Whinging Pom Add banned
#31
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Re: Whinging Pom Add banned
Without trying to cause arguments or anything, it really depends where you come from in the UK.
Where I lived it was absolutely horrible, no matter who you are you would most likely hate it there. Most of the people on here have had a, if not priveledge life, then an easier life than I could ever have hoped for.
Australia for me gives me more choices than I'd have ever had in the UK.
I appreciate that for some, Australia isn't that fabulous but then some people like yourself should afford us the same decency and see that we actually do have more choice here and a better future for our kids.
Where I lived it was absolutely horrible, no matter who you are you would most likely hate it there. Most of the people on here have had a, if not priveledge life, then an easier life than I could ever have hoped for.
Australia for me gives me more choices than I'd have ever had in the UK.
I appreciate that for some, Australia isn't that fabulous but then some people like yourself should afford us the same decency and see that we actually do have more choice here and a better future for our kids.
#32
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Location: Hill overlooking the SE Melbourne suburbs
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Re: Whinging Pom Add banned
I really don't get it. I saw a soccer top bloke in the mall today. What got me about him was the fact that he looked perpetually stunned and self-conscious like he expected to be challenged about it - he had this slight aggressive walk too. It was like he was deliberately trying to make a point about being a Pom in a sea of Australians. Proud - not really! Fat git - yes.
#33
Re: Whinging Pom Add banned
Whinging Pom add banned because of large numbers of Poms whinging that its offensive.
http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegrap...001021,00.html
http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegrap...001021,00.html
OzTennis
#35
Re: Whinging Pom Add banned
Tried that. Hubby was offered a job in a Cornwall so long as he took a 10,000 pound pay cut. Just couldn't do it, house price were twice what they were where we lived and we couldn't have afforded to remortgage there.
If you live anywhere down South in the UK you've got choices like that, anywhere North then you haven't. Sad but true
The North/South divide is alive and kicking
#36
Joined: Feb 2005
Posts: 629
Re: Whinging Pom Add banned
I really don't get it. I saw a soccer top bloke in the mall today. What got me about him was the fact that he looked perpetually stunned and self-conscious like he expected to be challenged about it - he had this slight aggressive walk too. It was like he was deliberately trying to make a point about being a Pom in a sea of Australians. Proud - not really! Fat git - yes.
#37
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Joined: Jul 2006
Posts: 14,188
Re: Whinging Pom Add banned
I really don't get it. I saw a soccer top bloke in the mall today. What got me about him was the fact that he looked perpetually stunned and self-conscious like he expected to be challenged about it - he had this slight aggressive walk too. It was like he was deliberately trying to make a point about being a Pom in a sea of Australians. Proud - not really! Fat git - yes.
Shit !! That was me
Ok. I'm lying.
I used to wear united shirts at the match or down the pub, watching the match on the box. Sold my two shirts before coming here.
#38
Re: Whinging Pom Add banned
I'd think the power of the £ rather. 9 million tuned in to see the racist bully evicted (double the audience before the incidents) and £2 mill was spent voting her off (which Ch 4 donated to charity as a PR stunt). Ch 4 executives are claiming that by including what they deny as racism in their show that they are 'bringing the issue into the public conscience and encouraging healthy debate'.
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#39
Re: Whinging Pom Add banned
BTW the said racist, porcine bully earns £8 mill p.a., apparently just by being what was hitherto thought of as a likeable dumbwit. That's scary and says a lot about the great public (£1 mill p.a. alone from a perfume deal - would a lady really buy something endorsed by someone looking like that?)
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#40
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Joined: Jul 2006
Posts: 2,199
Re: Whinging Pom Add banned
BTW the said racist, porcine bully earns £8 mill p.a., apparently just by being what was hitherto thought of as a likeable dumbwit. That's scary and says a lot about the great public (£1 mill p.a. alone from a perfume deal - would a lady really buy something endorsed by someone looking like that?)
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#43
Re: Whinging Pom Add banned
Whinging Pom add banned because of large numbers of Poms whinging that its offensive.
http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegrap...001021,00.html
http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegrap...001021,00.html
Disappointing, very disappointing. We're not there yet, but one of the reasons for getting outta the UK is the warp-drive intro of political correctness and erosion of that good ol' pastime of poking fun at each other.
Knowing that "my fellow countrymen" have got this ad withdrawn is poor, very poor.
I actually think the fat geezer on the bar stool is a spot on "Brit Abroad".
I've seen worse...............!
#44
Re: Whinging Pom Add banned
I think its funny. The English i know out here would like to class the Scots out here as POMs. But the Ozzies and Kiwis dont. I wonder why?
#45
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Re: Whinging Pom Add banned
Don't we both - you and I, own international rugby tops? That's different in my opinion - as they often mark a bloke out as loving the international game - many will wear the top of another country - which is different to Premier league 'tribalism', but I am nonetheless circumspect in wearing them - partly cos I'm in VIC. I have't worn one in years.