Lapband Vs Sleeve Vs Bypass Surgery

[mistysj 1,939]

What's a pommy???? All I can think of is pomegranate and pretty sure that ain't right!!!

That's what it is from. It is what Australians and New Zealanders (and maybe South Africans) call British people because their faces tend be red. I think it might have started with sailors and their chapped sunburned faces. It is a(very mild) insult.

[SoccerMomma73 1,867]

That's what it is from. It is what Australians and New Zealanders (and maybe South Africans) call British people because their faces tend be red. I think it might have started with sailors and their chapped sunburned faces. It is a(very mild) insult.

ahhhhhh.... Man, I knew I should have studied a foreign language. Dammit.

[Hidden from view 159]

It is purported to mean "Person of the Motherland" or (especially in Australia's case!) "Prisoner of Her Majesty". The pomegranate one is a common one also. No one really knows. But POMs are British people living in the colonies (originally Australia, NZ and Sth Africa).

I don't take it as an insult at all. I think it used to be derogatory (like 100 years ago) but not any more.

[feedyoureye 3,087]

My husband is from New Zealand.

[Hidden from view 159]

We're everywhere!

[Sydney Susan 333]

I was always taught it was a bit of both.... Red skin in the sun like the pomegranate, but also Prisoner Of Mother England, because of our convict roots. Mind you, it was the convict descendants who called the newly arrived "10 pound Poms"** the dreaded POMMIES! It was certainly intended as an insult well into the 70s in Oz... as I know too well from personal experience.

**(immigration program of the 1960s favouring UK immigrants)

My mother used to insist that we children defiantly said back "Rubbishing Colonials!", but you know that never really made the grade in the schoolyard. Falling about laughing was not the effect I was after. The Queensland (state) strine (think Crocodile Dundee accent... forget the hat and knife if you would) followed quickly as a self defence mechanism. Ahhhh... the memories.

[hayleylamas 74]

I love where this thread has gone hahaha. It's like we all saw something shiny.... {distracted} #whatwasthetopic haha

[Butterthebean 8,146]

Yeah....it was going along just fine and then.......SQUIRREL!

[No game 14,437]

Notice how we are all sleevers also? well expect that one wacky bypass chick It must be a side affect we weren't told about, short attention spans and we sh*t staples

[Ms.AntiBand 2,984]

And all this time we thought we were just constipated post op and now we know it was the staples clogging us up.

As for the topic not worth debating? I think the debate is long over but the comedy is long lasting. lol the poor surgeon in Spokane has quite the reputation now

[No game 14,437]

Lol was it ever a debate?? I tell you that sh*ts funny (and a little pokey)

[SoccerMomma73 1,867]

Notice how we are all sleevers also? well expect that one wacky bypass chick It must be a side affect we weren't told about, short attention spans and we sh*t staples

hey!! Wait, is that a staple?!?!?!? Shiny!!!!!

[SoccerMomma73 1,867]

Thank God I won't sheet my staples, I need those!!!! Why would anyone get sleeved when your staples fall out your butt?

[Butterthebean 8,146]

hey!! Wait, is that a staple?!?!?!? Shiny!!!!!

No no....you won't see the staples. The really advanced doctors use staples too small to see. From the worlds smallest digestible stapler.

[No game 14,437]

You guys are going to be in trouble if that chick ever comes back here