Cruise Lines

Talk of Carnival's decision to ban cougars has managed to creep into the ever-enjoyable column written by Bryony Gordon in the Telegraph.

It all stems from that cougar-cum-Air New Zealand ad (don't ask me. Even after watching I've no idea what the connection is) that has been pulled because there were so many complaints. Which seems a good enough reason to me to show it here.

Bryony writes that the video forore comes "just days after a travel company was forced to ban its 'cougar cruises', where ladies of a certain age were set up with 'cubs'".

"Apparently, all these sexually predatory females were putting off the non-sexually predatory passengers, who simply wanted to watch some terrible cabaret before taking to their beds with Legionnaires' disease."

She's wrong of course. Legionnaires is so out of fashion with cruise ship passengers. They much prefer to take to their beds with norovirus, that most unromantic-sounding vomiting bug.