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?

A Chav is usually a White family who consist of 3 or four generations of women who have lots of children with different men who are on benefits have no motive to get off it.

A Chav is someone whose children are badly behaved but feels their child is the victim people who allow their children to swear,skip school and disrespect adults.
Someone who thinks a kabab with salad is a Suarez meal

Someone whom has all the gadgets sky, xbox,lap top but don't have any books in the house apart from their bright house payment book.

Low aspiration,high crime and below good parenting = chav

Oh dear, I think I am a chav then. I have a brown sofa and pictures of my kids on the wall...and laminate flooring...{hangs head in shame}

10%.

And that was because I live in Romford -

Do I get X-tra points if I move to Brentwood?

Brilliant observation slightlyslimmerkath

It's someone who is very very common.

hang on, we have books..i'm saved

WinterIsComing People round here dont pay and wait for tickets. If it cant be lifted and hid under a buggy its no good.

Here in Sunny Romford (Chavsville Central if you believe the DM) the babies' buggies are a delicate balancing acts of baby V all the bags hooked onto the handles, while muvver holds her Blackberry and fag, thus ignoring DC.
If they shoplifted things into the bottom of the buggy it might balance it better

Chav is a horrid word used by middle class people to assure themselves that they are better than others.

I would suspect that I would score 100% in a Chav test. It beats being dull.

You can be working class, like a bit of bling and have a house full of books.

5% coz of dat tym I lyk, shagged a bouncer, innit bruv
My sister is a bit of a chav, never goes anywhere without full slap on, rytes in txt spk, and has matching Ed Hardy tracksuits and f'Uggs for her DCs! (One of whom is a boy. A boy in f'Uggs fgs!)
I still love her wouldn't dare not to in case she found out

0% :o

0% for me.

I don't think you can ever narrow a particular group of people down to suit the word "Chav".

One of my friends is a bit of a Chav but she is lovely. It's just the big gold hoop earings and uggs that do it. She's very hard working though and a fabulous mother.

Then there's the "chavs" who tuck the trakki bottoms into their socks while sporting big gold chains and chunky gold rings walking around with a swagger. Some are fucking horrible people and some are quite lovely.

The "chavs" who live on benefitz innit and keep popping out kidz by different fathers. The one's who are shouting for "Spirit" & "Chardonnay" in the shop and two little girls appear.

"Chavs" seem to have a reputation, some are good, some are bad and some are downright nasty pieces of work. But the same can be said about any other "class" of person!

No idea of that made sense, it's early and ds2 had me up more times than usual last night!

Teenage boys who oddly have that transucent pale skin like they never see daylight, hoodie, pierced ears, with large Elizabth Duke zirconia rocks in. Slightly malnourished, joggers down around their knees showing underpants. Gold optional.

Girls: greyhound skirts and loads of cleavage. Alternatively pyjama bottoms tucked into fake uggs. Walk like a teapot (oversided bag on crook of the elbow with arm out at a 45 degree angle. Odd shade of cuprinol. Matted birdsnest hair. Frequently dyed what I term East European purple.

Thats the teenage chavs.

Notch it up to the early 20's chav. Much the same but the hair has moved into a Croydon face lift. the face is pinched and suffering that malnourished look, pursed lips, usually with a fag on the go. The greyhound skirt has given way to joggers but the fake uggs stay. Or those awful Primark knitted ugg-a-likes. Pushing a pram bedecked with iceland carriers. 3 or 4 kids of varying shades of cafe au lait.

The boys. Aquire a baseball cap at this stage. Fag out of gob. Lots of gold bling by this stage. Sovereigns, keeper rings. Obligatory staffy by now. Tin of cheapo larger.

Everyone saying 'innit'.

I only got 5% despite my dog rough council estate upbringing.

And chavness is a state of mind. I really don't buy the 'conspiracy against the working classes' angle.

10%.. I think it was the genital piercing

Greyhound skirts ? Am I going to regret asking ?

anyone who doesn't shop at waitrose

(runs and hides)

10%

The greyhound is only 2 inches away from the 'hare'

I got 0% despite having children by more than 1 father.

I really dislike the term. Mostly I see people using is to refer to people who they consider to be beneath them. At uni the ones who had gone to top boarding schools would think everyone else who didn't was a bit chavy. Those who had gone to private day or grammar schools would think that those who went to comps were a bit chavy. The ones who had gone to comps would think the locals were the chavs. The locals probably had their own ideas.
I imagine some people would consider me a chav whilst others would think i'm a bit posh.