dealing with a next door neighbour(yank)
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Re: dealing with a next door neighbour(yank)
I guess I'm wrong, but I always thought that ''pome, '' was short for prisoner or person of mother england
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Re: dealing with a next door neighbour(yank)
growing up on building sites in northern england, you need thick skin or you wont survive lolSeasquatch wrote: ↑Wed Apr 05, 2017 7:16 pm I should of made my user name - Seppee
Who cares people need to grow a set and quit taking things so seriously, where I grew up it was a verbal assault war, growing up in the "Your mamma is so fat..." days; you had to have wit and be quick, especially if you went at it with a couple black guys standing on the corner, when you got one in everyone laughed at that person, when someone got one good on you, you took it like a rat.
Seems some of my fellow younger American snowflakes have lost their sterner side.
Lot of Brits where I live, I call them red coats think I'll start calling the aussies toadies
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you would have thought, but apparently theres no evidence to back it up
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I'm not so sure about that, Pomegranates aren't native to Australia and it seems they have only recently been cultivated on any scale. Plus "Immigrant" doesn't even rhyme with "Pomegranate", unless you say it in "Strayin".Jamie_Lambo wrote: ↑Wed Apr 05, 2017 5:37 pmyeah its short for pomegranate, as the English Immigrants skin used to burn red in the Australian suncptrelentless wrote: ↑Wed Apr 05, 2017 5:27 pm
Pom is short for pomegranate. Rhyming slang for immigrant. There was no Prisoner of her mag. It was in my QI book that lived in the lav.
Another theory is that it comes from "Prisoner Of His Majesty". It doesn't seem like there is any definitive answer.
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Yeah growing up working in autobody shops up North as a teen being the shop bitch and took a lot of shit and always gave it back , tough love and good times looking back.Jamie_Lambo wrote: ↑Wed Apr 05, 2017 7:32 pmgrowing up on building sites in northern england, you need thick skin or you wont survive lolSeasquatch wrote: ↑Wed Apr 05, 2017 7:16 pm I should of made my user name - Seppee
Who cares people need to grow a set and quit taking things so seriously, where I grew up it was a verbal assault war, growing up in the "Your mamma is so fat..." days; you had to have wit and be quick, especially if you went at it with a couple black guys standing on the corner, when you got one in everyone laughed at that person, when someone got one good on you, you took it like a rat.
Seems some of my fellow younger American snowflakes have lost their sterner side.
Lot of Brits where I live, I call them red coats think I'll start calling the aussies toadies
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i think thats already been debunked as most likely people creating the acronym to fit the already existing word, theres no evidence to prove it, or the others to be fairJohn Bingham wrote: ↑Wed Apr 05, 2017 7:38 pmI'm not so sure about that, Pomegranates aren't native to Australia and it seems they have only recently been cultivated on any scale. Plus "Immigrant" doesn't even rhyme with "Pomegranate", unless you say it in "Strayin".Jamie_Lambo wrote: ↑Wed Apr 05, 2017 5:37 pmyeah its short for pomegranate, as the English Immigrants skin used to burn red in the Australian suncptrelentless wrote: ↑Wed Apr 05, 2017 5:27 pm
Pom is short for pomegranate. Rhyming slang for immigrant. There was no Prisoner of her mag. It was in my QI book that lived in the lav.
Another theory is that it comes from "Prisoner Of His Majesty". It doesn't seem like there is any definitive answer.
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All I know is that pomegranates don't rhyme with immigrants.
And anyway, that doesn't make any sense as they weren't immigrants. They were convicts. Prisoners of H.M.
And anyway, that doesn't make any sense as they weren't immigrants. They were convicts. Prisoners of H.M.
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No they weren't. OED and AND says pomegranate.Username Taken wrote:All I know is that pomegranates don't rhyme with immigrants.
And anyway, that doesn't make any sense as they weren't immigrants. They were convicts. Prisoners of H.M.
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Re: dealing with a next door neighbour(yank)
soap dodgers was the alternative expression for poms when i was in oz,
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Re: dealing with a next door neighbour(yank)
In a few months I hope to walking into a libation venue and hear Hey YANK want a beer?
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