Before posting, I have started to consider, "what is the politically correct thing to say?"
For this reason I am posting less.

If in my opinion, some of the passengers today are nothing but slobs, better not say it. Seems to be an increasing number of dillybars around also.

If a crewmember is claimed to in some way to have molested a passenger, then I would suggest waiting the outcome of any investigation and trial. Such a claim was was raised last year and posted on this site. I took the 'wait and see' attitude and received all kinds of flack.Even a lawyer contributor stated that the defendant was probably guilty. So much for American justice.

As to these floating boxes that masquerade as ships, they are nothing more than pablum at sea.

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Originally posted by cottonwool:
I keep hearing about all these deals from the USA on so many ships and all we get is a price offered by P&O and thats that, take it or leave it

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Originally posted by topgun:

If in my opinion, some of the passengers today are nothing but slobs, better not say it. Seems to be an increasing number of dillybars around also.

As to these floating boxes that masquerade as ships, they are nothing more than pablum at sea.

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OK, I'm one of your slobs, but what on earth is a Dillybar? I did think it was some sort of an ice cream bar?

I thought Pablum was some enriched food for malnourished children?

PamM & GenoR - a dilly bar is a man's word for a silly female (in my opinion usually used when the female has an opposing point of view).

"Up jumped the swagman, put aside his dillybar,"
"I'm the bloke in charge here - can't you see?"
And he ....ETC ETC.

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Originally posted by hooked on cruising:
Dambrosi.....Don't go..... I think I may be one of those slobs your talking about but I still want you to stay= We are not rich (finanically I mean) we save hard all year (between outting one kid through UNiversity and the other looking at college in the fall) we look forward to our vacation. we behave ourselves and dress appropriately and always use our best table manners. It is posts like your that I get a kick out of we must be able to voice our opinions here isn't that the purpose of a forum board. I have been in trouble on the board before but hey I'm still here! Don't be a chicken! I almost called you a dillybar Hee Hee You didn't even help me with my airport question (and according to sympatice you live near the PC area) but I still want you to stay. So stop whining and get typing!!!

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Originally posted by Cambodge:
You ALL have it wrong. It is from the fourth verse of "Waltzing Matilda," as follows:

"Up jumped the swagman, put aside his dillybar,"
"I'm the bloke in charge here - can't you see?"
And he ....ETC ETC.

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Sorry Cambodge -

here are the words I learned around a campfire just outside of Townsville, Queensland, Australia - with new found friends, on a trip, on a night I shall never forget, the stars were brighter than I ever imagined.

Waltzing Matilda is an Australian icon.
It is quite likely that more Australians know the words to this song than the national anthem.
There is probably no other song that is more easily recognised by a populace: young or old: ocker or a newly arrived immigrant.
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Waltzing Matilda.

Once a jolly swagman sat beside the billabong,
Under the shade of a coulibah tree,
And he sang as he sat and waited by the billabong
You'll come a waltzing matilda with me

Waltzing matilda, waltzing matilda
You'll come a waltzing matilda with me
And he sang as he sat and waited by the billabong
You'll come a waltzing matilda with me.

Down came a jumbuck to drink beside the billabong
Up jumped the swagman and seized him with glee
And he sang as he tucked jumbuck in his tuckerbag
You'll come a waltzing matilda with me

Waltzing matilda, waltzing matilda
You'll come a waltzing matilda with me
And he sang as he sat and waited by the billabong
You'll come a waltzing matilda with me.

Down came the stockman, riding on his thoroughbred,
Down came the troopers, one, two, three.
"where's the jolly jumbuck you've got in your tuckerbag?
You'll come a waltzing matilda with me

Waltzing matilda, waltzing matilda
You'll come a waltzing matilda with me
And he sang as he sat and waited by the billabong
You'll come a waltzing matilda with me.

Up jumped the swagman and plunged into the billabong,
"You'll never catch me alive," cried he
And his ghost may be heard as you ride beside the billabong,
You'll come a Waltzing Matilda with me.

Swagman - a drifter, a hobo, an itinerant shearer who carried all his belongings wrapped up in a blanket or cloth called a swag.

Billabong - a waterhole near a river

Coolibah - a eucalyptus tree

Billy - a tin can with a wire handle used to boil water in

Jumbuck - a sheep

Tucker Bag - a bag for keeping food in

Squatter - a wealthy landowner.

Trooper - a policeman, a mounted militia-man.

Of COURSE I knew it was not part of "Waltzing Matilda" because I just wrote that part yesterday (and have not yet finished it!)

In the late, great global unpleasantness, I served with the "Aye-aye Bee" -[The Allied Intelligence Bureau] in Brisbane as a geologist.

Yes I knew all the terms and verses of WM. Years later, in Vietnam, I taught some Aussies the more obscure verses, which as a Yank, game me certain bragging rights!!

WM is one of the few Aussie songs I knew that did not have an obscene component, but I was only down under for six months in early 1945!!