From the Illawarra Mercury
Albion Park, home of the footballing Cows, has been nominated as one of Australia's top 10 bogan suburbs in an online search for the country's most maligned postcodes.
The dubious honour was bestowed on the 2527 postcode by writers at The Punch, an Australian news commentary website which aims to be "provocative, energetic, thoughtful and, on the right occasions, fun".
Sharing bogan honours with the 'Park on the shortlist are Dandenong and Moe in Victoria, Kambah in the ACT, Redcliffe and Ipswich in Queensland, Wyoming in NSW, Salisbury in South Australia, Chigwell in Tasmania, Rockingham in Western Australia.
Punch writer Brett Martin nominated Albion Park for the honour, describing it as "a dormitory suburb with big blocks".
"Pleasant backdrop of the Great Dividing Range. Good schools. A nice hard pub and top-notch takeaway. Brutal killings. A bikie gang. The rugby league team is called the Outlaws and the dress code is based on stinking hot summers and bitterly cold winds blowing straight off the Snowies in winter. The van Krevel atrocities. Pins in the eyes of paedophile former mayor Frank Arkell. Shopkeeper David O'Hearn decapitated and his blood used to write Satanic messages on the walls. The Fourth Reich bikie gang HQ just up the road. An EPA station constantly monitoring for toxic fallout from the Port Kembla steelworks. Albion Park is bogan heaven on a stick."
For those who hail outside of Albion Park, a bogan is someone who is, or is perceived to be, of a lower class background, according to Wikipedia.
According to the stereotype, the speech and mannerisms of bogans indicate poor education, cheap clothing and uncultured upbringing.
Typical bogan clothing includes flannelette shirts, singlets, Stubbies shorts, tracky dacks and ugg boots, while musical taste revolves around hard rock and heavy metal acts such as AC/DC, Jimmy Barnes and Metallica.
Albion Park's bogan nomination has set tongues wagging on social networking sites, with some eager to embrace their inner bogan-ness and others suggesting other Illawarra suburbs perhaps more deserving of the nomination, including Dapto and Cringila.
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Has to be Kev doesn't it? Bikie, lives at the Burgh, likes his heavy rock, has a mullet
ReplyDeleteGiven I did not fare well in the last Nerd Poll, "i coold bee in a bitt of trubel hear?!?!"
ReplyDeleteVIP seats to the upcoming AC/DC concert, own more than one proper "flanno" (not the !$80 fancy nancy ones, we're talkin' the Safeway or Coles 2 pack for $7.99), live in knee high uggies all winter, all this coupled with drinking beer from a can, smoke holiday 50's, have a tattoo of an anchor with MUM scribed on my arse, the list goes on!!!!!!
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I love my ugboots-so good after a day of skiing-eh Tony eh?
ReplyDeleteMust admit I looked down my considerable snoz at ugg boots when a Newtown resident but I now am totally in love with them and sad when the latest expire. Although they never go out past the video store, which i think might rule me out. And I hate bogan music, in fact i prefer doof doof and all other music except skip hop to acca dacca and the ilk.
ReplyDeletedoof doof ISN'T music!
ReplyDeleteOi..I'll have you know I have an Honours degree..poor education..bah..and I agree with whoever wrote the above. Doof Doof ISN'T music.
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