Australian Politics Forum - What is a Bogan?

Billy Jack Gold Member Offline The Duke of Brisbane Town Posts: 869 Brisbane Town. Gender:	What is a Bogan? Dec 8^th, 2013 at 11:18am 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.
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Re: What is a Bogan?
Reply #1 - Dec 8^th, 2013 at 11:55am

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

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Big Dave Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 2164 Gender:	Re: What is a Bogan? Reply #2 - Dec 8^th, 2013 at 12:48pm 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.
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Ex Dame Pansi Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 24168	Re: What is a Bogan? Reply #3 - Dec 8^th, 2013 at 12:49pm The people who vote for the right, they are uneducated, backward thinking, religious, racist and bigoted.
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Re: What is a Bogan?
Reply #4 - Dec 8^th, 2013 at 12:55pm

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.

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miketrees Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 6490 Gender:	Re: What is a Bogan? Reply #5 - 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
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Re: What is a Bogan?
Reply #6 - Dec 8^th, 2013 at 1:15pm

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.

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John Smith Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 74520 Gender:	Re: What is a Bogan? Reply #7 - Dec 8^th, 2013 at 1:22pm looks like Dave scored over 14 ....
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Big Dave Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 2164 Gender:	Re: What is a Bogan? Reply #8 - Dec 8^th, 2013 at 1:30pm John Smith wrote on Dec 8^th, 2013 at 1:22pm: looks like Dave scored over 14 .... Do you let your hair grow over your big forehead John?
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John Smith Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 74520 Gender:	Re: What is a Bogan? Reply #9 - Dec 8^th, 2013 at 1:31pm Big Dave wrote on Dec 8^th, 2013 at 1:30pm: John Smith wrote on Dec 8^th, 2013 at 1:22pm: looks like Dave scored over 14 .... Do you let your hair grow over your big forehead John? no chance of that ...
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Big Dave Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 2164 Gender:	Re: What is a Bogan? Reply #10 - Dec 8^th, 2013 at 1:32pm John Smith wrote on Dec 8^th, 2013 at 1:31pm: Big Dave wrote on Dec 8^th, 2013 at 1:30pm: John Smith wrote on Dec 8^th, 2013 at 1:22pm: looks like Dave scored over 14 .... Do you let your hair grow over your big forehead John? no chance of that ... My mullet covers mine.
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Re: What is a Bogan?
Reply #11 - Dec 8^th, 2013 at 1:56pm

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.

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greggerypeccary Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 137490 Gender:	Re: What is a Bogan? Reply #12 - Dec 8^th, 2013 at 2:08pm
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Re: What is a Bogan?
Reply #13 - Dec 8^th, 2013 at 2:34pm

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. Cool

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. Cheesy

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Big Dave Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 2164 Gender:	Re: What is a Bogan? Reply #14 - Dec 8^th, 2013 at 2:39pm 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.
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