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

Oh that's a good one!

@DappledThings I may have lost the plot by that point! Books are not chavvy in themselves but it depends on what books you have or read. And NCT is just nonsensensical aspirational malarkey.

Re the day drinking — do you know Seth Meyers? He’s an American comedian & has a late night TV show. He’s very funny & has a “day drinking” segment on his show, occasionally. He takes a famous person to a local bar/pub and they have drinking games and challenges & basically just get drunk & laugh.
The guests I can remember have bee
That’s something he can get away with.
Going out in the middle of a Tuesday to purposely get wasted for a poor person would make people say “she’s spending all her money down at the pub, all day every day, getting wasted.” Even though they know they’re lying.

Unusual names for children

To the poster who asked, the 40 year old nanny one was a play on words. And classicist in itself. That's why it didn't actually make sense as a response to the thread.

Rich people can afford nannies.

Poor people have children young.
They're not the same thing, just a stereotype of the poor.

Hunting with dogs in order to rip apart another small creature.
Classy, 'o what fun, keep our country sports alive'
Chavy 'psycho nutters with dangerous dogs. Lock em up'

Too much jewellery.
Fire pit in the garden.
Fake tan.

Gaming obsessed teen:

• The future Bill Gates.. has he tried the code dojo club at school and I hear computer science at Oxford is great
• The future feckless unemployed.. Won’t study, will fail his exams and everyone knows gamers make terrible husbands.

Your house being owned by the state (council house Vs palaces)

Knowing how to light an open/ coal fire

Foraging (if hungry Vs to make jam )

Using candles as a light source

Having stone sculptures in your garden

Having a solicitor

Shooting a burglar

Using dry shampoo

Using soap/ bars to wash hair

Wearing hats

Building you own house

Having a great great (and great) granny (multiple generations of teen mums Vs living to 100)

Private schools (paid for by parents/family Vs paid for by the council due to behaviour/ sen)

Smoking (pipes/cigars Vs vaping/roll ups)

Art on walls (posters/ prints from b&m Vs original art bought from auction)

Going to auctions

Sleeping in a tree (commissioned tree house in own garden Vs road protester)

Unironed clothes

Revered gender roles in the household (woman bringing in more on benefits for caring/ Sen DC's Vs professional woman being comfortable enough to 'marry down')

Going to the theatre (Panto Vs ballet)

Having pet birds (pigeons/ cockatiels in cages Vs falconry)

MI5 having a file on you

SAHMs
Living on an Estate
Hands full of rings/signets/jewellery
Coke
Range Rover
Cans of beer

Well observed. Especially the chandeliers.

Do people with no taste - I’m presuming that’s what the OP thinks given the word “chavs” - have chandeliers?

Agree !

Excellent !

Yeah, but that was justified because her grandfather was the last Viceroy of India. A random India doesn't cut it and anyway it's moving downmarket now.
Upper classes round here are moving back to traditional girls' names: Elizabeth, Ann, Sarah, Victoria, Jane.
Adding owning and breeding lurchers.
Having a hall full of jumbled wellies, dog leads, old rain hats.
Having a series of buckets round the house to catch the drips.
Wearing trainers as a default style.
Messy updos
Knowing how to rod a blocked drain.

Coming from a larger than average family.

That one came as a shock to me.

Where we lived ie deprived area - knew few with larger than average families and people always assumed they weren't working, in council houses and multiple fathers - all wrong as all I knew both worked - Mum often p/t - owned own houses and it was the same man as father.

Same number of kids DH colleagues - very middle class profession - no comments at all and fair few were blended families.

You mean Mr Tumnus?

A chandelier in a terraced house would be judged as tacky. A chandelier in a larger house wouldn’t.

Spending hours in the gym, getting Botox and all other things body beautiful

Very subtle, very clever.

House names: See Nelson Mandela House etc. (we have several Random Councillor name"Houses" round our way,most about 14 stories high)

Pictures of your baby surrounded by needles.......thank tik tok for that one 🤣🤣

Depends on the chandelier. A tasteful brown-bronze metal one with natural, leaf type decoration and a trio of metal candle holders is perfectly lovely in a cottage setting, particularly if the cottage is listed. Two chandeliers in the one room work well too. Laura Ashley stocked such items.

I think they would be charming in a terraced house too. People just have to have the vision and some creativity.

Not all chandeliers are faux glass with droplets. Those can be very pretty too, of course.

…storeys

Being able to spell jewellery…