False, but it is pretty good stuff
TNp has a bad habit of eating peanut butter and even worse nutella from the jar
False, at least for the last twenty years.
TNP is going to have Thai food for lunch tomorrow.
Maybe. It is entirely possible, but far from guaranteed.
TNP has had Ethiopian cuisine before.
False but now my curiosity has sparked
TNP eats way too much food
Very, Very True.
TNP is Irish.
Hang on, doc. Did you say all bogans are racist, or all racists are bogans? When you consider that āboganā is applied exclusively to Anglo-Australians of a specific socio-economic demographic, itās use is racistā¦ and reinforcing a stereotype.
Plus, indigenous recognition in the Constitution, proposed by rather wealthy ānon-bogansā, would allow for institutional racism.
(Not said with any aggression)
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False not Irishā¦true Aussie born of this great land
TNP thinks Australians are made out of different āmaterialsā the further away you go from the coastā¦and not in a bad way
edit: this is not a racist comment as I mean ALL(born, imported, indigenous) Australians
Falseā¦ no, trueā¦ errrā¦ false.
While I havenāt ventured all the way to Alice Springs, I have been a fair ways inland, and Iāve also worked a few 3 month stints in various inland rural places. And it certainly can seem like a different world the further in you go. And anybody going from the coast to inland and vice versa for the first time would probably experience a culture shock. But I would stop short of saying theyāre made of different materials. Theyāre made of the same basic stuff, the same virtues and decency, the same vices and failings, the same basic sense of coexistence and communityā¦ wait, actually, thatās probably something thatās better preserved inland as opposed to giant coastal urban centers. Things would have been different had this been appreciated and commonly believed 2 centuries ago, but we canāt turn back time.
Just to be a bit provocativeā¦ TNP believes between a mother and a father, itās okay for the father to stay at home and raise the kids.
p.s. @stm316 Iām going to have to rely on my faint recall of what I wrote, but I hope I didnāt convey that I myself believed all bogans were racist (not true, half the nurses I work with are very bogan-y and most of those arenāt racist), or all racists are bogans (this is completely false and I have a great rant on the sheer ridiculousness of Asian racism against other Asians, which I wonāt get my privilege checked for, because Iām Asian). Rather I was commenting on the prevailing rhetoric that would often generally associate the two. And of course, youāre right that by virtue of its exclusive application to Anglo-Australians, itās tantamount to a racial epithet, though, just like other racial epithets, it often transcends this use. Iād actually argue that the use of the term bogan would be more acceptable if it were free of derogatory intent (and more a part of how we, er, celebrate our diversity 
). Which, unfortunately, the way I used it in my earlier post clearly wasnāt because that reflects how a lot of people use it. That said, itās not all bad, since thereās also plenty of popular culture reference that does embrace quirks, but just like everything else it will take a degree of positive ownership and other changes to happen.
This however, Iām not so sure about.
What institutional racism are you referring to here? Iāve tried interpreting this phrase in various ways and all of them have me sincerely hoping Iāve misunderstood you, or that we both understand that the several decades of systematic genocide of Australiaās Indigenous peoples that occurred throughout much of the 19th and 20th century was a form of institutional racism in action.
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True, itās ok for the man to wear the apron and cleaning gloves in this day and age
TNP feels like there is too much pressure on us young people to be perfect at everything
True, and this is strangely an international phenomenon. Engendered by the values and successes of the prior generations, exacerbated by changing economic and social circumstance, and catalysed hugely by social media. More than ever young people are burdened with a fear of failure and a fear of missing out. Institutional responses to this, by trying to āsoftenā or hide failure, have made matters worse by destroying any kind of emotional resilience that only the experience of an actual good hard knocking can produce, but a lack of endurance isnāt the product of just this, but also the sheer breadth of variety of options of things that can make one [rainbow]uniquely special[/rainbow].
The blogger of Hyperbole And A Half has a number of hilariously on point rants about how common an experience the difference between expectations and reality of adulthood are.
Iām fortunate to be free of that crap, now that Iām in that phase of late 20s where I know what I am and own it and everything is awesome because it makes sense, and all the stuff that doesnāt, well, life doesnāt always make perfect sense and you canāt make absolutely everybody in the world agree with what you say and who gives a fuck! 
TNP has a nuclear bunker on/near their residence.
False. Not enough space around me, really (Despite having one of the larger properties in the area)
TNP is a raving Loon.
False. I am TCP.
TNP is PNT.
False, Iām THC
TNP is MLG
False, Iām cytosine
TNP is glucagon
False, Iām L-carnitine.
TNP knows the names of all 20 amino acids.
False, and isnāt it like 750 or something now?
TNP has dressed up as a pokemon for a costume party before.
False.
TNP doesnāt care about the car specs as long as its fun to drive.