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Friday Smile

Only in America …do drugstores make the sick walk all the way to the back of the store to get their prescriptions while healthy people can buy cigarettes at the front.

Only in America …do people order double cheeseburgers, large fries, and a diet coke.

Only in America …do banks leave vault doors open and then chain the pens to the counters.

Only in America … do we leave cars worth thousands of dollars in the driveway and put our useless junk in the garage.

Only in America …do we buy hot dogs in packages of ten and buns in packages of eight.

Only in America …do they have drive-up ATM machines with Braille lettering.

Ever wonder …Why the sun lightens our hair, but darkens our skin?

Why can’t women put on mascara with their mouth closed?

Why don’t you ever see the headline ‘Psychic Wins Lottery’?

Why is ‘abbreviated’ such a long word?

Why is it that doctors call what they do ‘practice’?

Why is lemon juice made with artificial flavor, and dishwashing liquid made with real lemons?

Why is the man who invests all your money called a broker?

Why is the time of day with the slowest traffic called rush hour?

Why isn’t there mouse-flavored cat food?

Why didn’t Noah swat those two mosquitoes?

Why do they sterilize the needle for lethal injections?

You know that indestructible black box that is used on airplanes? Why don’t they make the whole plane out of that stuff?!

Why don’t sheep shrink when it rains?

Why are they called apartments when they are all stuck together?

If con is the opposite of pro, is Congress the opposite of progress?

If flying is so safe, why do they call the airport the terminal?

** Have A Great Day **

And thanks to JPG for sharing this one.

A matter of degrees

Brrrr, red wine is not the only item that is around 12 degrees in France

Après Fesses-Bouc, le Pare-à-Fesses?

Incroyable mais vrai…

Après “Fesses-Bouc”, les douanes nous proposent le “Pare-à-Fesses”

J’ai en effet reçu le message suivant des Aéroports de Paris :

Voir mon Twit initial sur le sujet, ainsi que le billet de Mak Attack

Et aussi:

DELL-irium

Delirium is an acute and debilitating decline in attention-focus, perception, and cognition that produces an altered form of semi-consciousness. It is a systemic syndrome caused by a chemical or disease-process which is disrupting the neurons of the cerebral cortex. Though hallucinations and delusions are often present, the symptoms of delirium are clinically distinct from those induced by psychosis or hallucinogens.

I think the above Wikipedia definition also fits the profile of DELL’s worldwide (or rather “theoretically worlwide”) service organisation.

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Extract from my Twitter stream:

Following @DellSucks

Why Dell Sucks and Blows! Don’t Buy A Dell! (aka Dell Hell) http://ff.im/-9OT83

Why Dell Sucks Today (Wizbang) http://ff.im/-9OT8a

RT @yam @ppmartin on sent que Dell est en train de perdre un client….

@yam Indeed. A loyal #DELL customer for years, I have been let down big time by their poor international service. To be continued…

RT @yam @ppmartin same here : we are switching to apple.

Dell should take geography lessons, “International Warranty” meaning “International Warranty”. Simple, isn’t it?

Then Dells tells me. Sorry, your international warranty is not “really” international, but you can transfer it in 24 hours.

Except that the 24 hours warranty transfer time promised by DELL Hong Kong turns into… two weeks!

And then, Dell US still won’t fix my daughter’s laptop… oops, that kind of warranty was not transferable in the first place, am I now told.

3 weeks of being told “stories” by Dell lead do: “ship the machine back to where you bought it” OR “have it fixed in the US Out of Warranty”.

But then again, Dell wouldn’t not even give a quotation for parts to the MIT Computer Repair Center.

Running in circles for 3 weeks between Dell HK and Dell US. Result: MIT student’s laptop still not repaired.

“International Next Business Day Onsite service + Complete Cover + XPS service”? That’s DELL speak for “Get lost and switch to Apple”.

Si vous voyagez et avez besoin d’un bon latop, tout mais pas DELL, leurs garanties internationales ne sont “pas vraiment” internationales

Considering a DELL laptop?  I recommend the Lenovo Thinkpad instead, it’s much more reliable (my favorite: the X301).

RT @oliv @ppmartin go for a macbook !

RT @mddelphis RT @ppmartin DELL-irium ppmartin’s blog http://om.ly/MTSK

@mddelphis Thanks for the RT. I am very dissappointed by the “customer disservice” from DELL which doesn’t address int’l travellers needs.

TwiDELLwall http://bit.ly/1rLqBf

RT @SyIRP @ppmartin Mauvaise expérience ce matin?

@SylRP DELL a eu 3 semaines de délai pour faire un effort. En l’absence du moindre geste coopératif, il était temps de partager l’expérience

RT @pegobry #unfollowthursday @ppmartin y’a autre chose que Dell dans la vie.

@pegobry Bien d’accord, mais avant de passer à autre chose, je partage mon expérience décevante avec DELL pour alerter mes Twitter friends.

RT @vhe74 @ppmartin merci, vu tes posts sur Dell… Pas franchement étonné du résultat de tes tractations.

@vhe74 C’est quand même dommage qu’un grand constructeur comme DELL ne soit pas plus à l’écoute de ses clients voyageurs internationaux.

@vhe74 Après un + d’1 mois, Dell clarifie ne pas honorer la garantie “internationale” aux USA. Devis de US$414 pour la réparation (en cours).

To be continued…

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Extract from my Facebook stream:

Therese: What’s going on between you and DELL, you seem very angry !

PPM: As I wrote on Twitter (see my blog as well), I have had enough with DELL’s inability to #1 provide international covers that honor customer’s expectations, #2 inform customers properly and in a timely fashion about their constraints, #3 provide a global and seamless international service, #4 make commercial efforts vis-a-vis long time customers etc etc.

Henrietta: switch to something else!

PPM: I sure will, but I want to share my experience with my friends for them to also switch to something else.

To be continued…