Southwest_Statistic wrote:...closely followed by the "I've got more money then you do" look...
I don't know if this makes me a red-ragging commie, or maybe just an out-of-touch old fart - but that's the look I really find disturbing.
I watch the lastest hits on Saturday morning TV - and the fact that 80% of the film clips look almost identical - with the bling and the cars and the boats and the fur coats is quite bizarre.
Still, I would like to go this "Compton" place they speak of. It must be a land of wonders where the streets are paved with gold.
Caravan Ray wrote:They also tend to wear there hats backwards
For the USA that was ssssssssssoooooooooo over like... 15 years ago...
Great chronology LOL
I believe we had the exact same thing here, but it was thongs on bogans, not hats on rappers. I believe what we call thongs, you Americans call flip-flops.
Southwest_Statistic wrote:
For the USA that was ssssssssssoooooooooo over like... 15 years ago...
Great chronology LOL
I believe we had the exact same thing here, but it was thongs on bogans, not hats on rappers. I believe what we call thongs, you Americans call flip-flops.
You guy's call flip-flops thongs? Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha...
Anyway...
"Bogan" is a derogatory Australian slang term for somebody who is perceived as being an unfashionable "lower-class" person, typically of British Isles ancestry and living in deprived urban areas. Or, as PiGPEN would say, "Niggers".
sausage boy wrote:I believe what we call thongs, you Americans call flip-flops.
No way, thongs is underwear!
People wear underwear on their feet in Australia...
Awesome.
-bill
Well - we are downunder...
I was once intrigued to hear an American speak of a girlie bar where the waitressess wore "nothing but thongs". I figured the floors must have been dirty and they didn't want to get tinea.
Southwest_Statistic wrote:
For the USA that was ssssssssssoooooooooo over like... 15 years ago...
Great chronology LOL
I believe we had the exact same thing here, but it was thongs on bogans, not hats on rappers. I believe what we call thongs, you Americans call flip-flops.
I thought the footware of choice for a bogan was the ugh-boot?
Caravan Ray wrote:I believe we had the exact same thing here, but it was thongs on bogans, not hats on rappers. I believe what we call thongs, you Americans call flip-flops.
It's quite interesting to me that both the Aussie and American definitions for "Thong" involve something wedged between two places.
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Southwest_Statistic wrote:
"Bogan" is a derogatory Australian slang term for somebody who is perceived as being an unfashionable "lower-class" person, typically of British Isles ancestry and living in deprived urban areas.
I think "bogan" is really only a Victorian or South Australian word.
In Sydney - those people are called "Westies"
Up here in beautiful Queensland - we call those people "Victorians" or "South Australians". Hard to tell - they all look the same to me.
Caravan Ray wrote:
Up here in beautiful Queensland - we call those people "Victorians" or "South Australians". Hard to tell - they all look the same to me.
Caravan Ray wrote:
Up here in beautiful Queensland - we call those people "Victorians" or "South Australians". Hard to tell - they all look the same to me.
We don't talk about those in Queensland at all.
Too busy stuffing bodies into barrels...
...actually - there is 1 very cool thing about S.A.:
Caravan Ray wrote:
Up here in beautiful Queensland - we call those people "Victorians" or "South Australians". Hard to tell - they all look the same to me.
We don't talk about those in Queensland at all.
I can't remember the last time I talked about Australia. That can't be good, you guys are too quiet down there on your island. You must be up to something...
Caravan Ray wrote:
look closely at this Google map and you will see "Marree Man" - a big picture that was drawn into the SA desert by some blokes with a tractor
Ah yes, the good ol Marree Man. Really, they still don't know who made him. Popular theories are
- man with tractor and a good sense of direction
- US troops having a muck around
- aliens
Unpopular theories are
- giant spray can wielding youths
- fuel prices
- John Howard
- aliens
