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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I'm intrigued,,,,,
Do Chavs actually call themselves Chavs?
I've never really understood if being called a Chav is an aspirational title or if it's an insult....  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"I've seen people on here refer to people as CHAVs. It's meant as an insult that now means anyone in a council house on a low income (that would be me). "
Not what it means up this way. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"I've seen people on here refer to people as CHAVs. It's meant as an insult that now means anyone in a council house on a low income (that would be me). "
I'd never use it for that I think chaviness is more about the way people act for me xx |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"I've seen people on here refer to people as CHAVs. It's meant as an insult that now means anyone in a council house on a low income (that would be me).
I'd never use it for that I think chaviness is more about the way people act for me xx"
In what way? |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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My mum thinks I'm a chav because I have a zero crop (am bald), wear trainers, have tattoos and have a cross SBT 
Nothing like a bit of social stereotyping eh ? |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"I've seen people on here refer to people as CHAVs. It's meant as an insult that now means anyone in a council house on a low income (that would be me).
Not what it means up this way. "
It's evolved in different areas. Unintelligent,dresses in track suits and trainers,poor lager drinkers are called Chavs in my area. But also people who wear designer clothes and drive nice cars are called Chavs because they aren't particularly intelligent. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"I thought the word chav originated from the Romani chavvy which is children? "
It stands for Council House And Violent. Used in cases by the council to alert other staff members. |
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By *ancadamMan
over a year ago
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"I've seen people on here refer to people as CHAVs. It's meant as an insult that now means anyone in a council house on a low income (that would be me). "
is CHAV not an acronym for Council House A Violent? heard that from someone but seems unlikely as the name is often applied to people with money and liberal spending habits??
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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I used to be described as chav because I wear snapbacks and because of where I'm from I have quite a thick Manchester accent sometimes and that gets called chavvy!  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"I've seen people on here refer to people as CHAVs. It's meant as an insult that now means anyone in a council house on a low income (that would be me).
I'd never use it for that I think chaviness is more about the way people act for me xx
In what way? "
Well materialistic but on benefits only because they don't want to work. Associating with illegal things like drug production etc to make money instead.. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"It stands for Council House And Violent. Used in cases by the council to alert other staff members. "
No it bloody doesn't - the word was in use before social housing was even thought up and probably derived from the Romany word Chavi, meaning child.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chav#Etymology |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Chavs :
People who wear snidy tracksuits with bottoms tucked in socks,usually Rockport boots too.
Sports Direct fashionista's.
Single mums with child in pushchair smeared in a greggs pastie with mam sucking on a roll up
Scruffy twats  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Chavs :
People who wear snidy tracksuits with bottoms tucked in socks,usually Rockport boots too.
Sports Direct fashionista's.
Single mums with child in pushchair smeared in a greggs pastie with mam sucking on a roll up
Scruffy twats "
although labelled as a chav I've had non of these things haha |
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By *imiUKMan
over a year ago
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"I thought the word chav originated from the Romani chavvy which is children? "
See also: Charver.
Its generally an insulting term for gypsies which has morphed into one that seems to also incorporate what some people feel is the "underclass"...Now often interchangable with the white working class. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Chavs round here: tracksuit bottoms tucked into their socks, baseball caps at a funny angle, juicy track suits, mums with a potty mouth and large h Samuel earrings and a sovereign ring, people that use the word c^*t a lot (male or female!) |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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I think chav are part of british culture, the girls with their hair tied to one side of their head, the boys with one hand in the trackie bottoms.
God Save the Queen! |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"It stands for Council House And Violent. Used in cases by the council to alert other staff members.
No it bloody doesn't - the word was in use before social housing was even thought up and probably derived from the Romany word Chavi, meaning child.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chav#Etymology"
I can't be bothered to read it,I'm too tired but I don't see the link between a child and a present day CHAV.
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Trainers
Trackie bottoms
Hoody
That's me above dressed in comfort some could call me a chav. Don't really care because I'm not dressing for their bloody comfort. |
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