Sounds about right.

I was in Ballarat on Saturday night and it's true.

This looks good. I'll watch it.

Drunk? That's a low-blow.

Yes it is true just catch public transport

I liked the ''show us ya tits'' hat and the girls showing us their tits. Will watch again. 3.5 stars.

I wonder what the point of this kind of show is. I guess to cleanse with sunlight the dark shadowy parts of our culture... Right?
Or does pointing this stuff out (dumb bogans being racist) just reinforce the stereotype.

I haven't seen the show so .....

Next time I want to speak to an Indian...I'll order Indian takeaway oright..

the youtube comments on that promo video verify the show's premise

Tonight. I have the sneaking suspician that Joe Hildebrand will anger me more than any of the racist shenanigans depicted on the show, but I'll watch anyway.

Fuck Joe Hildebrand.

Same concept as the ''Fat, Dumb & Rich'' documentaries where they investigated Food ''Fat'', Leisure ''Dumb'' and Money ''Rich''. The documentary maker got caught up in it at a nudist camp though when he played shuffleboard in the nude. For the life of me I cannot remember who made it, was not Louis Theroux.

Tonight. I have the sneaking suspician that Joe Hildebrand will anger me more than any of the racist shenanigans depicted on the show, but I'll watch anyway.

Yeah, I don't like that cunt. And it looks like he's gonna try to do some Chaser-style stunts to raise his profile and create controversy - it'll shit me.

But cool looking show nonetheless

Maybe it'll take a supposedly 'centre-right' compere using Chaser-style stunts to get the message across to the ignorant yet (hopefully) begrudgingly open-minded, which I assume is one of the aims?

Did no-one watch this last night? I just caught up on iView. Fantastic television. I'm hooked, and I've been unexpectedly won over by Hildebrand - love his irony. The scene with the 'say no to burqas' painting was incredible, I'm glad that they used that as the dramatic peak of episode one.

Yup, did watch it, pretty much agree with you. The lack of ''chaser style'' stunts is good, because reality was always going to be stranger than fiction.

Wonder how the Australian girl who showed up in that first bit in India is feeling today.

call me naive, but i just couldn't believe those assholes on the phones in the call center scene. made me want to hook up a phone at home just so i can be polite to indians.

Wonder how the Australian girl who showed up in that first bit in India is feeling today.

what a dil.

call me naive, but i just couldn't believe those assholes on the phones in the call center scene

all the callers in that bit sounded like the same guy doing variations on a bogan accent. i think the show suffered being on after louis theroux and that fucked up ross kemp doco on heroin

I just watched this. It's a lot more interesting and nuanced than I expected. No-one is claiming the moral high ground, which is a good start in my book. I'm interested to see how this series unfolds.

Oh, and Burqa mural guy is obviously a major knob. Jeez, talk about confused thinking.

mmm.. i thought it had potential to be interesting but to be honest that first episode just annoyed me (by being pretty crap).

yoghurt said 24 seconds ago:
...talk about the show or fuck off

Gotta be semi relevant to the topic at hand. That, or jelly beans plz

I am talking about the show yoghurt...I'm suggesting that Joe may not be coming from the place you think he is...maybe open your mind and give him a chance, but still it's an interesting concept...I like the jelly beans analogy in this context...very apt.

but then again, maybe he is a condescending know it all.

Maybe hsdfauof is really Joe Hilderbrand???

Quite possibly, although the grey matter runs on a higher frequency than me, maybe not ideologically so different, but in other areas...he's a good communicator, despite being a little off key at times.

cognitively I'm pretty lost when it comes to communicating face to face with big crowds, he's got a television personality and look as well, something that I lack.

Race is so passe. It's irrelevant what race you are. Worry what haplogroup you're from.

haploist!

I shouldn't have been shocked when Gurmeet expressed his views on homosexuality, but I was and I'm still trying to work out why.

I was wondering when the series was going to turn the issues upside down and point out some of the discrimination that goes on in Indian society. This was that episode!

Last episode next week.

The whole bogan bit was embarassing. And I totally can't stand Gurmeet.
Don't know why I keep watching this.

the Bogan stereotype is much broader than just wearing thongs shorts and wifebeaters.

How would you define a bogan, then? It's surprisingly difficult.

I liked the fifth episode. pfinger, I think the weirdest thing about his homophobia is that he's a full-grown (30-something?) man who seems to have had absolutely zero exposure to gay people or concepts in his life. That's the most surprising bit to me. What a sheltered, conservative life.

A bogan to me would range from Shane Warne to a street junkie wearing very loose fitting tracksuit pants and Wu-tang style oversized coat.
The stereotype bogan described on the show makes them too likeable.

http://www.affirmpress.com.au/the-bogan-delusion

I think it's a great program, I'm really enjoying it.

That Dave Nicholls guy who wrote The Bogan Delusion is a fucking lovely guy. He wrote a Go Betweens biography (the band, not the chat).

Nichols with one L.

I liked the fifth episode. pfinger, I think the weirdest thing about his homophobia is that he's a full-grown (30-something?) man who seems to have had absolutely zero exposure to gay people or concepts in his life. That's the most surprising bit to me. What a sheltered, conservative life.

Yep, that, and I think the homophobia we're used to seeing is more subtle. He was very direct.

So nobody watched the last episode? Such a warm and fuzzy ending.

I got bored with this show and tuned out...