I love Stuff White People Like and I can laugh at What Bogans Like. I am not a bogan, but I'm not a snob either. I hate snobbery, reverse snobbery, elitism and anti-intellectualism equally - but actually I think I dislike elitism the most.

Tuesday, November 9, 2010

Things Smug People Like:

Feeling smug about not being a bogan

Spiked 1960's wall clocks

Wooden and tin children's toys

Old celebrity baby names (Ava, Audrey, Elizabeth), not new ones (Angelina, Scarlett, Britney)

Pretending they don't watch Australia's Funniest Home Videos or Wipeout

Expensive things that look old

Judiciously-chosen size for their plasma TV.  Not small, obviously - but not wall-sized either. The biggest size possible before crossing over into bogan-sized.

Bakelite radios

1950's housewife kitchen appliances in cute colours.

Tumbledown, overgrown "natural" gardens.

Meccano - not Lego

The ABC

Mocking the Cashed Up Bogan's neo-Georgian cube McMansion with home theatre, spa bath, rumpus room and ensuites - but kind of envying the comforts.  (Their inner city miner's cottage or art deco bungalow is their dream house - but dammit there is no storage and cleaning the grouting sucks).

Cookbooks of choice: Stephanie Alexander, Neil Perry, Tana Ramsay, Donna Hay, Margaret Fulton (retro!) - not Jamie or Nigella.

Mismatching furniture

Championing local government school - but only if you live near a good one

Coloured-frame oblong eye glasses

Black tunic tops

Layered tee-shirts

Leggings - but only if they are black and don't have stirrups at the bottom

Crochet - let's face it, easier than knitting

Home made cakes

Picnics which don't involve take-away food

Mocking suburbia

The Botanical Gardens

Favourite bookshops: Hill of Content, Readings.  Purely for emergencies: Dymocks, Angus & Robertson

Medium-sixed dogs. Smallest: Spaniel. Largest: Labrador.

Two cats

Political party of choice: was the Labor Party, now the Greens

Winter holidays: Tasmania, spa retreats, wineries. 
Summer holidays: sneak into the Gold Coast or Noosa, on the quiet.

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