Re: [RML] Pommy Spam

Mach Fukada (tuhoitc at aloha.net)
Tue, 21 Jan 1997 22:26:19 -1000

I always thought it was "prisoner or mother England" as Australia was a
penal colony of the Brittish Empire. And of course it is a derogatory slur
to equate aussies as second class citizens of the UK and the world.

just Fukada's two cents.

MTF

>Alan Ford wrote...Alan Kenneth Ford
>Born in Kent, UK. 13/7/1947
>
>Migrated with my parents to Australia in 1960.
>
>Hate the word POM and consider it a very racial term. Don't even think
>about it Roy, unless you have deep down death wish...
>
> Alan please clear this POM thing up for me.I never understood it when I
>was in
>Australia and still don't.I thought POM stood for Prisoner Of the
>Motherland. If
>so then Aussies would be POMS. But since they call you British types Poms
>then,
>perhaps I'm am misinformed;-) Perhaps because they all live upside down
>they've
>just got the whole thing ass backwards!
>
>I wouldn't get too upset when you're referred to as a POM unless of course the
>slight is accompanied by the word "bastard"!;-)
>
>Chris

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