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Gambrinus posted:loving hell, Airbnb is a ballache to use. I just want somewhere to stay, I'm not applying for citizenship so it's a bit unclear why they need two photos of me and my driving licence. You don't get this kind of bollocks with the Premier Inn. Some Airbnbs are someone's actual home with their personal belongings in - not so much now as they used to be and are meant to be, but still sometimes. I don't mind those people being a bit more security conscious than a big chain business that can absorb the cost of theft or damages more easily.
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Failed Imagineer posted:Hotel rooms are like €500/night in Dublin at the moment. If I were a different kind of person I could AirBnB my spare room and cover my mortgage but absolutely gently caress that Why absolutely gently caress that? Seems a pretty sensible idea to me, and it's not like it's exploitative to give tourists a cheaper option. I think.
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Yeah if you were doing that to a rental property that's hosed up (as is letting it) but if it's your house then arguably you are taking business away from other airbnb people, which is funny. Certainly gently caress that from a "let's have weirdos stay over where I live" aspect though.
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Jun 1, 2022 11:26
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Just decorate it like a porn/orgy set beforehand.
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Someone at work just wished the queen happy birthday. I thought it was how long she'd been queen for, not her birthday?
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Yes, her birthday is twice a year and one of those everyone in the Commonwealth who still has her as queen gets the day off except for the UK for reasons.
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lmao @ celebrating the wrong thing but very patriotically
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It's not even the actual jubilee, that was in Feb and the coronation 70th isn't until next year.
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Failed Imagineer posted:Hotel rooms are like €500/night in Dublin at the moment. If I were a different kind of person I could AirBnB my spare room and cover my mortgage but absolutely gently caress that Under cutting the extremely exploitative hospitality industry is Good, Actually
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Lungboy posted:It's not even the actual jubilee, that was in Feb and the coronation 70th isn't until next year. This gives Boris an excuse for another bank holiday next year to try and recover his popularity.
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The Perfect Element posted:Why absolutely gently caress that? Seems a pretty sensible idea to me, and it's not like it's exploitative to give tourists a cheaper option. I think. Nah, AirBnBs just massively distort the rental market in a way I'm not comfortable with during a massive rental crisis. Plus, I have no interest in catering to strangers, by all accounts from people I know who've done it you just end up with a bunch of Germans leaving you lovely reviews because you didn't make them poached eggs in the morning. Guavanaut posted:Just decorate it like a porn/orgy set beforehand. Waaaayyy ahead of you
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Jun 1, 2022 12:38
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The Jubilee is two days off because her birthday national holiday was moved to make a longer long weekend. Normally it would be next week (her actual birthday was two weeks ago)
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Tesseraction posted:The Jubilee is two days off because her birthday national holiday was moved to make a longer long weekend. Normally it would be next week (her actual birthday was two weeks ago) Isn't the second day just the May bank holiday we always have, moved a week later?
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The Perfect Element posted:Why absolutely gently caress that? Seems a pretty sensible idea to me, and it's not like it's exploitative to give tourists a cheaper option. I think. Because why the gently caress would you want strangers cutting about your house, sounds like a loving nightmare? Also you're making money for AirBnB which is a lovely company that was grossly inflated the rental market in far too many places. Anyway, Happy Jubilee. https://twitter.com/officialcharts/status/1531644178739957761?s=20&t=x6nvTTsldvDTeXfG1l-dXg
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Bloody monarchs these days changing the day they were born on, its political correctness gone mad.
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Someone thought this was a good idea. People let this happen.
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Can't wait for 2030 when the captain tom foundation has produced a fleet of life size captain tom animated simulacra to patrol during the mandatory clap for boris hour every evening and make sure you are doing it patriotically.
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Only remembered this was an event when i saw all the brand new Union & Orange Order Flegs on lampposts as i drove by this morning. 
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stev posted:Isn't the second day just the May bank holiday we always have, moved a week later? Yeah that's the other one. So I guess they moved one back a week and one forward a week.
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OwlFancier posted:Bloody monarchs these days changing the day they were born on, its political correctness gone mad. I'm gonna change the day I was born on to November 9th, 1924, so I can steal WWII valour and get a sweet pension
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forkboy84 posted:Because why the gently caress would you want strangers cutting about your house, sounds like a loving nightmare? For a moment I thought they were calling him the n word and was confused.
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OwlFancier posted:lmao @ celebrating the wrong thing but very patriotically Could be describing any of the royals here.
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OwlFancier posted:Can't wait for 2030 when the captain tom foundation has produced a fleet of life size captain tom animated simulacra to patrol during the mandatory clap for boris hour every evening and make sure you are doing it patriotically. Two Minutes Hate was a failure of Orwell's imagination, both because the British can hate for much longer than that, and also he didn't anticipate the Captain Tom-bots
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Tesseraction posted:For a moment I thought they were calling him the n word and was confused. "The other N word"
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Failed Imagineer posted:Two Minutes Hate was a failure of Orwell's imagination, both because the British can hate for much longer than that, and also he didn't anticipate the Captain Tom-bots The Tom Minutes 'bate
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A shame really that when I am dead there will be nobody to transform my image into a hellish necromantic facsimile in order to rake in the dough from pensioners. Really makes me think of this good short story
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Gambrinus posted:loving hell, Airbnb is a ballache to use. I just want somewhere to stay, I'm not applying for citizenship so it's a bit unclear why they need two photos of me and my driving licence. You don't get this kind of bollocks with the Premier Inn. i was really weirded out when the person i stayed at 'reviewed' me. like wtf? i never bother reviewing anything and hate the 2-3 emails i always get from anywhere begging for me to leave a review so the idea of what's essentially a hotel leaving me a review is weird.
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7/10 guest mostly fine but sleeps on their stomach, I only accept side sleepers in this christian household thank you very much.
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Tesseraction posted:what about if they sleep on their back Albigensian heresy.
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Tesseraction posted:what about if they sleep on their back Nobody actually does that, that's just in films and stuff
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Barry Foster posted:Nobody actually does that, that's just in films and stuff erm...... I don't set off to sleep on my back usually on one side, but almost ways wake up that way.
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I occasionally sleep like dracula, if I can pull it off it's actually the best way to sleep. Also once woke up sitting straight up in bed so there is a nonzero possibility that I might be able to levitate up out of bed like dracula also.
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hemale in pain posted:i was really weirded out when the person i stayed at 'reviewed' me. like wtf? i never bother reviewing anything and hate the 2-3 emails i always get from anywhere begging for me to leave a review so the idea of what's essentially a hotel leaving me a review is weird. How many stars did you get
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We stayed in an airbnb in Copenhagen when we went on hol there for a week. The apartment was the home of a sexologist (who apparently somewhat often appears on Danish TV, Radio etc.) and it was the first time they'd rented it out, so there were a LOT of books (and art etc.) about vaginas. Not quite an orgy set but quite interesting/cool. Also, the main thing that made us choose that one was that they also had 2 cats, which was great, as we didn't have our own cats at the time. I figured it was potentially alright because she was just renting out her main living space, and staying with her boyfriend but yeah, this was a while ago and I'm more politically aware now and not a fan of airbnb as a company.
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Maybe I should just take my place against the wall now, but I think the overall Airbnb experience is pretty good. Or it has been for me, anyway. You get to stay in unusual and cheap places, sometimes, and the only real function of the review system is just to weed out who the wankers are. I've only ever stayed in someone's actual spare bedroom once, and that was really nice. It's a weird but pleasant experience to be in someone's home and to socialise with them when you've never met them before. We had a lovely chat, then left very warm reviews for each other like were in an episode of Black Mirror.
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I used (still use) AirBnB a lot whenever I couldn't afford a hotel. Which is pretty often, if you need to travel for more than a weekend for personal reasons (i.e. not holidays or work reimbursing it) it's not feasible to spend £80+ a day on a hotel stay. Don't know about the ethics of it, was less of a choice and more of a necessity. Private Speech fucked around with this message at 14:03 on Jun 1, 2022 |
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OwlFancier posted:I occasionally sleep like dracula, if I can pull it off it's actually the best way to sleep. BRB, off to change my will to make them bury me like Dracula with false plastic teeth.
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Grey Hunter posted:BRB, off to change my will to make them bury me like Dracula with false plastic teeth. And put something like a jack in the box spring in to boing you upright if anyone touches the gravestone.
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