globallockytoo wrote:UWSDWF wrote:I can only imagine you to be a sniveling whiny as hell brit who subsadises his lack of work with crying on a hobbiest forum about the fall of industry. I also imagine that you probably like your drink a little too much, but you keep it in line or at least you think so, that is until you've had too many and the little lady takes the piss out of you and so you smack her around thinking that will some how make you a big man. I imagine that for a large portion you've been mechanically indept but a social failure, teased by your class mates and abused by your so called friends....
but hey that's my imagination, and holy fcuk mine extends past 1980 cartoons.
Reminds me of the affectionate term for some Brits by Aussies - "Whingeing Pohms"
(P.O.H.M.S = Pauper Of Her Majesty)
found this on google....
The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) strongly supports the theory that pom and pommy originated as contractions of "pomegranate", Australian rhyming slang for immigrant. The OED cites a well-known Australian weekly, The Bulletin, which on 14 November 1912 reported: "The other day a Pummy Grant (assisted immigrant) was handed a bridle and told to catch a horse."[1]
A commonly-heard alternative theory is that POM originated as an acronym for "prisoner of His/Her Majesty" (POHM) or "prisoner of mother England" (POME). As many of Australia's first settlers were British convicts, sentenced to transportation to Australia, this theory holds that upon arrival in the country they would be given a uniform with "POHM" or "POME" emblazoned on the back. There is no evidence that this ever happened. Another version is that it stood for "prisoner of Millbank", Millbank being the quayside in London where prisoners were held prior to transportation.
...... whatever the history of the word, I take absolutely no offense at being called POM. Or Limey, or whining Brit, or anything else at all. Water off a duck's back.
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