthy Fuckeryville

Chocolate, FlikFlak watches and many more expensive kinds and being home to Tina Turner (RIP)

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By *im_1878Man
28 weeks ago

Formby

"They decided to change their national anthem as it was too similar to ‘god save the king/queen’

Was told that by a Swiss diplomat in South Africa

Ooh… different fact about the anthem, you can actually sing it in 3 different languages… German, french and Italian…..

Ooh.. education day!!!

And their fourth language is Romansh

(Not sure if the anthem is sung in it though)

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By *asycouple1971Couple
28 weeks ago

midlands

Hingis the tennis player, had a big crush on her in her early days.

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By *hosetwo200Couple
28 weeks ago

Leeds

A Swiss Guy accidentally invented LSD

Jay x

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By *lik and PaulCouple
28 weeks ago

Flagrante

"Celine Dion winning the Eurovision Song Contest for them in 1988.

Before I read this, I could’ve swore she was French.

No she's Canadian

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By *lue RascalMan
28 weeks ago

Cheshire Liverpool Manchester

‘On Running’ trainers.

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By *burns7Man
28 weeks ago

walsall

Toblerone

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By *jg83Man
28 weeks ago

BURNLEY

Nazi gold

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By (user no longer on site)
28 weeks ago

All men between ages 18-34 are reservists in Swiss military. They keep their weapons at home and are on standby to be called up. At least I think so.

Also, they were never invaded by Nazi Germany because it’s nearly impossible to attack Switzerland through the mountain passes without being annihilated. Hitler thought about invading to take possession of their massive gold reserves and foreign currency holdings.

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By *olly_chromaticTV/TS
28 weeks ago

Stockport

"Chocolate and euthanasia "

At the same time?

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By *jg83Man
28 weeks ago

BURNLEY

Guarding Vatican City

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By (user no longer on site)
28 weeks ago

The chocolate thingy out no what I mean

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By *ora the explorerWoman
28 weeks ago

Paradise, Herts

Yodelling

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By *ackformore100Man
28 weeks ago

Tin town

Great Cotton

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By *atnip make me purrWoman
28 weeks ago

Reading

My mum

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By *ischaTV/TS
28 weeks ago

Sheffield

Yodelling

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By *escourtesMan
28 weeks ago

hereford

"Yodelling"

Yes they do enjoy getting their mouth round a long hard shaft

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By *rsMistyPeaksWoman
28 weeks ago

Essex

Swiss roll.

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By *eyond PurityCouple
28 weeks ago

Lincolnshire

Speeding fines that are a % of your income - they compound your car and if you don't pay, they crush it!

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By *alm_one4Man
27 weeks ago

RM16

"They decided to change their national anthem as it was too similar to ‘god save the king/queen’

Was told that by a Swiss diplomat in South Africa

Ooh… different fact about the anthem, you can actually sing it in 3 different languages… German, french and Italian…..

Ooh.. education day!!!

That’s correct, Switzerland does not have its own language. Bordered by those 3 countries, in general terms you’ll grow up speaking the Language of the nearest

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By *alm_one4Man
27 weeks ago

RM16

Also, Deep Purple recoded their biggest album there and wrote their most famous song their too.

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By *ackformore100Man
27 weeks ago

Tin town

They invented Cantonese... And time... And hence why their trains run on time

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By *acksparrow99Man
27 weeks ago

Canary Wharf, London

Private banking

Watches

Highly concentrated artificial fragrance and flavour substitutes

Nagra

Skiing

Fondue

Raclette

Cheese with holes

Smoke on the water

Private schools for the future world elites

Davos

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By *izandpaulCouple
27 weeks ago

merseyside

World beating excitement in the general population, you can feel the buzz after only a few weeks working there.

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By *eacefulWizardMan
23 weeks ago

Champéry, Switzerland

As a swiss born guy reading this, It does make me smile and bring a few chuckles

(thanks for that)

Switzerland has a few things it's known for around the world.

Various beautiful landscapes & mountains.

People think we all own expensive watches, have hidden bank accounts and own expensive houses

(all this is, as in all countries, a myth, for some do, most don't)

Cheese production is one of them, with gruyère, emmental (which is not french by the way, it means valley of Emmen), appenzeller, Tilsit, Tomme, vacherin, etc.

with our cheese dishes like Raclette, Croute Au Fromage and the various types of Fondues which was initially created by shepards ending the season in the mountains, and they had water, stale bread, stale cheese, and alcohol (kirsch... which means cherry liquor) and found a way of eating it, by melting it all together, it then became a traditional dish, obviously with non-stale products.

Watches, cars (smart), Pharma (novartis, and formerly serono), banks, weapons industry, neutrality, hosting international organisations.

A few other interesting things were the creator of the stratospheric balloon Auguste Piccard, his son Jacques Piccard helps create the Batyscaphe Trieste (a submarine)

The CERN in geneva, is a european research center where Tim Berners Lee and his team created the premisces of the internet, and where you can find one of the largest particle collider in the world (with yearly open days).

Chocolate is a famous one, yet surpassed by belgium chocolate for my personal taste. Switzerland was a precursor in chocolate making by adding milk to it, then selling it to the aristocracy, finding it way tastier than just the cacac beans which were too sour.

Song Smoke on the Water was written there, when the concert location took fire in Montreux, and deep purple were in the house of the director of the montreux jazz festival, overlooking the unfortunate fire.

A nice thing about switzerland is it's privacy. Many celebrities, athletes, etc. enjoy coming there as we do not tend to bother or pester them. we might cross them in the street, and if eye contact is made, a smile, a nod, maybe a hello, passing by, no stopping... just as another human being.

We have hidden bunkers in our mountains all over the place, with airfields in them too.

A few athletes are famous around the world, in cycling, skiing, tennis, snowboarding, triathlon, horse riding,

A few singers too (yet not so many ??) Gotthard, stephan eicher, young gods, sophie hunger, krokus, dj bobo (song Chiuaua

)

When i read nazi gold, i do have to smile, as it was also a lot of US and other allies gold in there too :D (so nobody wanted to attack, as they had their assets there), considering what other countries have done in colonialism, and still do nowadays through warefare and economics, but enjoy pointing the bad

Note that switzerland was one of the poorest populations in the 1500 and the peasants were also mercenaries fighting for england, france, amongst other armies, to feed their families.

And last but not least, honestly, when they are open, there are a few nice and fun swingers clubs and saunas

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By *uslaffMan
23 weeks ago

manchester

€ 8 cauliflowers ??

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By *red333Man
23 weeks ago

Dorchester

The very pleasant people, mount eiger, great scenery probably the best in the world, expensive restaurants

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By *lik and PaulCouple
23 weeks ago

Flagrante

"Chocolate and euthanasia

At the same time?"

I can think of worse ways to go.

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By *antastic_Mr_Fox_76Man
23 weeks ago

District 13

Army knife

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By *ild_oatsMan
23 weeks ago

the land of saints & sinners

Has the lowest obesity rate in Europe, has the highest number of cows per capita in Europe.

Switzerland also has enough nuclear fallout shelters to accommodate the entire Swiss population .

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By *ophieslutTV/TS
23 weeks ago

Central

Banking and evasion

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By *layfullsamMan
23 weeks ago

Solihull

Wankdorf

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By *ickeyblueeyes7Man
23 weeks ago

newport

Cheese

Banks

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By *rAitchMan
23 weeks ago

Diagonally Parked in a Parallel Universe

The Alpenhorn

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By *ad NannaWoman
23 weeks ago

East London

Keeping a low profile.

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By *lynJMan
23 weeks ago

Morden

"Gun ownership is encouraged.

But only as part of a well trained militia

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By *issSexyBootsTV/TS
23 weeks ago

Cardiff

Gold acquired somewhat dubiously 80 years ago ??

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By *mber SkiesWoman
23 weeks ago

Cardiff-ish

Toblerone

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By (user no longer on site)
23 weeks ago

Offshore swiss bonking accounts who is in bed as they pay no tax

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By *atnip make me purrWoman
23 weeks ago

Reading

They pay very generous unemployment benefits.

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By *idnight RamblerMan
23 weeks ago

Pershore

The wealthiest per capita nation in the world, and their sole contribution to mankind is the cuckoo clock.

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