What is a bogan..??
What is a bogan..??
......"The term bogan (pronounced /ˈboʊgən/, rhyming with slogan) is Australian and New Zealand English slang, usually pejorative or self-deprecating, for a person who is, or is perceived to be, of a lower-class background. According to the stereotype, the speech and mannerisms of "bogans" indicate, poor education, cheap clothing and uncultured upbringing. 'Bogans' usually reside in economically disadvantaged suburbs (often outer metropolitan) or rural areas"........
I laughed my head off at a post Dazz made a fair while ago about his observations of the people who reside in some QLD mining town he was visiting. That was just a typical rural town anywhere in NSW or QLD and probably anywhere in Australia.
So nearly everyone in my local area is a bogan. I am. I can't stand flash restaurants, much prefer a pub meal. Gotta go 100 k's to a flash restaurant anyway. I wouldn't be seen dead in a flash car. Most cars in my area are white toyota four wheel drives. I ride dirtbikes as do most of my mates, that's got to be a big bogan hobby. While I don't hunt wild pigs, it's a popular hobby around here, and probably half the local males chase pigs with dogs and earn some cash at the same time. Bogans probably like camping. I'd reckon a flash holiday for a bogan would be a few weeks at the Gold coast in a unit and take the kids to a theme park or two? There is sure as hell plenty of rural bogans in the place I stay at anyway. In winter I can go to the local sports club for a meal, in ugs, tracky dacks and flanno, the kids in their pj's, and not get a second glance.
When a bogan has made it big time, he likes to move out of town and onto some acreage. One of my bogan mates has 10 acres, with a footy field complete with goal post for a front lawn, and a motocross track going around the house. A relaxing arvo is watching the kids race around the house, beer in hand.
I'd reckon most rural people are proud to be bogans.
See ya's.
