September 24, 2008

Desperate antipodean speed dating.
posted by Plegmund 16 years ago
  • Well if the stupid old white men running the state of South Australia thought more about trying to make it a vibrant, fun place to live and work instead of focusing on making sure it stays white by trying to get some white chavs to move down there the women they had originally wouldn't have already pissed off and left for more interesting places to live. If they want immigrants there are plenty of people from nearby Asian countries desperate for a chance to move and make their lives there. There is no reason they have to be white women to marry in. This makes me so unbelievably angry - racist, sexist BULLSHIT. Note: Adelaide is where I was born and raised.
  • What a crock. Hope those ladies know what their up for. Many male Australians I've met are oh, so dishy with that accent and major charming--at first. Then they get this patronizing 'little woman' attitude. We are then no longer friendly.
  • Plus, and I'm making a huge generalisation here purely based on subjective experience, don't the Ozzies hate us poms? I get that vibe, sometimes... But, if they want to take a few desperate chavvy harridans off our hands, go for it. Any woman who finds the Australian 'type' attractive is never going to go for me, so it helps sort the wheat from the chaff as far as I'm concerned.
  • don't the Ozzies hate us poms? Shh, I love you, and that's all you'll ever need.
  • Could someone please translate these comments? Chav? Chavvy? pom? I'm clueless.
  • A Chav is a follower of the political philosophy of Hugo Chavez, while a Chavvy is a graduate of Chavez High School in Houston, Texas (not to be confused with a Chevvy, which has the front end of a Chevy and the back end of a VW). A pom is a backwards mop.
  • Don't be alarmed fairywench, TUM is just having fun with you... really a Chav is any person mounted on a horse (from the almost French Chavalier, meaning a Maurice) and a pom is half of a pom-pom, as used by half of a cheerleader. Usually the upper half.
  • Actually, the "Ch" in Chav is soft, pronounced Shav, and denotes a person, generally female, who doesn't shave their armpit hair (this is another example of the way young people's argot sometimes inverts the original meaning of language). Pom is an abbreviated form of Pomeranian, a fluffy yappy dog. Calling a person a Pom means that they're yappy, jump around a lot, and have lots of hair, usually back-combed with generous application of hairspray.
  • Here ya go, wench: Chav Pom
  • Many male Australians I've met are oh, so dishy with that accent and major charming--at first. Oh, I know. That's how I found Quid at our first meetup. Then they get this patronizing 'little woman' attitude. Sister, you don't need to tell me... *does backwards-Z snappy thing*
  • This seems to have been a bit of a shot in the foot as far as Adelaide is concerned. The London papers all seem to feature letters from London-dwelling ladies born in or around there who take much the same line as gomi.