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OzSTOC Ride Reports, Pictures & Videos => RIDE REPORTS => Topic started by: Natman on March 27, 2013, 07:10:34 AM
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I was going through my photo library today and found a series of images that made me smile.
This chap was stopped whilst I was riding my Police liveried BMW RT1200 on the streets if sunny Manchester a few years ago! (Retired since). The bike was heading a group of 500 other bikes on a charity run but had sirens and blue emergency lights going. He found it strange when we stopped him, for some reason!
He was even wearing a ex-Police Shoei helmet and jacket, had the message bar on the rear of the bike and a redundant police radio fitted!
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Obviously a wannabee policeman. There was a guy that used to ride with us who had a white Harley with 'POLITE' across the windscreen in large blue letters :p. I always thought it was a bit wanky but he thought it was great.
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I know that Harley as well but can't recall where I've seen it. Still has the POLITE on the screen!
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What's wrong with the ST and Instructor? Looks perfectly harmless to me. Maybe the blue light on the pole was one too many. :eek
Come to think of it, the sirens weren't a good idea, either, even if they are dinky hobby-shop ones.
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Instructor: Wanna Be
Course: How to be a tool 101.
Fee: Free jibes for life!!!!
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How come it's always wet over there??????????
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Cause they deserve it :rofl
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I suppose.... That'd be why their called slimeys......
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Isnt that smileys
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The yanks call em limey's.... I wonder where that came from... And how did the term pomies come about....hmm :o
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Taken from Wikipedia
Limey
The term is thought to have originated in the 1850s as "lime-juicer",and was later shortened to "limey".It was originally used as a derogatory word for sailors in the Royal Navy, because of the Royal Navy's practice since the beginning of the 19th century of adding lemon juice or lime juice to the sailors' daily ration of watered-down rum (known as grog), in order to prevent scurvy.
Eventually the term lost its naval connection and was used about British people in general. In the 1880s, it was used to refer to British immigrants in Australia, New Zealand and South Africa. Although the term may have been used earlier in the U.S. Navy as a slang word for a British sailor or a British warship, such usage isn't documented until 1918. By 1925, its usage in American English had been extended to mean any Briton, and the expression was so commonly known that it was used in American newspaper headlines.
Pommy or Pom
The term pommy, pom or pommie, in Australia, New Zealand and South Africa, usually denotes a person of British heritage or origin. Less commonly, it can refer to anyone from Britain or the United Kingdom. A non-derogatory term, it was ruled no longer offensive in 2006 by the Australian Advertising Standards Board and in 2010 by the New Zealand Broadcasting Standards Authority. British people or those of British origin consider the expression neither offensive nor racist when used by people not of British origin to describe English or British people and acceptable when used within that community. But the community group British People Against Racial Discrimination was among those who complained to the Advertising Standards Board about five advertisements poking fun at "Poms", prompting the 2006 decision.
There are several folk etymologies for "Pom," some of which are false etymologies. For example, there are rumors that the word's etymology is related to prisoners, such as "Prisoner of Millbank," but this claim is suspect. A more likely theory is that pommy originated as a contraction of "pomegranate".According to this explanation, "pomegranate" is extinct Australian rhyming slang for immigrant. A popular alternative explanation for the theory that pommy is a contraction of "pomegranate", relates to the purported frequency of sunburn among British people in Australia, turning their fair skin the colour of pomegranates. However, there is no hard evidence for the theory regarding sunburn. What many British emigrants find a source of irritation is when Australians refer to all Britons as 'English.' The United Kingdom comprises Scotland, England, Wales and Northern Ireland; therefore Poms can be from anywhere in the UK, and not just England.
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:wht11 py
and this one Pohme
Prisoners if His Majesties England
story goes that it was to long to put on the transportation ships hence the shortened version,
it is believed that a four letter word also originated in the English Courts. It was considered to be to long for the court recorder to write down in time to keep up with everything else
" For Under Carnal Knowledge"
Perhaps there are more. :p :grin :p
Tipsy
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I'd heard it derived from "pomme" which is French for apples, referring to the red cheeks of Brits.
"The Phrase Finder" denies POHM:
"Popular myth has it that pom derives from the fact that many immigrants to Oz were British convicts who had been transported there. They supposedly arrived with POHM (Prisoner of Her Majesty) printed on their clothes. Like most phrases that are supposed to derive from acronyms, that notion is supported by no evidence whatsoever."
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There an ex-Police BMW in Tweed Heads with the same "Polite" markings. I did a training course with him a few years ago and he said that he was pulled over once an fined for Police impersonation. He took it to court and the judge threw it out.
I can't however cast judgement on others as mine is marked up - admittedly not with police markings, however the amount of people that think that any white bike is Police is huge. I even get waves from patrol cars. And before you ask, it's a safety thing, if it makes a motorist think twice before cutting across me, it's worth the occasional "wanker" comment.
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And before you ask, it's a safety thing, if it makes a motorist think twice before cutting across me, it's worth the occasional "wanker" comment.
Have to agree there!!