Jon77

Spot on, I have nothing else to add to this thread,

eddie007

Ooops think i may have developed Dementia i forgot i was meant to be playing nicely...

sonlymewalter

i meant the original post is potty, not the poster

eddie007

Never.

sonlymewalter

be nice

Grayling

So how come the Aussies are the first to get upset if anyone takes the piss out of them

sonlymewalter

If an Aussie or a Pom takes the piss they deserve a punch on the hooter. Most Aussies and Poms have a bit of banter, nothing other than that...

deb68

What goes around comes around surely, Our kids will grow into the culture of being called poms (right or wrong), it goes with the game i suppose.
Theres a case over here at the moment concerning an Australian man who got a job with a local council, he got the usual aussie fodder type jokes etc, at first he dealt with it after a while he got sick of it, so he reported the offending work mates for racial abuse, the case is pending has i type.
To be honest theres nothing wrong with 'banter', but when it starts to get personal then it has to be nipped in the bud i suppose.

Link to story here...http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...depressed.html
don't you just love the mails approach to title choices

ROMFT_WO2RN

Bulling: - Verb - colloquial Irish - the act of inseminating a cow using a "live" bull, as opposed to artificial insemination conducted by a vet.

really hope the Ozzies aren't bulling English children

sonlymewalter

deb68

I thought bulling was the term for giving your boots a good polish?

sammax

[QUOTE=lancalot;9158208]The recent ashes tour has seen resurgence in abusive language against the British people, the use of the word Pom and all of the abuse that goes with it fueled by comments and advertisements by the media.
Two young girls who had recently arrived in our town from England were constantly referred to as the Poms by some of the children at the school that they were attending. The children were teased about the English not liking to wash very often etc.
Whenever they complained about the name calling or anything for that matter they were met by the chant of “winging Pomes”.
They eventually became tired of the constant name calling and started to retaliate by calling some of the other children Wogs and Abos .
The children who had been calling the English children Pomes complained to their teacher that the English children were using racist language .It was however only the English children that got into trouble for using racist language as the media used Pommes to describe the English cricketers.
How many other racial groups have to put up with these double standards?•
We try to set a good example to our children by not using words that hold others to ridicule and denigrate others yet some members of the media seam to encourage their use. Children get bullied enough at school without encouragement by the media
A significant number of English people find the term distasteful, derogatory and selectively racist.
On the 29th of September2006. a pole was held on win TV. On the today show Program . The viewers were asked the question “Is it OK to call English people Pomes” 15,898 people said that it not ok to do so.
The Oxford English Dictionary states that Pommy is as racist as Wog and Nigger etc. So why do we allow the double standards.
The English and Welsh ( Ernie Dingo referred to the Welsh people as pommes in his documentary on Wales) deserve the same respect as other people that happen to have been born in other countries.
As long as people tolerate being called pomes the abuse will continue.

I think the reason it is tolerated is because the words "Abbo" and "Nigger" were obviously used in a derogatory way due to skin colour, whereas P.O.M. is just an abbreviation. I, personally, don't take offence to being called a Pom, I even call myself a "Pommy", and my son uses that word in his email address. If "Pom" is really counted as racist, then surely the term "Aussie" is as well? and I am sure most Aussies don't take offence to that?

quoll

Bulling IIRC is buffing to a high shine (as in shoes) - so I wondered who was polishing the English kids.

However, to the OP (serious or not) bullying is endemic in Australian schools so that is no surprise. Also, white Europeans can never be the victim of racist remarks (that's in the rule book!)

eddie007

Not even the French????

ROMFT_WO2RN

that as well but I have minions to do that for me now