Talk:pommy bastard

I agree with Dhum Dhum that this term is jocular. It's only offensive to people who don't know the term and interpret it literally. I've never heard it used literally. We would be a lot more creative if we wanted to insult a pom (: — Hippietrail 23:50, 13 Oct 2004 (UTC)

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pommy bastard

Sum of parts. Noun (attributively) + noun. What about pommy dickhead, pommy idiot, Aussie bastard, Scottish bastard, etc. No setness at all. Delete. Mglovesfun (talk) 14:45, 28 November 2010 (UTC)

I'd like to see the numbers. I think that "pommy" selects for "bastard" far more than might be expected from the relative frequency of the individual words. I notice a very high mutual information score for "whinging/whingeing" and "pom" at BNC, "pom" outscored by no other nouns. Just as Homer had his formulaic phrases, so do modern speakers. DCDuring TALK 16:48, 28 November 2010 (UTC)

I further find it suggestive that Urban Dictionary not only has "whinging pom/pommy" and "pommy bastard", but also "whinging pommy bastard". The logic of including frequent collocations as entries would clearly need to be accompanied by the inclusion of political-correctness-type criteria in our CFI, were we to take it seriously again, unless we would like to accept such entries or engage in endless and nasty case-by-case discussions of such entries or rely on arbitrary speedy deletion decisions. DCDuring TALK 17:02, 28 November 2010 (UTC)

Keep it! It is useful to have the reference. — This unsigned comment was added by 38.104.157.234 (talk) at 4 December 2010.

Meaning what? Mglovesfun (talk) 13:25, 5 December 2010 (UTC)

We should consider keeping collocations like this, easily the most common that includes the word pommy. DAVilla 07:10, 11 December 2010 (UTC)

Hey-this is offensive and should be removed. I bet you don't use the term "gollywog" on here which is equally as offensive — This unsigned comment was added by 27.252.168.59 (talk) at 01:16, 13 January 2011 (UTC).

We certainly don't use the term "gollywog", but we do include it: gollywog. We define offensive terms, and we indicate that they're offensive. What's the problem? —Ruakh_TALK 01:23, 13 January 2011 (UTC)

The problem is you. You dont understand this.

173.178.93.250 22:19, 2 May 2011 (UTC)

No one has offered any reason to keep it. One person has offered a CFI-based reason to delete it. Deleted.​—msh210℠ (talk) 22:30, 18 July 2011 (UTC)