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?

silly fucking question, and you know full well that most of MN are as middle class as it comes

some questions better left in your head methinks

5%. i suspect my beer preference swung it.

the head to toe look was Burberry, not Prada, and it was Daniella Westbrook...

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0%, but if there had been a question about UGGs.....

Surely, Chav is a state of mind. Its not connected to income or what you have, its the way you see the world (owes you and consists entirely of your part of UK), the way you treat other people (either they're all huns or they're up themselves), your attitude to education (only good for snobs) and the way you live your life (nothing is my problem, why should I, what's in it for me) also chavs tend to have a rosy view of themselves (good people, salt of the earth, hugely moral).

And they keep DVDs in bookcases

I would quote BurningBridges above. Except for the bit about the DVDs in bookcases. What else they for, innit? Who do you think you're lookin' at?

Turn on your televsion - switch on The Jeremy Kyle Show...There is your answer.

Ain't nuffink wrong wiv Argos. My best mate nicked a quality stereo from there. I like Argos. It's convenient, and frequently good value for money.

What do Weight Watchers scales do differently from other scales?

I agree with chirpchirp - I make my son watch it occasionally so he knows what NOT to be. Innit.

"They will usually have a small shaven haired toddler with one earring called Henley"

I am now retreating from this thread. It will soon be awash with well-meaning MNers squarking about chav being "a horrid, horrid word."

5% gutted it wasn't 0%

Someone who bags the sunbeds on holiday with union flag beach towels

What I'd like to know is how to pronounce it: is it chav as in "have", or chav as in "shave"??

0 %. It's official, I have NO street cred!

No, it wasn't the Becks. I don't drink beer (too chavvy) so I chose Becks. Come on 'fess up' you wear a baseball cap don't you?

Chavs are nouveaux riches and the people who idolise and imitate them.

Oh and I got 10% chav. It was probably the piercing in my [redacted]

Hmm 5%. Must be the beer question which I was not able to answer "none" to as I do not drink beer but it did not give the option.

I must say mumsnet does seem rather class obsessed. How do you define which class you belong to? Is there a similar test for that? Or is it merely; are your childs toys made mainly out of a) wood or b) plastic?

I pronounce it as chav as in have.

Thanks HBs! That's what I thought - til my mum asked me if something I did or wore (can't remember what) was "a bit chave"
Deffo not doing test!!!

HTH

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From one extreme 'Jeremy Kile show participants' to another 'Only Way is Essex'