An excellent question. It is time to bring to the world’s attention the means by which we can keep the world’s bogans happy. The word bogan has had a bad rap of late – still associated with wife beaters, flannelette, VB, utes and mullets. But this conceals the new, modern bogan. The bogan with money. The bogan with aspirations. The bogan with Ed Hardy t-shirts. And this is no mere Australian phenomenon – in the US, you have rednecks, in the UK, chavs. While there are variations, the crux of the discussion remains the same.
The bogan today defies income, class, race, creed, gender and logic. The bogan is defined by what it does, what it says and, most importantly, what it buys. Those who choose to deny the bogan on the basis of their North Shore home, their stockbroking career or their massive trust fund choose not to see the bogan. They merely see old class battles revisited. Likewise, the bogan is no mere ‘tradie’. Even if tradies remained low-income workers, many bogans are affluent. And they set themselves apart by their efforts to stand out by conforming as furiously, and conspicuously, as possible.
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We who are responsible for this are not self-aware bogans. We are not like Woody Allen making Jewish jokes. We are snobs. Hipsters. We mock these people out of sheer spite and an infuriating sense of self-superiority. We are very young, very white, and total arseholes. And that’s how we like it.
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We who are responsible for this are self-aware bogans. We are like Woody Allen making Jewish jokes. We are not snobs. Not hipsters. We not mock these people out of sheer not spite and a not infuriating sense of not self-superiority. We are not very young, not very white, and not total arseholes. And that’s how we not like it.
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Who are persons in charge of this they are not bogans in deed. We are not as Woody Allen that returns juives jokes. We are snobs. Inconformistas. We outside imitate in them worlds from the bitterness escarpé and d’? a meaning of fury self-superiority. Very new sums, same I supplement globally void, and arseholes. AND celui-là it is how we have his flavour.
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Stop being so judgmental about brogans guys ! I am one that’s why
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I live in a dumb-down country town where bogans proliferate. Such a shame when this land was trying to be the so called “clever country” once upon a time. The moronic mentality derived from convict spawn has taken root and now all that matters is football, booze and gambling. I have given up. Now the only thing to look forward to is a total collapse of this false economy which supports the bogan ethic. Maybe then we will come to realize we have nothing more to offer the planet than huge holes in the ground that makes ugly, fat, billionaires even richer. It’s time we woke up.
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A woman I know was shopping at Westfield Tuggerah today when she spotted a bogan bride & entourage queued up to sit on Santa’s knee for a photo. Ignoring the bride-and-bridesmaids-sitting-on-Santa’s-knee-for-a-photo angle for a brief moment, WTF was a bridal party doing wandering through a shopping centre??
Not Sure about what you observed but it sure sounded strange.For Starters only parents with children under the age of 10 are allowed to sit on Santa’s Knee for a picture and to ask what they want for Christmas.After that It’s just wrong.
The problem with bogans is their great ability to breed. We need to discourage them from drinking beer and spirits mixed with coca-cola which apparently some non-existent deity provided the bogan to be able to have sex.
Pretentious website. Bogans are actually nice people . Sure they may not like ballet and subtitled films. Instead they like drinking cheap domestic beer and watching motor sports , but what is wrong with that? Bogans are not racist rednecks any more than highly educated twats who live in lush suburbs who vote liberal where they will tip rubbish over the front garden if an actual refo moved into their suburbs. People who hate on bogans are fuckwits who engage in class . Such snobs generally have very little cultural cache other than knowing which commercial brands impress their trend following mates.
I think you got traditional bogans mixed with the new age bogans.
Love your reply!
The media, the news, talk show hosts, adverts and the radio are partly to blame for creating these bogans and find it acceptable. My filipino friend was converted into a bogan when he posted instagram photos of himself on facebook showing off his muscles with other men hugging each other and himself in the mirror, alcohol, slutty girls, shows off ute, diamond earing etc just a huge ego boost. Please people don’t let this happen to you.
I really tried to get to him but his uncultural moron and needs to be put down
I’m a yankee Bogan. I’m so bogan my last name is Bogan.
TBL #754 Towing. If you can tow it behind the bright green VE SS ute or Hi-Lux work ute, the bogan loves it; caravan, fishing boat, ski boat, jetski, work trailer, horse float, motorbike trailer…
Whatever did happen to the Shire?Be thankful we still have Geordie Shore Alright that’s British but pretty similar concept though
Hi TBL,
I think Boganism is a spectrum, not a syndrome. See here .
Also in regard to #241 Cruise Ships, Bogans like them because they can’t get caught by the RBT coming home hence they can sink bulk slabs of VB unhindered 24×7 for the entire journey and (this is living) you can spew over the side whenever necessary and keep partying hard.
Best Regards,
Barra
Put something up about VR commodores haha
I can describe VR Commodores.Those Things are heavy on Fuel and Garbage to Drive.I had the misfortune of driving one on loan from a Crash Repairer some years back when my regular four cylinder Nissan was in for some repair work and It was like a Rice Barge by comparison to the Tiida I normally drive at the time.Boy was I pleased to hand it back after those few days and get back to a 1800cc Econobox.
http://sydney-central.whereilive.com.au/photos/gallery/tattoo-festival-penrith/
The normally shy bogan in its natural habitat, very rare footage.
There is simply no hope given this is what we have to work with.
And don’t they say hope dies last? Which reminds me why I won’t go anywhere near Penrith every again … if I can help it.
Wall to wall phuckwits.
The Chinese have become bogans on a biblical scale.
http://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2013/03/60-minutes-does-chinas-property-bubble/
Bogans are part of Australia’s identiy – You can take the Bogan out of Australia but you can’t the Australia out of the Bogan