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

[SPsCliffingAllOverMN]

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?

Ned is a Scottish term meaning practically the same thing

Hyper It was just nanna. It was anything other the grandmother. My great grandma of 92 years old goes by a unusual name due to some circumstances when my grandad was a child. Everyone calls her this, her children, grandchild, friends etc. But apparently shes chavvy

Well that's crap as in RL you would prob say I was 'posh' and we use granny which is very acceptable to PLU (people like us- a term used by snobby people to say oooo she isn't very PLU) makes me chortle! Call your darling nanna what you like and fuck em! Does that now make me a chav?!!

I shouldn't worry SP. People on here have said nasty things about 4x4 drivers with personalised number plates, but do I take offence? Oh no, not me.

By your list i am the ultimate chav.

I can't wait to tell my DH later

Hyper Granny?! Yes I guess it does make you one

Exit I am yet to experience that. But if the day comes where I can afford a 4x4 and a personalized plate I will be doing a dignified two finger salute to them as I sat in it

Exit I think personalised number plates are deemed chavvy as it is considered an unnecessary show of cash/status (very frowned upon by the PLU brigade) again, if you have the cash and want to, who the hell cares?!

So if the OP was in Scotland would this thread be:

'This is ned, that is ned. Fuck off with the use of neddy?

Is that how it works?

Everything is chavvy on MN.

Granny is actually what most poshos call their grandmothers, even the queen is granny I believe?!!!! My granny grew up on India !! I bloody love her, still sinks a stiff G and T at 6 every evening!

Bowler Maybe so

I thought the term Chav originated from Chatham Kent?

I think some people on mn basically describe anything they wouldn't do / want to aspire to do as chavy. Rather than a difference of tastes

SP I think you need to understand something.when we refer to your age, we are not being ageist. We are being condesending.

condescending has a second c in it

No we are not. We are being jealous

"Council house and violent" is an urban myth. Surprised it keep being trotted out. The most usually accepted origin of the word is that it comes from the Romany word "chavi" meaning "child".

Nothing to do with Chatham, either. Or "Cheltenham average"!

All these other derivations are backformed and wrong.

Scottish here and yes things can be 'neddy'. Most heard used in terms of 'a group of neds' - think tracksuits and bottles of cider outside the coop!

Oh and I don't think the word Chav itself is the issue on Mnet.

It's the people who precede with

Dare I say it, chavvy

And

chavvy

That should be eliminated from posts.

Dude. I can't spell and wait for a bus it's too hard

Have to agree that what you call your grandmother - or what their children call theirs - does seem to be fraught with social difficulty and people will read class indications into it.

what your children call theirs I mean.

Chavvy is just shorthand for common IMO. Not particularly nasty, just a bit snobby. In the same way that people talk about yummy mummys, hooray henrys, hipsters etc From what OP has posted she would probably seem a bit chavvy to me, but no doubt I would be considered snobby, poncy and pretentious by many on this thread. Who cares what other people think? If you really care about the judgement of others that much, I would suggest you are not all that happy in how you do things?

From what OP has posted she would probably seem a bit chavvy to me

Depends on what Chavvy means to you?