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So I’ve got 38 reviews for my property as a host on Airbnb.

Apart from one booking that went a bit south, the rest had almost nothing but 5-star reviews.

Except ALL the Cypriot guests. Literally every single Cypriot review has been 4 stars.

On one of them? The guest complained because there was NO TV!!!

A TV that was never listed in the amenities. Never advertised. Never promised.

What exactly are you people expecting fs?

Am I missing some unwritten Cypriot Airbnb rule here?

Can we make this a normal thing in Cyprus?

If a shop is selling food, pet food, cosmetics, supplements, etc. online, the expiration date should be shown in the listing, or at least the minimum remaining shelf life should be stated before you buy it.

Buying something online and only discovering when it arrives that it expires in two weeks is absolutely ridiculous.

This should be pretty easy to enforce: make the expiry date (or minimum remaining shelf life) a mandatory field for relevant online listings, with the same consumer protection rules applying to online and physical sales.

Platforms could require it as part of the listing, and retailers could be fined for deliberately hiding, not posting it or misrepresenting it.

Not asking for anything revolutionary. Just the basic information you'd have access to if you were standing in the shop.

I'm 44. I've got CAD, yet because I'm not 50, I'm only entitled to general blood work once every 5 years.

What the hell kind of preventive medicine is that?

How are people supposed to monitor their health if they can't even get basic blood tests? If you've already got a chronic condition, waiting years makes even less sense.

Am I just supposed to wake up in five years and find out my condition has worsened when it could have been caught earlier? Who's responsible then?

Is anyone else dealing with this? Have you been told the same thing?

If enough people are affected, is there anything we can actually do to get this policy changed? Has anyone challenged it or contacted GESY, or the Συνήγορος του Ασθενή or anyone else?

Let me get that:

Why do Cypriots tolerate being treated like this?

Not by one government, not by one political party, but by everyone.

From roadworks which take months longer than promised, to public projects that somehow always end up costing more to specific contractors who keep getting major jobs despite delays.

Every fuckery gets met with the same response:

"This is cyprus bro" "bro" 🤓

Why?!? At what point did we decide that "this is cyprus" is an acceptable excuse instead of an admission of failure?

If your mechanic kept your car for six months when he promised one, you'd lose your mind. If your builder missed every deadline, you'd be dragging him to the court.

But when it's public money, suddenly everyone becomes patient and even feels cool for expressing it🤦‍♀️

It's almost, almost like we've been conditioned to expect incompetence and call it normal , one would say😇

Nothing changes because nobody expects anything to change.

Maybe the biggest problem in Cyprus isn't corruption or bad governance.

Maybe it's us?

Edit: changed "you" into "us" by popular demand

Be careful when shopping at Lidl, or avoid it altogether.

The price displayed ON THE SHELF isn't always the price you'll be charged at checkout. Apparently they decided that shelf prices are now just suggestions.

In essence, some promotional labels appear to be placed in advance, with activation dates IN THE FUTURE, so what you see is NOT always what you pay.

I have no idea how they manage to get away with something like that, but Lidl is slowly becoming the mafia of supermarkets.

Maybe I'm missing something, but can someone explain the logic behind helmet enforcement for bicycles and e-scooters in Cyprus?

From what I've observed, it seems completely random. Some days police don't care at all. Other days they're stopping and fining everybody and their mom.

What also confuses me is the treatment of rental bikes and scooters. We have these municipality-approved schemes with numbered stickers all over them (Bolt, Nextbike, etc.), and yet I constantly see people riding them without helmets. Are they exempt? Are police instructed not to bother with them? Or is everyone technically breaking the same law and enforcement is just selective?

The reason I'm asking is because I recently got a helmet fine myself.

Yes, technically I wasn't wearing a helmet.

But besides the rentals which is the cherry on the pie Im about to share here's what fucks with me: I rode right past the officers. They saw me and they didnt stop me. They didn't signal me. Nothing.

Only after an unrelated interaction, where I pointed out that they were blocking the way, did they call me back and issue the helmet fine.

So from my perspective, it didn't feel like they saw a dangerous helmet violation and acted. It felt like they suddenly became interested in the helmet after I annoyed them.

Again, I know the law exists and I know I wasn't wearing a helmet. What I'm questioning is the consistency and fairness of how it's enforced (rentals) and how the law can be weponised at will.

Has anyone actually challenged one of these fines in court? Is there any legal relevance to selective enforcement, or is the answer simply "you broke the rule, end of story" regardless of the circumstances?