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do you think being called a POM is an insult?
Dec 2nd 2006, 6:10 pm
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Re: do you think being called a POM is an insult?
Originally Posted by rossifumi
Which station is this?
Dec 2nd 2006, 6:13 pm
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Re: do you think being called a POM is an insult?
Originally Posted by hevs
I do that all the time 
When someone asks me if I'd like coffee, i say errm? I'm a pom! What do you reckon? Then i get a cup of tea
I also say things like "if you want real chips you should go to England, us poms know how to cook them properly" etc etc. Its banter is all. Sure, you will always get the people who use the term in a derogatory fashion, but you will probably find they are just racist knobs so their opinion doesn't matter anyway 
When someone asks me if I'd like coffee, i say errm? I'm a pom! What do you reckon? Then i get a cup of tea I also say things like "if you want real chips you should go to England, us poms know how to cook them properly" etc etc. Its banter is all. Sure, you will always get the people who use the term in a derogatory fashion, but you will probably find they are just racist knobs so their opinion doesn't matter anyway Exactly
Dec 2nd 2006, 6:15 pm
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Re: do you think being called a POM is an insult?
Originally Posted by iamthecreaturefromuranus
Anybody surprised by the fact that we now have close to 1 in 6 English who ARE offended by being called a Pom? Should we be taking the wankers and tossers, as Vash so eloquently called them on the other Pom thread, who are campaigning against its use any more seriously now?
If someone says something you don't like tell them.
If they are genuine they'll stop.
If they are pricks they'll continue.
Either ignore them ........or give em back as much slavver till they cry
Dec 2nd 2006, 6:18 pm
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Re: do you think being called a POM is an insult?
Originally Posted by phoenixinoz
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Either ignore them ........or give em back as much slavver till they cry
Either ignore them ........or give em back as much slavver till they cry
Now THATS what I was trying to say
Dec 2nd 2006, 6:25 pm
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Re: do you think being called a POM is an insult?
Originally Posted by phoenixinoz
It must be difficult for Aussies to guess what to say and what not to say as the majority of us don't mind
If someone says something you don't like tell them.
If they are genuine they'll stop.
If they are pricks they'll continue.
Either ignore them ........or give em back as much slavver till they cry
If someone says something you don't like tell them.
If they are genuine they'll stop.
If they are pricks they'll continue.
Either ignore them ........or give em back as much slavver till they cry
Dec 2nd 2006, 6:28 pm
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Re: do you think being called a POM is an insult?
I wonder if you have a regional accent it makes a big difference to them calling you a pom? Just thinking that I don't have an accent as such, though I do sound English, so I prob don't get picked as being English very often at all, hence my FIL is really the only one to call me a pom. Hmmmmm.
Dec 2nd 2006, 6:29 pm
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Re: do you think being called a POM is an insult?
Originally Posted by iPom
I wonder if you have a regional accent it makes a big difference to them calling you a pom? Just thinking that I don't have an accent as such, though I do sound English, so I prob don't get picked as being English very often at all, hence my FIL is really the only one to call me a pom. Hmmmmm.
I have been called a POM by only one Aussie, but she thought I was from Scotland
Dec 2nd 2006, 6:31 pm
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Re: do you think being called a POM is an insult?
Originally Posted by iPom
I wonder if you have a regional accent it makes a big difference to them calling you a pom? Just thinking that I don't have an accent as such, though I do sound English, so I prob don't get picked as being English very often at all, hence my FIL is really the only one to call me a pom. Hmmmmm.
having the worst accent in the world will help me then,sounding like barry (auvedezane,jessus thats a hard word)and benny(crossroads).
they will think i am from mars
Dec 2nd 2006, 6:33 pm
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Re: do you think being called a POM is an insult?
Originally Posted by iamthecreaturefromuranus
I have said it before, but I will say it again. I am NOT offended by being called a Pom, but I don't think the Aussies are confused one bit as every bloody one of them I deal with seems to call me Pom
On a lighter note: Aussies say it as they see it. The one thing I noticed was a "red bellied black snake" is....guess what...It's a black snake with a red belly
And...a brown snake...is..........a brown snake
So....it seems they say it as it is without meaning offence. If they do mean to be sly or offensive, then give as much back. Jeez if anyone can be cutting the Poms can. If they really wanna be that is
Dec 2nd 2006, 6:33 pm
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Re: do you think being called a POM is an insult?
Originally Posted by Wendy
I have been called a POM by only one Aussie, but she thought I was from Scotland
Well it just occurred to me that perhaps the more obvious the target, maybe they think we're more 'up for it'? I mean, someone with a broad Cheshire, or Yorkshire accent is going to get called pom because it's obvious to the Australian that they're English. Perhaps even the Australian assumes this 'type' of person can handle it?
If so, the Aussie is making a judgement based on a stereotype, much in the way we do about other cultures.....
Just a rambling hypothesis. Not enough coffee yet to make sense.
Dec 2nd 2006, 6:34 pm
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Re: do you think being called a POM is an insult?
Originally Posted by iPom
I wonder if you have a regional accent it makes a big difference to them calling you a pom? Just thinking that I don't have an accent as such, though I do sound English, so I prob don't get picked as being English very often at all, hence my FIL is really the only one to call me a pom. Hmmmmm.
Dec 2nd 2006, 6:34 pm
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Re: do you think being called a POM is an insult?
Originally Posted by hevs
Now THATS what I was trying to say
Dec 2nd 2006, 6:35 pm
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Re: do you think being called a POM is an insult?
Originally Posted by aston man
having the worst accent in the world will help me then,sounding like barry (auvedezane,jessus thats a hard word)and benny(crossroads).
they will think i am from mars
they will think i am from mars
Then, as Phoenix says, they're calling it how they see it, because it's screamingly obvious.
Maybe the Australian culture is to put labels on people and things... Why though?
Dec 2nd 2006, 6:37 pm
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Re: do you think being called a POM is an insult?
Originally Posted by Wendy
I have been called a POM by only one Aussie, but she thought I was from Scotland
.......and we're from Yorkshire
I said ..sort of....we're Poms
Dec 2nd 2006, 6:38 pm
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Re: do you think being called a POM is an insult?
Originally Posted by iamthecreaturefromuranus
strange thing is when I am in the US they predominately think I am Australian :scared:
