P and O

[Scummer]

20 minutes ago, ecuk268 said:

Not that Costa

They don't own the coffee shops either any more, Coke do

[suewhistle]

Yeah, well I've owned shares too. Bloody Rupert Lowe and Southampton Holdings..

Mind you SSE doing well so can't complain.

 

 

 

[Farmer Saint]

19 hours ago, East Kent Saint said:

I'm not telling anyone anything but if people see P&O on a shirt they will associate it it with anything with P&O on it , ferry or whatever ffs.

You can't legislate for idiots unfortunately. I remember back in the day an estate agents in Staines got attacked because it was called ISIS. Think they changed it to Oasis in the end.

Edited yesterday at 10:30 by Farmer Saint

[Farmer Saint]

37 minutes ago, ecuk268 said:

Not that Costa

Costa hasn't been owned by Whitbread since 2018. Coke bought it. I was one of the consultants in charge of the split.

Quite an interesting one actually, Whitbread had a market value of around £4bn which was way too low, so they hastily decoupled and split Costa into its own company to sell to Coca Cola, for around £4bn. The Whitbread share price stayed the same, valuing the company at, £4bn.

Edited yesterday at 10:36 by Farmer Saint

[Zorba]

31 minutes ago, rallyboy said:

So as I understand it, season ticket holders should be getting free coffees on ferry trips then...

Only if you're wearing the new shirt though..

[Weston Super Saint]

5 minutes ago, Zorba said:

Only if you're wearing the new shirt though..

And sailing from Portsmouth docks.

[Scummer]

5 minutes ago, Weston Super Saint said:

And sailing from Portsmouth docks.

P&O don't sail from Portsmouth, Brittany Ferries do

[Weston Super Saint]

1 minute ago, Scummer said:

P&O don't sail from Portsmouth, Brittany Ferries do

That's the free Costa cunning plan in the shitter then.

[Marsdinho]

I cant wait to hear the phone call from East Kent Saint to Alcoholics Anonymous the next time his car breaks down!

"What, you arent the AA"

[Gloucester Saint]

1 hour ago, Farmer Saint said:

You can't legislate for idiots unfortunately. I remember back in the day an estate agents in Staines got attacked because it was called ISIS. Think they changed it to Oasis in the end.

Or the paediatrician’s car in Paulsgrove…

[WinglessWonder]

2 hours ago, Charlie Wayman said:

Yep its all on ChatGPT, it told me the same thing in the same words except I am old enough to remember the White Star Line

Lol my post was based on my geeky ability to remember random crap rather than AI, cokes in handy for quizzes etc 🤣

I'm not old enough to remember the white star line but 2 of my wife's ancestors survived the sinking (including one who was a trimmer in the engine room and got out despite being buried by a load of coal at one point!). 

[Whitey Grandad]

2 hours ago, Charlie Wayman said:

Gosh! I didn't know you were that rich Whitey

I'm not. We spent all our money on cruises 😊

[Gloucester Saint]

2 minutes ago, Whitey Grandad said:

I'm not. We spent all our money on cruises 😊

My folks are doing the Norwegian Fjords in the autumn.

[East Kent Saint]

I remember going down the docks to see the QE2. Grandad's comment was that it wasn't properly built as you could see all it's ribs 😄

I think he meant it wasn't riveted together but welded !

He was a machinist in the docks , Dad worked on diesel engine boats in the war including one of the D day command boats , he and fellow engine mechanics were allowed up to see the operation room with a scale 3D model of one section of the Normandy beaches .

[Whitey Grandad]

24 minutes ago, Gloucester Saint said:

My folks are doing the Norwegian Fjords in the autumn.

Wise choice.

[ecuk268]

2 hours ago, Farmer Saint said:

Costa hasn't been owned by Whitbread since 2018. Coke bought it. I was one of the consultants in charge of the split.

Quite an interesting one actually, Whitbread had a market value of around £4bn which was way too low, so they hastily decoupled and split Costa into its own company to sell to Coca Cola, for around £4bn. The Whitbread share price stayed the same, valuing the company at, £4bn.

https://costa.cruiselines.com/

[benjii]

2 hours ago, Farmer Saint said:

You can't legislate for idiots unfortunately. I remember back in the day an estate agents in Staines got attacked because it was called ISIS. Think they changed it to Oasis in the end.

I think Noel Gallagher owns that estate agent?

[benjii]

Wasn't there a lap dancing club near the Civic Centre called ISIS?

[benjii]

To be fair, it is fucking retarded to dispose of a business but keep the disposed and legacy business under the same brand.

[Weston Super Saint]

1 hour ago, benjii said:

To be fair, it is fucking retarded to dispose of a business but keep the disposed and legacy business under the same brand.

They aren't under the same brand!

One is called P&O Cruises.

The other is called P&O Ferries.

See if you can spot the difference  

[East Kent Saint]

Yeah but in my day they were known as P&O  not P&O ferry cross the Mersey or any other combo ! What you always knew stays in your head .

[RedArmy]

10 minutes ago, East Kent Saint said:

Yeah but in my day they were known as P&O  not P&O ferry cross the Mersey or any other combo ! What you always knew stays in your head .

Did you used to think The Dell was sponsored by an IT company? 

[Turkish]

So to summarise 

P&O Cruises and Ferries are not the same company but one of them owns Whitbread who used to own Costa Coffee. Noel Gallagher has brought himself an Estate Agents in Staines, Kent has lost control of its borders and you can spot the locals as they'll be wearing fake saints shirts from China. 

[benjii]

10 minutes ago, Turkish said:

So to summarise 

P&O Cruises and Ferries are not the same company but one of them owns Whitbread who used to own Costa Coffee. Noel Gallagher has brought himself an Estate Agents in Staines, Kent has lost control of its borders and you can spot the locals as they'll be wearing fake saints shirts from China. 

And Martin O'Neil just bought a house in Winchester.

[Turkish]

1 minute ago, benjii said:

And Martin O'Neil just bought a house in Winchester.

Which Michael Owen is renting

[Whitey Grandad]

27 minutes ago, East Kent Saint said:

Yeah but in my day they were known as P&O  not P&O ferry cross the Mersey or any other combo ! What you always knew stays in your head .

And before your day?

[bpsaint]

2 hours ago, benjii said:

Wasn't there a lap dancing club near the Civic Centre called ISIS?

There was yeah, you couldn’t get an alcoholic drink in there but the women were a blast.

[spyinthesky]

18 hours ago, WinglessWonder said:

Now, you say that but.......

Cunard acquired the White Star Line just after the war and went on to become part of the Carnival Corporation who also own, yes you've guessed it, the Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company  

I think Cunard and White Star Line were basically forced to amalgamate by the British Government as both companies were in financial difficulties and Cunard were unable to complete the construction of Queen Mary up in Glasgow unless a grant from the Govt was provided.
So the amalgamation was part of the deal.

[Turkish]

3 hours ago, Gloucester Saint said:

My folks are doing the Norwegian Fjords in the autumn.

id love to do that. I've been to Norway a couple of times on business, it's a great country. Would like to do the Fjords and cruise up to Tromso 

[spyinthesky]

18 minutes ago, Turkish said:

So to summarise 

P&O Cruises and Ferries are not the same company but one of them owns Whitbread who used to own Costa Coffee. Noel Gallagher has brought himself an Estate Agents in Staines, Kent has lost control of its borders and you can spot the locals as they'll be wearing fake saints shirts from China. 

Turks, I never know you are serious or using your intellect to play mind games with the hoi polloi.
In case anyone is confused, Carnival Cruise Line own Costa Cruises (an Italian based company) who are a completely different company to Costa Coffee.
You're welcome.

[spyinthesky]

7 hours ago, Whitey Grandad said:

I have had shares in Carnival PLC for twenty years. They entitle me to a useful on board credit whenever I cruise on one of their brands.

I also used to have shares in P&O Ferries until they were taken over by Dubai Ports. They used to give me a useful discount when I used to travel several times a year to France.

Believe me, there is no connection between them. 

Didnt you sell when the shares reached £40?
They went down to £8 after Covid but now on the up at £18 last time I looked after better than expected results

[benjii]

13 minutes ago, Turkish said:

Which Michael Owen is renting

My mate runs a tailors, and apparently a chap came in yesterday with several luxury dressing gowns and requested that the 'N' be removed from the 'MON' monogram.

🥸

[benjii]

7 minutes ago, spyinthesky said:

Turks, I never know you are serious or using your intellect to play mind games with the hoi polloi.
In case anyone is confused, Carnival Cruise Line own Costa Cruises (an Italian based company) who are a completely different company to Costa Coffee.
You're welcome.

Don't believe everything you read in the MSM.

[Weston Super Saint]

5 minutes ago, Turkish said:

id love to do that. I've been to Norway a couple of times on business, it's a great country. Would like to do the Fjords and cruise up to Tromso 

Quite rare cruises that do that.

The mainstream lines, like the company that owns the coffee brand (and has a concession on their ships) tend to visit Flam, Olden, Helsyllt in the Fjords and add on a couple of sea towns like Haugesund, Kristiansand, Stavanger to make up the cruise length.

Still nice to sail along a Fjord sat on a balcony with a nice cup of Costa.

[Weston Super Saint]

1 minute ago, benjii said:

My mate runs a tailors, and apparently a chap came in yesterday with several luxury dressing gowns and requested that the 'N' be removed from the 'MON' monogram.

🥸

They must be sending them up to Glasgow where they will be given Mondays off

[spyinthesky]

5 hours ago, Scummer said:

P&O don't sail from Portsmouth, Brittany Ferries do

And that ironically caused the fabled Dock Strike that Pompey fans are completely misguided about.
Pompey Dockers broke an agreement not to work the Brittany Ferry Service which was based in Plymouth at the time and the Plymouth, Poole and Weymouth Dockers, in small numbers, backed up by around 500 Soton Dockies went down to Pompey Commercial Port, which had only started operating in 1975, to protest.

This was in November 1976 and it was headline news in both the Daily Echo and Pompey Mail.

Ironically I have never heard any Pompey fan mention this heinous behaviour.

[Toussaint]

37 minutes ago, spyinthesky said:

Turks, I never know you are serious or using your intellect to play mind games with the hoi polloi.
In case anyone is confused, Carnival Cruise Line own Costa Cruises (an Italian based company) who are a completely different company to Costa Coffee.
You're welcome.

Bum, I thought £4.25 seemed exceptionally good value for a cruise, it all makes sense now. I don’t know how to tell the wife. 

[Turkish]

32 minutes ago, benjii said:

My mate runs a tailors, and apparently a chap came in yesterday with several luxury dressing gowns and requested that the 'N' be removed from the 'MON' monogram.

🥸

The return of the prodigal son Michael Obafemi?

[Turkish]

33 minutes ago, Weston Super Saint said:

Quite rare cruises that do that.

The mainstream lines, like the company that owns the coffee brand (and has a concession on their ships) tend to visit Flam, Olden, Helsyllt in the Fjords and add on a couple of sea towns like Haugesund, Kristiansand, Stavanger to make up the cruise length.

Still nice to sail along a Fjord sat on a balcony with a nice cup of Costa.

an you get a pint of Whitbread best on there too?

[Lee On Solent Saint]

Three pages to ascertain that there are two companies called P and O that share the same name, but are totally unrelated to each other. You can certainly tell it's the close season. 

[S-Clarke]

5 minutes ago, Lee On Solent Saint said:

Three pages to ascertain that there are two companies called P and O that share the same name, but are totally unrelated to each other. You can certainly tell it's the close season. 

I think East Kent Saint got it in the end though  

[East Kent Saint]

1 hour ago, RedArmy said:

Did you used to think The Dell was sponsored by an IT company? 

No because there were no IT companies then obviously 

[RedArmy]

9 minutes ago, East Kent Saint said:

No because there were no IT companies then obviously 

Makes you wonder how there was a Y2K bug then. 

[East Kent Saint]

2 minutes ago, RedArmy said:

Makes you wonder how there was a Y2K bug then. 

But was there a Y2K bug , we certainly spent a fortune preventing it but nothing happened 

[Whitey Grandad]

1 hour ago, Turkish said:

id love to do that. I've been to Norway a couple of times on business, it's a great country. Would like to do the Fjords and cruise up to Tromso 

I can recommend that. My wife and I went several times on big ships which is the  best way to see the fjords and since I lost her I've been a couple of times on the Hurtigruten Coastal Express which is different but very rewarding. 

[Whitey Grandad]

1 hour ago, spyinthesky said:

Didnt you sell when the shares reached £40?
They went down to £8 after Covid but now on the up at £18 last time I looked after better than expected results

No I didn't.  I think they went over £50 at one point. In the past few years I bought another 100 shares at about £11 but as you say they dribbled down and when they had recovered to £13.50 I sold them. I still have my original holding which have  probably given me a few thousand pounds of onboard credit initially with P&O but for the last few years with Princess. I jumped ship when P&O upset me.

Coving was a big challenge.  I think Carnival took out a $60bn dollar loan facility to see us through. The dividends were useful too but there has been no sign of those for several years. 

[Whitey Grandad]

1 hour ago, Weston Super Saint said:

Quite rare cruises that do that.

The mainstream lines, like the company that owns the coffee brand (and has a concession on their ships) tend to visit Flam, Olden, Helsyllt in the Fjords and add on a couple of sea towns like Haugesund, Kristiansand, Stavanger to make up the cruise length.

Still nice to sail along a Fjord sat on a balcony with a nice cup of Costa.

The shorter cruises don't go that far up but anything over about ten nights definitely will.

[Weston Super Saint]

5 minutes ago, Whitey Grandad said:

No I didn't.  I think they went over £50 at one point. In the past few years I bought another 100 shares at about £11 but as you say they dribbled down and when they had recovered to £13.50 I sold them. I still have my original holding which have  probably given me a few thousand pounds of onboard credit initially with P&O but for the last few years with Princess. I jumped ship when P&O upset me.

Coving was a big challenge.  I think Carnival took out a $60bn dollar loan facility to see us through. The dividends were useful too but there has been no sign of those for several years. 

Which shares - Carnival CCL are currently listed at £1980 per share...

[Weston Super Saint]

4 minutes ago, Whitey Grandad said:

The shorter cruises don't go that far up but anything over about ten nights definitely will.

FO and Hurtigruten go there, I think Ambassador do as well - not sure about NCL, but the main ones from Southampton, P&O, MSC, Princess, Carnival only do shorter 7 day cruises.

 

[Zorba]

1 hour ago, Whitey Grandad said:

The shorter cruises don't go that far up but anything over about ten nights definitely will.

Might have to get a ferry.