mistysj 1,940 Posted November 24, 2013 What's a pommy???? All I can think of is pomegranate and pretty sure that ain't right!!! That's what it is from. It is what Australians and New Zealanders (and maybe South Africans) call British people because their faces tend be red. I think it might have started with sailors and their chapped sunburned faces. It is a(very mild) insult. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
SoccerMomma73 1,867 Posted November 24, 2013 That's what it is from. It is what Australians and New Zealanders (and maybe South Africans) call British people because their faces tend be red. I think it might have started with sailors and their chapped sunburned faces. It is a(very mild) insult.ahhhhhh.... Man, I knew I should have studied a foreign language. Dammit. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Hidden from view 159 Posted November 24, 2013 It is purported to mean "Person of the Motherland" or (especially in Australia's case!) "Prisoner of Her Majesty". The pomegranate one is a common one also. No one really knows. But POMs are British people living in the colonies (originally Australia, NZ and Sth Africa). I don't take it as an insult at all. I think it used to be derogatory (like 100 years ago) but not any more. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
feedyoureye 3,087 Posted November 24, 2013 My husband is from New Zealand. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Hidden from view 159 Posted November 24, 2013 We're everywhere! 1 feedyoureye reacted to this Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sydney Susan 333 Posted November 24, 2013 I was always taught it was a bit of both.... Red skin in the sun like the pomegranate, but also Prisoner Of Mother England, because of our convict roots. Mind you, it was the convict descendants who called the newly arrived "10 pound Poms"** the dreaded POMMIES! It was certainly intended as an insult well into the 70s in Oz... as I know too well from personal experience. **(immigration program of the 1960s favouring UK immigrants) My mother used to insist that we children defiantly said back "Rubbishing Colonials!", but you know that never really made the grade in the schoolyard. Falling about laughing was not the effect I was after. The Queensland (state) strine (think Crocodile Dundee accent... forget the hat and knife if you would) followed quickly as a self defence mechanism. Ahhhh... the memories. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
hayleylamas 74 Posted November 24, 2013 I love where this thread has gone hahaha. It's like we all saw something shiny.... {distracted} #whatwasthetopic haha 1 sophiepants reacted to this Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Butterthebean 8,146 Posted November 24, 2013 Yeah....it was going along just fine and then.......SQUIRREL! 1 hayleylamas reacted to this Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
No game 14,437 Posted November 24, 2013 Notice how we are all sleevers also? well expect that one wacky bypass chick It must be a side affect we weren't told about, short attention spans and we sh*t staples 1 hayleylamas reacted to this Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Ms.AntiBand 2,984 Posted November 24, 2013 And all this time we thought we were just constipated post op and now we know it was the staples clogging us up. As for the topic not worth debating? I think the debate is long over but the comedy is long lasting. lol the poor surgeon in Spokane has quite the reputation now 2 hayleylamas and Molly3 reacted to this Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
No game 14,437 Posted November 24, 2013 Lol was it ever a debate?? I tell you that sh*ts funny (and a little pokey) Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
SoccerMomma73 1,867 Posted November 24, 2013 Notice how we are all sleevers also? well expect that one wacky bypass chick It must be a side affect we weren't told about, short attention spans and we sh*t staples hey!! Wait, is that a staple?!?!?!? Shiny!!!!! 2 hayleylamas and No game reacted to this Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
SoccerMomma73 1,867 Posted November 24, 2013 Thank God I won't sheet my staples, I need those!!!! Why would anyone get sleeved when your staples fall out your butt? 1 mistysj reacted to this Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Butterthebean 8,146 Posted November 24, 2013 hey!! Wait, is that a staple?!?!?!? Shiny!!!!! No no....you won't see the staples. The really advanced doctors use staples too small to see. From the worlds smallest digestible stapler. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
No game 14,437 Posted November 24, 2013 You guys are going to be in trouble if that chick ever comes back here 1 sophiepants reacted to this Share this post Link to post Share on other sites