Can we talk about the C word?

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I mean the word chav....still staggered it's used on mn as a very derogatory definition.

I haven't noticed it lately.

Thought this was going to be about Christmas.

On the style and beauty boards

MN is quite middle/upper class though, in general.

DS age 6 told me he knew what the C word was.

He then spelt
C
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A
P

Oh the relief

Oh, I have Style and Beauty hidden.

@Sparklingbrook how do you hide a topic? I desperately want to hid Christmas because it is fucking October and it keeps on popping up on active.

I don’t want to hide actual Christmas

I thought it was going to be "cis"...

ffs thought this was going to be cunt.

I agree OP. It's all over the baby names board & I find it offensive. I used to challenge it whenever I saw it but I've pretty much given up now, it's like trying to hold back the tide.

I like it.

@TheOrville, I only know how to do it on the laptop.

There's a little down arrow nest to Talk up at the top left. Press it, go to Customise and scroll down to the bottom and you can do it there.

Hiding Topics tidies up your Active list very nicely.

@DramaAlpaca exactly. It's not the word as such it's the disdain for the.....lower class slightly unsophisticated group within the general population? Is that what it means?

Dunno. I'm working class and I use it and so does everyone I know. I mean 'people who act like loud obnoxious pricks with no sense of decorum'. Re baby names, I use it to mean 'pointless attention seeking wannabe different nonsense' but I'd use it as much against Chris Martin and Gwyneth Paltrow as anyone else.

Probably wouldn't like it if a middle class person used it, but I do think Owen Jones' book about it was a load of shite.

I'm also working class and use Chav similar to the pp.

A chav in my area is someone who has a four by four to drive five mins to the local school, they often park the offending vehicle on the pavement. They have an overly logo'd designer handbag they probably bought off the local market, wear badly fitted 3 foot long hair extensions and too much fake tan.

A male chav is the stereotypical racer boy/jack the lad type or someone who drives an Audi and wears a suit even though everyone knows he's the manager at the local Tesco and the car is on HP.

@Sparklingbrook aww just my luck, I only use a tablet .

Can’t hide Christmas

What's wrong with chav?