Bored of Chavs

[coffers1]

Any one else bored of hearing about Chavs?  I thought it was quite funny to point and laugh at the scum who sat outside our local mcdonalds..the scum who kick in bus shelters and abuse man, woman and child.  But since the media have got hold of the phrase...everyone is a Chav....bored cliched blase bored

[Romeo]

Not everyone who wears a Burberry cap, drives a white van and lives in a council flat is a 'chav' (if 'chav' means a yob or thug).  There is a difference between working class culture / fashion and antisocial violence. I wish the media would get this sorted out. 

[coffers1]

I agree romeo.... To me chavs were the evil little kids that beat up old ladies and kicked each other in in our parks on a saturday and loitered menacingly outside offies and abused anyone who walked past.....the uniform seems to be the only thing the media caught on to...it annoys me when people are sympathetic to these people.  Its not a class thing i.e.  im better than you and can call you a chav because i went to a public school but more about people who have morals and values and respect for other people around them and those that dont!!!

[littleoldme]

Hooray for coffers1 - at last someone has said exactly what I feel. 'Chav' (for want of a better word) is an attitude, not an outfit. If someone threatens old ladies, pesters people to buy them drink because they're too young and then verbally abuse them when they refuse, or consider picking fights with innocent passers-by "a bit of a laugh", then yes, that person is a 'chav' and worthy of being ridiculed and shown up.

If however someone's greatest 'crime' is to live on a council estate, drive a customised Nova, or wear hooped earrings, then it's wrong to brand them just for that.

A while ago, The Daily Mail (yes, them again) even thought it would be a "spiffing wheeze" to get some attractive, well-to-do but rather gormless-looking young ladies to add a bit of Burberry to their outfits (I kid you not) and print a picture of them grinning vacantly for the camera under the headline "Proud to be a Middle-class Chav"!! Sigh. They really don't get it, do they?

[QmunkE]

We always just referred to "chavs" as "townies". I can't tell the difference, if there is one.

[QmunkE]

Except perhaps "celebrity chavs". I don't think you could have a celebrity townie. They'd get mobbed by all the other townies.

[exarmyparrot]

from where i'm from they're called 'trevs'

[eupraxia]

Here they call 'chavs' trendies.

Chavie is a gypsy word for child, or so I was told.

But the ones I saw the other night are just  irratating, little prats. But never fear eventually it will all go out of fashion just like every other fad.

[coffers1]

Thanks for your contribution Allen...I feel educated!!!

[kick3m0n]

I thought maybe 'bored' was the proper collective noun.......

In Scotland, we call them Neds.  Totally agree with previous posts...it typifies an attitude more than anything else. 

[tigerlilli]

 hi guys i stumbled across this site and felt i had to say sometime. i probabley fall into a skater/surfer category.  you are right chav's are people who beat up old ladies and drink cider in parks on friday nights, but as they have got older over the yearsthey ae allowd into pubs and bars and continue to make trouble there, it just so happends that they all wear the same clothes namely burberry. thats why the media has just picked up on the 'uniform' of the chav. where i come from we know them as meaders, because they all mainly live in an area called southmead. im at uni in leicester now and its full of chav's pretty much everybody looks the same and its a real shame just because these people are scared of being individual they have become 'sheeple' and just follow the crowd, what they wear is not 'fashionable' its just cheap and nasty. its ashame they will always be causing trouble, i hate the way that they always look like the worlds on their shoulders and always look for fights when drunk. what is wrong with these people. the thing i don't like its that they will never change and i feel that we will never escape the chav, they will always be around in my lifetime.

its the governments fault, they've made it too easy to get money off the social and have free houses, instead of earning a wage, nobody has any pride anymore, the U.K has turned into a country of slackers, and those who do work their asses off never get as much as those on the social. the more kids you have the more money you get, so you get chavettes with 20 kids,

its such a joke, im moving to australia, they've got it sorted there. 

[popster]

In Newcastle we don't have 'Chavs', we are blessed with having 'Charvas'. Normally gathered in groups of 7 or more these cheeky little tykes are recognised by their pale & gaunt "Maccie D's/Everything deep fried" gormless faces and skinny bodies. They wear Berghaus Mera-Peake jackets, shell suit bottoms by Reebok (bought several years ago so they are far too short), a stripey Henri Lloyd polo shirt and of course good old Rockport Mweka boots. On their shrunken skulls they adorn their greasy, stupidly brushed forward hair with a Nike baseball cap. This will have the peak bent into a 'U' shape and will be balanced precariously on the back of the head and the adjuster will be set at it's lowest setting. How it stays on is beyond me!!! They will have a female companion dressed almost identically but she will be weighed down with cheap gold-coloured jewellery and have her hair scraped back so tightly it looks painful!! They all speak in a strange dialect,a form of 'geordie' but barely understandable to anyone outside their group. It sounds very nasaly!!