Thursday 2 September 2010

It's a slow news week so let's hunt bogans


It is obviously a slow news week at The Daily Examiner in Grafton on the NSW North Coast.
On Page 4 last Monday it ran a story about the dreaded bogan, inserted what looks like a staged photograph and happily added to the stereotyping with a list:

SOMEWHERE, sometime during our lives we have all encountered someone we would say is a "bogan".
Those flannelette shirt-wearing, double-plugger rubber thong-sporting, stubbies shorts/tracky dacks-clad types with their mullet hairdos and trucker caps.
The stereotype of the bogan has been largely shaped by the media's perception of a certain class of Aussies, typically working class or unemployed.....

Bogan check list
You're a bogan if...
You wear the brand "UNIT" all over you
You wear white-framed sunnies
You wear big studs on your belt and your pants around your ankles
You wear ugg boots, short shorts and a big floppy jumper
You wear rip-off Holden racing team shirts
You wear your boxers higher than your pants
You let fireworks off in your backyard just for something to do
You wear more bling than a famous person
You've ever rolled a smoke
You've ever gone fishing with more beer than bait
You only go to the pub in happy hour cause you're too stingy to pay full price
You go to the pub and fill up on bar snacks so you don't have to cook dinner
You've ever driven a Datsun
You've ever taped your sunnies back together
You've ever had a fire in a 44 gallon drum
You go to garage sales
You've ever drunk VB in a can
You have ever driven all the way to Grafton from the Lower Clarence just for Maccas
You've ever worn a bandana under your flat rimmed hat
You own one of the many cars that line up in Prince Street, Grafton of a night to show off your Commodore or Falcon
You go to the speedway and take frozen leftovers for dinner in an esky
You wear a flanny undone with jeans and no shoes
You put your cigarette behind your ear.

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