Thread: Is the term "Pom" offensive?

Do a google search, there are plenty of references to POME, some saying it's a load of bull, others saying the term “ Prisoner Of Mother England “ dates back as far as Queen Elizabeth the 1st.

So I guess you have to come to your own conclusion?

Originally Posted by gruntfuttock

I was told that the correct spelling of the word POM is POHM. Being
Prisioner
Of
Her / His
Majesty.

i think you will find it actually is :
Prisoner
Of
Mother
England

I hope its offensive as I will have to stop using it if it's friendly

Wouldnt it depend on what different people thought? Some people might take offence while people like Big Ace just let insults slide off them

I'm a Pom, doesn't worry me, i've been in Aussie nearly all my life and certainly wouldn't want to live anywhere else. Mind you I'm not a bastard.............well I don't think so......... my parents brought me up to believe they were married when I arrived into this world.

Words are not offensive, The intention behind it, is what makes something offensive,
That’s why I have a real Problem with them Changing the words in nursery rhymes,.. Things like Bar Bar Black Sheep have you any wool, said and meant in nothing but innocence, I cant see the problem with it,.. our differences is something to be celebrated, and using them as a means of Identifying each other, is time honoured… yet left wing pinkos (see I am using the way they are different to identify them ) would have us simply calling everyone by “you there” or “Person”..
If you call some one a Britt or a Pom and it was done with respect, how can that be wrong,
When I used to take my shirt off at the pool, everyone is tanned but me,. I expect to be called the Great white, or blinded by the white,.
I have no Quarm with calling friends by features or Locations, calling people from France Frogs, Or people from NZ Kiwi’s,.. and if they want to call us Skips, or Joey,.. or if we eat to many pies and get called wombats, that’s cool too,.. if it is said in the interest of friendship,

After all,…
I Came out to Australia to see the Great out back, I Joined a roaming Party on the Over-Landers Track,. I am the Honourable Thomas John Montgomery Fitzkque…
But the Stockman call me Tommy,.. The Pommy Jackaroo,

Originally Posted by Reads90

Nah i don't mind be called a pom after all you don't mind if i call you a colonial criminal

I couldn't have put it better myself....

Me... Couldn't give a toss. I usually answer to most things anyway.

M

Originally Posted by Reads90

Nah i don't mind be called a pom after all you don't mind if i call you a colonial criminal

Joking aside i don't give a crap .But then again its in my hummor to like a bit of banter. I othen call myself a pom when talking to people.
Hey i knew i was going to called it before i even got here. So if you don't like being called it then don't come here, you do have a choice.

Quite often at work they will call me a winging pom and i then respone with Tut Bloody colonials, but that as i said before is my sense of humour, and nother bad is mean't by it, just harmless banter

I thought the criminals were British. And, very few were exported. Most were kept at home to educate their descendants, who still populate the large American aircraft carrier USS British Isles.