Excellent: sustainable urban village in Hong Kong, Shanghai etc
Mock-Worthy: sustainable urban village in Melbourne "growth corridors"
Excellent: flat/unit in city
Acceptable: flat/unit in Docklands
Mock-Worthy: flat/unit in suburbs
Excellent: renovated cottage in inner west
Mock-Worthy: renovated house in outer east
Acceptable: renovating
Mock-Worthy: building
What Smug People Like
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.
Thursday, January 19, 2012
Tuesday, November 9, 2010
Acceptable / Mock-worthy
Acceptable: DVD
Mock-worthy: Blu-Ray
Acceptable: Vanity Fair
Mock-worthy: Hello
Acceptable: The View
Mock-worthy: Oprah
Acceptable: Arena, GQ
Mock-worthy: Zoo Weekly
Acceptable: Vanity Fair
Mock-worthy: Hello
Acceptable: The Vampire Diaries
Mock-worthy: Twilight
Acceptable: Chadstone, Southland, Victoria Gardens
Mock-worthy: Forest Hill Chase, Highpoint, The Glen
Acceptable: IKEA, Freedom Furniture
Mock-worthy: Dare Gallery, Adriatic Furniture
Acceptable: Vietnam
Mock-worthy: Thailand
Acceptable: Pellegrini's
Mock-worthy: Starbucks. (OK to duck into Gloria Jeans on occasion if nothing else is around).
Acceptable: Fish and chips at Queenscliffe, Portsea or Williamstown
Mock-worthy: Fish and chips from the local take-away
Acceptable: Spring Racing Carnival / Formula One GP from a marquee / corporate box
Mock-worthy: Spring Racing Carnival / Formula One GP from the public area
Acceptable: Eating like the locals when visiting a foreign city
Mock-worthy: Eating like the locals in your own city
Acceptable: Rabbits
Mock-worthy: Ferrets
Acceptable: Bollwood blockbusters
Mock-worthy: Hollywood blockbusters
Acceptable: Decking, sunrooms
Mock-worthy: Tiles, al-fresco areas
Acceptable: growing herbs
Mock-worthy: growing flowers
Acceptable: Bike to work
Mock-worthy: Drive to work
Acceptable: Daycare
Mock-worthy: Family Daycare (you'd probably get a bogan family)
Acceptable: Dying hair darker
Mock-worthy: Dying hair lighter
Acceptable: "Bronzer"
Mock-worthy: Fake tan
Acceptable: Betting on horses, sports events and elections
Mock-worthy: Betting on poker machines and lottery tickets
Acceptable: Local bakery
Mock-worthy: Bakers Delight, Krispy Kreme
Mock-worthy: Blu-Ray
Acceptable: Vanity Fair
Mock-worthy: Hello
Acceptable: The View
Mock-worthy: Oprah
Acceptable: Arena, GQ
Mock-worthy: Zoo Weekly
Acceptable: Vanity Fair
Mock-worthy: Hello
Acceptable: The Vampire Diaries
Mock-worthy: Twilight
Acceptable: Chadstone, Southland, Victoria Gardens
Mock-worthy: Forest Hill Chase, Highpoint, The Glen
Acceptable: IKEA, Freedom Furniture
Mock-worthy: Dare Gallery, Adriatic Furniture
Acceptable: Vietnam
Mock-worthy: Thailand
Acceptable: Pellegrini's
Mock-worthy: Starbucks. (OK to duck into Gloria Jeans on occasion if nothing else is around).
Acceptable: Fish and chips at Queenscliffe, Portsea or Williamstown
Mock-worthy: Fish and chips from the local take-away
Acceptable: Spring Racing Carnival / Formula One GP from a marquee / corporate box
Mock-worthy: Spring Racing Carnival / Formula One GP from the public area
Acceptable: Eating like the locals when visiting a foreign city
Mock-worthy: Eating like the locals in your own city
Acceptable: Rabbits
Mock-worthy: Ferrets
Acceptable: Bollwood blockbusters
Mock-worthy: Hollywood blockbusters
Acceptable: Decking, sunrooms
Mock-worthy: Tiles, al-fresco areas
Acceptable: growing herbs
Mock-worthy: growing flowers
Acceptable: Bike to work
Mock-worthy: Drive to work
Acceptable: Daycare
Mock-worthy: Family Daycare (you'd probably get a bogan family)
Acceptable: Dying hair darker
Mock-worthy: Dying hair lighter
Acceptable: "Bronzer"
Mock-worthy: Fake tan
Acceptable: Betting on horses, sports events and elections
Mock-worthy: Betting on poker machines and lottery tickets
Acceptable: Local bakery
Mock-worthy: Bakers Delight, Krispy Kreme
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.
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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