To ask you to define what a Chav is for me

[alowVera]

what makes someone a Chav? How do you know you are not one?

take this ?

I have no idea.. but am in a stupid mood.

Oops Seems I am 20% Chav, that must be coz I nicked that blokes shoes innit?

David Beckham would be a male chav. Sort of ratty of face and tatty of body. Wears sports clothes and diamond earrings.

Kerry Katona and Jordan are female chavs.

Apparently I'm only 5%.

Someone who buys things from Argos?

What is this- 2003?

Is Argos Chavvy?

Yes BoF, apparently

(I don't think it's serious..)

I am 5% too!!

IIRC it means council house and violent. It's an awful term to describe anyone.

I just took the 'chav' test, I'm 5% chav.

anyone who hasn't been skiing. Vile scum the lot of them.

30%!!!! t'is the drinking carling in my bright white trainers that did it for me! damn it!!

5%!!!!!!!

I think it was the question about what beer I drink. I don't drink any but it wouldn't let me say "none" so I had to chose one.

I like real ales.

Aggressive teenagers from White middle class background who engage in anti social behaviour such as street drinking, drug abuse, rowdiness and other juvenile delinquency (not David beckham then) so it says on Wikipedia

I never got 'council house and violent'. I thought chavs were people with more money than taste... bit loud and boorish... what my mother would have called 'common' (in the pejorative sense)

I thought they wore hoodies and tracksuits round their arses and said innt alot

It is someone who stays home all day and smokes weed from 9am to 9pm each day.
On the day their benefit money goes into the bank they have a huge party and play music until 4am, 3 nights in a row.
When they have run out of money they will row with their girlfriend on the street in their pj's at 11am or if we are really lucky tracksuit bottoms and no top.
They will usually have a small shaven haired toddler with one earring called Henley [yes really].
I also had my suspicions they were chav's but it was confirmed the day I saw their burberry double bedding hanging from their washing line.

I always *

I live ina council house, Im a Psychiatric Nurse and laugh at this, Im certainly not a Chav. But since I live in Scotland I wouldnt be 1 anyway I would be a NED (non-educated deliquent, but Im not that either I would go with lovesicecreams definition as I alway associate anti scoial behaviour with Neds, chav seems to get banded around an awful lot these days to describre anyone that someone else defines as "common".

Kerry katona when she wore head to toe prada and that prada pram... Ughh!

0%! Never been so pleased!

I thought the term evolved.
It was originally the nasty nouveau riche like beckham...all brass and no class. Wag type people.
Then it evolved into being a description of the "culture" who emulated these people - poorly educated, benefit using, rough types who wander around in knock-off market gear. Vicky pollard's mates.

Up in the North East they were called 'Charvers' long before anyone called them Chavs anywhere else. And yes, my mother would just call them 'common' too. Never thought of it as applying to the nouveau riche.