Chav Culture

[Deleted member 82231]

Presenting Alexander McQueen- The chav!
(pic from telegraph.co.uk)

That is not real!

The funniest thing ever. The man is genius chav.

 

[Eurasian Mélange]

I don't know if i like the this whole anti-"chav" culture thats recently emerged. I know it's a bit of light hearted fun and I have taken the piss out of them too but I sort of feel like they are being subjected to middle class snobby attitudes and it's become totally acceptable to stereotype working class people in this way. It just creates more tension and division between those with money and those without.

When I hear/see people saying/typing things like these, I know they have no idea what real chavs are (and if they're living in England they must be extremely lucky not to know!).

If you go to any of those anti-chav websites and take a good look at what people are saying on the fora there you'll see that, to all the chav-haters, chavs are not working class and it is not the clothes or the lack of money that makes somebody a chav. It is all about the attitude. A chav is an anti-social person with no conscience or morals. They enjoy going around harassing others, stealing, vandalising, sleeping around, getting wasted and getting high on drugs. They don't care about education and think they are 'well 'ard' when they refuse to learn anything. Most of them are racist and homophobic. Yes, these types of people tend to wear the clothes shown in this thread, but wearing the clothes does not make you a selfish tw*t who enjoys making other people's lives miserable.

It's got nothing to do with middle class snobbery. I'm from a working class British family and I hate chavs. I've had them throw eggs at our house, try to throw bricks through the window, had them throw stones and chunks of brick at me and my brother, had them steal my belongings, had them shoot a neighbour with a BB gun (had to go to hospital), had them drop-kick me in the head just because I was there... I'm glad to be out of that country! I've also known plenty of chavs who have come from the middle class and above. Even prince Harry sounds like he is a chav! He's certainly not working class.

I wouldn't call any of the people in the pictures here chavs unless I had met them and they were nasty, but I would call the style 'chavvy'. As I've said before (and as many others have said before me in this thread) it is not the clothes that make the chav, but the attitude.

 

[yojimbo]

is this a chav?

http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=115347967

 

[concretegirrl]

I dont think so
thats more... gangster??
I didnt notice any knock off brands
or excessive jewelry.

 

[snowqueen]

chav is way dead imo .. well were i live .. i havent seen a "chav" in a while now tbh .. still the odd one like but they are normally wools or from outta town .. msot "chavs" are now wanna be gansters or scalls .. trends etc have moved way way way on since the chav days

 

[KhaoticKharma]

'Chav' just automatically makes me think of footballer's wives...

 

[KhaoticKharma]

I was in the cinema once with my friend back in Manchester and there was this chav calling after her little girl: "Chanel! CHANEL!"

Lol...dear me....shame on it, calling a child 'Chanel'.

This should amuse many of you for a while:

http://www.chavscum.com/chav_baby_names.php

 

[xhommex]

Bahah chav looks like British version of New Jersey Guidos

Photobucket

 

[CaitlinC]

So basically the chav style is the English version of Wiggers in the USA?

 

[Meg]

no no no. I think Eurasian Melange explained it best. It is an attitude, but usually it combined with people who wear a lot of fake labels, or 'shell suits'. They aren't trying to be 'black' though.

 

[CaitlinC]

A lot of that happens over here. People with fake designer bags but that can be anywhere though.

 

[[vogue]]

I think I fell off the chair when I saw that picture. Hehehe!!

 

[nollafyzzil]

I know a lot of chavs. They're in Ireland a lot. We call them scobes or knackers. A lot of them genuinely do live in carvans too.
They always have awful highlights.

A girl i used to go to school with.