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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).
by mojo74 5y ago
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).
- mjburgess 5y agoI 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 https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/check_in
- mojo74 5y agoIn 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.
- mjburgess 5y agoThe 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.
- Grazester 5y agoAs someone who speaks the queen's English, I would like to recommend you look up what a cheque is.
- mpclark 5y agoAbsolutely. "In the UK you can pay a bill with a cheque, and in the US you can settle a check with a bill"
- marginalia_nu 5y agoThere'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.
- mojo74 5y agoConsider my subscription renewed.
- perk 5y agoYou had me at slow burning Breaking Bad. I would watch the hell out of this.
- imglorp 5y agoThis is almost exactly Ozark, if anyone likes the idea and wants to watch now.
- dhosek 5y agoI've kind of assumed that the posters were being ironic and describing Ozark, but maybe not.