Pikey Uniform

[number8]

Have recently been to Manchester (am from the South East) and was amused to see that the northern pikeys have the same uniform as the southern ones (BTW, this is not a race issue, they are known by pikeys in my area, other areas call them chavs, herberts etc...). The men = usually skinny and weedy, trainers, trackie bottoms, hooded sweatshirt with the hood up BUT with a baseball cap on underneath, plus loads of sovereign rings and optional staffordshire bull terrier. The 'women' = Usually fat, trainers, puffa jacket over a sheatshirt, loads and loads of cheap gold, bleached blonde hair pulled so tight on the top of their heads that it pulls their skin up. Usually loads of kids in tow. Also, why are the men skinny and the women generally fat. And what are these people called around the country?

[darth vader]

why are lasses from the "sarf east" always thick, always saying "innit" and always on their back? sorry but i think this is a race issue and i think you're being a bit generalistic......... (just like my tongue-in-cheek comments)

[number8]

The "innit" thing really grates on my nerves - in fact, the whole estuary English accent is irritating.

[firefly]

But 'innit' isn't a particularly Estuary English phrase. It could just as easily be Cockney, Liverpudlian, etc.

[omblod]

In Northern Ireland and particulary Belfast, skinny dangerous men in ill-fitting t-shirts and ostentatious jewellery are known as "Spides". Their rotund, hoop-earringed, Kappa-clad female counterparts are known as "Millies". I've no idea where these terms came from. I'm told that spides and millies are known as "Kevs" and "Sharons" in Devon. There's also the fairly ubiquitous "Kappa Slappa" epithet for women.

[bobbobley]

round ar way, the guys are known as chavvies, and the 'woman' often referred to as munters.
definitely an across the border look I recently discovered, as the pregnant mumpers in the pub yesterday with their tribe of kids and jailbird babyfathers looked exactly like the same breed of mumper from back home in the motherland!

[woofgang]

I would like to wish all answerbankers, in particular the ones contributing to this thread, peace, goodwill and love for this season and the new year.......

[davver]

I'm from Devon, and I work with a bloke called Kev, whose girlfriend is called Sharon. They have eight children between them.