Sunday, February 21, 2010

Got a notice in the mailbox yesterday that there will be two AC/DC concerts coming up soon at the Subi Oval, which is pretty close to our place.  That's where the Aussie rules footy (football) games are played, and we arrived after the season ended last year, so we've no idea what the noise and traffic will be like.  The notice for AC/DC was basically a warning that some streets will be closed and residents should expect some rowdy, drunken behavior from the fans, who must all have jobs since the cheap tickets are $300 and the good ones are $400.

We had dinner a while back with a lady that works for a magazine called "The Wingeing Pom."  That's a term Aussies use to describe Brits that have moved here but complain about things not being like they are in England, and the magazine basically pokes fun at them.  "Wingeing" is also commonly used in place of "complaining," and you'll hear parents telling their kids to stop wingeing.  The origin of the word "Pom" seems to be uncertain, with some saying it stands for "Prisoner of Mother England", in which case it would have an e at the end, and others that say it means Prisoner of Her Majesty.  Still another theory is that it is a shorted form of pomegranate, because Brits typically are fair skinned and burn very quickly in the Australian sun, turning their skin the color of a pomegranate.