Chavs

RellixRellix Join Date: 2003-02-15 Member: 13572Members, Constellation, Reinforced - Shadow
<div class="IPBDescription">Did anyone watch this ?</div> It was on Sky 1 tonight at 9PM.

For those of you that dont know what a chav is (also known as a NED in Scotland and various other names accross the UK), they are working class (not all working class people are chavs),

Now a lot of it was quite informative, but they decided to lie about most of it.

Id type more but ill end up comming off really angry, just wondering if anyone else saw this and what they thought of this.

Comments

  • JimmehJimmeh Join Date: 2003-08-24 Member: 20173Members, Constellation
    I didn't watch it, but chavs suck >_> <_<
  • SpetsnazSpetsnaz Join Date: 2003-12-26 Member: 24761Members, Constellation
    HATE CHAVS THEY SHOUDL ALL DIE!
  • ZigZig ...I am Captain Planet&#33; Join Date: 2002-10-23 Member: 1576Members
    aren't they the UK incarnation of the wigger?
  • ZiGGYZiGGY Join Date: 2003-01-19 Member: 12479Members
    looked abysmal, made a point to not watch it.
  • SpoogeSpooge Thunderbolt missile in your cheerios Join Date: 2002-01-25 Member: 67Members
    I'm not up on my Brit speak so I only understood about half of that. I decided to take a look for myself and found <a href='http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=chav&r=f' target='_blank'>this definition.</a> I'm guessing it's close.

    Look familiar?

    <img src='http://images.urbandictionary.com/view/large/11431.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image' />
  • SpetsnazSpetsnaz Join Date: 2003-12-26 Member: 24761Members, Constellation
    <!--QuoteBegin-Spooge+Feb 21 2005, 10:38 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Spooge @ Feb 21 2005, 10:38 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> I'm not up on my Brit speak so I only understood about half of that. I decided to take a look for myself and found <a href='http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=chav&r=f' target='_blank'>this definition.</a> I'm guessing it's close.

    Look familiar?

    <img src='http://images.urbandictionary.com/view/large/11431.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image' /> <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
    AH KILL IT KILL IT NOW!
  • MoquiaoMoquiao Join Date: 2003-05-09 Member: 16168Members
  • StarchyStarchy Join Date: 2003-04-21 Member: 15727Members, Constellation
    edited February 2005
    *shudders.*

    They manage to take good quality clothing labels and make them...crap.
  • MrRadicalEdMrRadicalEd Turrent Master Join Date: 2004-08-13 Member: 30601Members
    I have no idea what you guys are talking about, but through the magic of the internet I found a well written article describing what "they" are exactly: <a href='http://www.worldwidewords.org/topicalwords/tw-cha2.htm' target='_blank'>http://www.worldwidewords.org/topicalwords/tw-cha2.htm</a>

    <!--QuoteBegin--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->The women, the Daily Mail wrote recently in a characteristic burst of maidenly distaste, “pull their shoddily dyed hair back in that ultra-tight bun known as a ‘council-house facelift’, wear skirts too short for their mottled blue thighs, and expose too much of their distressingly flabby midriffs”.<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
  • DrfuzzyDrfuzzy FEW... MORE.... INCHES... Join Date: 2003-09-21 Member: 21094Members
    Sounds like a wigger to me <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo-->
  • CabooseCaboose title = name(self, handle) Join Date: 2003-02-15 Member: 13597Members, Constellation
    Sounds irritating to me.

    Bling Bling!
  • SwiftspearSwiftspear Custim tital Join Date: 2003-10-29 Member: 22097Members
    <!--QuoteBegin-Drfuzzy+Feb 21 2005, 06:50 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Drfuzzy @ Feb 21 2005, 06:50 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> Sounds like a wigger to me <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo--> <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
    Pretty close, minor differences, but all in all pretty close.
  • InvaznInvazn Join Date: 2004-03-04 Member: 27142Members
    <!--QuoteBegin--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->Sounds like a wigger to me <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo--><!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
  • RellixRellix Join Date: 2003-02-15 Member: 13572Members, Constellation, Reinforced - Shadow
    Isnt a wigger a white person who acts like they were from a gehtto?

    A Chav isnt realy like that since they vastly out number most groups in the UK and span many religeons and races.

    Anyone the program was made by someone who considered themselfs a Chav and seemed to believe that most working class people and famous people in the UK are Chavs.

    It also believed that its ok for people to do what they want (Which i agree with) even if it involves anoying other people, breaking laws and doing it off tax payers backs (which i dont agree with).

    Personaly, I receive a verbal abuse from Neds all the time some throw bottles, stones, stuff at me as I walk past for no reason.

    The program also blamed the middle class for the hostility between the middle class and the Chavs saying that because the middle class look down on them and call them names even although in my experience its them who start violence and cause the trouble, Iv never seen a middle/upper class person start abusing someone because they walked past.
  • SpacerSpacer Invented dogs Join Date: 2003-05-02 Member: 16008Members
    Chavs are cool sometimes. I do parkour with some chavs in birmingham, and they're crescent fresh because they aren't trying to steal your phone, and instead concentrate on bustin' phat vaults and stuff.
  • MoquiaoMoquiao Join Date: 2003-05-09 Member: 16168Members
    chavs suck. i used to be infested with them my sister was dating the pikey king. and so all his mates were round at my place...

    they once referred to my pc.. as ' n ot as good as a playstation' not even a ps2. a ps1. i was insulted.
  • Fog_cartoonsFog_cartoons Join Date: 2003-09-08 Member: 20658Members
    Where I come from (South England) all the Chavs are upper-middle class kids who have just decided to act like idiots all of a sudden.

    Whenever a bloody 12 year old starts on me, flipping hell, you can't retaliate or the whole Chav community will f***ing rip up your house.

    What really anoys me about them though, is how they put on voices and then they actually get used to it and use that voice constantly.
  • InsaneInsane Anomaly Join Date: 2002-05-13 Member: 605Members, Super Administrators, Forum Admins, NS1 Playtester, Forum Moderators, NS2 Developer, Constellation, NS2 Playtester, Squad Five Blue, NS2 Map Tester, Subnautica Developer, Pistachionauts, Future Perfect Developer
    <!--QuoteBegin-Rellix+Feb 21 2005, 10:06 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Rellix @ Feb 21 2005, 10:06 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> [...]they are working class (not all working class people are chavs), <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
    Similarly, not all chavs are working class. In fact, the outstanding majority of those that I have come across are middle class.

    Apparently a lot of people see the chav thing as a way of ripping on the "lower classes" (a term which I'm not fond of), but that's not what chavs are to me. To me, chavs are people that dress in a certain way, tend towards certain trends, and usually adopt a certain attitude. I guess a lot of them are working class, but not all, and not most of the ones that I've been exposed to.

    Apparently I don't share this view with that many.
  • GeminosityGeminosity :3 Join Date: 2003-09-08 Member: 20667Members
    I dunno insane, I'd agree with your view personally. A lot of chavs near my area come from poverty but there's equally as many middle-class or whatever junk you assign people to based off an income.

    If you talk with that accent, swear every second word, love 'bucky' and your fave pasttime is bricking people, fighting or spraying graffiti that's not even remotely artistic (preferably about your 'gang' like Westburn Youth Crew or whatever their silly names are) then you're a chav/idiot/waste of skin to me <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo-->
  • TequilaTequila Join Date: 2003-08-13 Member: 19660Members
    I got chased into a 300m dash a few Saturdays ago by an armada of such scum, over nothing. Seriously, they just shouted at me over the road and then all of a sudden the chase was on.

    What I'd describe them as rhymes with 'shunts'.
  • FyxdFyxd Join Date: 2003-08-29 Member: 20355Members
    yes i know its old, but its a funny take on ned/chav culture:
    <a href='http://www.glasgowsurvival.co.uk/' target='_blank'>http://www.glasgowsurvival.co.uk/</a>
  • JimmehJimmeh Join Date: 2003-08-24 Member: 20173Members, Constellation
    <a href='http://www.chavscum.co.uk/' target='_blank'>>_> <_<</a>
  • TheMuffinManTheMuffinMan Join Date: 2002-12-20 Member: 11234Members, Constellation
    edited February 2005
    I did not see the show myself, and I think that your opinion on said people all depends on your definition of a chav. Over here (Just on the fringes of Liverpool) we call that specific group of people "scallies" (not scousers, big difference).

    Most of the "chavs" that I know or know in passing come from the lower/middle class (mainly living in council estates). They often wear a gold chain (not "bling" as such, but more of a "fookin nice chain mate") around their neck and a full tracksuit (matching top, pants, socks and underwear) , which are normally made by La'coste, which cost an absolute bloody fortune. Often they and their family have no money to spend, yet they still spill out around 150 - 200 quid for a tracksuit. The boys have short hair/a shaved head and the girls have their hair tied back about as far as it is humanly possible, and then some. This would give them the rather comical appearance of a skeleton, but most of the girls are pretty overweight. Normally seen with a cig (silly filter) in hand and a bottle of aftershock (or another equally crap tasting drink) in the other. Also, the trend at the moment is to wear as many of those charity bands (the yellow cancer ones, the black and white racism ones, the blue anti-bullying ones, etc) as possible

    Most people take the **** out of them for their choice of words ("ahh", "mate", "gizza", etc), but that is a regional thing, really. I speak like that myself, as do most of the people that I know. I have no problem with people fitting the above description, but the ones who hang around after dark, starting (trying to start a fight without actually attacking someone, for you non-brits) on random people, breaking everything they can place their hands on and smashing bottles everywhere.

    In my opinion, we definitely need harsher anti-social laws in place, but unfortunately there are barely enough officers to cover bigger crimes like assault and theft, never mind anti-social behavior.

    I guess, to summarize, don't lower your opinion of someone simply because they like spending 150 quid on a tracksuit and dressing in Burberry. Save your hateful opinions for those that behave like **** in public.
  • RellixRellix Join Date: 2003-02-15 Member: 13572Members, Constellation, Reinforced - Shadow
    Thats pretty much my view, my friends are from all classes, as is my family, but I do have a few friends that dress like Chavs, although again the majority of them do cause trouble and as such i stay clear of em, and I have noticed a crack down recently such as in Central station if you dont have a ticket you are kicked out even if you are waiting for a friend to come off the train or to leave. But they cause trouble for everyone, older people tend to be really cautious of people my age because of the number of chavs my age, example bus drivers dont stop for us even if we flag them down.
  • twoflowtwoflow Singing Drunk Join Date: 2002-11-01 Member: 1950Members, Constellation
    <!--QuoteBegin-Tequila+Feb 22 2005, 05:56 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Tequila @ Feb 22 2005, 05:56 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->I got chased into a 300m dash a few Saturdays ago by an armada of such scum, over nothing. Seriously, they just shouted at me over the road and then all of a sudden the chase was on.

    What I'd describe them as rhymes with 'shunts'.<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
    They probably wanted their livestock back, Andy.
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