P&O's great British sailaway
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Not my cup of tea but I don't have a problem with those who do enjoy them.
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Yes it is a bit over rated. Champaign or whatever it is, is silly money @£7.50 a glass, but fortunately we now qualify for the freebie voucher. If it's free I'm having it
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Highly enjoyable bit of fun,
even better if it upsets some of the stick in the muds on here.
I don't enjoy ballroom dancing, but I don't come on forums complaining about it.
even better if it upsets some of the stick in the muds on here.
I don't enjoy ballroom dancing, but I don't come on forums complaining about it.
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brillo wrote:Highly enjoyable bit of fun,
even better if it upsets some of the stick in the muds on here.
I don't enjoy ballroom dancing, but I don't come on forums complaining about it.
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On a hot sunny day out of a pleasant port, like Valletta, with all the typical sailaway standards being played, and the entertainment team throwing their heart and soul into it, I find it enjoyable to watch.
Over on CC quite a number of Americans say they love watching P&O sailaways in the Caribbean and wish their lines did something similar.
Over on CC quite a number of Americans say they love watching P&O sailaways in the Caribbean and wish their lines did something similar.
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I thought they'd be too sofistikated for a knees up FB?
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brillo wrote:Highly enjoyable bit of fun,
even better if it upsets some of the stick in the muds on here.
I don't enjoy ballroom dancing, but I don't come on forums complaining about it.
A few folk have said it's not for them. That's not complaining.
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pimmsStephen wrote:Yes it is a bit over rated. Champaign or whatever it is, is silly money @£7.50 a glass, but fortunately we now qualify for the freebie voucher. If it's free I'm having it
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Well said brillobrillo wrote:Highly enjoyable bit of fun,
even better if it upsets some of the stick in the muds on here.
I don't enjoy ballroom dancing, but I don't come on forums complaining about it.
I love the sail away parties but it narks me that we haven't got a proper anthem for England, "God save the queen " ? she is monarch of the Commonwealth not just England, even a song about building Jerusalem in England sounds alien to me.
Union Jack ?, a good percentage of Scots,Welsh and Northern Irish would like to break away from us so that leaves the St. Georges Cross and he wasn't even English.
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Well it's a good job that some people do not like them as there would not be enough room for everyone. You can't get 2000 people round the back of Aurora. Anyway the bow would then stick up about 10 feet.
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When you sail from Port Everglades you are watched from a couple of webcams. If you put a towel or a flag over the balcony rail you are likely to get focussed on and I have to admit to flying a Union Jack which successfully caught the cameras attention and was viewed by family back home.
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We just put a banner over the side of our balcony saying "this is what your benefits can get YOU if you play the system right.
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Steven, stop trying to wind up DK.Stephen wrote:We just put a banner over the side of our balcony saying "this is what your benefits can get YOU if you play the system right.
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The inlaws were on a cruise a few years back when there was a family on board bragging about how they screwed the benefits system to pay for their cruises. Fortunately, the scroungers were put off at the next port of call.Stephen wrote:We just put a banner over the side of our balcony saying "this is what your benefits can get YOU if you play the system right.
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As pensioners are on benefits anyway , Towny, Stephen is quite right to flaunt his status as a benefit sloth and a drain on the taxpayer, so I have no issue with him flying his chav flag, after all he is an Essex boy
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[quote="Stephen"]We just put a banner over the side of our balcony saying "this is what your benefits can get YOU if you play the system right. [/quote
Just in case anyone is interested .
https://www.gov.uk/report-benefit-fraud
Just in case anyone is interested .
https://www.gov.uk/report-benefit-fraud
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Dark Knight wrote:As pensioners are on benefits anyway y
Not ALL pensioners are currently drawing anything from the state.
I'm retired (private pension), don't work, and won't receive my state pension until 2026
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Stephen wrote:We just put a banner over the side of our balcony saying "this is what your benefits can get YOU if you play the system right.
really Stephen?
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Gill, as you rightly say you are not receiving the state benefit, oops sorry pension, so quite rightly you are not classed as a drain on the taxpayer, hope that clarifies thingsGill W wrote:Dark Knight wrote:As pensioners are on benefits anyway y
Not ALL pensioners are currently drawing anything from the state.
I'm retired (private pension), don't work, and won't receive my state pension until 2026
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DNDark Knight wrote:Gill, as you rightly say you are not receiving the state benefit, oops sorry pension, so quite rightly you are not classed as a drain on the taxpayer, hope that clarifies thingsGill W wrote:Dark Knight wrote:As pensioners are on benefits anyway y
Not ALL pensioners are currently drawing anything from the state.
I'm retired (private pension), don't work, and won't receive my state pension until 2026
I do receive the state handout to the oldies, however I pay two thirds back in tax on my company pension, therefor can I be classed only as a partial drain on the economy?
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Dark Knight wrote:As pensioners are on benefits anyway , Towny, Stephen is quite right to flaunt his status as a benefit sloth and a drain on the taxpayer, so I have no issue with him flying his chav flag, after all he is an Essex boy
And proud of it.
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I don't mind being a drain on the economy now I get my state pension. I've paid enough into the system over the years, and continue to do so in tax on my company pension. I'll have to live to about 150 before I'm a nett beneficiary.
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I as a pensioner do not class my pension as a benefit, it is something I paid into for 50 years and I and all other (contributed) pensioners are entitled to it. If we lived in the U.S.A. or some countries in Europe we would have a better pension but our scheme is raped by the scroungers who fraud the benefits system.Dark Knight wrote:As pensioners are on benefits anyway , Towny, Stephen is quite right to flaunt his status as a benefit sloth and a drain on the taxpayer, so I have no issue with him flying his chav flag, after all he is an Essex boy
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Not long to go, then, Merv !Mervyn and Trish wrote:I'll have to live to about 150 before I'm a nett beneficiary.
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Raybosailor wrote:I as a pensioner do not class my pension as a benefit, it is something I paid into for 50 years and I and all other (contributed) pensioners are entitled to it. If we lived in the U.S.A. or some countries in Europe we would have a better pension but our scheme is raped by the scroungers who fraud the benefits system.Dark Knight wrote:As pensioners are on benefits anyway , Towny, Stephen is quite right to flaunt his status as a benefit sloth and a drain on the taxpayer, so I have no issue with him flying his chav flag, after all he is an Essex boy
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