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Reply #30 - Dec 8th, 2013 at 11:39pm
 
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?


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.
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Reply #31 - Dec 9th, 2013 at 5:10am
 
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.
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Reply #32 - Dec 9th, 2013 at 7:47am
 
Hey Francis, its not just the lost tooth.

You have to keep that space open and show it with pride.
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Reply #33 - Dec 9th, 2013 at 8:10am
 
What is a Bogan?


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Reply #34 - Dec 9th, 2013 at 2:41pm
 
miketrees wrote on Dec 9th, 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.....
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Reply #35 - Dec 9th, 2013 at 2:53pm
 
Big Dave wrote on Dec 8th, 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.
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Reply #36 - Dec 9th, 2013 at 2:57pm
 
greggerypeccary wrote on Dec 8th, 2013 at 2:08pm:



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 Wink Wink
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Reply #37 - Dec 9th, 2013 at 2:59pm
 
Datalife wrote on Dec 8th, 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. 



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Reply #38 - Dec 9th, 2013 at 3:00pm
 
Dnarever wrote on Dec 9th, 2013 at 8:10am:



he's a rhodes scholar Wink Wink for gawds sake

he's a bit of a try hard macho man.  he needs putin to come out here and mentor him.
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Reply #39 - Dec 9th, 2013 at 3:43pm
 
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.



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.

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Reply #40 - 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. Grin Grin
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Reply #42 - Dec 9th, 2013 at 7:06pm
 
FriYAY wrote on Dec 9th, 2013 at 3:46pm:




Where is your southern cross tattoo, Rosco?


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Re: What is a Bogan?
Reply #43 - Dec 9th, 2013 at 7:16pm
 


Twas bryllyg, and ye slythy toves
Did gyre and gymble in ye wabe:
All mimsy were ye borogoves;
And ye mome raths outgrabe.
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Reply #44 - 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.
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