you see THIS was a chav

[Twiglett]

on Sunday went to a local country fair

was watching a bloke with no shirt, tattoos and baseball cap and bad teeth play with his 8 year old and 12 year old

they were chucking hay from the hay bales over each other

saw another bloke point to his little girl, of about 18 months, and say something (couldn't hear what but assume asking him to be careful)

Chav proceeded to f' and blind and scream at the father for about 5 minutes, gesticulating wildly whilst his children looked on with gleeful laughter

father and toddler with mother and slightly older child just got up and left

chav, disgusting foul bloke, ruining it for everyone

we left

Sorry, you've not made it quite clear enough...... did this oaf happen to be working class?

was that in SE London

There were several such specimens at Lambeth. Yelling f* at their children at the top of their voices. 6 mo baby clad in arsenal strip, etc.

It was unedifying.

I don't think he had any class at all actually

Why use the word chav ( a word I hate) selfish prick sounds more like it.

don't think it's being working class in itself. My parents are working class- it's something different, a new phenomenon.

oh - gosh darn it - i have always been wrong - its RUDE tatooed people hat constitute a 'chav'

jesus

So, do only chavs dress their kids in football shirts?

Or is it just because it was Arsenal?

No. But there's a certain phenomenon near where I live- really foul mouthed little boys all wearing Arsenal strip (never Chelsea, occasionally Crystal Palace). I don't know why but it's noticeable.

WWW, what is unedifying to you about how someone dresses their baby?

I'm assuming you weren't just pointing that out as some crass stereotype?

I know nil about football but it probably is something to do with Arsenal

Ergo: any child wearing an Arsenal strip is a chav?

Ds has both chelsea and Arsenal strips.
Dd had the England kit during the world cup/euro cup thing and would have been about 10 months.

i have a tatoo, im working class, i come from SW London

guess im a chav then

it a derogatory term for people who don't wear boden.

irony anyone

Mamazon - there is nothing wrong with being working class but I don't think it makes you a chav. They are not the same thing.

So are Crocs chav or not?

I am working class

I have never worn Boden

I am a chav

God, that feels good - liberating.

I urge you all to try it

stop hijacking my thread with yer footie strips and crocs

its about the foul-mouthed bare-chested, bad-toothed bloke swearing at another family in front of young kids .. and his kids LAUGHING at him for doing so

Honestly, these threads are really starting to grate.

It goes without saying that any right thinking person would hate to see a child being sworn at, hit, treated like rubbish etc etc,

but you can just sense the glee before posting "ooh this'll get me some brownie points. i'll chuck in a couple of tattoos, foul language, crap food and maybe a Fruit Shoot for good measure"

Its pathetic and desperate and disingenuous.

I agree with twig.

WTF is wrong with using a term as a catch-all for people exhibiting horrific attitudes

I think chav fits quite nicely actually

I am not sure that man Twigg was necessarily a chav - obviously he had no social skills and I would have been equally as horrified as you and the other family

oh get off your high horse before you feckin' fall