Chavs in California
Aug 7th 2013, 5:24 pm
#49
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Re: Chavs in California
In the US, I suppose a chav is a wigger (white gangsta).
They've had wiggers here since rap really got going.
Cross-contamination, then.
Aug 7th 2013, 6:40 pm
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Re: Chavs in California
Aug 7th 2013, 8:13 pm
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Re: Chavs in California
Interesting you mention only fondling kiddies and not cop killer David Bieber. The yanks really messed up with that letting him get a passport with dead kid's id truly sick. Bieber was illegal in leeds for a long time and worked as a bouncer. How did he make it as long as he did? Of course if a brit ever killed an american cop then immigration policy would forever be altered.
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Aug 7th 2013, 8:55 pm
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Aug 7th 2013, 9:16 pm
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Re: Chavs in California
Yes, the US isn't Greece or Spain.
Like I said the "booze" factor seems to be one of the major reasons for it, Americans go to Las Vegas imo basically because it's one of the few places you can walk around with a drink, so I'm bemused by foreigners who go there because they've heard of its reputation. By comparison to some of the destinations in Europe it's a religious institution.
Like I said the "booze" factor seems to be one of the major reasons for it, Americans go to Las Vegas imo basically because it's one of the few places you can walk around with a drink, so I'm bemused by foreigners who go there because they've heard of its reputation. By comparison to some of the destinations in Europe it's a religious institution.
Aug 7th 2013, 9:26 pm
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Re: Chavs in California
The EU can keep the chavvy bastards. All the pikeys too.
Aug 8th 2013, 5:40 pm
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Re: Chavs in California
I think the US equivalent of a "chav" is trailer trash, surely. Like the yocals that seem to inhabit large parts of West Virginia. There isn't as much in the way of public housing in the US so they live in trailers.
Aug 8th 2013, 5:49 pm
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Re: Chavs in California
I know Mexicans etc. do this but it's one thing to do it, it's another to be so naive you haven't realized that you've done it!
As I recall the police in the UK arrest people for removal, it's not a separate agency as in the UK, there's the "Border Force" or whatever it's called but actual arrests are done by the police (or were).
Anyway I knew a copper years ago and this was part of his job, in many years on the job he could only remember one American getting deported.
Aug 8th 2013, 5:51 pm
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Re: Chavs in California
Aug 8th 2013, 9:25 pm
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Re: Chavs in California
Because he was white and spoke English, it's just like Canadians in the US, had this conversation lots of times, a Canadian gets married to an American, never does the paperwork, American dies and then Canadian or their kids (born in Canada and taken to the US) suddenly realize they should have done some immigration paperwork and they're in the US illegally.
I know Mexicans etc. do this but it's one thing to do it, it's another to be so naive you haven't realized that you've done it!
As I recall the police in the UK arrest people for removal, it's not a separate agency as in the UK, there's the "Border Force" or whatever it's called but actual arrests are done by the police (or were).
Anyway I knew a copper years ago and this was part of his job, in many years on the job he could only remember one American getting deported.
I know Mexicans etc. do this but it's one thing to do it, it's another to be so naive you haven't realized that you've done it!
As I recall the police in the UK arrest people for removal, it's not a separate agency as in the UK, there's the "Border Force" or whatever it's called but actual arrests are done by the police (or were).
Anyway I knew a copper years ago and this was part of his job, in many years on the job he could only remember one American getting deported.
Aug 8th 2013, 10:08 pm
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Re: Chavs in California
the word chav is taken from gypsy slang. Short for Chavy.
Which generally means a person, usually a male. However because of the 'little britain' show with vicky pollard her character is how a typical 'chav' looks and acts like.
its not necessarily somebody the OP was referring to
Which generally means a person, usually a male. However because of the 'little britain' show with vicky pollard her character is how a typical 'chav' looks and acts like.
its not necessarily somebody the OP was referring to
