Help the Silly American....

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ok so this is a thread where I'm going to ask stupid questions, feel free to beat me up a little when there really stupid :-)

ok first one...

what the heck is a bogan?

Thanks guys :-)

[Lucan 196]

Basically the equivalent of a red neck.

[Guest Simon*]

LOL!

That's actually a really good question, don't worry! Will look for a link shortly - sorry still laughing

But slightly more "white trash" than "redneck" I reckon Lucan

http://www.kiwianarama.co.nz/bogans/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bogan

http://www.bogan.com.au/

http://www.bogan.co.nz/

Edited October 19, 2010 by Simon*

[Lucan 196]

White trash, Red neck....Are they different?

P.S. "The Great Unwashed"

[westy 614]

Not at all true! Bogans dress in black, listen to Metallica/ACDC and drink Lion Red/DB or premixed bourbon.

Wait, what?

[pjay 8]

A bogan setreotypically in my opinion:

* Listens to 80's rock and metal.

* Has a beard, or long hair, or a shaved head or a mullet.

* Wears black jeans and faded black t-shirts.

* Drives a matt black VL commowhore or similar.

* Drinks crate bottles (quarts) or Double brown or similar.

* Lives in West Auckland.

* Plays guitar or attempts to.

* Is named Dazza, Bazza, Gazza, Shazza or Jimi.

[Gaz 1042]

Wear black jeans with holes and a black singlet?

Listen to classic hard rock?

Drink nothing but bourbon?

Answer yes to all three? Then welcome aboard.

[pjay 8]

Gaz = Gazza? Hmmmm...

[Gaz 1042]

I'm a try hard bogan. Hence why I am missing the ZA

[Tristan 338]

Pjay the commodore needs a hole punched in the muffler.

[bravo 34]

A bogan setreotypically in my opinion:

* Listens to 80's rock and metal.

* Has a beard, or long hair, or a shaved head or a mullet.

* Wears black jeans and faded black t-shirts.

* Drives a matt black VL commowhore or similar.

* Drinks crate bottles (quarts) or Double brown or similar.

* Lives in West Auckland.

* Plays guitar or attempts to.

* Is named Dazza, Bazza, Gazza, Shazza or Jimi.

They don't need to live in west AK. But if they do, they are probably the related species known as Westies.

Wait, what?

[westy 614]

To be fair, we were part of a subset sometimes referred to as Northshore Westys.

Drank the same piss, listened to the same music but wore stone wash jeans and white shirts.

An altogether better class of bogan.

[Lucan 196]

A bogan setreotypically in my opinion:

* Listens to 80's rock and metal.

* Has a beard, or long hair, or a shaved head or a mullet.

* Wears black jeans and faded black t-shirts.

* Drives a matt black VL commowhore or similar.

* Drinks crate bottles (quarts) or Double brown or similar.

* Lives in West Auckland. (Mt Albert as of last week)

* Plays guitar or attempts to.

* Is named Dazza, Bazza, Gazza, Shazza or Jimi.

I'm nearly a bogan!

[elmarco 56]

Haha - Wikipedia says the German version of a Bogan is "Lumpenproletariat".

[f.g. 0]

LOL!!! thats all really funny!!

thanks simon for the links

I lol'ed at the great unwashed and when I saw Gaz's .gif the guy moon walking made me laugh for a solid 30 seconds :-)

Blackie where I come from there is definatly a diffrance from white trash and redneck...

however this whole westie thing... is that area of auckland kinda rough or are you guys just beating up on some of the members from there?

good thing I'm not a bogan, I fall (as I have been told) "more towards the preppy with out the douche bag..." to which I replied " ... uhhh thanks?"

I have more questions but it always seems like whenever I sit down to ask them I can't think of any...

Hope everyone in christchurch is holding up still after this last round... Kinda weird to think I'll be there in a year almost exactly....

thanks again!

[antil33t 90]

[Guest Simon*]

^That's amusing

[hybrid 1039]

however this whole westie thing... is that area of auckland kinda rough or are you guys just beating up on some of the members from there?

We are just beating up on some members from here...

haha .. nah, West auckland isn't acutally that rough ... its a lot like your standard lower to middle class suburbs.

I'm marrying into westism and the missus's family are all westies.

Watch outrageous fortune (on torrent) for a good tv version of it all

[westy 614]

I'm nearly a bogan!

Hence where the term white-trash falls over aaahaha.

Also

Bugger me I had to laugh at this from the Kiwianarama site.

Contrary to popular belief, JD’s nightclub, downtown Auckland, the holy grail of bogan drinking in the 1980s and 90s, did not close after one of it’s patrons died from excessive head-banging. When the price of a can of Lion Red hit $5, bogans just went back to the suburbs in disgust.

Edited October 20, 2010 by westy

[f.g. 0]

ok I've got some more :-)

I was just perusing one of simons links and ran across this article which is funny as hell,

http://www.kiwianarama.co.nz/winter-what-winter/

and there were some curious clothing references...

1: Sawardi?

2: Stubby shorts (really short shorts I'm guessing, nothing to do with small apendages I hope)

3: jandles (sandeles I'm guessing and why with a J)

4: is being barefoot really a big thing?

I know i could look all this up, but it's so impersonal, and besides it will give you all a good laugh at me and I get to have a variety of different explanations :-)

Cheers :-)

[Lucan 196]

Hence where the term white-trash falls over aaahaha.

ok I've got some more :-)

I was just perusing one of simons links and ran across this article which is funny as hell,

http://www.kiwianarama.co.nz/winter-what-winter/

and there were some curious clothing references...

1: Sawardi?

2: Stubby shorts (really short shorts I'm guessing, nothing to do with small apendages I hope)

3: jandles (sandeles I'm guessing and why with a J)

4: is being barefoot really a big thing?

I know i could look all this up, but it's so impersonal, and besides it will give you all a good laugh at me and I get to have a variety of different explanations :-)

Cheers :-)

1. Swandri - Jacket that keeps you dry and/or warm, mostly checkered design

2. Stubbies - beer cans / short shorts

3. Jandals - you might call them thongs? Sandles have straps that hold your foot to the sole. Jandals do not.

4. Yes

Edited October 20, 2010 by Blackie

[Phatputer 3]

NZders + stubbies (both kinds) + both jandles and barefoot are typical NZ summer

[westy 614]

Stubbies and jandels.

I think Stubbies was brand name.

[pjay 8]

Here's some from Google Images:

Bogan roundabout:

Edited October 20, 2010 by Pjay

[bellicose 9]

The Bogan roundabout actually made me laugh out loud.