There'll always be some group or other that's being taken the piss outta.
I think it's human nature or something *shrug*
I never had a name for Chavs before recently. Being a city dweller, 'townie' didn't quite work, so now I have a name to call my brother & all his mates.

My name is Taz & I have a Chav brother

Hmmm I wouldn't have said a Chav was a Townie, but you never know. I thought a Chav was more like a Herbert or a Scrote, or a Scrubber? You know: Burberry hat, tracksuits bottoms tucked into their socks, ASBO notice in the pocket. Its like they all follow some fashion code, but it DOESN'T LOOK GOOD.

Still has bad memories of the chav mini that Stoo posted up once

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by Funky Monkey
Hmmm I wouldn't have said a Chav was a Townie, but you never know. I thought a Chav was more like a Herbert or a Scrote, or a Scrubber? You know: Burberry hat, tracksuits bottoms tucked into their socks, ASBO notice in the pocket. Its like they all follow some fashion code, but it DOESN'T LOOK GOOD.

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That's the one.

The latest fashion among right-on types is to get indignant in defence of scallies because this is all a "shameless attack on the working class". (Not that they have to worry about scallies from their four-bedroom Hampstead pile.) Working class wannabe Johan Hari-Khari is the latest, and it's much more insulting than moaning about the pikeys: it's patronising inverse prejudice saying the working class are all the same, noble savages beyond critisim. Or in other words, I'd love to see the likes of Hari go down a pub in Barking and tell everyone present they're a chav!

We've been calling them 'Charvers' in the North East years ago... the rest of the country only just seems to have caught up!

well its just a difference of wording in parts of the country....we call them scallies here in sunny liverpool, and im always suprised when i say scally to somebody and they look at me blankly! i remember going to visit my ex-boyfriend in leeds and he called them charvers too, and i was like what in hell is one of them?! and he was exactly the same about "scallies" and found it really funny.... Society, a club here, held a chav night last week, where the basic idea was to dress up as a scally and go along! i found that really funny!! theres so many scallies here, but obviously theres enough people who dislike them now, that they're not worried about offending anyone by putting on a night like this!

We always called them rudies or townies. But in Basildon they're just "normal"

Still, when I dressed up on Halloween last year I got accused of being a goth (which I dont know why it's so offensive anyway) I don't think they knew what day it was.

Chav is offically the most popular word of the year, I read it in the paper. I think times are changing, chavs always get the piss taken. It's muchos amusing, just cos they basically look so awful

in Glasgow they are called NEDS...same "uniform" though

They're called neds here in the Borders, too, and up in Edinburgh... I'd agree that the rest of the country is just catching up, we've been calling them neds for years! In fact, the Jock comedy program, "Chewin' The Fat" has had two ned characters for about three years, so us Jocks have been taking the pee out of them for ages, lol.

A chav night at a club? Sounds amusing, but how do they keep the real neds out?

chav = tw@ down here in sunny harlow home of thew barry boyracer and founder town of chavs r us

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by Funky Monkey
You know: Burberry hat, tracksuits bottoms tucked into their socks, ASBO notice in the pocket.

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Yup, that'd be a Chav

I think I read somewhere that the word 'Chav' was a possible derivitive of Chatham in Kent. Perhaps that's where they first adopted the use of Burberry.

Actually, while on holiday on week, not a day went by where we didn't identify a Chav and even nicknamed one of the complex pools the 'Chav-pool' where there seemed to be a particular concentration of the species.


(Edited by Whistler 24/11/2004 17:20)

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by Whistler
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Yup, that'd be a Chav

I think I read somewhere that the word 'Chav' was a possible derivitive of Chatham in Kent. Perhaps that's where they first adopted the use of Burberry.

(Edited by Whistler 24/11/2004 17:20)

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I'm inclined to agree with that cos Chatham is *that* bad. But actually it comes from latin

Most places have had their own version of Chavs for years (scallies, neds, townies). It's just that this year "Chav" seems to have won the race to become the national 'umbrella' description.

to be honest, i really don't like the word "chav"! I don't like the way it sounds when you say it! i think i'll stick to "scally"

Hmm, I wonder if the sudden attention that they get will make them multiply in numbers, or become "too cool to chav" and make some new sub culture

As part of Sociology, we are doing a piece on "Chavs" as part of one of our modules. Now this is what I call education!

I live in the Chav capital of the world - Darwen! The running joke here is that Darwen's inhabitants are a genetic experiement gone wrong at the town's ICI plant. It would explain a lot!

I remember looking around once and getting quite creeped out, because I'd never realised just how much I stand out wearing jeans. It's like EVERYONE wears tracksuit bottoms. I felt like I was in a scene from invasion of the body snatchers.

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by Byron
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The latest fashion among right-on types is to get indignant in defence of scallies because this is all a "shameless attack on the working class".

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An interesting beast political correctness. It has a worldview where there are no colours or boundaries between classes, races, cultures, personal tastes...only some kind of uniform gray perhaps?

If we dared to differentiate racial segments by their culture and clothing, we'd be branded as racists, as indeed Ali G was for his portryal of a certain segment of people.

Differences in class just seem to be becoming more prevalent these days, and as it's profile is raised, no doubt so will the politically correct crap to go with it.