Published: 5 Jun 10 09:58 CET | Print version
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A man who paid 30,000 kronor ($3,730) to get added girth to his penis has reported a Malmö plastic surgeon who decided instead on an extension.
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I guess people won't notice how big it is if he is just a normal performer! but if he performs another industry, then the story is different
- Thanks, I just had it lengthened.
http://tinyurl.com/3596cot
Zing!
Hmmm...I wonder if they can do a corkscrew effect...
Things are costly in Sweden and buying the smallest thing must be considered a serious investment. When a bedding plant can cost £10 you need to make sure it's exactly right as once a purchase has taken place, if you are unhappy with it most Swedish businesses will simply sneer and say "tyvär".
I own a restaurant which gets really hot so we ordered an AC unit. We settled on one that cost 35,000SEK. The moment we switched it on the AC froze up and ground to a halt. We called the company who supplied it and were told over the phone, that there was nothing wrong with the unit.
We insisted they come take a look and were told the unit was set too cold, so we set it slightly warmer, with no success. We phoned again and again. Instead of just admitting that the machine was faulty we got 12 months of "You bought a cheap machine," "this machine was designed for use in Spain", "the weather outside is too hot or too cold", and finally "the machine should only be used in Spring." Only after finally threatening the company with a solicitor did they come and take the unit away. They didn't replace it, or apologize, they just took it away without a word of apology.
Dealing with Telia is a similar problem. We pay for high speed broadband, which we don't get. We phoned to complain and were told it was our problem, that we needed a new modem which we needed to buy it ourselves, which we did. Still no service, so we rang again, this time we were told we had to buy a new router which we did - still our broadband was barely working so after spending about 1,300SEK and phoning day after day Telia finally admitted that there was a problem with our line. Six months later and we are still waiting for Telia to fix it, not at their expense however, at ours.
My point is this, that no matter what you seem to buy in Sweden, if it goes wrong it is always assumed immediately that it is the customers fault. This is dreadful marketing practice.
There is so little competition in Sweden that the option to move to different providers is curtailed. Businesses can tell customers" tyvär" because they know that they have little choice of getting their services elsewhere, and although Ombudsman is one of the few Swedish words to have made it into English there are few organizations within Sweden that customers can complain to about poor service. Consumers are powerless to act .
So back to the Penis. The service this gentleman received fell short (no pun intended) of his expectations, indeed a surgeon denied his wishes and performed something completely different whilst charging the poor fella for the privilege of tinkering with his private parts, this really isn't a time to hold up hands, shrug and say" tyvär."
to all saying that length does go matter -- go out some weekend and see swedish girls running after black guys and you will know why this guy invested 30k sek in length!!!!
Condom manufacturer Durex has published a press release in the newspaper Milenio with information on the average size of the penis in erection depending on ethnic origin and height:
Caucasians: 16,2cm (6.39")
African: 15,2cm (6")
Hispanic: 14,7cm (5.8")
Asian: 13,5cm (5.31")
The moral of this story is that I can find information to back up any stereotype. :)
*Anecdotal stories of when I was screwed by some company, whine whine whine*
*Unfounded and generalizing evidence of the insufficiency of an an entire society based on my anecdotal stories*
*Oh, a few lines about the story so as not to be offtopic*
to keep ppl out of their right....
I am very sorry to admit that all that U have said is the naked simple Truth!
Consumer or costumer satisfaction here is only a smile in the begining & tyvär in the end of the day. U have to pay more & more to be satisfied ... this is the lesson that I learned from many personal & other people's experiences.
If U don't know your rights or just depend on the sellers .... maybe U will be robbed sometimes ... this the case with most of the immigrants & forigners who don't know good Swedish or English ... they can only shake their heads in sgreement to keep face ... until they explode in anger ultimately.
Telia is the worst in their services ... U can never feel safe with them. Comhem ... is the best ... unfortunately our landlord had sold us to Telia!
It is very good that U have shifted the focus from penis to general consumer satisfaction ,because this is a real social & economical & psychological problem ... the human as a consumer feel robbed, frustrated, fooled & angry!
I feel genuinely sorry for this guy and his penis and I think its very brave of him to expose such mal-practices no pun intended.
Just few are in control of people's mind, controlling the way others should think, or peceive reality.
thanks for your comments. I will say that sometimes customer service in Sweden can be surprisingly great, I bought paint to decorate my house when I first moved here, I turned up picked the colour went to the store and asked for 5 tins. The seller refused to sell them to me until I went home, measured all of my walls and could tell her exactly how much paint I needed... "it's expensive paint" she said, and I got a cup of coffee and a kanelbulle thrown in for my trouble... so it's not all bad!
It's big business that is the real culprit here and although that can be true of almost any country or society, I have found it to be most prevalent here in Sweden.
@ Mikmak.. sorry if this extra anecdote galls your sensibilities, just using them to highlight a salient point that many readers obviously also find to be both justified and pertinent.
I like the way you think :)