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[Tack]

Well, we generally describe "cornfeds" as people from a rural area -

And "Bogans" as the niche group who watch rugby in flannel shirts and short shorts, while swearing at anything different and maintaining a healthy appetite for anything that is likely to kill them. Most often from a rural area, though exceptions happen - me, for example.

In Australia, a lot of things are dangerous. In the city, you don't have anything to worry about, in the country, a lot more so. Kangaroos are not fun to pat - well, they are, but if you see a terracotta coloured Kangaroo taller than you are, do not go near it - even if it stays still. They are known as "red kangaroos". They are also known to kick in ribcages.

Basically, it's a country like every other, except it's built around a desert. Most of the western australian cities are covered in sand, for example.

Random Question, what city would you be going to? Or - east or west?

I'd go north queensland if I were to reccommend, though it can rain for up to weeks at a time up there.

[Maggarg - Eater of chicke]

Kangaroos are tasty. I think they're classed as vermin as well, so you can eat as many as you damn well like.

[DFNewb]

Well probably Melbourne or Sydney also by not drinking frosters, do you mean shushes?
The drinking age is the same in Canada and so is getting your license but I think it going to change to 18 in a bit, if it hasn't already. Some city near the east side but what is the difference anyway?
 

[buman]

That's just a stupid meme, I doubt anyone will ever say that to you IRL (just watch the redbacks !). Cons are the hole in the ozone, we have (one of ?) the highest skin cancer rate in the world. Pros are the nice sunny weather and beaches! (usually, not so much where I am in Melbourne.) It's also a big, sparsely populated country outside the cities, if you like driving/solitude/mateship.

Its not a meme, Australian safety codes specify that in industrial construction you cannot put access points for equipment under grates or in overhead spaces for this very reason.

[Neonivek]

Kangaroos are tasty. I think they're classed as vermin as well, so you can eat as many as you damn well like.

Yep the Australians don't like their Kangaroos (Well at least not the farmers)

Which always makes it odd for me to see Australia advertised with Kangaroos

Though I guess it is the same deal with the Inuit who actually do prefer to be called Eskemos, if it gets the tourists in then it gets the tourists in.

[Emperor_Jonathan]

We like our Kangaroos.

It's just there are millions of them.

[Cheeetar]

Well, we generally describe "cornfeds" as people from a rural area

I've never heard that term before, but it's probably a local term.

[Tack]

Kangaroos are apparently a protected species. Licensed hunters of kangaroos will only have their kills accepted if they are clean head-shots, and hunting red kangaroos - for anyone - holds a very serious conviction.

Koalas are also protected.

Emu's - possibly.

Crows - yes.


And all that. And "cornfed" is a fairly worldwide term, seeing as very few people grow corn in QLD.

[Emperor_Jonathan]

Never heard Cornfed before either.

[codezero]

Yeah I don't think you can shoot roos without a license, but most station owners probably do. I've got some leftover roo stew in my fridge, it's good. The more roo you eat the better for Australia.

(Never heard of cornfed b4 either)

[winner]

Never heard Cornfed before either.

me neither.  Where geographically is it used?

[Neonivek]

Well Cornfed is usually a reference given to animals to determine their diet. Why is it that these names usually refer to farms?

It is also the name of Duckman's Partner.

[Osmosis Jones]

Well probably Melbourne or Sydney also by not drinking frosters, do you mean shushes?
The drinking age is the same in Canada and so is getting your license but I think it going to change to 18 in a bit, if it hasn't already. Some city near the east side but what is the difference anyway?
 

Foster's Lager

The side you live on will make a huge difference. I live in Perth (West Coast), so very hot, sandy, and boring. A common complaint among us twenty-somethings is the city is basically an oversized country town. Sydney and Melbourne have both been settled for a longer time, have better nightlife, public transport, and culture. I personally love Melbourne, Sydney was a little too spread out for my tastes. Also, different deadly animals; there are funnel-web spiders around Sydney that you won't have to worry about on the west coast, and the aforementioned irukanji jellyfish up in the NE. WA of course has blue-ringed octopi, so we're hardly safe, and red-back spiders and tiger snakes are pretty much universal. (My housemate got bitten by a juvenile tigersnake a fortnight ago, a nasty remminder that these things are everywhere...)



Regarding the etymology of the word bogan, from what I understand, it first cropped up with 80s metal heads, and eventually got applied to all stupid drunk whitetrash.

[Tack]

Woah. Must be just at the school I'm at. Wow. Well I feel like a shmuck. But I remember it being used as an insult in various movies. Don't ask me to quote them, I won't remember.

Besides, I don't like vegemite, and I've never eaten Kangaroo.

[Emperor_Jonathan]

Besides, I don't like vegemite, and I've never eaten Kangaroo.

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