Im just wondering why Rockingham people get labeled bogans.........
Its a shame rockingham get a bad wrap its beautiful and i make the statment that in all area bogans are people with no sports no life and are depressed gamblers and heavy drinkers... this is not rockingham..
i think we should organize a rebuttle from today tonight highlighting the finer points of rockingham and the beautiful beaches and community it does provide..
This label of Rockingham being full of bogans is slander (as mandurah) is false and some of the people dont appreciate the finer points of the comunity..
Its a joke Rockingham is not bogansville.
sygestive story......... Rockingham is not bogansville.
mabe a representative frow wa windsurfkitesurf can do it.
there could be benafits .. dont forget to mention your phone number and the seabreese site in your interview..........http://au.todaytonight.yahoo.com/contactform/suggest-story
i want someone from the kitesurfing or windsurfing rockingham community to show Australia the real rockingham... they will listen..show Australia how its done
... put us on the map.
You can have all the tats, all the flash hot cars with boom boxes and lurid graphics, all the bimbo g/fs called Cheryl, all the olfactory subtlety of a bogan drenched in Lynx but everyone knows all true bogans live in Bougainville. Rockinghammers are just pretentious pseuds.
Nobody said all Rockies crew are bogans, there just is a lot of them down there.
Think that a definition of bogan is required. Having lived in the area for 30 odd years, distinctly remember that to be a bogan in Rocko required all of the following:-
1. Dessert Boots (black)
2. Straight leg jeans (blue or black)
3. Black rock band tshirt (metallica, acdc, sepultura and most prized was iron maiden)
4. Flanno (any colour - COMPULSARY)
5. Packet of Winnie Blues up the sleeve.
6. Preferred transport was either ford or holden ( V8 Compulsary unless you had an XU1)
The look was always accompanied by a cloud of Brut 33.
Back in the heady days of the mid 80's, 50% of Rockingham would fall into the above stereotype - but today that is simply not the case as a bogan (based on the above) is an almost extinct being in the area.
Not standing on thier side but generally remember the following about the bogan:-
1. Usually held down a 9-5 job in the manual labour sector with most being or aspiring to be tradesman (motor mechanic). Beer, ciggies, petrol and cars were not achievable on the rocknroll.
2. May have carried a knife, but would never pull it in a fight.
3. Looked a lot meaner than they really were, just got targetted for being mischievious.
Please be careful not to mix up bogan with low socio-economic f***stick, which I have to say are prominant in all of the metro region and seem to gather in the newer first home buyer-overnight suburbs.
As busterwa points out, Rockingham is a great place and having been around the world I wouldnt live anywhere else. However I wont be supporting his cause as I think if people bypass it on the freeway, because of the reputation that a highly respected media outlet such as "today tonight" promotes, then less people to f**k with my days.
So you've been all round the world and wouldn't live anywhere else than Rockingham?
Sorry, but in my book you've just been labeled "BOGAN"
It's in writing now and there's nothing you can do or say.
I think I might be a bogan!
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Woy Woy is a similar sort of place in NSW, minus the industry. Both are seaside places full of bogans. I think the locals act like that to keep real estate prices and the rents down to levels they can afford if they are on the dole.
Having grown up in Rockingham , it took 10 years of not living there for the stigma to wear off. Back in the seventies we didnt qualify as boguns, as rockingham was "little england" then
the question is , is bogunville a step up from that
So you've been all round the world and wouldn't live anywhere else than Rockingham?
Sorry, but in my book you've just been labeled "BOGAN"
It's in writing now and there's nothing you can do or say.
Hoop, there is something I can do. I can embrace my boganistic past and have a call of arms. "You aint from around here are ya boy?" - "STOMP"
As to your implication that there is a better place to reside....name them!!
To side with buster, for today tonight (or whoever it was) to pick out a few girls who quite honestly have no ambition in life and are outright bogans and who just happen to live in rockingham at the same time, and then throw their blanket over Rockingham as the majority demographic is definitely slander. It begs the question of the possible impact to tourism this type of disgraceful and irresponsible (as usual) journalism might have on business.
I reckon let all the metro f**ktards think what they like about Rockingham. If it means they take their pretentious lubed asses else where all the better.
i did see bogans when in rockingham on saturday afternoon went to iga on the way home they were up
stairs in the pub balcony with the black jack daniels wife beater shirts on harrasing the women walking past they were shouting out at the top of there lungs "show us your Tits."
I thought to myself what a bunch of alco loosers they were like a sub species of the human race one would wonder if they were to get a life and start windsurfing would such an un-coordinated breed have the co-ordination to balance...
I was wondering the difference between a bogan and a redneck.
I think the term bogan is used far too loosely.. From what I've seen real bogan's are proud of their sub-culture and readily identify with the stereotypes mentioned above.
I've been guilty of wrongly referring to our low-socio economic culture as 'bogans', including the 'cashed-up-bogans'...
I think we need a new identity for this other non-bogan sub-culture. We could coin a new term to be used in regular conversation in Australia, so here's a few suggestions to get started:
1) "Aussie Chav" or just "chav" (to borrow from our English cousins)
2) Scum (makes sense but will probably offend too many people to be used in regular conversation)
3) BALSE UPs - (Backwards, Australian, Lower Socio Economic, Unconscionable Pigs)
anyone else??
It's all the low-life ex-POMs.. Hey I am the offspring of one so I know. 
I rekin the kn bible should be re-written to say "Only the meek boguns will inherit the Earth."
I think the recent ridiculous money being made (by about 10% of the WA population) and spent in even more ridulous fashion - making life bloody tuff for the rest of us, would back that claim. Then again the bible is for people who listen blokes in funny hats n dresses really. Rowwrr fffft!!
BTW me n Shaz are cummin on our jet skiis and fek orf bif SUVs (Screw U Vehicles) to getya ya kn yuppy ****!! 
Surely Fat Mike is from Rocko?
Been swimmin in the water down there with Blinky the fish to get that hair mate?
And chins! OUCH! Sorry bout that.. he he.. kinda..
You some kinda freako muso dood FM? Good to know someone is spending our tax money. bah ha ha ha (finding myself funny today from lack of sleep due to recording muso types).
Is dat a Danelctro bass BTW? Don't see dem much.
Black desert boots are correctly known as 'rollers' or 'ripples' in the bogan fraternity.
Desert boots are the camel colour.
Dessert boots are probably full of sugar and bad for you.
Back to the hate....
Educated white-collar professionals vs. dumbarse blue-collar workers.
Idiot bogans, stuck-up snobs, latte-sipping yuppies, flea-bitten ferals...
Choose a demographic. ^^^
Pick your bigotry.
Australia, the classless society.
Some folks like to pretend it is.
The socio-economic gap just gets wider and wider.
Yep, Rockinghell has coastal bogans.
lol.
Situated on the ocean, close to Perth CBD...the place really should be boomtown.
If it could be picked-up and plonked down on the East Coast right nextdoor to Sydney...
the bogans couldn't afford to live there.
They would be priced out of existence.
Back to the slums, bogans.
And take all your wrecked car-shells with you.
And lastly...
That term 'cashed-up bogans'...
It's a snide comment usually made by jealous, debt-ridden so-called movers and shakers.
CUBs is because they have (had may be better term) a 1 then lots of zeros behind it in their bank balance but unfortunately zero class or intelligence in the way they spend/spent their dough.
Now that the awmighty boom is over we are actually supposed to feel sorry for twits with little education (or real qualifications in the case of 'pretend' building tradies) that blew all their dough trying to seem flashy and now can't get squat for a once very exxy SUV (Screw U Vehicle) wit accompanying once very exxy trailbike and once very exxy jet-ski parked in the drive of their once very exxy 3-story house with outdoor kitchen, jacuzzi etc etc.
Even the misus once very exxy inflato boobs are sagging!
Now flamers out there take the time to read the rest here: Don't get me wrong I have respect for REAL tradies but they have been extremely thin on the ground round these parts for the last decade (witness much of the incompetant and shonky rennos work on my house and MANY others I have seen). There has been no shortage of arrogant, lazy and incompetant cowboys and they deserve zero respect or sympathy.
BTW CUBs wouldn't touch Rocko with a once very exxy diamonte barge pole!
