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  • robusto
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    Rocky, like you I have been mulling over the same thing. In my original post I may have confused bogan with feral. Though they may share some traits, a bogan may be tolerable, but a feral cannot be.

    So, if I have insulted bogans by attributing to them feral attributes, I apologise.

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  • Rocky
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    When I re-read my comment I thought it sounded a bit "virtue signalling" and I like that a lot less than I like Bogans.
    I agree with OCD that there are two types and the ones he refers to are the "Feral Bogans" and you really don't want to be anywhere around them.

    One of my 'favourites' is the Wheelie Bin - chocked so full the lid doesn't come within a foot of a close, and the excess spilled on the footpath and the road.
    You walk past the next morning and the bin is gone but all the 5h1t is still on the footpath and the road. It will be there until it blows away.
    It must be a type of selective blindness.

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  • Barry O'Speedwagon
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    Originally posted by OCD View Post
    The epithet "bogan" is perhaps a little broad and misleading. Apologies.
    I was referring to the, in your face, antisocial element that usually, but not always, avail themselves of public housing and handouts. Any right you may think you have to private property, quality of life or safety means nothing to them.
    The loud music, fighting, barking, revving, at all hours. The intimidation, drug dealing, feral kids, you name it, it's all their God given right and the neighbours and cops be damned.

    Ps I'll take your "snobby professionals" over that, anytime.

    Ps 2 Rocky, I'm envious of you. You obviously haven't had the pleasure.

    I think 'bogan' is far more a state of mind than an address or a dress code. I spend half my weekends in tracky dacks and ugg boots.

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  • Yelta
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    Originally posted by Jackster View Post
    Mullet was preferred.
    Believe it or not, the "mullet" is coming back into fashion in Oz.

    If you've been around long enough things start to repeat.

    "Caleb Overdijk, 19, explained the mullet brought people together and transcended class or social standing." Do ya reckon?"

    https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-05-29/hairdressers-say-mullet-is-making-a-comeback/11123132


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  • OCD
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    Originally posted by Rocky View Post
    I'm not a big fan of Bogans but the facts of life are that no matter how much your pay for your house you can end up with one next door.
    In the final analysis however, my experience is that when you need a helping hand, a Bogan is the one that is most likely to provide it, rather than your snobby professional next door.
    Your snobby professional likely has a Bogan wife or parents and wants to distance themselves from them.
    By the time you get to my age you have seen it all and tend to accept people for who they are (their actions) rather than the superficial 5h1t that so many manifest.
    The epithet "bogan" is perhaps a little broad and misleading. Apologies.
    I was referring to the, in your face, antisocial element that usually, but not always, avail themselves of public housing and handouts. Any right you may think you have to private property, quality of life or safety means nothing to them.
    The loud music, fighting, barking, revving, at all hours. The intimidation, drug dealing, feral kids, you name it, it's all their God given right and the neighbours and cops be damned.

    Ps I'll take your "snobby professionals" over that, anytime.

    Ps 2 Rocky, I'm envious of you. You obviously haven't had the pleasure.

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  • Jackster
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    Who is Shazza? .....oh Shaggs!

    It was different here in WA. Bogan was never a derogatory term, the way it was in sydney. It was a black Levi 501, desert boot 'ripper sole', 80s glam metal fan. Mullet was preferred.
    The title has broadened over last 20yrs, and become more of a insult.

    Excuse me while I chuck on a bit of old Ozzy

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  • Rocky
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    I'm not a big fan of Bogans but the facts of life are that no matter how much your pay for your house you can end up with one next door.
    In the final analysis however, my experience is that when you need a helping hand, a Bogan is the one that is most likely to provide it, rather than your snobby professional next door.
    Your snobby professional likely has a Bogan wife or parents and wants to distance themselves from them.
    By the time you get to my age you have seen it all and tend to accept people for who they are (their actions) rather than the superficial 5h1t that so many manifest.

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  • OCD
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    Originally posted by Barry O'Speedwagon View Post
    You recycle your coffee snobs bags by filling them with marbles and goin' out huntin'
    Fair enough. They seem to think everyone else is fair game. Including their own, judging by their constant bickering.

    Ps first hand experience unfortunately. When I purchased my house I naively checked things like stumps, termites and other relative trivialities, when I should have been checking out who the hell my neighbours were going to be.

    Ps 2 does make life interesting though - but not in a good way.

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  • OCD
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    They're so desirable, as neighbours, that the Department of Human Services won't disclose where they live. I can only suppose it's to prevent property speculators from unfairly profiteering on the sudden rise in property values. But, being the good citizens that they are, they do leave clues for those in the know.

    Ps the people who make the rules miss out (on having such desirable neighbours) because they typically live in the more affluent suburbs. Almost as if they planned it that way.

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  • Barry O'Speedwagon
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    You recycle your coffee snobs bags by filling them with marbles and goin' out huntin'

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  • joph
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    Forgot the classic, says "expresso"

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  • robusto
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    Just for you...
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  • OCD
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    Invidious discrimination. They're no different than anyone else from Papua New Guinea. For shame.

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  • Sullo
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    you forgot Shazza

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  • robusto
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    Boganism is being legitimised? Hell. Next they'll be standing for parliament. Oh...wait..too late!

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