Sunday, January 30, 2011

update: bogans, take two

This just in!  I asked a couple Australian friends for their definition of "bogan" (seeing as it varies so widely) and a minute later I had to whip out my little red book because there was just no way I was going to remember everything.  Here goes*:

--Westies (i.e., people from the West)
--like football
--like beer
--like smoking
--know nothing about the theatre or classical music
--drive big cars that are "hotted up" (i.e., come with extras such as subwoofers and spoilers)
--Commodores and Falcons are particularly prevalent
--lots of swearing
--have mongrel dogs
--laboring (trade, not politics)
--have no politics (apathetic)
--avoid paying tax
--in it (life) for themselves
--are good to their mates
--are better to their mates than their girlfriends
--bogan girls often dress their pets
--more talk, less action
--have nicknames along the lines of Shazzer or Donny
--name their babies things along the lines of Jayden, Heaven-Lee, A-A (pronounced "a-dash-a") or Abcde
--wear jeans with long sleeve flannelettes or wife beaters
--may shop at Supre
--often have a few choice tattoos (not generally covered in, but often sporting one to three)
--girls tend to get tattoos on their lower backs
--similar to the stereotypes on Kath and Kim
--similar to an American redneck or "trailer trash" stereotype
--tend to be from the city.  The stereotype is just more expected in the country, but if you're from the city and you act like you're from the country, then you get labeled as a bogan.

*Obviously, take these as broad generalizations.  Not all necessarily apply, nor indicate "boganness."  I may have gotten things completely wrong.  If I did, please don't panic.  Just send a nice little comment correcting me, okay?  Cool.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

so far so good. check out: http://thingsboganslike.com/ -Romy