What is a Chav?

YSHKMWYHTC · 12-28-2007, 05:08 PM

I think the thread is a small big of a generalisation and unfair...
I know plenty of people who fit into this chav trend and are extremely nice people.
It just seems that the kids who commit crime nowadays are chavs as well...
Pavee's is the big thing over here in Ireland.
Living makeshift homes or scrounging council homes, not working, thieving, generally causing trouble at every opportunity. They'll attack anyone.
It's a pain being into not so mainstream music and style, because often you get abuse for looking different, I'm a goth apparently :p

dog · 12-29-2007, 01:24 AM

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Originally Posted by jackhammer

My avatar is a skit on the opening dialogue spoken by Renton in Trainspotting:

yeah i got the reference to that movie (love that movie) but didnt get the chav part. it seems i already did know the type of person a chav was, i just didnt know that group had a name, we have an abundance of those guys here in australia.

Merkaba · 12-29-2007, 01:52 AM

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Originally Posted by British_pharaoh

Okay voting time, I reckon the second guy in from the left, in the grey, has the worst kit on!

littleknowitall · 12-29-2007, 07:35 AM

I'm not going to entirely dismiss a mass of people, me and the misses (before she was pregnant) used to bong with a group of chavs who were quite entertaining to be around. Nice enough people.

Spartacus · 01-01-2008, 08:19 AM

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Originally Posted by YSHKMWYHTC

I think the thread is a small big of a generalisation and unfair...
I know plenty of people who fit into this chav trend and are extremely nice people.
It just seems that the kids who commit crime nowadays are chavs as well...
Pavee's is the big thing over here in Ireland.
Living makeshift homes or scrounging council homes, not working, thieving, generally causing trouble at every opportunity. They'll attack anyone.
It's a pain being into not so mainstream music and style, because often you get abuse for looking different, I'm a goth apparently :p

If they're nice people, they ain't Chavs in my opinion. Just because you're in hoodies and a tracksuit doesnt make you a chav. It's an attitude.

Some "goth" tried to beat me up a couple of weeks ago walking through town. We had make-up, dreads and a black hoodie on but in my eyes, he's a chav/scalley/whatever. In contrast, I went to a very "chavvy" school full of working class kids in tracksuits who smoked and dabbled in petty crime but they were nice enough, just very frustrated with the world around them. They grew out of it.

YSHKMWYHTC · 01-01-2008, 09:45 AM

Haha you're Spartacus from Maybesheforgot aren't you?

Friday · 01-03-2008, 06:27 PM

*sigh* every generations youth is supposedly the worst ever. It was the same with the Skins, the Mods, the Punks & the Hoods.
The 'Chav' has developed. It finally stopped wallowing in American Hip Hop and R&B and now has it's own culture.
Positive points of the chav culture include Skream, Geeneous, Wiley, Rinse FM, Kidulthood, Dubstep to name just a few.

Blain · 01-03-2008, 09:02 PM

We pretty much call them lads now where I live.

tkpb938 · 01-03-2008, 09:23 PM

I'm lucky, where I live in the US we have a decent mix of people, but it's very "cliquey" .

~~TheDonald~~ · 01-03-2008, 09:30 PM

So it's like a wigger, but instead of acting black they act Italian? Hm.

12-28-2007, 05:08 PM	#11 (permalink)
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01-03-2008, 06:27 PM	#17 (permalink)
Friday Music Addict Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Dear Old Blighty Posts: 253	sigh every generations youth is supposedly the worst ever. It was the same with the Skins, the Mods, the Punks & the Hoods. The 'Chav' has developed. It finally stopped wallowing in American Hip Hop and R&B and now has it's own culture. Positive points of the chav culture include Skream, Geeneous, Wiley, Rinse FM, Kidulthood, Dubstep to name just a few. __________________ www.myspace.com/ch3ssclub

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littleknowitall Pow! Join Date: Dec 2005 Posts: 1,671	I'm not going to entirely dismiss a mass of people, me and the misses (before she was pregnant) used to bong with a group of chavs who were quite entertaining to be around. Nice enough people.

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Blain w0rd Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Suva, Fiji Posts: 1,034	We pretty much call them lads now where I live.

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tkpb938 Lvl 70 Troll Hunter Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Sunny Phoenix Posts: 482	I'm lucky, where I live in the US we have a decent mix of people, but it's very "cliquey" .

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~~TheDonald~~ Account Disabled Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: The 3rd plateau of my mind Posts: 41	So it's like a wigger, but instead of acting black they act Italian? Hm.