aus2be_OH

I've got some popcorn here if someone wants some? Not that horrible salty stuff but the REAL sweet popcorn......mmmmmmm

anyone?

kporte

In the interests of accuracy I insist you remove the word "near" from point 4

aus2be_OH

Oh I don't know about that. Coming from Northern Ireland I have very vivid memories of the English (never heard it from the Scots or Welsh funnily) being very, very fond of the term Paddy.

kporte

I have pointed this out before to Campo but he only wants to hear or make negative posts about Australia.

aus2be_OH

Funny how some people tend to forget about that little fact....

kporte

You LOVE the blanket statement.

Some may use it, callously some may not.
Like every single other country in the world then?
As I have said so many times and am now boring myself by repeating, I was called all the usual names a Scot gets called by an Englishman, Sweaty, Jock, the jokes about how copper wire was invented etc etc ad infinitum.
However I am intelligent and perceptive enough to realise that in almost all situations this is banter. Whether you find this funny or not is another matter.
I did find on one or two occasions that some genuine xenophobia may be attached but there are idiots everywhere so I let it slide. I have actually had not one instance of this here, but would not suggest that it won't or doesn't happen.
I realise you dislike Australians. I realise that you prefer the UK. Great.
Not everyone agrees. WE ARE ALL DIFFERENT.

Seriously, do you go on like this to your Australian wife?

Officer Dibble

Thats true but its not used in the media. Still, I assume you have a strong accent and so would love to know what kind of reaction thats met with in Oz. A lot of Aussies use the term 'pom' liberally and cant often be sure of what it actually means.

hevs

Great advert for a whinging pom isn't he

I am called "pom" all the time and yes, its in an affectionate manner. It when I get called a ****ing pom I'm liable to feel a bit cheesed off

The Crow

And my FIL who kept telling us, during his visit, that Australia is full of chinks

Officer Dibble

I must also add that the world tends to lump the English in all together but for a very small country there are so many dialects. To an Aussie I may well be a 'pom' but to a northerner, I am a southern fairy and because Im from London, some people think that I must be stuck up and a snob whereas at home Im 'common' as muck. Im so confused.

Still, two wrongs dont make a right apparently. So if one group has a derogatory term as a nickname doesnt mean that the favour should be returned!!

BadgeIsBack

Anyone who thinks it never can be is probably very bitter or needs to widen network of said 'mates'.

BadgeIsBack

Not true at all - as has been pointed out many, many, times by said apologists. People are amused by your mass generalisations which all too often is the front piece for a somewhat bitter stance. If you were pro-Australian you would come across as the same.

Hutch

You went six replies on the trot without a single interjection from another poster. If I hadn't intervened when I had, I fear that that throbbing vein on your forehead would have exploded in some apoplectic rage against the damnable Australians and their damnable country.

Does your Australian wife ever post on this forum? I'd love to hear her side of things.

kporte

Basil Fawlty on bolivian marching powder.

bev2

yes and he's been called a racist for it. Because its a racist name

My daughter was called a pom at her primary school and was really offended by it.

Just because some people are not offended by it doesn't make it right