What is a Bogan friends?

The answers might surprise you.

What is a Bogan?

Friends, I've lived among the Bogans of the Brisbane Town CBD for years, their culture is greatly misunderstood.

Billy Jack wrote on Dec 8^th, 2013 at 11:18am:

What is a Bogan friends?

The term bogan  is Australian and New Zealand slang, usually pejorative or self-deprecating, for an individual who is recognised to be from an unsophisticated background or someone whose speech, clothing, attitude and behaviour exemplifies a lack of manners and education

According to anecdote, the term emerged in Melbourne's outer-Western and outer-Eastern suburbs in the late 1970s and early 1980s. The equivalent term in Queensland was Bevan and in NSW they were known as Westies (hailing from the western suburbs) however Bogan is now more commonly used Australia-wide.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bogan

It's a term used by people that have the need to feel better than other people because they have low self esteem .Usually aimed at  poor white people.

The people who vote for the right, they are uneducated, backward thinking, religious, racist and bigoted.

Ex Dame Pansi wrote on Dec 8^th, 2013 at 12:49pm:

The people who vote for the right, they are uneducated, backward thinking, religious, racist and bigoted.

It's a term used by people who think their pooh doesn't stink. They have  an over inflated view of themselves and their role in society. Also it shows how hypocritical they are because they are being prejudicial and marginalising to people they have never even met. It's just like calling somebody an abbo.

Bogan score card

Mullet hair cut +10

tats +7

Missing teeth +3 per tooth

Ugg boots + 4

Completed year 12 -5

Toolbox consisting only duct tape +5

Knows the staff at Centrelink on a first name basis +4

Employed -3

Any score over 14 = Bogan

miketrees wrote on Dec 8^th, 2013 at 12:59pm:

Bogan score card Mullet hair cut +10 tats +7 Missing teeth +3 per tooth Ugg boots + 4 Completed year 12 -5 Toolbox consisting only duct tape +5 Knows the staff at Centrelink on a first name basis +4 Employed -3 Any score over 14 = Bogan

That's funny because there's plenty of snots walking around with tats.

Snots-
1. Erectile problems so the missus goes to swingers parties. Possibly gay.

2. Lives in a suburb they can't afford just to bignote themselves. Live in borderline poverty as a consequence.

3. Give their kids stupid names like Sebastion and Bexley.

4. Are in tune with world issues but never do anything about it.

5. Said sorry but have never met an aboriginal. Wouldn't like it if they moved in next door.

6. Hardly travel outside their own area in their home country.

7. Have some stupid dog that they let pooh all over public beaches. Self centred.

8. Always jogging. Going around and around and around and around.........

8. Hate anything that most people like. Would eat poo if some "bogan" told them piss was tastier.

9. Have big foreheads and bug eyes.

10. Stupid clothing. The yuppie old bugger will wear an akubra hat even though he never goes bush. Female yuppie old buggers wear floral dresses. Young hipster males wear jeans too tight and faggy t-shirts.

looks like Dave scored over 14 ....  ;D ;D ;D ;D

John Smith wrote on Dec 8^th, 2013 at 1:22pm:

looks like Dave scored over 14 ....  ;D ;D ;D ;D

Do you let your hair grow over your big forehead John?

Big Dave wrote on Dec 8^th, 2013 at 1:30pm:

John Smith wrote on Dec 8th, 2013 at 1:22pm: looks like Dave scored over 14 ....  ;D ;D ;D ;D Do you let your hair grow over your big forehead John?

no chance of that ...  ;)

John Smith wrote on Dec 8^th, 2013 at 1:31pm:

Big Dave wrote on Dec 8th, 2013 at 1:30pm: John Smith wrote on Dec 8th, 2013 at 1:22pm: looks like Dave scored over 14 ....  ;D ;D ;D ;D Do you let your hair grow over your big forehead John? no chance of that ...  ;)

My mullet covers mine.

Ex Dame Pansi wrote on Dec 8^th, 2013 at 12:49pm:

The people who vote for the right, they are uneducated, backward thinking, religious, racist and bigoted.

Well your bigotry against those who are religious (unless they are Muslims. Predominantly Muslim nations are the best in the world of the pansi) is fairly obvious. But, how the hell do you put religious and bogan in the same sentence? Bogans are known for sitting around on a Sunday (and every other day) on a couch in the front yard with their feet in a kiddies pool drinking beer. Attending church is not exactly their style. The biggest churches in cities are in the middle and upperclass areas. Not Boganville. 

http://images.smh.com.au/2010/06/28/1650093/boganmain-420x0.jpg


http://thingsboganslike.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/sctatt.jpg

I've skied on the Bogan. Grew up alongside it and actually took part in some of it's physical transformation.

I've had friends and acquaintances flooded by it - their homes and possessions ruined.

I've walked across the dry riverbed and hung from the bridge among the snakes amidst a flood.

What do YOU know about Bogans? You've never met anyone from the area.

And if anyone thinks that that the popularly accepted descriptor is applicable to anyone from that, or similar, riversides - I can recommend some locals who'd be only to happy to educate you.

Where was the last B&S Ball you attended?

The rural  communities that you unknowingly denigrate by the use of this term already have another term for these "bogans" so described.

Your condescension is polluted by ignorance - but that is so often the case.    8-)

Perhaps you'd be employed in attempting to coin another term for the dregs of city society? Westies, perhaps?

Let's not let mere ignorance and parochialism dampen our enthusiasm for school-yard bullying.   :D   

greggerypeccary wrote on Dec 8^th, 2013 at 2:08pm:

http://images.smh.com.au/2010/06/28/1650093/boganmain-420x0.jpg http://thingsboganslike.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/sctatt.jpg

I suppose it's alright for Kathy Freeman and other abbos to drape themselves in their flag.

Bogan - urban, Aussie, redneck. Generally terms for people who live in town, and doesn't really know a great deal about the world whilst still knowing how to look after themselves. Someone unsophisticated.

Quantum wrote on Dec 8^th, 2013 at 1:56pm:

Ex Dame Pansi wrote on Dec 8th, 2013 at 12:49pm: The people who vote for the right, they are uneducated, backward thinking, religious, racist and bigoted. Well your bigotry against those who are religious (unless they are Muslims. Predominantly Muslim nations are the best in the world of the pansi) is fairly obvious. But, how the hell do you put religious and bogan in the same sentence? Bogans are known for sitting around on a Sunday (and every other day) on a couch in the front yard with their feet in a kiddies pool drinking beer. Attending church is not exactly their style. The biggest churches in cities are in the middle and upperclass areas. Not Boganville.

Maybe pansi is using these incorrect terms to avoid the realisation that she is very much a cashed up bogan, or as we Queenslanders used to say a bevan or suburban feral.

UnSubRocky wrote on Dec 8^th, 2013 at 2:49pm:

Bogan - urban, Aussie, redneck. Generally terms for people who live in town, and doesn't really know a great deal about the world whilst still knowing how to look after themselves. Someone unsophisticated.

What's sophisticated?

Big Dave wrote on Dec 8^th, 2013 at 3:02pm:

UnSubRocky wrote on Dec 8th, 2013 at 2:49pm: Bogan - urban, Aussie, redneck. Generally terms for people who live in town, and doesn't really know a great deal about the world whilst still knowing how to look after themselves. Someone unsophisticated. What's sophisticated?

That's when you own three types of dinner fork - and know their uses.   :-?

Lionel Edriess wrote on Dec 8^th, 2013 at 3:07pm:

Big Dave wrote on Dec 8th, 2013 at 3:02pm: UnSubRocky wrote on Dec 8th, 2013 at 2:49pm: Bogan - urban, Aussie, redneck. Generally terms for people who live in town, and doesn't really know a great deal about the world whilst still knowing how to look after themselves. Someone unsophisticated. What's sophisticated? That's when you own three types of dinner fork - and know their uses.   :-?

No, that's table etiquette. Being some aspirational wannabee upstart sounds right. So some kid can mix with the "real" humans.

hehehe, this should be an amusing and illuminating thread.  If you are poor, unsophisticated and not well educated but with a tinted skin, the left will fawn all over you, forgive every transgression and earnestly explain your every faux pas and apologise on your behalf. 

However if you are poor, unsophisticated not well educated but white, the left will sneer and laugh at you.

It is an amazing thing to watch the unconscious hypocrisy and double standards the left routinely display. 

Datalife wrote on Dec 8^th, 2013 at 4:11pm:

hehehe, this should be an amusing and illuminating thread.  If you are poor, unsophisticated and not well educated but with a tinted skin, the left will fawn all over you, forgive every transgression and earnestly explain your every faux pas and apologise on your behalf.  However if you are poor, unsophisticated not well educated but white, the left will sneer and laugh at you. It is an amazing thing to watch the unconscious hypocrisy and double standards the left routinely display.

perhaps you'd care to share some example that may have crossed your path? After all, there would never be any hypocrisy or double standards on your part, would there?

John Smith wrote on Dec 8^th, 2013 at 4:14pm:

perhaps you'd care to share some example that may have crossed your path? After all, there would never be any hypocrisy or double standards on your part, would there?

Watch the thread, sneering luvvies wont be able to help themselves. 

Datalife wrote on Dec 8^th, 2013 at 4:11pm:

hehehe, this should be an amusing and illuminating thread.  If you are poor, unsophisticated and not well educated but with a tinted skin, the left will fawn all over you, forgive every transgression and earnestly explain your every faux pas and apologise on your behalf.  However if you are poor, unsophisticated not well educated but white, the left will sneer and laugh at you. It is an amazing thing to watch the unconscious hypocrisy and double standards the left routinely display.

Bingo.

Being uneducated and white = bad.
Being uneducated and not white = good.

Big Dave wrote on Dec 8^th, 2013 at 2:39pm:

greggerypeccary wrote on Dec 8th, 2013 at 2:08pm: http://images.smh.com.au/2010/06/28/1650093/boganmain-420x0.jpg http://thingsboganslike.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/sctatt.jpg I suppose it's alright for Kathy Freeman and other abbos to drape themselves in their flag.

Do you?

I don't.

I find it all quite silly.

Datalife wrote on Dec 8^th, 2013 at 4:11pm:

However if you are poor, unsophisticated not well educated but white, the left will sneer and laugh at you.

Are the sneers getting to you?

greggerypeccary wrote on Dec 8^th, 2013 at 5:10pm:

Datalife wrote on Dec 8th, 2013 at 4:11pm: However if you are poor, unsophisticated not well educated but white, the left will sneer and laugh at you. Are the sneers getting to you?

Nope. We are just laughing at your double standards.

Big Dave wrote on Dec 8^th, 2013 at 5:39pm:

greggerypeccary wrote on Dec 8th, 2013 at 5:10pm: Datalife wrote on Dec 8th, 2013 at 4:11pm: However if you are poor, unsophisticated not well educated but white, the left will sneer and laugh at you. Are the sneers getting to you? Nope.

The laughing?

miketrees wrote on Dec 8^th, 2013 at 12:59pm:

Bogan score card Mullet hair cut +10 tats +7 Missing teeth +3 per tooth Ugg boots + 4 Completed year 12 -5 Toolbox consisting only duct tape +5 Knows the staff at Centrelink on a first name basis +4 Employed -3 Any score over 14 = Bogan

Interesting.  I got -5.  I would have got -8 but I have lost one tooth......

Datalife wrote on Dec 8^th, 2013 at 4:11pm:

hehehe, this should be an amusing and illuminating thread.  If you are poor, unsophisticated and not well educated but with a tinted skin, the left will fawn all over you, forgive every transgression and earnestly explain your every faux pas and apologise on your behalf.  However if you are poor, unsophisticated not well educated but white, the left will sneer and laugh at you. It is an amazing thing to watch the unconscious hypocrisy and double standards the left routinely display.

In my experience, that attitude is carried almost exclusively by those on the Right.

The World Champs of hypocrisy and double-standard-holding ... the ratbag-right.

But rather than acknowledge this, they project their own failings onto their opponents (or perceived opponents).

Thick as Besser-blocks, most of them.

Big Dave wrote on Dec 8^th, 2013 at 3:02pm:

UnSubRocky wrote on Dec 8th, 2013 at 2:49pm: Bogan - urban, Aussie, redneck. Generally terms for people who live in town, and doesn't really know a great deal about the world whilst still knowing how to look after themselves. Someone unsophisticated. What's sophisticated?

I spent about 5 minutes on trying to think about what it is to define "bogan" that I really couldn't differentiate it between what people would consider "sophisticated". I suppose anything low brow would attract "bogans", whilst high brow things attract mainly "sophisticated" people.

It's probably has Irish origins like Hooligan, based on a surname or assiciation with poverty or barbarism; 'bog man' was used by Irish to describe less privelaged demographic.

Hey Francis, its not just the lost tooth.

You have to keep that space open and show it with pride.

What is a Bogan?


http://images.smh.com.au/2009/12/02/939745/abbottbeach.jpg

miketrees wrote on Dec 9^th, 2013 at 7:47am:

Hey Francis, its not just the lost tooth. You have to keep that space open and show it with pride.

It's one of the teeth at the side, so it's not visible.  if it was one of the front ones, I would have had a dental implant years ago.....

Big Dave wrote on Dec 8^th, 2013 at 12:55pm:

Ex Dame Pansi wrote on Dec 8th, 2013 at 12:49pm: The people who vote for the right, they are uneducated, backward thinking, religious, racist and bigoted. It's a term used by people who think their pooh doesn't stink. They have  an over inflated view of themselves and their role in society. Also it shows how hypocritical they are because they are being prejudicial and marginalising to people they have never even met. It's just like calling somebody an abbo.

i agree big dave and i went to uni and got honours and have an IQ of 160 but i love bogans. they are way more interesting then urban elites who dont know how to ride horses, ride motorbikes or f^^k properly.  in fact, urban elites only know how to wank and have wankfest talkathons.  F^^k them, i also went to the states and found the redneck states far more friendly then the north eastern elites.

greggerypeccary wrote on Dec 8^th, 2013 at 2:08pm:

http://images.smh.com.au/2010/06/28/1650093/boganmain-420x0.jpg http://thingsboganslike.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/sctatt.jpg

love those kids dressed in the flag, pecker.
make sure to watch the project tonite. they are having some  lovefest for some muslim that cant get refugee status or something.  probably appeals to boring goody 2 shoes kids.  the kids dressed in the flag wont be watching tv. they'll be out having fun, so at least the project know who their miserable loser demographic is ;) ;)

Datalife wrote on Dec 8^th, 2013 at 4:11pm:

hehehe, this should be an amusing and illuminating thread.  If you are poor, unsophisticated and not well educated but with a tinted skin, the left will fawn all over you, forgive every transgression and earnestly explain your every faux pas and apologise on your behalf.  However if you are poor, unsophisticated not well educated but white, the left will sneer and laugh at you. It is an amazing thing to watch the unconscious hypocrisy and double standards the left routinely display.

A plus,  go to the top of the class

Dnarever wrote on Dec 9^th, 2013 at 8:10am:

What is a Bogan? http://images.smh.com.au/2009/12/02/939745/abbottbeach.jpg

he's a rhodes scholar ;) ;) for gawds sake

he's a bit of a try hard macho man.  he needs putin to come out here and mentor him.

Ex Dame Pansi wrote on Dec 8^th, 2013 at 12:49pm:

The people who vote for the right, they are uneducated, backward thinking, religious, racist and bigoted.

You’ve got to be pretty good to give a bigoted response like this and not see the bigotry in it.

Not that I’m surprised.

::)

Redneck is not Australian ... it's as Americanism.

I haven't & usually don't use them term "Bogan".

I refer to people who fit the bogan profile as "FERALS".

And they are Australias fastest growing commodity.

Having babies & large flat screen TV's .... now I wonder who & what made them synonymous. ;D ;D

greggerypeccary wrote on Dec 8^th, 2013 at 2:08pm:

http://images.smh.com.au/2010/06/28/1650093/boganmain-420x0.jpg http://thingsboganslike.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/sctatt.jpg

You want bigot pansi?......and bigoted??

I give you peccer head.... ;D

FriYAY wrote on Dec 9^th, 2013 at 3:46pm:

greggerypeccary wrote on Dec 8th, 2013 at 2:08pm: http://images.smh.com.au/2010/06/28/1650093/boganmain-420x0.jpg http://thingsboganslike.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/sctatt.jpg You want bigot pansi?......and bigoted?? I give you peccer head.... ;D

Where is your southern cross tattoo, Rosco?


http://images.smh.com.au/2013/01/25/3982418/art-first-fleeter-620x349.jpg

Twas bryllyg, and ye slythy toves
Did gyre and gymble in ye wabe:
All mimsy were ye borogoves;
And ye mome raths outgrabe.

All australians are bogans to some degree. I'm still working on the finer details, but the rough formula:

x = y

Where x is the degree of boganism and y is the degree of pride one openly displays in being orrrrstraylian.

Gnads wrote on Dec 9^th, 2013 at 3:45pm:

Redneck is not Australian ... it's as Americanism. I haven't & usually don't use them term "Bogan". I refer to people who fit the bogan profile as "FERALS". And they are Australias fastest growing commodity. Having babies & large flat screen TV's .... now I wonder who & what made them synonymous. ;D ;D

The delusions of small-minded idiots...

Gnads wrote on Dec 9^th, 2013 at 3:45pm:

I refer to people who fit the bogan profile as "FERALS".

Different animals.

Visit Nimbin if you want to see ferals.

aquascoot wrote on Dec 9^th, 2013 at 2:53pm:

i agree big dave and i went to uni and got honours and have an IQ of 160 but i love bogans. they are way more interesting then urban elites who dont know how to ride horses, ride motorbikes or f^^k properly.  in fact, urban elites only know how to wank and have wankfest talkathons.  F^^k them, i also went to the states and found the redneck states far more friendly then the north eastern elites.

:)


You gotta meet Hot Breath - he's got an IQ of 178.


You sound like you two would get along FINE.


:-?

Ok we seem to be finding alternative groups to poke fun at.

A Bogan is not a Feral ,I see those two as being very different.

Ferals would be like Hippies that have turned even more rancid.

Or Ferals could be the generation bred from Hippies.

Yuppies , Bogans, Ferals, Hippies.

I dont want to be any of them.

... wrote on Dec 9^th, 2013 at 7:34pm:

All australians are bogans to some degree. I'm still working on the finer details, but the rough formula: x = y Where x is the degree of boganism and y is the degree of pride one openly displays in being orrrrstraylian.

No they aren't, I'd say less than 50% have any feelings at all on the subject. Australia is a place people come to work, build capital and have holiday/investment properties.

greggerypeccary wrote on Dec 9^th, 2013 at 7:06pm:

FriYAY wrote on Dec 9th, 2013 at 3:46pm: greggerypeccary wrote on Dec 8th, 2013 at 2:08pm: http://images.smh.com.au/2010/06/28/1650093/boganmain-420x0.jpg http://thingsboganslike.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/sctatt.jpg You want bigot pansi?......and bigoted?? I give you peccer head.... ;D Where is your southern cross tattoo, Rosco? http://images.smh.com.au/2013/01/25/3982418/art-first-fleeter-620x349.jpg

Great flag and love the ANZAC St sign in the back ground.

Oi Oi Oi

No tatts :(

FriYAY wrote on Dec 11^th, 2013 at 1:48pm:

greggerypeccary wrote on Dec 9th, 2013 at 7:06pm: FriYAY wrote on Dec 9th, 2013 at 3:46pm: greggerypeccary wrote on Dec 8th, 2013 at 2:08pm: http://images.smh.com.au/2010/06/28/1650093/boganmain-420x0.jpg http://thingsboganslike.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/sctatt.jpg You want bigot pansi?......and bigoted?? I give you peccer head.... ;D Where is your southern cross tattoo, Rosco? http://images.smh.com.au/2013/01/25/3982418/art-first-fleeter-620x349.jpg Great flag and love the ANZAC St sign in the back ground. Oi Oi Oi No tatts :(

Christmas gift idea for your wife:

http://www.ebay.com.au/bhp/tattoo-kit

She can put a southern cross on your arm, and earn some money on the side.

greggerypeccary wrote on Dec 11^th, 2013 at 2:36pm:

FriYAY wrote on Dec 11th, 2013 at 1:48pm: greggerypeccary wrote on Dec 9th, 2013 at 7:06pm: FriYAY wrote on Dec 9th, 2013 at 3:46pm: greggerypeccary wrote on Dec 8th, 2013 at 2:08pm: http://images.smh.com.au/2010/06/28/1650093/boganmain-420x0.jpg http://thingsboganslike.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/sctatt.jpg You want bigot pansi?......and bigoted?? I give you peccer head.... ;D Where is your southern cross tattoo, Rosco? http://images.smh.com.au/2013/01/25/3982418/art-first-fleeter-620x349.jpg Great flag and love the ANZAC St sign in the back ground. Oi Oi Oi No tatts :( Christmas gift idea for your wife: http://www.ebay.com.au/bhp/tattoo-kit She can put a southern cross on your arm, and earn some money on the side.

You should sit out the front with your $7 bottle of chardonnay and offer the service to the bogans on OZ day.

Winston Smith wrote on Dec 11^th, 2013 at 1:32pm:

... wrote on Dec 9th, 2013 at 7:34pm: All australians are bogans to some degree. I'm still working on the finer details, but the rough formula: x = y Where x is the degree of boganism and y is the degree of pride one openly displays in being orrrrstraylian. No they aren't, I'd say less than 50% have any feelings at all on the subject. Australia is a place people come to work, build capital and have holiday/investment properties.

WTF has that got to do with aussies being bogans?

FriYAY wrote on Dec 11^th, 2013 at 2:52pm:

greggerypeccary wrote on Dec 11th, 2013 at 2:36pm: FriYAY wrote on Dec 11th, 2013 at 1:48pm: greggerypeccary wrote on Dec 9th, 2013 at 7:06pm: FriYAY wrote on Dec 9th, 2013 at 3:46pm: greggerypeccary wrote on Dec 8th, 2013 at 2:08pm: http://images.smh.com.au/2010/06/28/1650093/boganmain-420x0.jpg http://thingsboganslike.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/sctatt.jpg You want bigot pansi?......and bigoted?? I give you peccer head.... ;D Where is your southern cross tattoo, Rosco? http://images.smh.com.au/2013/01/25/3982418/art-first-fleeter-620x349.jpg Great flag and love the ANZAC St sign in the back ground. Oi Oi Oi No tatts :( Christmas gift idea for your wife: http://www.ebay.com.au/bhp/tattoo-kit She can put a southern cross on your arm, and earn some money on the side. You should sit out the front with your $7 bottle of chardonnay and offer the service to the bogans on OZ day.

Not a bad idea.

I could sell burnt copies of Kevin Bloody Wilson CDs while I'm at it.

Then I could afford some $10 chardonnay.

Kevin's Ho Ho was  funny ... still is. LOL

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XMwdVmPiuI

... wrote on Dec 11^th, 2013 at 3:06pm:

Winston Smith wrote on Dec 11th, 2013 at 1:32pm: ... wrote on Dec 9th, 2013 at 7:34pm: All australians are bogans to some degree. I'm still working on the finer details, but the rough formula: x = y Where x is the degree of boganism and y is the degree of pride one openly displays in being orrrrstraylian. No they aren't, I'd say less than 50% have any feelings at all on the subject. Australia is a place people come to work, build capital and have holiday/investment properties. WTF has that got to do with aussies being bogans?

The demographic I am referring to are mostly Asian immigrants. They are here to accumulate wealth, not absorb the culture. Most of the remaining Caucasians have middle-class aspirations. Boganism is a relic of British class based society that survived into recent times.

Winston Smith wrote on Dec 11^th, 2013 at 4:45pm:

... wrote on Dec 11th, 2013 at 3:06pm: Winston Smith wrote on Dec 11th, 2013 at 1:32pm: ... wrote on Dec 9th, 2013 at 7:34pm: All australians are bogans to some degree. I'm still working on the finer details, but the rough formula: x = y Where x is the degree of boganism and y is the degree of pride one openly displays in being orrrrstraylian. No they aren't, I'd say less than 50% have any feelings at all on the subject. Australia is a place people come to work, build capital and have holiday/investment properties. WTF has that got to do with aussies being bogans? The demographic I am referring to are mostly Asian immigrants. They are here to accumulate wealth, not absorb the culture. Most of the remaining Caucasians have middle-class aspirations. Boganism is a relic of British class based society that survived into recent times.

When I refer to 'australians', I'm not talking about asians. 

Funnily enough, I'm talking about australians. 

... wrote on Dec 11^th, 2013 at 5:17pm:

When I refer to 'australians', I'm not talking about asians.  Funnily enough, I'm talking about australians.

Do you consider Aboriginals when you refer to Australians?

Frances wrote on Dec 11^th, 2013 at 5:21pm:

... wrote on Dec 11th, 2013 at 5:17pm: When I refer to 'australians', I'm not talking about asians.  Funnily enough, I'm talking about australians.  Do you consider Aboriginals when you refer to Australians?

Abos are the most boganish of the lot.

Frances wrote on Dec 11^th, 2013 at 5:21pm:

... wrote on Dec 11th, 2013 at 5:17pm: When I refer to 'australians', I'm not talking about asians.  Funnily enough, I'm talking about australians.  Do you consider Aboriginals when you refer to Australians?

Wes is very considerate of Aboriginals.

Kat wrote on Dec 9^th, 2013 at 8:22pm:

Gnads wrote on Dec 9th, 2013 at 3:45pm: Redneck is not Australian ... it's as Americanism. I haven't & usually don't use them term "Bogan". I refer to people who fit the bogan profile as "FERALS". And they are Australias fastest growing commodity. Having babies & large flat screen TV's .... now I wonder who & what made them synonymous. ;D ;D The delusions of small-minded idiots...

Whilst smaller minds look on .... mean while the kids are put in day care so mum can go to Bingo or the Pokies.

... wrote on Dec 11^th, 2013 at 5:22pm:

Frances wrote on Dec 11th, 2013 at 5:21pm: ... wrote on Dec 11th, 2013 at 5:17pm: When I refer to 'australians', I'm not talking about asians.  Funnily enough, I'm talking about australians.  Do you consider Aboriginals when you refer to Australians? Abos are the most boganish of the lot.

:) :) :) Aint that the truth. I've seen aborigines with black mullets coupled with football shorts and thongs.

... wrote on Dec 11^th, 2013 at 5:17pm:

Winston Smith wrote on Dec 11th, 2013 at 4:45pm: ... wrote on Dec 11th, 2013 at 3:06pm: Winston Smith wrote on Dec 11th, 2013 at 1:32pm: ... wrote on Dec 9th, 2013 at 7:34pm: All australians are bogans to some degree. I'm still working on the finer details, but the rough formula: x = y Where x is the degree of boganism and y is the degree of pride one openly displays in being orrrrstraylian. No they aren't, I'd say less than 50% have any feelings at all on the subject. Australia is a place people come to work, build capital and have holiday/investment properties. WTF has that got to do with aussies being bogans? The demographic I am referring to are mostly Asian immigrants. They are here to accumulate wealth, not absorb the culture. Most of the remaining Caucasians have middle-class aspirations. Boganism is a relic of British class based society that survived into recent times. When I refer to 'australians', I'm not talking about asians.  Funnily enough, I'm talking about australians.

An Australian is anyone with Australian Citizenship. That's anyone who has spent more than a couple of years here. A piece of paper doesn't change the cultural divergence of millenia over night. Boganism was something the Australian mainstream embraced only once it had become gentrified.

Before the 90's boganism was frowned upon by the mainstream, then commercial interests got involved and we got 'aussie aussie aussie, oi oi oi' slogans and quaint references to a mistaken lost golden age of simple values.

Winston Smith wrote on Dec 12^th, 2013 at 9:09am:

... wrote on Dec 11th, 2013 at 5:17pm: Winston Smith wrote on Dec 11th, 2013 at 4:45pm: ... wrote on Dec 11th, 2013 at 3:06pm: Winston Smith wrote on Dec 11th, 2013 at 1:32pm: ... wrote on Dec 9th, 2013 at 7:34pm: All australians are bogans to some degree. I'm still working on the finer details, but the rough formula: x = y Where x is the degree of boganism and y is the degree of pride one openly displays in being orrrrstraylian. No they aren't, I'd say less than 50% have any feelings at all on the subject. Australia is a place people come to work, build capital and have holiday/investment properties. WTF has that got to do with aussies being bogans? The demographic I am referring to are mostly Asian immigrants. They are here to accumulate wealth, not absorb the culture. Most of the remaining Caucasians have middle-class aspirations. Boganism is a relic of British class based society that survived into recent times. When I refer to 'australians', I'm not talking about asians.  Funnily enough, I'm talking about australians.  An Australian is anyone with Australian Citizenship. That's anyone who has spent more than a couple of years here. A piece of paper doesn't change the cultural divergence of millenia over night. Boganism was something the Australian mainstream embraced only once it had become gentrified. Before the 90's boganism was frowned upon by the mainstream, then commercial interests got involved and we got 'aussie aussie aussie, oi oi oi' slogans and quaint references to a mistaken lost golden age of simple values.

Technically yes, but you know as well as I do that when you hear the word "australian" the image that springs to mind is closer to this:

http://resources3.news.com.au/images/2010/11/13/1225953/032187-chris-franklin.jpg

than this:

https://d15mj6e6qmt1na.cloudfront.net/files/images/0516/2593/Rice_paddy_worker.JPG

Pretending otherwise doesn't make you seem "educated" or "enlightened", it just makes you seem dishonest and/or stupid.

... wrote on Dec 12^th, 2013 at 9:48am:

Technically yes, but you know as well as I do that when you hear the word "australian" the image that springs to mind is closer to this: http://resources3.news.com.au/images/2010/11/13/1225953/032187-chris-franklin.jpg than this: https://d15mj6e6qmt1na.cloudfront.net/files/images/0516/2593/Rice_paddy_worker.JPG

Nope.

The image that springs to google's mind is this:


http://www.amf.net.au/library/uploads/images/The_Many_Voices_of_Young_Australians.jpg
"Australians"


Looks about right to me.

google doesn't have a mind.

So on that, I guess you have something in common.

... wrote on Dec 12^th, 2013 at 9:56am:

google doesn't have a mind. So on that, I guess you have something in common.

You're dead wrong on this one Wes.

The pictures you posted were ridiculous extremes.

My pic is pretty much spot on.

You seem to be living in John Howard's 1950s.

Who are you trying to convince? 

You'd stand a better chance of being beleived if you hadn't already plastered the thread with pictures of "aussies" ie drunk low class honkies draped in australian merchandise.

... wrote on Dec 12^th, 2013 at 10:03am:

Who are you trying to convince?

Nobody.  Just telling it how it is.

When I think "Australian", the people in that last pic spring to mind.

When I think of "bogan", people draped in flags with southern cross tattoos spring to mind.

Two different things, thus, two different types of pic.

greggerypeccary wrote on Dec 12^th, 2013 at 10:07am:

... wrote on Dec 12th, 2013 at 10:03am: Who are you trying to convince?  Nobody.  Just telling it how it is. When I think "Australian", the people in that last pic spring to mind. When I think of "bogan", people draped in flags with southern cross tattoos spring to mind. Two different things, thus, two different types of pic.

  I see.  so you associate the word "australian' with people with no apparent similarities beyond basic humancharacteristics.  Word associations make it very easy to spot a liar.

... wrote on Dec 12^th, 2013 at 10:22am:

greggerypeccary wrote on Dec 12th, 2013 at 10:07am: ... wrote on Dec 12th, 2013 at 10:03am: Who are you trying to convince?  Nobody.  Just telling it how it is. When I think "Australian", the people in that last pic spring to mind. When I think of "bogan", people draped in flags with southern cross tattoos spring to mind. Two different things, thus, two different types of pic.   I see.  so you associate the word "australian' with people with no apparent similarities beyond basic humancharacteristics.

Spot on!

Now you're getting somewhere.

However, I associate "bogan" with people wearing flags and sporting southern cross tattoos.

Word associations work on stereotypes.  Now im not saying you're a liar, but...well, yeah actually, I am.

... wrote on Dec 12^th, 2013 at 10:38am:

Word associations work on stereotypes.  Now im not saying you're a liar, but...well, yeah actually, I am.

Good on ya!

greggerypeccary wrote on Dec 12^th, 2013 at 9:53am:

... wrote on Dec 12th, 2013 at 9:48am: Technically yes, but you know as well as I do that when you hear the word "australian" the image that springs to mind is closer to this: http://resources3.news.com.au/images/2010/11/13/1225953/032187-chris-franklin.jpg than this: https://d15mj6e6qmt1na.cloudfront.net/files/images/0516/2593/Rice_paddy_worker.JPG Nope. The image that springs to google's mind is this: http://www.amf.net.au/library/uploads/images/The_Many_Voices_of_Young_Australians.jpg "Australians" Looks about right to me.

good picture greg,
an endorsement to reintroduce national service , i believe

aquascoot wrote on Dec 12^th, 2013 at 6:23pm:

greggerypeccary wrote on Dec 12th, 2013 at 9:53am: ... wrote on Dec 12th, 2013 at 9:48am: Technically yes, but you know as well as I do that when you hear the word "australian" the image that springs to mind is closer to this: http://resources3.news.com.au/images/2010/11/13/1225953/032187-chris-franklin.jpg than this: https://d15mj6e6qmt1na.cloudfront.net/files/images/0516/2593/Rice_paddy_worker.JPG Nope. The image that springs to google's mind is this: http://www.amf.net.au/library/uploads/images/The_Many_Voices_of_Young_Australians.jpg "Australians" Looks about right to me. good picture greg, an endorsement to reintroduce national service , i believe

Thanks.

Why do you believe that?

greggerypeccary wrote on Dec 12^th, 2013 at 9:53am:

... wrote on Dec 12th, 2013 at 9:48am: Technically yes, but you know as well as I do that when you hear the word "australian" the image that springs to mind is closer to this: http://resources3.news.com.au/images/2010/11/13/1225953/032187-chris-franklin.jpg than this: https://d15mj6e6qmt1na.cloudfront.net/files/images/0516/2593/Rice_paddy_worker.JPG Nope. The image that springs to google's mind is this: http://www.amf.net.au/library/uploads/images/The_Many_Voices_of_Young_Australians.jpg "Australians" Looks about right to me.

I saw half of them spray painting an overpass the other night. That's your typical urban ghetto now how about the rest of Australia.

Big Dave wrote on Dec 12^th, 2013 at 6:29pm:

greggerypeccary wrote on Dec 12th, 2013 at 9:53am: ... wrote on Dec 12th, 2013 at 9:48am: Technically yes, but you know as well as I do that when you hear the word "australian" the image that springs to mind is closer to this: http://resources3.news.com.au/images/2010/11/13/1225953/032187-chris-franklin.jpg than this: https://d15mj6e6qmt1na.cloudfront.net/files/images/0516/2593/Rice_paddy_worker.JPG Nope. The image that springs to google's mind is this: http://www.amf.net.au/library/uploads/images/The_Many_Voices_of_Young_Australians.jpg "Australians" Looks about right to me. I saw half of them spray painting an overpass the other night. That's your typical urban ghetto now how about the rest of Australia.

Was it a blow to the head?

greggerypeccary wrote on Dec 12^th, 2013 at 6:31pm:

Big Dave wrote on Dec 12th, 2013 at 6:29pm: greggerypeccary wrote on Dec 12th, 2013 at 9:53am: ... wrote on Dec 12th, 2013 at 9:48am: Technically yes, but you know as well as I do that when you hear the word "australian" the image that springs to mind is closer to this: http://resources3.news.com.au/images/2010/11/13/1225953/032187-chris-franklin.jpg than this: https://d15mj6e6qmt1na.cloudfront.net/files/images/0516/2593/Rice_paddy_worker.JPG Nope. The image that springs to google's mind is this: http://www.amf.net.au/library/uploads/images/The_Many_Voices_of_Young_Australians.jpg "Australians" Looks about right to me. I saw half of them spray painting an overpass the other night. That's your typical urban ghetto now how about the rest of Australia. Was it a blow to the head?

You are just typical Greg. You know the problem with your picture, the black kid only hangs with black kids and the Muslim girl only knocks around other Muslims. I see it every day. It's a load of crap. You see diversity and I see division.

Big Dave wrote on Dec 12^th, 2013 at 6:34pm:

greggerypeccary wrote on Dec 12th, 2013 at 6:31pm: Big Dave wrote on Dec 12th, 2013 at 6:29pm: greggerypeccary wrote on Dec 12th, 2013 at 9:53am: ... wrote on Dec 12th, 2013 at 9:48am: Technically yes, but you know as well as I do that when you hear the word "australian" the image that springs to mind is closer to this: http://resources3.news.com.au/images/2010/11/13/1225953/032187-chris-franklin.jpg than this: https://d15mj6e6qmt1na.cloudfront.net/files/images/0516/2593/Rice_paddy_worker.JPG Nope. The image that springs to google's mind is this: http://www.amf.net.au/library/uploads/images/The_Many_Voices_of_Young_Australians.jpg "Australians" Looks about right to me. I saw half of them spray painting an overpass the other night. That's your typical urban ghetto now how about the rest of Australia. Was it a blow to the head? You are just typical Greg. You know the problem with your picture, the black kid only hangs with black kids and the Muslim girl only knocks around other Muslims. I see it every day. It's a load of crap. You see diversity and I see division.

I see diversity because that's what I experience in real life.

That picture could have been taken on my street.  It's quite typical of my area.

You see division because you're an ignorant bigot.

I see the truth, you see what you want to see.

We're different.

greggerypeccary wrote on Dec 12^th, 2013 at 6:46pm:

Big Dave wrote on Dec 12th, 2013 at 6:34pm: greggerypeccary wrote on Dec 12th, 2013 at 6:31pm: Big Dave wrote on Dec 12th, 2013 at 6:29pm: greggerypeccary wrote on Dec 12th, 2013 at 9:53am: ... wrote on Dec 12th, 2013 at 9:48am: Technically yes, but you know as well as I do that when you hear the word "australian" the image that springs to mind is closer to this: http://resources3.news.com.au/images/2010/11/13/1225953/032187-chris-franklin.jpg than this: https://d15mj6e6qmt1na.cloudfront.net/files/images/0516/2593/Rice_paddy_worker.JPG Nope. The image that springs to google's mind is this: http://www.amf.net.au/library/uploads/images/The_Many_Voices_of_Young_Australians.jpg "Australians" Looks about right to me. I saw half of them spray painting an overpass the other night. That's your typical urban ghetto now how about the rest of Australia. Was it a blow to the head? You are just typical Greg. You know the problem with your picture, the black kid only hangs with black kids and the Muslim girl only knocks around other Muslims. I see it every day. It's a load of crap. You see diversity and I see division. I see diversity because that's what I experience in real life. That picture could have been taken on my street.  It's quite typical of my area. You see division because you're an ignorant bigot. I see the truth, you see what you want to see. We're different.

You see diversity because you have your head up your ass and you are a believer. It's not working. I work in a place like your photo and I hear and see racism from all nationalities all of the time. Multiculturalism is a failed concept and in time it be shown to be.

Big Dave wrote on Dec 12^th, 2013 at 6:56pm:

I work .

I doubt that.

Big Dave wrote on Dec 12^th, 2013 at 6:56pm:

...  I hear and see racism from all nationalities all of the time.

So do I.

I've never said that people aren't racist.

Not sure why you went there.

greggerypeccary wrote on Dec 12^th, 2013 at 6:26pm:

aquascoot wrote on Dec 12th, 2013 at 6:23pm: greggerypeccary wrote on Dec 12th, 2013 at 9:53am: ... wrote on Dec 12th, 2013 at 9:48am: Technically yes, but you know as well as I do that when you hear the word "australian" the image that springs to mind is closer to this: http://resources3.news.com.au/images/2010/11/13/1225953/032187-chris-franklin.jpg than this: https://d15mj6e6qmt1na.cloudfront.net/files/images/0516/2593/Rice_paddy_worker.JPG Nope. The image that springs to google's mind is this: http://www.amf.net.au/library/uploads/images/The_Many_Voices_of_Young_Australians.jpg "Australians" Looks about right to me. good picture greg, an endorsement to reintroduce national service , i believe Thanks. Why do you believe that?

they look a bit soft.  12 months resilience training and a haircut and we might make useful australians out of them :)

aquascoot wrote on Dec 12^th, 2013 at 7:02pm:

greggerypeccary wrote on Dec 12th, 2013 at 6:26pm: aquascoot wrote on Dec 12th, 2013 at 6:23pm: greggerypeccary wrote on Dec 12th, 2013 at 9:53am: ... wrote on Dec 12th, 2013 at 9:48am: Technically yes, but you know as well as I do that when you hear the word "australian" the image that springs to mind is closer to this: http://resources3.news.com.au/images/2010/11/13/1225953/032187-chris-franklin.jpg than this: https://d15mj6e6qmt1na.cloudfront.net/files/images/0516/2593/Rice_paddy_worker.JPG Nope. The image that springs to google's mind is this: http://www.amf.net.au/library/uploads/images/The_Many_Voices_of_Young_Australians.jpg "Australians" Looks about right to me. good picture greg, an endorsement to reintroduce national service , i believe Thanks. Why do you believe that? they look a bit soft.  12 months resilience training and a haircut and we might make useful australians out of them :)

I see.  You prefer them hard.

Understood.

greggerypeccary wrote on Dec 12^th, 2013 at 6:57pm:

Big Dave wrote on Dec 12th, 2013 at 6:56pm: I work . I doubt that.

Because you have a head for of stereotypes. I don't know how you work. You are on here whenever I get on here.

... wrote on Dec 12^th, 2013 at 9:48am:

Winston Smith wrote on Dec 12th, 2013 at 9:09am: ... wrote on Dec 11th, 2013 at 5:17pm: Winston Smith wrote on Dec 11th, 2013 at 4:45pm: ... wrote on Dec 11th, 2013 at 3:06pm: Winston Smith wrote on Dec 11th, 2013 at 1:32pm: ... wrote on Dec 9th, 2013 at 7:34pm: All australians are bogans to some degree. I'm still working on the finer details, but the rough formula: x = y Where x is the degree of boganism and y is the degree of pride one openly displays in being orrrrstraylian. No they aren't, I'd say less than 50% have any feelings at all on the subject. Australia is a place people come to work, build capital and have holiday/investment properties. WTF has that got to do with aussies being bogans? The demographic I am referring to are mostly Asian immigrants. They are here to accumulate wealth, not absorb the culture. Most of the remaining Caucasians have middle-class aspirations. Boganism is a relic of British class based society that survived into recent times. When I refer to 'australians', I'm not talking about asians.  Funnily enough, I'm talking about australians.  An Australian is anyone with Australian Citizenship. That's anyone who has spent more than a couple of years here. A piece of paper doesn't change the cultural divergence of millenia over night. Boganism was something the Australian mainstream embraced only once it had become gentrified. Before the 90's boganism was frowned upon by the mainstream, then commercial interests got involved and we got 'aussie aussie aussie, oi oi oi' slogans and quaint references to a mistaken lost golden age of simple values. Technically yes, but you know as well as I do that when you hear the word "australian" the image that springs to mind is closer to this: http://resources3.news.com.au/images/2010/11/13/1225953/032187-chris-franklin.jpg than this: https://d15mj6e6qmt1na.cloudfront.net/files/images/0516/2593/Rice_paddy_worker.JPG Pretending otherwise doesn't make you seem "educated" or "enlightened", it just makes you seem dishonest and/or stupid.

To correctly troll, one has to be somewhat rational. ::)

http://resources3.news.com.au/images/2009/10/31/1225793/134811-bogan.jpg