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What is a bogan you ask.
A bogan comes in many forms, many flavours.
In the 70s and 80s bogans were easy to spot, tight jeans, chequered shirts, pack o durries under the t-shirt and listening to ac/dc in their hotted up torana.
They were called shane or barry (bazza) or warren (wozza)
Female bogans were called charlene,diedre or sharon (shazza)
Bogans liked to smoke pot, drink jim beam and hang out with other bogans.
The bogan went to Bali for his holiday, got pissed,got bali belly and came home two weeks later burnt to a crisp with a suitcase full of pirate tapes and knock off t-shirts
A bogan in those days generally had simple, conservative ideology,mostly harmless and due to lack of exposure to females, generally shy around non bogan ladies. A bogan would always protect the honour of his womenfolk.
In the smaller country towns, the line between surfers (a traditional enemy of the bogan) and the bogan was sometimes blurred, creating much confusion to the city bogan, who would often be seen at the beach wearing black jeans.
Indeed, it could be said of people from Australia there was a little bit of the bogan in everyone.
These days, with the mining money rolling in and traditional jobs once performed by the bogan paying well into the mid 100k and more, the bogan has shifted up a gear.
He is flush with cash, drives a hotted up ute worth in excess of 60k and has traded his sharehouse and bogan housemates for a large mcmansion set on a small block with a theatre room, inbuilt bar and a much flashier womanfolk. He now listens to Kings of Leon and has a taste for electronic music, something the bogan of old would never do.
The bogan now has more cash,more confidence, but still no real class.
The bogan of old has traded in his bong and moved up to the crack pipe, smoking crystal meth on the weekend and going out and causing havoc in the streets. Go to the Perth entertainment district at 2 am on a Friday or Saturday night and you will see a horde of bogans, dont look twice though or he and his mates will bash ya. Go to the Perth sky works show on Australia day and you will be overwhelmed by the sheer numbers of the bogan, babbling and in a stupor as a result of sitting in the sun for 12 hours drinking non stop. Packs of bogans, all angry, looking for an excuse, any excuse for fighting and scaring the horses.
Every country in the world has their own version of the bogan, but I think Australia has a higher percentage in the general population.
I hope this answers your question
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