French + Spanish = Catalan?!?

It was back in September or so when the Internet connection of our flat failed. So I had a little chat with my good old flatmate Buddy (name has been slightly altered). He told me that it surely is a problem of the internet provider itself and there's nothing wrong with something inside the flat. He mentioned too that ever since their provider has been taken over by a French company it failed a lot. Once formally known as 'the guy with the Internet' I spread my wings and checked it by myself. It didn't take long to find out what it really was. I followed the wire to the outside phone connection - which has been laid through several rooms, open doors and even open windows - to find out that one of those windows broke it. I fixed that in a couple of minutes and everything worked just fine again. After that Buddy felt a little embarrased and actually apologized for blaming the French.. weird stuff!
A month and a half ago it started to become cold in Barcelona. To call these days winter goes a little too far but since then there has always been a slight breeze out there to remind you about wearing the right clothes. It actually would have been the right time to start heating the apartment when Buddy found out that it was broken. It took him more than 5 weeks to get someone to look at it and that certain someone somehow failed to repair it because of a mysteriously broken water pump. So, we all had to wait another one and a half weeks in a frozen apartment for a new one to arrive. Buddy's girlfriend, she is from Poland, forced him to go after it because all of those Spanish people are lazy bastards. Buddy agreed but it was his pleasure to mention that he is of course Catalan and that has nothing to do with Spain. Well, today another plumber came carrying a very new water pump but he had to recognize that nothing ever happened to the old pump. Nothing was broken at all. But neither the previous plumber nor Buddy did actually turn on the heaters to check if they are heating.. fuck that shit!