Why is it now fashionable for some of the more rabid of the TD US contingency (no, no-one's looking your way, Tex - you're just being paranoid... ) to use the word 'pom' to describe Brits? I don't get it. Didn't 'Limey' or 'asshole' do it for you guys? Why use an Aussie word?

Am I the only Brit that finds this a bit strange? And sad, actually. To have so little vocabulary in your own language that you have to borrow from Oz is slightly disturbing...

So, would anyone of our transatlantic cousins like to explain why they feel the need to use an Aussie euphemism? Or anyone else have a view?