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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 15:05

Thank you.

I would like to know what 'chav' actually means to people? As mentioned where I live its not something you want to be called

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Fillyjonk75 · 22/05/2013 15:05

Back at sixth form college the townies were the kids who looked like they were in East 17. They probably called us goths/hippies/grungers or much worse. In the 1980s chavs were "casuals".

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SPsCliffingAllOverMN · 22/05/2013 15:05

Owl I'm in Leeds and its been used up here since I was a child

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OwlLady · 22/05/2013 15:06

do you say hooray henry? I have always thought it was Hoorah or hurah as I wrote in my earlier post :o

It's funny really because Henry would still have been a name used by the working classes anyway, my Granddad was called Henry for example and he was a milkman

OwlLady · 22/05/2013 15:07

how old are you Sps? I had never heard it until I moved to Kent (10 years ago) It certainly was never used in my part of the Midlands

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SPsCliffingAllOverMN · 22/05/2013 15:08

I'm 22

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SPsCliffingAllOverMN · 22/05/2013 15:09

I was called a chav for wearing my adidas popper trackies by my cousins who had a mother who wouldn't let them have any and they had to wear school type trousers in after school. They were obviously jealous Grin

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EleanorFarjeon · 22/05/2013 15:10

My 14 yr old & his mates use the word chavvy.

They use it to describe a dodgy type, ie a local kid that smokes & hangs around with known trouble makers is called a chav.

VinegarDrinker · 22/05/2013 15:10

Yes scally or townie was the equivalent when I was a teenager (i'm 29) - still nasty, snobby terms referring to the working classes but more about clothes than anything else, chav has become a much more all encompassing term IME.

Fillyjonk75 · 22/05/2013 15:11

Hoorays usually take up more space than the average human being, think they are god's gift to the earth and that everyone should hear the particular point they are braying. There was a definite hooray family on holiday last year who somehow managed to take up the entire swimming pool between the four of them. Probably thought they were more entitled to it than others. A particular kind of anti-social behaviour. No spatial awareness.

Bowlersarm · 22/05/2013 15:11

owl I think there are several names that are used by both aristocrats and the working class like Henry, Charlie, George possibly. Possibly because for a long time working classes named their children along royalty lines.

OwlLady · 22/05/2013 15:14

22? you are a bayyyybeeee

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SPsCliffingAllOverMN · 22/05/2013 15:15

Dont be ageist now owl Grin

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OwlLady · 22/05/2013 15:16

oh not this again :o

Sparklypinknails · 22/05/2013 15:16

Where we live it seems to be used mainly to describe people like the ones stereotyped on that "Skint" programme on channel 4. I've heard it also used to describe people who have money but the person describing them has decided they have no taste when they spend it. So basically is seems to be used when the person using it wants to feel like they above the "chavvy" person.

And I'm jealous SP! I had the stripes but no poppers Envy

TantrumsAndBalloons · 22/05/2013 15:18

Oh my name is chavvy apparently.
And my sons name is a "bad boys" name.
And my daughters name is not only made up,but also a cruel name to give a child? Apparently.

Do I give a fuck? Nope.
But I agree SP that there are some truly bizarre things that are called chavvy on here.

Fillyjonk75 · 22/05/2013 15:18

I've heard it also used to describe people who have money but the person describing them has decided they have no taste when they spend it.

That's "new money". Very new money.

JenaiMorris · 22/05/2013 15:19

"Casual" wasn't an insult in the 80s.

OwlLady · 22/05/2013 15:22

see I can't stand all the snobbery surrounding nouveau rich either

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SPsCliffingAllOverMN · 22/05/2013 15:22

Sparkly Yes I had the poppers. I had the black with the bright orange stripes. Style! Grin

Tantrums How nutty is saying Nanna is chavvy? Or anything over then grandmother is chavvy?

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Hyperhelpmum · 22/05/2013 15:24

When I was young I hated being called posh for calling it supper not tea and for going to boarding school. It's never nice to be called names in a negative way whatever the name is.

Hyperhelpmum · 22/05/2013 15:26

Ps the nanna thing is because a nanny was someone you paid to look after your child not a respected and adored grandparent. I don't think it's chav whatever that means but it's not what I grew up using and my children don't use it either. It's like loo and toilet. Just some people say one thing some say another. Does not make them better or worse, it's just what you have been taught to say isn't it?

OwlLady · 22/05/2013 15:27

Hyperhelpmum, I was called posh at school because we had a utility room Shock

ExitPursuedByABear · 22/05/2013 15:29

What is a Ned?

Hyperhelpmum · 22/05/2013 15:29

Lol owl lady!!!! No one ever saw my house as at boarding school and lived abroad. How sad is that? (weeps at neglected childhood in posh boarding school!)