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Re:American spy hacked Booking.com, company stayed silent by mojo74 on Thursday November 11, 2021 @05:49AM (#29186589)
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).
Re:American spy hacked Booking.com, company stayed silent by marginalia_nu on Thursday November 11, 2021 @06:33AM (#29186858)
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 (#29187090)
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 (#29189436)
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 (#29186932)
Consider my subscription renewed.
Re:American spy hacked Booking.com, company stayed silent by perk on Thursday November 11, 2021 @06:54AM (#29186969)
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 (#29186856)
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.

cf. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/check_in

Re:American spy hacked Booking.com, company stayed silent by mojo74 on Thursday November 11, 2021 @06:45AM (#29186921)
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 (#29187035)
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.

Re:American spy hacked Booking.com, company stayed silent by mpclark on Thursday November 11, 2021 @08:29AM (#29187614)
Absolutely. "In the UK you can pay a bill with a cheque, and in the US you can settle a check with a bill"
Re:American spy hacked Booking.com, company stayed silent by Grazester on Thursday November 11, 2021 @08:24AM (#29187571)
As someone who speaks the queen's English, I would like to recommend you look up what a cheque is.