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Original poster

This is chavvy, that is chavvy. Fuck off with the use of chavvy

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SPsCliffingAllOverMN · 22/05/2013 13:47

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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SPsCliffingAllOverMN · 22/05/2013 17:20

this is cliffing goal

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TantrumsAndBalloons · 22/05/2013 17:20

goal I think you misunderstand

I don't think being called chavvy is a good thing. I haven't chosen things because they are chavvy. And if someone calls my sons name, or my dog, or my house, or any other area of my life chavvy they are being insulting. Not pleasant.
If you disagree with someone's choices, that's all good. The world would be pretty boring if we all liked the same stuff.

But chavvy has become an acceptable way of saying common or somehow beneath someone. That's the issue.

Heartbrokenmum73 · 22/05/2013 17:21

Eurgh, SPs - just been sick in my face!

Goal · 22/05/2013 17:21

Sp- that link should come with a warning! Dear lord, I don't know if I can recover from that.

Original poster
SPsCliffingAllOverMN · 22/05/2013 17:21

Tantrums I've been trying to explain that all the way through the thread

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SPsCliffingAllOverMN · 22/05/2013 17:22

You did ask Goal Grin

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TantrumsAndBalloons · 22/05/2013 17:22

Ha, you didn't catch me out this time SP

I never click your links now Grin

GoodbyePorkPie · 22/05/2013 17:22

Gosh, that pic... Shock

Mind you, I know plenty of women (including my mum) who would still lick the sweat off that buff brown chest.

Goal · 22/05/2013 17:23

Tantrums- I didn't misunderstand. So some people don't like your choices,why does that matter? Why do you care?

Chanatan · 22/05/2013 17:23

There,s some judgy pants being hoisted real high on this thread.

limitedperiodonly · 22/05/2013 17:23

What the actual fuck is middle class food?

In my posh gym a woman didn't want to share the bench because she didn't like the look of me. It was a bit difficult, but I'm well brung up so I didn't say anything even though I dearly wanted to punch her up the froat.

She and her daughter were discussing dinner. Her 11-year-old shouted: ''Yay! Dolmio and pasta. My favourite."

I judged in my working class meat and potatoes way. I didn't say anything but my eyes might have betrayed something.

Anyway, if all you can afford is a jar of sauce and pasta, fine. Not if you think you're a cut above.

TantrumsAndBalloons · 22/05/2013 17:23

I know SP

Maybe we should be grateful to be called chavvy?
Even though its basically someone saying "I am so much better than you because I would not dream of naming my child "

Goal · 22/05/2013 17:23

Pork pie- I am now feeling nauseous!

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SPsCliffingAllOverMN · 22/05/2013 17:25

Pork What goal said. No need Grin

Tantrums Well it seems everything is deemed as chavvy. Cant win either way.

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AmberSocks · 22/05/2013 17:26

being middle class is also ridiculed,as is being posh,all classes are ridiculed,its just part of life.

TantrumsAndBalloons · 22/05/2013 17:26

goal again I don't care if people do not like my choices.

I do care that I am called a chav because, for example, my DS name is not on the mumsnet approved list. Because chav is an insult. Like common.
that is what I object to.

Just because you don't like something, there's no need to say that someone is a chav. It's an insult. Just say "that's not a name I would have picked"

TwistTee · 22/05/2013 17:28

I happily dress my dd in peppa pig and hello kitty and my 4 mth ds already has gruffalo bibs. I do not wear make up, live in sandals even when its cold and I am growing grey at the ripe old age of 34. But I am not a chav, I am essentric Wink.

Goal · 22/05/2013 17:28

You seei would say that Chavez a descriptor, same as hipster, hooray Henry, lentil weaver, crusty etc etc

Goal · 22/05/2013 17:29

Chav obvs not Chavez

LynetteScavo · 22/05/2013 17:29

The thing is, there was obviously a gap in the English language for the word chavvy.

"Naff" just doesn't have quite the same punch as chavvy.

LynetteScavo · 22/05/2013 17:31

Middle class is very ridiculed on MN..but nobody kicks up a fuss because they are secretly happy to be MC.... obviously no body want to be a chav.

TheSecondComing · 22/05/2013 17:31

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limitedperiodonly · 22/05/2013 17:32

silver why do you think the Rooneys don't have taste?

They own some of the most prestigious brands in the world owned by some of the most prestigious people in the world.

Is it just because you can't afford the same stuff?

wigglesrock · 22/05/2013 17:33

Chav is a pejorative term. There's no upside to its use. I don't use it, it's horrible.

scottishmummy · 22/05/2013 17:33

this is so indulgent,and oh my giddy aunt.im struggling to get your point tbh
chavvy (esp on MN) generally means common,undesirable, object of derison
but you know thta already reading the thread. which prompts an and....so what

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