AIBU?
All I seem to see lately is the word chavvy to describe names, items, clothes etc that people don't like.
So far names that aren't Arlo or Benedict, are double barreled or start with a K are chavvy.
Using Nanna is chavvy.
Wearing character clothing (children) is chavvy.
Everything is fucking chavvy. It makes me wonder what people think chavvy means? Am I the only one who has noticed this?
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AIBU?
This is chavvy, that is chavvy. Fuck off with the use of chavvy
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SPsCliffingAllOverMN · 22/05/2013 13:47
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claig ·
23/05/2013 20:09
'I knew a woman who looked 'chavvy' and sounded 'chavvy', think Essex Girl, who was in fact a troubled but very intelligent and thoughtful young woman'
I come from chav county - Essex in the East of England. They say we are all chavs here, but we don't care. I think New Labour holds not a single seat in our entire county, which is why it is often called God's Own County. 
Chavs are brash and flash and ambitious and aspiring. That is Essex. They mock us and knock us because they fear us, because we want social mobility and we are too brash to wait in line and obey the rules on taste and etiquette that they dictate.
We commuted from all parts of our county in search of gold and bounty and worked in the City and we displaced the toffs in bowler hats, the old Etonians with their old school cravats, and all the other privileged posh prats because we were more dynamic and brash than them. That is why they knock us, because they know we are coming and we will take their jobs which is why they call us yobs. Ian Dury wrote songs about us - Plaistow Patricia and Clever Trevor - that are still sung in our pubs and clubs today, we are movbing up the social ladder towards a brighter day.
They can knock the chavs all they like, but this is the century of the chav and the chavs will keep coming and the musicians Ian Dury's tunes will keep strumming.
RhinestoneCowboy ·
23/05/2013 19:07
I actually thing "chav" is an interesting word.
I think it means someone without any values (and therefore taste).
Chavs have no religious beliefs or political beliefs or intellectual interests. They have no sense of loyalty or community e.g. think of the old days e.g. trade unions, or skilled work. They are therefore people of our time, in a way floating around, almost completely disconnected.
They are also only concerned only with superficialities like how they look, because that is really all that counts.
Personally, I think though it must occasionally be fun 
it must be also be hell to live like a chav for more than 24 hours. The hangovers, the junk food, the false eyelashes, the rubbish TV, the sheer conformity and boringness of it all.
(However, do be warned, appearances can be deceptive! I knew a woman who looked 'chavvy' and sounded 'chavvy', think Essex Girl, who was in fact a troubled but very intelligent and thoughtful young woman).
LaQueen ·
23/05/2013 18:56
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LaQueen ·
23/05/2013 18:53
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I was a chav and I didn't know it.
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