RIP thread

[alfie]

That sounds like it doesn't imply prejudice. So if you called someone a bogan they wouldn't feel insulted...

Thanks for the reply (and Sussex).

Don't know about that ! Think it would be rare for someone to call another a bogan to his face (except maybe a friend as a joke) without it being intended - and taken - as an insult. Used more as a mildly disparaging term for , as GJ said , those considered "uncultured". Or socially inferior perhaps ? Not exactly vicious but still a bit of a put down.

But I suspect its exact meaning probably varies a little with the opinions of those who use the term.

[Arthur Crabtree]

Thanks Alfie. You say 'his', so now I'm wondering if the word is not used for women...

[GarlicJam]

Good question, Arthur.

There is absolutely no doubt that there are PLENTY of "bogan chicks". No doubt.

Still, it is more a masculine term than not.

There's a thesis in there, somewhere.

[Arthur Crabtree]

Not the film I'm thinking about which led me to this- so I don't give away any of my top 365!- but say, Muriel in Muriel's Wedding is a bogan, even though a woman.

[GarlicJam]

Sh!t yeah!

Muriel is a great example of a regular bogan. Not extreme though.

It's been a favourite saying in our family since the movie came out: "You're terrible, Muriel".