Re: Forbidden Subject
My little bit.
Pom, Pome b***tard, winging Pome, etc are not offensive to us here in Accy. Some one here calls us that we laugh, its funny, what’s wrong with pome? etc. But when you are having it shoved in your face day after day its not funny, it becomes offensive. When you walk round every corner and there is some one saying Pome this, pome that, after a while it gets on your wick, it makes you think. You get sick of hearing the word pom.
You try living in Australia in the 1960’/70’ maybe earlier than that I do not know.
The reason I say this is because our family has had experience of this. In 1967 our family immigrated to Australia, we stayed for 7 years. I was only 10 years old in 1976.
I myself never saw any animosity towards me but my parents did. The last bloke to call my old man a pome b***ard got a cup of tea shoved in his face just because my old man had reached that point. lol
My mother got it the worst, so I am told. She had to have a part time jobs because she was bringing up 3 kids. She said the things people said about pomes had her in tears many times.
I don’t know what its like today in Australia but I bet it’s a lot better than what it was then. I have no doubt that there is still the odd hard liner who will not let it go.
I can only imagine that it must make one feel terrible when every one is calling you this, that and the other day after day and you don’t know why, surly anyone world get fed up of hearing it.
Last edited by Len; 06-08-2004 at 16:32.
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