What is a Chav then?

Daisychain

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I see many forum users refer to this term quite frequently, often in the sense that it is people from working class backgrounds with not much money, who happens to like wearing baseball caps and sports clothing! I happen to find this term very derogatory, what gives anyone the right to think they are better than anyone else, just because you choose to live your life in a different way. I personally would like to think i dont judge anyone, unless i had a very valid reason for it, what do you lot think?
 
I would disagree with your summary of the points of 'chavism'

Some of them appear to have a good deal of money, I certainly couldn't afford to dress from head to toe in designer sportswear.

I suspect I cannot be a chav though, as I would never wish to wear sportswear except when doing sport.
 
I use Chav as a term to describe people who would appear on the Jeremy Kyle show. In other words, don't work have no intention of ever working and for some reason all talk like they are black. They need to look in the mirror, realise that they are white, have never lived in the Ghetto and stop with 'the Pimp Roll' walk - and also pull their trousers up.

I think the most annoying thing about them though is that I pay for them to sponge.

And yes I am better than them.
 
I don't think 'chav' has anything to do with the lack of money... from what I can see it is quite an expensive materialistic lifestyle! Imagine *needing* the latest trainers, designer sportswear, gold jewelery and a hot hatch... the insurance on the hothatch alone would be brutal. It is a mindset rather than anything else.

The 'look' and the mindset are not what most people would call 'classy' butthat is the whole point of chav innit... working class with loads of attitude and money.
 
'Chav' is derived from the term council house average. I don't think that adequately describes them though as there are plenty of normal people in council homes.

Chav is nothing to do with money, more attitude.
 
There are lots of theories about where the term chav comes from. There are different types of chav from the 'more money than taste' crowd to the fake-burberry and cheap gold jewellery wearing people who are proud of the fact that they have never done an honest days work in their lives.
 
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Chav has nothing to do with tbh, I know chavs that have 4 horses and go out competing every weekend as well as about 2 lessons a week! It's more the attitude.
 
Personally I think 'chav' could be used to cover many types of behaviour/lifestyle a person adopts, from;
Those skiving about living off the state..........to those wearing loads of gold jewellery and shellsuits........to those with lots of money but no intelligence or manners.........the list goes on and on.
Any one of these behaviours could be labelled 'chavish'. Personally I don't tend to label people. It's easy to see a snapshot of someone and make assumptions about them. We all know the phrase about walking in another person's shoes for the day.
Often I find 'toffs' much more offensive TBH.
 
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Term Chav is definately about an attitude not money or class.

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Totally agree.

Why is this thead in New Lounge?!
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There are lots of theories about where the term chav comes from. There are different types of chav from the 'more money than taste' crowd to the fake-burberry and cheap gold jewellery wearing people who are proud of the fact that they have never done an honest days work in their lives.

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Baaaa....

The term chav is most definitely not only applied to some benefit scroungers, or the poor, as there are probably just as many wealthy chavs.

You only have to look at Jordan and Peter or Posh and Becks....
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Its people like you which give horsey people a bad name, i expect you frequently ask people 'do you no who i am'...

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Yeah! Let's all bully Dieseldog. (Although she usually does ask 'Do you know who I am?' because she's so drunk she can't remember her name.)
This is the sort of thread I like, spreads world peace and joy!
Well done to you for posting.
Chav is reputedly an abbreviation of CHeltenham AVerage from market research...
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Its people like you which give horsey people a bad name, i expect you frequently ask people 'do you no who i am'...

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not sure what this means?
It's people like those on Jeremy Kyle who give chavs a bad name, oh - no sorry, that's what they are ACTUALLY like.
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Oh and it's 'know' not 'no'.
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Its people like you which give horsey people a bad name, i expect you frequently ask people 'do you no who i am'...

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LMAO!!
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You seem a touch defensive Daisychain! Do you wear a lot of sportswear?
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Its people like you which give horsey people a bad name, i expect you frequently ask people 'do you no who i am'...

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OMG, you've got me so wrong. I never ask people 'do you no (know) who i (I) am as most people already know who I am and if they don't they are Chav Scum so I wouldn't want to get too close to them anyway.
 
Well my kids live in sports wear yes, because they love football, i wouldnt expect people to judge them because thats how they like to dress, there is also another post in soapbox, where i should have posted this really, which refers to people decorating their houses in christmas lights, infuring that it is only chav like people which do this, i find this comment hurtfull as, i do not go overboard with christmas lights but know plenty of people who do and they certainly are not chavs as so frequently is applied, so now knowing exactly what a description of a chav is supposed to be, somebody not very intelligent, i find it quite insulting really. Thats what sparked me off. For the other poster which commented on my spelling, bollox, oh i cant spell that either
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The 'other poster'? That would be me then
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Seriously there's no need to get so wound up.
The term chav should really only apply to the few who actually are the Jeremy Kyle types but unfortunately everything has degrees and some people can be 'a bit' chavvy.

If you use the term 'snob' which is what I think you mean by the 'do you no who i am' (sic) phrase then it is exactly the same.
 
Chav actually means "Council Housed and Violent"

Daisy Chain - I dont understand why you are taking this so personally, no one here knows you or your kids, do you think that your children are chavvy? If the answer is no then i dont understand why your taking the term to heart?
 
It was the other thread in soapbox that annoyed me really, with the light thing, making out people on a council estate are low life for having lights outside their house, thats all. I thought we were supposed to live in a classless society, obviously not...
 
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