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>From: piclist-bounces@mit.edu [mailto:piclist-bounces@mit.edu] 
>On Behalf Of Jinx
>Sent: 26 June 2007 10:07
>To: Microcontroller discussion list - Public.
>Subject: Re: [OT] Units rant
>
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>> Wasn't there a huge stink in Oz over a newspaper headline that went  
>> "Poms" did something or other,  sports-related, a few years ago?
>
>Last big story not so long ago
>
>"Whingeing Poms take offence at beer's cool marketing gimmick"
>
>The advertisement claims that the brewer Tooheys' new 
>Supercold brand is "cold enough to scare a Pom" and features 
>footage of an overweight, pale, balding man in a Union Jack 
>T-shirt cringing in fear at the offer of a cold beer
>
>http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/article656235.ece
>
>"A group of British expatriates living in Australia has 
>launched legal action to outlaw the use of the word in 
>advertising on the basis that Pom is a derogatory term"
>
>Get over it. A lot of eye-rolling this side of the Tasman.

Indeed, I hope quite a bit of eye rolling over here as well.  As you say these berks are living up (down) to the stereotype, and it is especialy petty when they are living in someone elses country.  Personaly I'm quite happy for the Bruces and Sheilas to continue with the traditional naming convention.  

Still, at least our (real) beer is served at an appropriate temperature ;)  

Mike


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