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Re: Don't say Chav, it's offensive.

Meh, I still call 'em NEDs.

To me, chav has always just sounded like someone mispronouncing Chaff.

Re: Don't say Chav, it's offensive.

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Originally Posted by Flodgy (Post 4442823)

I met a few Brits while staying in France.. they all came across rather nice. The girls were hawt (though had nothing on the Swedish, I mean DAMN!) and the guys were kind of snobbish. But they were all harmless.

Chavs rarely venture outside their own borders except to go to football matches.

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Originally Posted by Fyurii (Post 4442843)

Meh, I still call 'em NEDs.

To me, chav has always just sounded like someone mispronouncing Chaff.

Maybe it could be derived from there, sorting the wheat from the chaff. Sorting the good from the bad.

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The stereotype Id always held of British teenagers were weedy kids who wore glasses and lived in manor homes across the countryside.

That's middle-class people, Chavs are working class.

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Originally Posted by Nemmerle (Post 4442935)

Chavs rarely venture outside their own borders except to go to football matches.

Oh.. so that's why I was told never to go to a football game in England and support anything else other than the home team.

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Originally Posted by Absent (Post 4443022)

That's middle-class people, Chavs are working class.

I thought we had established they were bums who spent every sent on their cars? Or are we talking the absolute bottom of the working class?

Re: Don't say Chav, it's offensive.

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Originally Posted by Flodgy (Post 4442823)

I should've stop reading Harry Potter.

Fixed.

Re: Don't say Chav, it's offensive.

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Originally Posted by Mr. Matt (Post 4443082)

Fixed.

Oh Shush. Go and throw your cat a bone.

Re: Don't say Chav, it's offensive.

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Originally Posted by Flodgy (Post 4443091)

Oh Shush. Go and throw your cat a bone.

But I don't have a cat...

If you want to see some proper chavs, use the train every day. The trains are full of them, and these are the kind of chavs who can't even afford a Vauxhall Nova to get about in.

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Originally Posted by Vasili (Post 4440612)

BBC NEWS | UK | Stop use of 'chav' - think tank

I just pretty much lol'd. Do these people understand that the word was designed to be offensive? Seriously these liberal MP's need to be kicked out of the government and such (those who are that strong and ingorant). It should be some national law that you should look into something before questioning it.

If I see a pack of teenage yobs dressed like they are out for a run and sort over glued wet hair I will call them Chavs, even if it does become racist. You aint going to stop me.

Hehe, well I can't totally blame them. If somebody has never heard of the word and has been given a misguided background on the history and usage of the word they may not get it. They may fail to see it's meant as a swear worth. But I do hope they would draw their propper conclusions when explained what the word is all about (as it's meant to be offensive and offensive to über lower class morons who cause a lot of trouble in a neighboorhood. These people propbably thought the word was directed at all lower class people, in which case I would agree that it wouldn't be too nice.

Re: Don't say Chav, it's offensive.

I hate Chavs!!

Except in Ireland there called "shams"

I hate them all!!!

Re: Don't say Chav, it's offensive.

There is a fine line between love and hate. Spare the emotional conflict and just loathe them. You'll be better off.