What do you really think about the word 'chav'?

diss04 · Post by **diss04** » Mon Jun 02, 2008 11:47 am

Piston wrote:
Diss04 wrote:
Piston wrote:I'm so fucking sick of middle class white twentysomethings going on about 'chavs'
reminds me of someone...
I'm not sure I follow you

I'm not sure I follow you!

check and mate

elbe · Post by **elbe** » Mon Jun 02, 2008 11:50 am

Im sure i dont follow either of you, Im sure i never will follow either of you, unless you steal something of mine and I have to chase you in a taxi.

diss04 · Post by **diss04** » Mon Jun 02, 2008 11:50 am

eLBe wrote:Im sure i dont follow either of you, Im sure i never will follow either of you, unless you steal something of mine and I have to chase you in a taxi.

badger · Post by **badger** » Mon Jun 02, 2008 11:52 am

even a chav on the rob wouldn't follow any of you

diss04 · Post by **diss04** » Mon Jun 02, 2008 11:52 am

fuck off i'm like the chav pied piper

triky · Post by **triky** » Mon Jun 02, 2008 12:05 pm

perhaps i been out of the UK for too long, didn't realise it was a class thing. i thought chav just meant someone who dresses in sportswear, likes burberry and wears too much cheap jewelery. everything else i can safely ascribe to (big edit, my bad) british people generally: general random shagging, binge drinking and funny accents (yeah even the queen has an accent).

diss04 · Post by **diss04** » Mon Jun 02, 2008 12:10 pm

Mr Hyde wrote:
Diss04 wrote:fuck off i'm like the chav pied piper
thats racist!

i can say it i basically live in romford lol

badger · Post by **badger** » Mon Jun 02, 2008 12:10 pm

yeah i wouldn't necessarily say it's a class thing. plenty of middle class people act and dress like chavs (for want of a better word). it's definitely more of a mindset thing than a class thing, even if the vast majority of them are amongst the poor

and lol @ "even the queen has a funny accent" - she's got the worst of them all. hearing her voice makes me want to hit things[/u]

elbe · Post by **elbe** » Mon Jun 02, 2008 1:01 pm

badger wrote: and lol @ "even the queen has a funny accent" - she's got the worst of them all. hearing her voice makes me want to hit things[/u]

like her teeth

I hear you on that 1. Fuck the royals, fuck em right off

bedward · Post by **bedward** » Mon Jun 02, 2008 1:02 pm

Mr Hyde wrote:
I think it comes from gypsy talk for child...not sure though...and suppose it doesnt make it any better!

yep, a young boy, a lad.

used to get used (among the bourgoise) to mean "pikey," as in cheap or shoddy.
(more social profiling and prejudice)

once it got really popular ppl started coming up with "proper" definitions as per common usage until we arrived at the trailer-trash/townie/working-class version we now know and love-to-hate, replete with fashion statements and lifestyle elements.
(and which some have chosen as a model to aspire to)

in its current incarnation it's an instrument of fear, classism and social division.
all about the chavs and the chav-nots.

chav · Post by **chav** » Mon Jun 02, 2008 6:20 pm

eLBe wrote:
I hear you on that 1. Fuck the royals, fuck em right off

thats being raciallist !

i call everyone in burberry, or any 'johnny' basically, chavs

if you start arguing about cursewords being pc, then what the hell is the use of em..?

aleks zen · Post by **aleks zen** » Mon Jun 02, 2008 6:28 pm

i find the most interesting thing is how alot of fashion and music comes from the "underclass". bassline has got alot of rudeboys and chavs involved in it, people might mock them but u know secretly they feel the scene. i know i am!

santy · Post by **santy** » Mon Jun 02, 2008 7:48 pm

I prefer the word scally =]

psyolopher · Post by **psyolopher** » Mon Jun 02, 2008 8:41 pm

I own all chavs, yeah i have a bat cave with a clone machine!
Really, look my Prototype NINJA CHAV:

And then i have this one at my living room:

And this is my family:

diss04 · Post by **diss04** » Mon Jun 02, 2008 9:29 pm

in reference to chavs i do tend to use the word 'tnuc'

claw · Post by **claw** » Mon Jun 02, 2008 9:31 pm

Sounds kinda stupid to me like most British slang....but you guys prolly say the same about u.s slang, and since there are no 'chavs' here stateside so its a location based thing I reckon

frodo · Post by **frodo** » Mon Jun 02, 2008 9:54 pm

I can't read today, sorry

bellybelle · Post by **bellybelle** » Mon Jun 02, 2008 10:37 pm

claw wrote:Sounds kinda stupid to me like most British slang....but you guys prolly say the same about u.s slang, and since there are no 'chavs' here stateside so its a location based thing I reckon

kinda makes me think that class is to the UK what race is to the US (even though its really still class.....but....not in the mood to spell it out)

tempest · Post by **tempest** » Mon Jun 02, 2008 10:51 pm

yeah we got basically the same thing in aus, 'lads'... basically trouble makers wearing their hats high off their forehead complete with stripey polo, nike shorts and trainers... Wouldn't have a problem with em if they didn't bash so many peeps on the regular

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