What’s classed as “chavvy” if you’re poor…

[Justanotherwinter]

But classy if you’re rich? I’ll start…

cocaine
floor beds for children
Speaking a second language
Day drinking
babysitters

Everything that poor people do is considered chavvy by the type of half wit who uses the term. How else can you demonstrate you're not a poor person, except by sneering at the things less well off people do?

Caravan in the front garden

How is breastfeeding seen as chavvy?

I think nowadays it’s firmly middle class.

It’s usually the non-working class mums I see bottle feeding.

Mismatched crockery
Scruffy jackets
Muddy cars
Draughty houses
Parties that end with bottles being broken
Bizarre Christian names for children

My dad met the Duke of Westminster once in Co Fermanagh, reputedly the richest man in Britain. He had absolutely no idea who he was talking to at the time, and thought he was a vagrant.

All inclusive holidays.
Noisy parties.
Drinking at breakfast.
To some extent - Wearing a uniform to work.
Getting up late.

Seriously what job do you do that allows you to waste time on such topics such as define chav ?

What does it mean to be chavy? I come from a deprived area so think of myself as a bit of a chav by virtue of growing up there. I'm not ashamed of where I came from. I moved away and on paper live a very MC life.

About from that, I don't think it's about class or money. Its how you behave. Like drinking Stella with your top off at 10am walking down the street with your massive pit ball type dog while pushing a pram. That's a common non event in my home town.

Watching 11 people kicking a round ball up and down a muddy field with the objective of getting as many goals as possible followed by lots of heavy drinking, swearing and loud behaviour = chavvy.

Watching 15 people kicking an oval ball up and down a muddy field with the objective of getting as many goals as possible followed by lots of heavy drinking, swearing and loud behaviour = UC

Yes but the 'chavvy' people don't give a fuck and neither do rich people. They don't care if prissy people on MN judge them or not.
To add to the examples. School jumpers with holes in them and badly frayed sleeves.

With a few exceptions, most of the stuff listed on this thread is just annoying regardless of who does it.

Op isn't calling someone a chav. She's saying you would be branded that way for doing X y and z if you are poor. Christ.

Wearing a dressing gown to the supermarket Vs a fashion designer calling it an outdoor gown and parading it down a catwalk

I don't think most people would consider [...] speaking a second language "chavvy" though.....

You've obviously never met any UKIPper Tories. They would gladly exterminate any poor people who speak languages other than English among family/friends.

And she's certainly not being racist by pointing out classism or racism

This thread exposes the hypocrisy of snobs brilliantly.

Best answer

Kids with double-barrelled surnames.

Why don’t people make clear with it the two groups they are referring to? The lists need to be clarified. 🙄

…which of the two

A garden sofa.

But don't the points need to fit both groups?

Like Gambling.

Game of bingo or trip to bookies - chavvy.
Professional gambler - welcome to the family, old boy.

A garden sofa? You mean those horrendous wicker or plastic monstrosities? The ones usually squashed in beside a table, six chairs, a stool thing etc etc? They are definitely not middle class…

Posh kids with double-barrelled surnames - can be dated back to William the Conqueror, you know.

Non-posh kids with double-barrelled surnames - why doesn’t anyone get married before having kids any more? Tsk.

Yes!

I was meaning more of a comfortable seating arrangement, possibly around a lovely built-in fire pit.

As opposed to an old fly-tipped thing in the front garden.

But I’m off a council estate, so what would I know about posh?