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Hi
Any Guardian readers on Aurora World Cruise 2014?
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:think: obviously not!, Lorraine, I'm sure you could find loads of daily mail readers though :lol: :lol:
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Im on that cruise, but more a Daily Star, Sun, Evening Sentinel and Derbyshire Times reader. :)

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Does the Daily Sport count ?
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Is 'Guardian reader' not an oxymoron ?

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My experience tells me that the vast majority of passengers will be Mail readers or other right wing comics. Maybe a Torygraph or Times or two and a smattering of other titles.

A world cruise will be even more right wing and snobby, if you value your life don't mention Thomsons except in a derisory way.

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Lorraine at sea wrote:
Hi
Any Guardian readers on Aurora World Cruise 2014?
Lorraine
Well, none of you have been very helpful to Lorraine have you? Unfortunately I shan't be on this cruise, nor do I read the Guardian but here are some tips for you to spot other Guardian readers,
1. They will be carting around at least 3 Apple products.
2. Beards and flip flops (this applies to both sexes)
3. Plummy accents loudly disparaging the government, the police etc.
4. Wads of cash

I hope this helps :D

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davecttr wrote:
My experience tells me that the vast majority of passengers will be Mail readers or other right wing comics. Maybe a Torygraph or Times or two and a smattering of other titles.

A world cruise will be even more right wing and snobby, if you value your life don't mention Thomsons except in a derisory way.

I might get a 'I love Thomson's Cruises' t-shirt made then. :)

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Excellent idea. You would be surprised how many P&O cruisers have enjoyed Thomson cruises but are scared to admit it. The parties are better and the booze is cheaper.

ps - did you notice that they are basing a ship in Jamaica for winter 2014/15 and Phuket is rumoured for later as the Dreamliner deliveries continue. Pity they have bad single cabins. Venturas single cabins were pretty bad on my last cruise as well. i can't recommend them.

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Dave
I am somewhat worried now
should I admit my next cruise in Jan is with Thomson or should I pretend it is Cunard , just to be posh and snobby?
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Dark Knight wrote:
Dave
I am somewhat worried now
should I admit my next cruise in Jan is with Thomson or should I pretend it is Cunard , just to be posh and snobby?
Just go down the middle DK, tuck your Telegraph under your arm and go with P&O! ;)
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Will the Daily sport and a copy of Razzle be okay
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Dark Knight wrote:
Will the Daily sport and a copy of Razzle be okay

Have you coloured in the pictures?

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no I save that for when I am hogging the sunbeds
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Is there a Daily Sport? I remember the Sunday Sport, full of silicone bimbos and headlines about aliens and martinis :-)

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HK
are you confusing it with the Guardian ?
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Dark Knight wrote:
no I save that for when I am hogging the sunbeds
No, no Batty, that won't work. The whole point about hogging a sunbed is you just leave your comic there. You, of course, will be somewhere else, possibly placing another comic to save your seat in the theatre, while you enjoy a drink in one of the bars in which you saved seats earlier. How can you colour in when you and your comic are in different places.

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oh silly me
I forgot
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Dark Knight wrote:
Dave
I am somewhat worried now
should I admit my next cruise in Jan is with Thomson or should I pretend it is Cunard , just to be posh and snobby?
If "snobby" is what you want then it would need to be Silversea et.al. - after all Cunard is only "middle of the road" like P&O :roll:

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Is the original post a wind up, does anyone really care what daily/weekend paper someone reads :roll:
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DQ
I think the responses answer you question :lol: :lol:
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Is the Guardian still better known as the Grauniad?
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Meg 50 wrote:
Is the Guardian still better known as the Grauniad?

It is, if you read Private Eye, Meg :lol:

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Meg 50 wrote:
Is the Guardian still better known as the Grauniad?
It would be if they could find a reader with enough intelligence to spot the spelling mistake.

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What spelling mitsake?

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