Never trust a Pom!

[Bugzy82]

Hi All,

Just thought i would start a thread for some pom bashing....

Today i went to meet a Pom "friend" of mine for coffee, she never bothered to turn up!! I saw her yesterday while we were out shopping and nothing was said to me about not being able to make it for coffee! I am now seriously p***ed off!! They have NO manners!!!! I even changed my daughters jab appointment so i could make it!!!!!!!!

:angry!: :angry!: :angry!: :motz: :motz: :1336: :1336: :fing23: :fing07:

[FerrariSucks]

very rude

[barto11]

f@'king poms...

[zimajays]

I was told the other day by some ignorant pom that I spoke very good english!

[Bugzy82]

I was told the other day by some ignorant pom that I spoke very good english!

We Zimbos speak perfect english, its them who can't!!!

[barto11]

One om i met thought zim waspart of south africa....ignornt twat

[Bugzy82]

One om i met thought zim waspart of south africa....ignornt twat

They all think that.. i often get asked "Are you from South Africa?" and when you say no you are from Zimbabwe they all ask "Is'nt it part of South Africa?"

They are very thick, almost as bad as the Americans!!!

[squeakyB]

they are daft creatures these "POMS" - have no manners and no common sense...

[barto11]

They all think that.. i often get asked "Are you from South Africa?" and when you say no you are from Zimbabwe they all ask "Is'nt it part of South Africa?"

They are very thick, almost as bad as the Americans!!!

One asked if i was from aussie...now that was bad...although an aussie also asked me what part of australia I was from...also a twat

[FerrariSucks]

They all think that.. i often get asked "Are you from South Africa?" and when you say no you are from Zimbabwe they all ask "Is'nt it part of South Africa?"

I found if an englishman says that then you say, "Oh yes, like England is part of Scotland" and vise versa:whistling:

[Poison]

Everywhere we go we will be accused of being South Africans..

So here in NZ we ask which part of Australia are you from to the kiwi's..
The Kiwi's hate that..

[barto11]

I still wonder what i'm doing here...its either raining, about to rain or has just rained, the english beer is crap, they know nothing about the s14, and the girls are just stupid and or ugly....one such female asked me where i was from, the convo went something like this

Pommie Girl: So where are from??
Barto: Zimbabwe
Pommie Girl: Where's that??
Barto: Near South Africa
Pommie Girl: Where's that??
Barto: Africa
Pommie Girl: Where's THAT??
Barto: Goodbye....

[Nyala]

Hahahahaha.... IQ in the single digets.

[Shayne]

Hahahahaha.... IQ in the single digets.

[squeakyB]

LOL @ Shayne good one...

[jenilou]

Back to bitching about Pom's. They get kick's out of back stabbing. They don't laugh with you, they laugh at you. They don't understand us because they don't want to. Gees man it was an effort for me to try to understand all their different accents, you'd think they would try and understand your a bit more. Listen. They are hard word to please. Oh sorry that's the English asian's. The must have got it from somewhere though.
End of rant.

[barto11]

Hahahahaha.... IQ in the single digets.

Speaking of single digits...one guy in my cricket team reckons that you can still talk if you've had your head chopped off...now I'm no expert but something tells me that aint right...

Shame the poor poms...it must be nice to get smashed 58-10 and still come off the field with smiling faces...

[yarrumsg]

one statement....

58-10 talk to the hand...

was begining to wonder if the boks walked off the field if the pom team would be able to score more points...

[Chick]

http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i247/Rattler2010/hand.jpg

[SpaRHawK]

I had this conversation with an eldery do-gooder lady that came over to stay at our camp whilst I was still guiding a few years ago.

(At that time I happened to be the only white oke working at the camp, totally irrellevant to me... I speak reasonable Shona and terrible Ndebele... oh -and a bit of english.)

*Names have been changed to protect the stupid.

Hello my name is Sparhawk, welcome to so-and-so camp... blah, blah,blah

After I finished my welcoming diatribe the elderly lady, doing her bit to deal with the opression of her fore-fathers by coming to Africa, wanted a chat.

Lady "so Spar, where are you from?"
Spar "Zim, born here but did some of my schooling overseas due to my Father being in the Air Force"

Lady "Zim? But where were you born?
Spar "Gwelo,central Zim, now called Gweru".

Lady " But you're white? erm, where were your parents born then?
Spar " Mom was born in Shurugwi, Dad in Bulawayo"

Lady, not really understanding.. " erm.. and your Grandparents?
Spar " well on my Dad's side his Father was born in Lesotho and his mother in Bulawayo too... on my Mom's side both were born in South Africa, not sure where though..."

Lady - " So where did you Grandparent' Parent come from... ?"
Spar " I think my Grandfather's side originally came from Scotland, way back when..."
Lady -" oh so you are basically Scottish then, not really Zimbabwean at all........"

One of my guiding collegues led me away before I did or said anything I would later regret... apparently she then continued to quiz the other staff about why they all thought I was Zimbabwean when I obviously came from the UK...

This is the level of intelligence you are dealing with.

[besame las nalgas]

who cares what they think?

[Chick]

who cares what they think?

Amen

[vukenmuven]

There was a statistic that come out not so long ago mentioning something along the lines of 60% of English teenagers between 14 and 17 years of age couldn't even point out Britain on a map.

[vukenmuven]

Sad to say though that there are many Zimbos here that are influenced by the mannerisms and attitudes of Poms.

[besame las nalgas]

Sad to say though that there are many Zimbos here that are influenced by the mannerisms and attitudes of Poms.

dont you just mean that there are some uncultured and unmannered heathen scum in every social group? I really hate these kinda threads where everyone directs their inability to deal with people who bother them and then proceed to attack whole social groups. BRITISH people arent stupid and pathetic bblabla as we say they are because look some of us escaped living in what UNESCO brands as "the worst place in the world to live" to come to england where we dont stand in lines for bread sugar and fuel and have more than enough to eat and so yeah there are ignorant about where some country is.. how many people in zim think the only place in britain is LONDON?

[Nyala]

Originally Posted by Nyala http://www.thechiefbaboon.com/forums/baboon_images/buttons/viewpost.gif (http://www.thechiefbaboon.com/forums/showthread.php?p=69245#post69245)
Hahahahaha.... IQ in the single digets.


Oh dear.....dunno how I managed that one...lol

[Jamie]

For those of us from the northern hemisphere and the linguistically (slang) challenged in the States What is a POM?

[Shifty]

For those of us from the northern hemisphere and the linguistically (slang) challenged in the States What is a POM?


In the USA you'd probably use the word "Limey".

[pte7782]

I think their rudeness, and ugliness are caused by the crap, foul and often ugly weather patterns.

Surely there must be something better for us Zimbo's, somewhere is this world. Preferrably where the game roam wild around open plains.

I think I just started a dream again....Don't wake me up

[Zulu]

Well fellas if it so bad leave. I am sure there will always be a warm welcome back in Zim.

I say this from the remoteness of Oman. Didn't like it and left. Not because of the people though. Met some very goods guys and girls in the 10 years I served in the British Army.

If you have only met bad ones change your location.

Anyways pretty rude to live in someones country and slate them. Takes the piss and adds fuel to the general perception that all immigrants should all clear off back to where they came from.

Respect is a two way street.

[Chick]

Totally agree with Zulu. When ex-pats came to Zims and moaned and complained that is exactly what I would say to them 'so leave and go back to where you come from'. It's about us adjusting to our new countries and making a life for ourselves. I am just thankful that I am not stuck in Zims trying to deal with every day survival without the basic commodities.

[priya]

Totally agree with Zulu. When ex-pats came to Zims and moaned and complained that is exactly what I would say to them 'so leave and go back to where you come from'. It's about us adjusting to our new countries and making a life for ourselves. I am just thankful that I am not stuck in Zims trying to deal with every day survival without the basic commodities.
So true, Chick AND Zulu.

However, you guys made the break, took the flak or whatever, and have made a new start. I often wonder where I'd be now, if circumstances were different back then, but now I feel it's too late to sell up everything I've worked hard for and what would I get for it anyway? Nothing.:smiley13: People have criticized me for staying - especially having no family, but where to go, and with what? Oh, and not forgetting my two pooches.:smiley2: I suppose if the 'crunch' does come, I wont have an option....but I'd rather not think along those lines.:naughty:

[zimboykie]

According to Wikipedia:

[edit (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Alternative_words_for_British&action=edit&section=3)] Pommy

The term pommy or pommie is commonly used by speakers of Australian English (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_English), New Zealand English (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Zealand_English), South African English (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_African_English) and Afrikaans (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afrikaans). It is often shortened to pom. The origin of this term is not confirmed and there are several persistent false etymologies (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_etymology), most being backronyms (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backronym).
The Oxford English Dictionary (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxford_English_Dictionary) (OED) strongly supports the theory that pommy originated as a contraction of "pomegranate".[1] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternative_words_for_British#_note-0) The OED also suggests that the reason for this is that pomegranate is extinct Australian rhyming slang (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhyming_slang) for immigrant (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigrant); it cites an article from 14 November 1912 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1912), in a once-prominent Australian weekly magazine The Bulletin (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bulletin): "The other day a Pummy Grant (assisted immigrant) was handed a bridle and told to catch a horse." A popular alternative explanation for the theory that pommy is a contraction of "pomegranate", relates to the purported frequency of sunburn (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunburn) among British people in Australia, turning their fair skin as the colour of pomegranates.[2] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternative_words_for_British#_note-1) However, there is no hard evidence for the theory regarding sunburn.
A false etymology (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_etymology) (or "backronym (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backronym)") common in both Australia and New Zealand is that pom originated as an acronym (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acronym) for "prisoner of (his/her) majesty" or "prisoner of mother England". Although many of the first British settlers in Australia were convicts sentenced to transportation to Australia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convictism_in_Australia), there is no evidence for this. Some proponents of this theory claim that upon arrival in the country they would be given a uniform with "POHM" or "POME" emblazoned on the back, but there are no images or examples of these uniforms.
Other etymologies which are unsupported by evidence include:

"prisoner of Millbank (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millbank)", after the area of London where prisoners were held prior to transportation;
it is rhyming slang for tommy (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tommy_Atkins), international slang for a British soldier;
an acronym for "Port of Melbourne (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port_of_Melbourne)". However, the term "pommy" was coined long before POM was used as acronym for the port.
comes from "pomme", French for apple. The joke was that the pale British would turn red, like an apple, with sunburn when they landed in Australia.Use of the word "pom" remains slightly contentious. Some British people living in Australasia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australasia) find the term offensive and demeaning, others find it harmless and amusing. Attitudes to the use of the word have varied over the years. In the 1960s, slogans such as "bash a pom a day" were heard on New Zealand radio. In Australia, it was frequently employed in the contemptuous phrase pommy bastard up until about the 1970s, when the wave of postwar British immigration to Australia began to decline; the phrase is rarely heard nowadays. The word has become so common that few Australians and New Zealanders see any reason to avoid using it, some even justifying the use of it as a "term of endearment". In December 2006 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006), the Advertising Standards Board of Australia unanimously ruled that the word "pom" was a part of the Australian vernacular, and was largely used in a "playful or affectionate" sense. As a consequence, the board ruled that the word did not constitute a racial slur, and could be freely used in advertising. The Board was responding to a complaint filed by a community group called British People Against Racial Discrimination.

[Futilimbo]

My brother-in-law who is a -"Pom" arrived in Rhodesia in 1952 and later moved to the US says "POM" is short for "People of Means." As a kid I remember an influx of Poms and we were not very nice to them! There seemed to be thousands of them living at Crandborne in old barracks - which must have been dreadful. My first trip to England was after living in California for several years and believe me I was so happy to be amongst people who drank tea that all the bad things I thought of them went away. Do you think we feel the way about the English is because we were actually brought up not to like them? By the way, Americans don't know much about geography either. I used to tell people I was from South Africa because they had no clue where Rhodesia was and most thought I was saying "Indonesia!" Think we are lucky to be living in California - at least the weather is great.

[Howard Neill]

The impression I have gained is that those who live in other parts of the world, like New Zealand, Australia, Canada and the US seem to integrate into their host societies. I never hear the complaining which goes on about POMS.

Could it be something to do with the weather?

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