We british call australia the "down under", what do australians call britain?

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Mel

-UK
-Britain
-Pommy Land (we normally refer to the English as Poms, we don't really use Pommy Land a lot)

I tend to refer to each country, i.e England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, I don't group them together.

And no we don't think your upside down, we're not idiots.

Dropkick Murphys

Pommy Land

holly

Pommy land

mmdjaajl

pommy land

Elizabeth

We mostly call Britain - Britain, the UK or as slang Pommy Land.

Personally, I refer to Britain as Britain.

The last person to call Britain "The Mother Country" was probably Sir Robert Menzies, PM from 1939 to 1941 and from 1949 to 1966. It grated on most Australians nerves when he said it too.

Elliot

We mostly just call it Britian.

down_under_lover_forever2006

The Poms

-aDeN-

britain lol we dont really have a different 'name' for britain...however the british people will always be pommys haha

asmoothoperator_ishere

them pommy bastards

Mister Ed knows best

Everyone I know calls it the UK. Australians do NOT think of it as the mother country or any other post colonial cr@p like that.

kcsl

Pommy-land :)

Actually a majority of people just refer to it as UK. We're that boring and unoriginal.

wotzthepoint?

I'll get flagged for calling it that *#$*hole. dreary little island that it is.

Charliee

I just say the UK.

I have never even heard of it being referred to as the "mother country."

aussieaussieaussie

Pommy Land. With winging bloody poms. :P

The Mouse II

Pommi-land.
But usually we just call it Britain.

Really.
Cheers

tuppenybitz

Britain

Tukmyhamster

My mother who was a Pom but now is an Australian Citizen often calls it Home, as in "I got a letter from Home". You'd think she would have quit this habit after nearly 50 years in Australia.

mashedtaita

Land of the long white whinging pommy bastard.No offence intended.

â™¥Bubbleâ™¥Popâ™¥Electricâ™¥

Pommies!!!!! Lol. Or when you're driving "bloody tourists" lol

Princess fi fi

pommie land ive allways called it

podgymagoo

england. britain. pommy land..

j j

Bloody Brits

m_882

The Mother Country
The Old Country
Old Blighty

James

Lol, i have no idea as im in Britain too but great question

daniellacugini

Do you really want to know? Probably the smart ones call us things like Brizzies and the not-so-smart ones call us nothing, because they think we fell off Earth (because we're upside-down according to them) and are on an asteroid probably, so they might call us Deadies LOL