Best Buy Confirms It Has Secret Website
March 2, 2007

"Under pressure from state investigators, Best Buy is now confirming my reporting that its stores have a secret intranet site that has been used to block some consumers from getting cheaper prices advertised on BestBuy.com....."

http://www.courant.com/news/local/hc-watchdog0302,0,5198012.column?coll=hc-utility-local

im a circuit city guy anyway.

I got this laptop from Best Buy...the guy thought I was a pom...I had to restrain myself from killing him.

You sure he wasn't coming on to you.Don't you know americans just love our accents.:ha:

If it was me & he'd thought I was an Aussie I'd have gone medieval on him.:grrhee:

A pom? What's that?

A pom? What's that?

It's Aussi for "prison keeper". :grrhee:

lmfao

A pom? What's that?
no. it's a brit!:yes:

does that say porn or pom

P-o-m

P-o-m

P-rison

O-bedience

M-aintainer

Pommy

The term Pommy for a British person is commonly used by Australian English, New Zealand English, South African English and Afrikaans speakers, and is often shortened to Pom. The origin of this term is not confirmed and there are several persistent false etymologies, most being acronyms.

One theory is that, as the majority of early immigrants to Australia were English, it is rhyming slang for "immigrant" from a contraction of the word "pomegranate", or possibly more directly related to the appearance of the fruit, as it bears a more than passing resemblance to the typical pale complexioned Briton's skin after his or her first few days living under the hot Australian sun.

The Oxford English Dictionary has recently come out strongly in support of the word being a contraction, listing "pom" and "pommy" under its entry for "pomegranate". A supporting quotation from the Bulletin (Sydney) 14 November 1912: "The other day a Pummy Grant (assisted immigrant) was handed a bridle and told to catch a horse."[1]

A commonly-heard alternative theory is that POM is a shortened acronym of Prisoner of His/Her Majesty (POHM) or Prisoner Of Mother England (POME). As many of Australia's first settlers were convicts, sentenced to transportation, this theory holds that upon arrival in the country they would be given a uniform with POHM emblazoned on the back, and that convicts with an extended stay on Australian soil would no longer have to wear the shirt and would often refer to newer entrants into the country as "Pohmmys". Other suggestions hold that POM is a different acronym, such as "Prisoner of Mother England" or "Port of Melbourne". These etymologies are considered by some researchers to be false, as the term "pommy" was coined long before acronyms were used in common parlance. Moreover, there is no record of prisoners in Australia ever wearing such uniforms.

Another theory is that it is rhyming slang for tommy.

The use of the word "Pom" is contentious. Some British people living in Australasia find the term offensive and demeaning, others find it harmless and amusing. Attitudes to the use of the word have varied over the years, from the 1960s when slogans such as 'bash a pom a day' were heard on New Zealand radio, to today, when the word has become so entrenched that few Australians and New Zealanders see any reason to avoid using the word, some even justifying the use of the word as being "endearing". In December 2006 the Advertising Standards Board of Australia unanimously ruled that the word "Pom" was a part of the Australian vernacular and was largely used in "playful or affectionate" terms. As a consequence, the board ruled that the word did not constitute a racial slur and could be freely used in advertising. The Board was responding to a complaint filed by a community group called British People Against Racial Discrimination.[2]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternative_words_for_British#Pommy

The use of the word "Pom" is contentious. Some British people living in Australasia find the term offensive and demeaning

gee there's a shocker.

http://www.jodigreen.ca/blog/archives/tea_and_crumpets.jpg

gee there's a shocker.


feed'em a Fosters and make them sit with the shelias!

http://i45.photobucket.com/albums/f95/bipolartitan/fosters.gif

http://i45.photobucket.com/albums/f95/bipolartitan/fosters.gif

The poms haven't won anything worth of note since the Boar War.

Battle of Britan

oh and when the Communist French Surrender Monkeys decided to go on strike and abandon their trenches facing the Germans in WWI the Brits stepped in and saved the Allies from sure defeat.

FALKLANDS

Battle of Britan

oh and when the Communist French Surrender Monkeys decided to go on strike and abandon their trenches facing the Germans in WWI the Brits stepped in and saved the Allies from sure defeat.

FALKLANDS
Um Trench warfare was predominately WWI. And the French fought their behinds off for 4 years (1914-1918). They fought hard against the German advance through the Low countries(the implementation of the Schlieffen Plan) and defended France using their plan 17.
The French didn't want another war after WWI because it devastated France so much. They fell in 5 weeks in WW2.
Battle of Britain was when RAF pilots held off the German Luftwaffe for 4 months in what Winston Churchill deemed "their finest hour"
"Never have so many owed some much to so few"
Germany was extremely close to victory in the WWI.

The Brits sank the Bizmark .... It did cost them there flagship though :banned:

Um Trench warfare was predominately WWI. And the French fought their behinds off for 4 years (1914-1918). They fought hard against the German advance through the Low countries(the implementation of the Schlieffen Plan) and defended France using their plan 17.
The French didn't want another war after WWI because it devastated France so much. They fell in 5 weeks in WW2.
Battle of Britain was when RAF pilots held off the German Luftwaffe for 4 months in what Winston Churchill deemed "their finest hour"
"Never have so many owed some much to so few"
Germany was extremely close to victory in the WWI.

Ypres, on April 22, 1915. This was the first battle in which chemical gas was used in war, and the Germans sent yellow clouds of chlorine gas. French troops abandoned their position, and Canadian troops had to stretch their lines thing to fill in this gap and hold off the German offensive. It was a battle that over four days resulted in 6,037 Canadian casualties. - Canada and World War I

Looks like I was wrong it was the Canadians - of all people - who had too save the French surrender monkies in WWI. Claiming the French fought hard is like saying Adam Jones tries hard to stay out of trouble. While it might be true, it is definatly true that their attempts were/are without any meaningful success.

Why would the French want another WWI? The only reason they "won" is because other Nations decided to defend them from Germanic domination. The primary reason the French lasted even 5 weeks in WWII was because the Germans had difficulty overcomming the astonishingly bad service. Blitzkriegers don't march thru Paris on Panzers alone. It takes quality time in a French brothel to get a German army over the hump. The French understand this all too well and their strategy of "run away" held the Axis off for apparently a whopping 5 weeks.

So we agree that the Brits won the air war over Brittain. And yes if Hitler was not an insane meglomaniac all of Europe would be united under German rule with one currency .... wait.

mmmm.... let's go outback tonight...