on 27-12-2013 01:46 PM
DOES your nickname end in 'azza' or 'o'? Was there some Jim Beam under the tree this morning? Does your ideal weekend involve slouching on a couch with an esky of beer in front of the footy?
Do you regularly use the word, 'top' to describe something as good? Well, hate to break it to you, but you're a bona fide Australian Bogan. At least according to this new app, the Bogan Test, designed by Simon Hubbard.
Instructions for use: Download app for 99 cents. Use liberally on friends and family. Post the humiliating results to social media immediately.
The test is a series of 100 questions which cover a whole range of topics. For example, bogan names: Is there a hyphen in your first name? And, are your kids named after precious stones? Lifestyle: Does your house have wheels? And is there a bathtub in your backyard? Or even fashion choices: do you wear tracksuits in public without exercising? And the list goes on…
The bad news, according to Mr Hubbard, is that once you've received your score there is no way of going back. In other words, you can't un-bogan yourself.
"Sorry, but the [inner Bogan] will always come out every now and then. Like a drug addiction, you're never completely cured – you just have to manage and control it! Or, you can just accept and embrace your Bogan traits," he said.
He also said that while most Australians would like to think we're getting less Bogan, our true bogan selves will never be too far away.
But don’t just take his word for it. Give yourself a warm-up run on the test! Answer the first twenty and post your score below. And just for the record, I got 16/100.
1. Are you named after a car, motorbike or fashion label? eg. Mercedes, Harley, Chanel
2. Is there a bathtub, washing machine or couch in your backyard?
3. Have you ever mowed the lawn and found a car?
4. Do you think bin night is every night? (i.e. do you leave the bins out all week?)
5. Have you appeared as a neighbour from hell on A Current Affair?
6. Do you go outside to use the toilet?
7. Do you stand in your front garden and drink beer?
8. Have you spent more money doing up your car than what you paid for it?
9. Do you wear your bathrobe outside?
10. Are thongs your primary footwear?
11. Do you have a Southern Cross tattoo?
12. Have you ever brewed your own beer?
13.Do you smoke like a chimney?
14.Have you ever been arrested without a shirt on?
15.Do you parent in public (loudly)?
16.Were any of your children the result of a conjugal visit?
17.Are you a Collingwood supporter?
18.Have you ever been in a Lowes commercial?
19.Have you ever worn the Australian flag as a cape?
20.Do you like walking through train carriages?
If you answered 'yes' to any one of these questions, then you're a Bogan too, sorry.
I guess I'm a Bogan. ![]()
Iv'e been known to wear my dressing gown outside and have in the past brewed my own beer (for ex-hubby). I've also walked through train carriages.
on 27-12-2013 07:40 PM
I have seen very unbogan women out collecting the mail in their dressing gowns where I live.
on 27-12-2013 07:45 PM
there are different degrees or bogan just like there are varying degrees of snobs
I also think there is a difference between being feral and being a bogan.
I can be bogan without being feral.
on 27-12-2013 07:46 PM
@purple_haize wrote:
@chuk_77 wrote:its automatic, given the area i live in. Until recently i had the typical bogan front yard. I mostly dress comfy...like a bogan. Been told by snobby family I am one
I dont see it as a bad thing.
I think it has alot to do with what suburb you come from in a city or how you were brought up within that suburb, there are some horrible suburbs, but it doesnt mean you have to be a bogan because you come from those parts.
My suburb, I believe, is classed as bogan. But I like it here and I'm not
going anywhere. I will continue to get my morning paper in my dressing gown
on 27-12-2013 07:46 PM
@purple_haize wrote:
@chuk_77 wrote:its automatic, given the area i live in. Until recently i had the typical bogan front yard. I mostly dress comfy...like a bogan. Been told by snobby family I am one
I dont see it as a bad thing.
I think it has alot to do with what suburb you come from in a city or how you were brought up within that suburb, there are some horrible suburbs, but it doesnt mean you have to be a bogan because you come from those parts.
i didnt grow up in this area I willingly moved here 😄
on 27-12-2013 08:05 PM
@chuk_77 wrote:
@purple_haize wrote:
@chuk_77 wrote:its automatic, given the area i live in. Until recently i had the typical bogan front yard. I mostly dress comfy...like a bogan. Been told by snobby family I am one
I dont see it as a bad thing.
I think it has alot to do with what suburb you come from in a city or how you were brought up within that suburb, there are some horrible suburbs, but it doesnt mean you have to be a bogan because you come from those parts.
i didnt grow up in this area I willingly moved here 😄
I brought my kids up in once nice suburb.........now it is really gone bogan, and I hate going there, it is a real dump, so glad we moved.
on 27-12-2013 08:12 PM
Id rather be a bogan over a stuck up snob any day
on 27-12-2013 08:22 PM
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@am*3 wrote:
Females standing on a central city street around 10am, children in strollers, drinking alcohol out of cans.. bogans?
There are 100 questions (the rest you have to pay for an app to get) in that test. Surely, saying yes to a few questions doesn't make you a real bogan?
those questions don't make anyone a bogan imo LOL ...there are all sorts of bogans apparently ....wealthy, poor, educated/uneducated,mentally ill, people with addictions and people who are just plain bad .Chav (in the UK) ,Bogan (Au) ,Trailer Trash (US) ....it's all stupid imo and fits class warfare...'I'm better than you' type attitude .
What we talk about when we talk about bogans
The language of class distinctions tells us a lot about Britain and Australia, writes Frank Bongiorno
In Australia, we have the “bogan”; in Britain, there is the “chav”; the Americans talk of “trailer trash.” All amount to class labelling, although there are differences between them that become fully apparent only on closer examination. Federal Labor MP Kelvin Thomson would have had British journalists scratching their heads and reaching for their dictionaries when, in the context of an attack on the Melbourne Grand Prix’s $50 million cost a couple of weeks ago, he called the daughter of the British Formula One supremo Bernie Ecclestone a “billionaire bogan.” Bogan, reported the London Daily Telegraph, is “an Australian term denoting a person of limited education or class.” Kevin Rudd is reputed to have referred to The Lodge as “Boganville” after Julia Gillard and Tim Mathieson moved in.
That one might apparently be filthy rich and politically powerful and yet still a bogan says much about the extraordinary versatility of a label more commonly applied to less exalted personages than the star of reality TV show Billion $$ Girl or the prime minister of Australia. My enquiry with the Australian National Dictionary Centre yielded the information that its earliest recorded mention of “bogan” occurred in an Australian surfing magazine in 1985. During 1988, on the hit TV series The Comedy Company, the schoolgirl character Kylie Mole (played by Mary-Anne Fahey) would do more than anyone to popularise the term. On the same show, pop singer Brian Mannix appeared as a model in Bogue magazine (a spoof on Vogue), complete with ciggies stored neatly under the short sleeve of his tightly fitting t-shirt. His accessories included a bogan key-ring (a brick) and a bogan pen-set (a can of spray paint). -
See more at: http://inside.org.au/what-we-talk-about-when-we-talk-about-bogans/#sthash.9myphYE4.dpuf
on 27-12-2013 08:35 PM
Bogan' makes it into Oxford dictionary
Updated Tue 19 Jun 2012, 11:54am AEST
The Australian bogan has made it into one of the English language's most hallowed bastions.
The Oxford English Dictionary has added "bogan" to its list of new words being added to the dictionary this month.
The dictionary, which was first published in 1895, says bogan is a "depreciative term for an unfashionable, uncouth, or unsophisticated person, especially of low social status".
Australia's Macquarie Dictionary already defines a bogan as a "person, generally from an outer suburb of a city or town and from a lower socio-economic background, viewed as uncultured."
The Macquarie also offers various state-based alternatives including "bevan" and "bev-chick" (Queensland); "bog" (WA); "booner" or "charnie bum" (ACT); "chigger" (Tasmania); and "scozzer" (Victoria).
Other terms being added to the OED this month include "cybercast"; "paywall"; "quantitative easing" and "carpet-bomb".
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-06-19/bogan-makes-it-into-oxford-dictionary/4078778
bogan has a place in Oxford ![]()
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27-12-2013 08:35 PM - edited 27-12-2013 08:38 PM
Australian bogans are proud to be Australian and bogans.. good on them. They are real. Ferals are a different species I suppose.
The article in the opening post is just a lighthearted story for a newspaper to produce at this time of the year.