@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
11 April 2012
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
