Re:American spy hacked Booking.com, company stayed silent
by mojo74 on Thursday November 11, 2021 @05:49AM
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I think you have the makings of a new Netflix series there. I propose it be called Check In (or Cheque In for those of us in the UK).
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Re:American spy hacked Booking.com, company stayed silent
by marginalia_nu on Thursday November 11, 2021 @06:33AM
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There's a lot of potential here. I'm thinking a slow burning Breaking Bad set up that sells itself as a light hearted Fawlty Towers-type show about a wide eyed Monopoly enthusiast fulfilling his dream, but with every season it gets darker and grittier and ends as a tangled web of international crime and corruption. Everything spirals out of control. The hotel is hosting a big conference and the minister of whatever is holding a keynote speech and the hotel is full of press, meanwhile the johannesburg arms dealers killed a prostitute that turned out to be an undercover cop and the body is still in their room, also there's a call from some really angry russian loan sharks, they're coming for their fucking money right now.
Re:American spy hacked Booking.com, company stayed silent
by imglorp on Thursday November 11, 2021 @07:13AM
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This is almost exactly Ozark, if anyone likes the idea and wants to watch now.
Re:American spy hacked Booking.com, company stayed silent
by dhosek on Thursday November 11, 2021 @11:04AM
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I've kind of assumed that the posters were being ironic and describing Ozark, but maybe not.
Re:American spy hacked Booking.com, company stayed silent
by mojo74 on Thursday November 11, 2021 @06:47AM
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Consider my subscription renewed.
Re:American spy hacked Booking.com, company stayed silent
by perk on Thursday November 11, 2021 @06:54AM
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You had me at slow burning Breaking Bad. I would watch the hell out of this.
Re:American spy hacked Booking.com, company stayed silent
by mjburgess on Thursday November 11, 2021 @06:32AM
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I can't tell if you're joking -- but in the UK you "check in" to a hotel. A cheque is, specifically, a type of financial/banking note.
Re:American spy hacked Booking.com, company stayed silent
by mojo74 on Thursday November 11, 2021 @06:45AM
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In the US I believe a Check is the same as a Cheque in the UK. Granted cheque is a homophone but both usages denote money (more so with the US title) with the added benefit of the connotation of arriving at a hotel. I am a big fan of puns.
Re:American spy hacked Booking.com, company stayed silent
by mjburgess on Thursday November 11, 2021 @07:05AM
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The paper item "a cheque" is called "a check" in the US -- which presumably happened because "a cheque" has something to do with the verb "to check" (as in, "to check the health of"; to verify the status of something by asking/seeing it").
When you check-in to a hotel you aren't "handing over a cheque", you are checking-in with the reception. Ie., you are speaking to reception and checking your reservation/room.
To "check in with someone" is to have a chat or talk to a person to "check" how they are.