charnie bum?

yellowsnow said :

As for Canberra – i thought the Kambah equivelent of Charnie bums were the Boganvilleans?

Boganville is Queanbeyan, dude. Think Westies crossed with a B&S Ball, driving around in utes covered in as many stickers as possible.

yellowsnow said :

They also missed Sydney’s Shire dwellers….

Hobbits?

As a formerly out and proud flanelette wearing resident of Sydney’s western suburbs, I was disappointed ‘Westie’ didn’t get a mention. It’s like they’re trying to deny us our birthright or something!

They also missed Sydney’s Shire dwellers (a distinctly intolerant and homogenous subspecies scared to venture north of the Georges River; though shy and weak individually, they hunt in large packs to protect their territory from outsiders).

As for Canberra – i thought the Kambah equivelent of Charnie bums were the Boganvilleans?

Keijidosha said :

You can’t include “charnie bum” without the equivalent southside “kam-booner”.

As a former Kambah resident for many years, I can assure you that there is no such thing as a ‘kam-booner’. I’d bet my beloved 1983 Falcon on it. But I am familiar with ‘charnie bum’ and laughed my booner @rse off when I read that article.

I thought Booners were a variant of the Westie. Faded black jeans, desert boots (or the similar ‘boon boot’), flannie over a faded Metallica/Megadeth/Gunners t-shirt. Winnie blues in flannie pocket. Mullet haircut preferred, but not mandatory.

Funny. At school we always guessed “booner” was specific to Canberra. And I always loved the term “chigger” (someone from Chigwell) when I lived in Hobart.

Never heard of “charnie bum” though. I thought the accepted term was Charnie Carney??

You can’t include “charnie bum” without the equivalent southside “kam-booner”.