Things Bogans Like: Tribal Tatts To Reality Tv - How To Recognise The 21st-Century Bogan

Things Bogans Like: Tribal Tatts To Reality Tv - How To Recognise The 21st-Century Bogan

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The word bogan has a bad rap; first impressions are still associated with flannelette, VB, utes and mullets. But this would be wrong. The bogan has advanced and needs new explanation, evolution has cursed (or blessed, depending on your thinking) us with a modern version. The bogan with money. The bogan with aspirations. The bogan with Ed Hardy t-shirts. The new bogan will not rest until it owns a plasma TV so large that Rove McManus becomes six feet tall for the first time.Today s bogan defies income, class, race, creed, gender, religion and logic. Now the bogan is defined by what it does, what it says and, most importantly, what it buys. Those who choose to deny the bogan on the basis of their North Shore home, their stockbroking career or their massive trust fund choose not to see the real bogan. Many bogans are affluent and perhaps are working in that same stockbroking firm and sharing a Corona with you over Friday night drinks. They set themselves apart by their efforts to stand out by conforming as furiously, and conspicuously, as possible.The authors, six self-confessed snobs, have drawn on their friends, family, neighbours, workmates and that guy who always jumps the queue at the bar, to show the evolution of the much-loved Australian bogan, their modern desires, and how we can either join them or mock them.This will be a groundbreaking sociological publication and, far more importantly, the perfect Christmas gift for anyone who has ever bought a Buddhist-themed water feature, Ed Hardy t-shirt or watch

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• Things Bogans Like

  Reviewed by rr216 | see all reviews by rr216

  27/09/2010

  This is an extremely funny book. I managed to get a pre-release copy and being unfamiliar with the blog, was initially sceptical after looking at the gaudy cover, but the scathing and witty commentary on a part of Australian society that usually gets ignored by comedians is a very fun read. The authors have pseudonyms as a wide range of famous Australian and international figures are successfully lampooned throughout the book.
  
  Its well written and refreshingly unflinching in its cynical and satirical analysis of all things part of the evolving term bogan. While the book gives you the guilty pleasure of categorising and laughing at other peoples bogan traits, the fun also comes from recognising your own behaviour and the period of internal self denial that follows.
  
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  27/09/2010

  This is an extremely funny book. I managed to get a pre-release copy and being unfamiliar with the blog, was initially sceptical after looking at the gaudy cover, but the scathing and witty commentary on a part of Australian society that usually gets ignored by comedians is a very fun read. The authors have pseudonyms as a wide range of famous Australian and international figures are successfully lampooned throughout the book.
  
  Its well written and refreshingly unflinching in its cynical and satirical analysis of all things part of the evolving term bogan. While the book gives you the guilty pleasure of categorising and laughing at other peoples bogan traits, the fun also comes from recognising your own behaviour and the period of internal self denial that follows.
  
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