Re: What is a POM?
 

Are you suggesting it's a demeaning term after all?.....

(adjusts rose coloured specs!) :beer:

Re: What is a POM?
 

Now, would I do a thing like that? :rolleyes:

(my specs have darkened, over the years... :cool: )

Re: What is a POM?
 

the important thing is to be yourself and not try to change as you say. If aussies like, if anyone likes who you are then that's a bonus and you will be ahead of the game before the dice is rolled. People will judge you whatever you do but tough.

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Re: What is a POM?
 

Ok so Im a Jock then! Im OK with that!

(NOTE TO ANY YANKS :D OUT THERE: That doesnt make me one of those sporty-type arses you see in films that always bully the hero but always end up getting theirs in the end, theyre just called wankers here!)

PS A yank to us Brits is anybody from the USA so dont think youve got away with it just because youre from New York, its nothing Personal.

Limey-Jock Bloke

Re: What is a POM?
 

i rest my case I quote from the Aussie Dictionary


pom, pommy, pommie
noun:- A person from England, probably derived from Prisoner Of Mother England.

Re: What is a POM?
 

Case rested then!

Youre a JOCK by the way!

Re: What is a POM?
 

PMSL. That bloke from "The Full Monty" comes to mind, can't remember if he is a Jock now to be honest. He then became the bad bloke for a while think he might have been in a Bond movie..

Did you mean spotty-arsed? Remember the Jock in Austen Powers 2 - the Yanks wouldn't have had a chance. I remember Californians beside themselves watching that.

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Re: What is a POM?
 

No and Yes....didn't believe what at first...(?)

BTW, I actually reckon the pomegranate thing could be accurate even if it is less popular. Fewer people have heard of that version. The prisoner thing seems a bit too good to be true although it is convenient for Aussies.

Re: What is a POM?
 

You thinking of Robert Carlise?
--and..
'Fat Bastard' in Austin Powers :D Mike Myers seems to be infactuated with Jocks, have you seen 'So I married an Axe murderer' what a laugh!
HO, HEID!

Re: What is a POM?
 

That's the bloke. He was in Tomorrow Never Dies...I think.

Re: What is a POM?
 

Aussie call Yanks 'seppos' as in septic tanks..... :D

A POM to me is an Aussie. They were the prisoners in this land, not the British residents in the UK.

Re: What is a POM?
 

Yeah, the guy with the Bullet in his head!
If you like him then get a copy of TrainSpotting, he plays a wee aggressive NED called Begbie, fanstastic character and film.

(BTW, A NED is the Scottish equivalent of a Chav but have been about far longer, stands for Non Educated Delinquent, originally coined by the polis I believe...sorry I seem to have an unhealthy interest in these things!!)

Re: What is a POM?
 

yeah, his father was Scottish.

Re: What is a POM?
 

Can't wriggle out that way - the convicts transported to Aus were British - Poms for short.

Last 269 convicts arrived in the colony of Western Australia on 1868 January 9 - and have all since past away.

Re: What is a POM?
 

I was responding to your earlier post - had I taken it the wrong way (no) and had I had a few bad experiences (yes). Sorry if I was confusing :( :) and I didn't really believe my feelings at first, after a while of observing, you know, generally, not just personally, I came to believe there was something underlying it all. I don't want to start being explicit or offensive so I'll leave it there. :)