paranoidandroid

You don't know what a chav is?
... In that case, yes, you probably have been here too long.

CanadaJimmy

Anyone see the first episode of the new series of Harry and Paul?

The chavs in the library scene was all it took to bring the memories of the UK back

dunroving

I missed that part, but I did see the last 15 minutes, pretty funny.

ExBritFL

Yep, that was hilarious. Especially the Chavvy dog!!!

The Dragons Den impersonations had me on the floor with laughter too!

Barbara B.

I have to admit not knowing what a chav is. I don't even know what the letters stand for, although I think it may have been explained to me in the past. Maybe I am in denial. My personal interpretation is that a chav is about being in bored listless gangs and doing all that sportswear and bling thing, women in tight scraped back ponytails and men with (SHRIEK) chunky gold necklaces. And being over fed on highly processed foods and white bread.

I haven't googled this issue.

I am not quite sure if I am anywhere near correct.

In my grandparents working class days chavs didn't exist, and it was honorable to be working class. Now I worry that if I call myself working class I will be lumped in with the whole chav thing, even though I wouldn't dream of being uncouth or wearing fleecy man made fibres and sports wear or using an inordinate amount of hair serum.

Perhaps I am a chav. In denial. Perhaps that is why I left, because I couldn't face up to what I may have been becoming.

Will someone please direct me to a site that can determine whether I am a chav?

Is it something to do with with living on a council estate? What if you live on a council estate but have bought your council house?

Is there a respectable side of chav?

Sally Redux

I think some people feel really good about looking down on others from council estates. It's a nice easy stereotype.

paranoidandroid

Yeah too right there, and I agree 100%.
Used to be that the upper class looked down on the middle and working class because they felt it was their right to do so, now everyone wants to jump onto it.
Bratty kids that go to a school in a better area want to snob off and poke fun at the kids from less well off areas that go to less "fashionable" schools.
People sending their kids way across town to a more "upmarket school" schools because "the local school is rough". I've personally seen evidence of that from people's kids where I lived at home, and how the jumped up little arses get a chip on their shoulders about it.
Almost seems now as if a lot of people just want to show how smart they are themselves by looking down on anyone else that they can, whether it's because those people earn less then they do or live in a rented property or council house.
Chucking the "chav culture" thing around is a way for some people to forget where they came from, how lucky they are and become a snobs in the process, which somehow makes them feel they've achieved something or become somebody.
There's working class people everywhere, and rednecks too. Nothing has changed there, except that other people have become more aware of the whole class system thing and want to be a part of it.