You're supposed to use bodge tape to cover the holes, silly. Everyone knows that.
As for the French, our Airbus rep greeted us all this morning in his best 'Allo, 'Allo English. I responded in my native north-eastern dialect. "Ahm Champion thanks, how's tha'sen?" He looked puzzled for a moment and then asked me what version of English is this? When I told him he said "Ah, so that is why zis Cheryl was sent home from America, no?"