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originallambrettaman said:
Final booking.com update...

We refunded you for your booking in London.

Your booking was canceled. We couldn't confirm your booking with our partner provider. Sorry for the inconvenience.

Your refund is already on the way, but the processing time will depend on your bank.
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The standard of English language in India or AI world is getting worse.
 
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balkan tiger said:
The standard of English language in India or AI world is getting worse.
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I have found Booking.com to be quite fair and reasonable when it comes to such issues. I had an apartment booked in New York and the owners decided to cancel the booking the week before. As it was thanksgiving, options to find a replacement were limited and prices sky high. Booking.com not only gave us all the options available but honored the original price we paid and put us in an apartment showing as twice the price.
 
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At the risk of sounding nerdy - people who set up a chess board the wrong way around. Usually shop assistants or other people who have obviously never played the game. The white square goes on the right.
 
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Muffinthegoat said:
Before the law was changed I tried to buy some alcohol free lager from a supermarket at around 10.30 on a Sunday morning. They refused me, saying I couldn’t buy alcohol at that time of day. I pointed out that the bottles said “alcohol free” but they pointed out the ingredients that said they contained approximately 0.01% alcohol.
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Would they not let you buy vinegar either??
 
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Open ai
Becoming for profit

They were allowed to freely scrape billions of gigabytes of data as they were non profit
Now theyve got it all

Its for profit

They should be jailed

Im so sick of this constant widespread open corruption

Yet timmy sells one dodgy firestick and hes done
 
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bradymk2 said:
Open ai
Becoming for profit

They were allowed to freely scrape billions of gigabytes of data as they were non profit
Now theyve got it all

Its for profit

They should be jailed

Im so sick of this constant widespread open corruption

Yet timmy sells one dodgy firestick and hes done
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Do you have Timmy’s number… err… asking for a friend.
 
Tigerglenn said:
The British Transport Police (BTP) says it will not investigate bike thefts outside stations where the bicycle has been left for more than two hours.

It means most bike thefts will not be investigated and CCTV footage will not be looked at outside a two-hour timeframe.

Commuters leave thousands of cycles on racks outside stations every day, including in specially built bike parks with CCTV. Critics say the BTP policy means those facilities are not secure and theft has effectively been decriminalised.

The BTP said: "The more time our officers spend reviewing CCTV... the less time they have available for patrolling railway stations and trains, investigating crimes which cause the most harm."

Simon Feldman has had one bike taken already from outside Watford Junction station and an attempt was made recently to steal another.

He informed the BTP, which told him officers would not investigate the theft - which happened while he was on shift in London - as he had left the bike at the station for 10 hours.

"The BTP report came back after I reported it and it said they wouldn't investigate it. Even though it's right under a camera. And I found out that if you have left your bike for more than two hours, they won't investigate it," he said.

"I was pretty shocked because what it's doing effectively is decriminalising bike theft and I realised how many people are being affected by this."

What are we paying for and why an arbitrary two hour limit ,go ahead thieves take the poor hard working persons bike from the train station
With total impunity ,madness total madness.
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How do they know if it was left for more than 2 hours?
Could have been stolen after 5 mins just because you didn't know until several hours later
 
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