dealing with a next door neighbour(yank)

Duncan · Post by **Duncan** » Wed Apr 05, 2017 7:27 pm

I guess I'm wrong, but I always thought that ''pome, '' was short for prisoner or person of mother england

Post by **Jamie_Lambo** » Wed Apr 05, 2017 7:32 pm

Seasquatch 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

growing up on building sites in northern england, you need thick skin or you wont survive lol

Post by **Jamie_Lambo** » Wed Apr 05, 2017 7:36 pm

Duncan wrote: ↑Wed Apr 05, 2017 7:27 pm I guess I'm wrong, but I always thought that ''pome, '' was short for prisoner or person of mother england

you would have thought, but apparently theres no evidence to back it up

John Bingham · Post by **John Bingham** » Wed Apr 05, 2017 7:38 pm

Jamie_Lambo wrote: ↑Wed Apr 05, 2017 5:37 pm
cptrelentless 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.
yeah its short for pomegranate, as the English Immigrants skin used to burn red in the Australian sun

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".
Another theory is that it comes from "Prisoner Of His Majesty". It doesn't seem like there is any definitive answer.

Seasquatch · Post by **Seasquatch** » Wed Apr 05, 2017 7:49 pm

Jamie_Lambo wrote: ↑Wed Apr 05, 2017 7:32 pm
Seasquatch 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
growing up on building sites in northern england, you need thick skin or you wont survive lol

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.

Post by **Jamie_Lambo** » Wed Apr 05, 2017 9:17 pm

John Bingham wrote: ↑Wed Apr 05, 2017 7:38 pm
Jamie_Lambo wrote: ↑Wed Apr 05, 2017 5:37 pm
cptrelentless 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.
yeah its short for pomegranate, as the English Immigrants skin used to burn red in the Australian sun
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".
Another theory is that it comes from "Prisoner Of His Majesty". It doesn't seem like there is any definitive answer.

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 fair

Post by **Username Taken** » Wed Apr 05, 2017 9:23 pm

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.

cptrelentless · Post by **cptrelentless** » Wed Apr 05, 2017 10:22 pm

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.

No they weren't. OED and AND says pomegranate.
http://qi.com/infocloud/etymology

tightenupvolume1 · Post by **tightenupvolume1** » Wed Apr 05, 2017 10:27 pm

soap dodgers was the alternative expression for poms when i was in oz,

charlie

WildA · Post by **WildA** » Wed Apr 05, 2017 10:42 pm

In a few months I hope to walking into a libation venue and hear Hey YANK want a beer?

Call me what you will.

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