in thinking that the word 'chav' is an overused and lazy term to describe anything we feel is vulgar ?

[MaryAnnSingleton]

it annoys me that it's applied so often on mumsnet

What are creoles?

YANBU it's a horrible term and is discriminatory in the same way as racist/sexist/hmophobic taunts IMO.

The worst vitriol seems to be amongst adolescents (I work with them for my sins), "Emo", Goths and Bods etc. are extremely disparaging of their "chav" counterparts and worryingly this isn't discouraged by their parents, in actual fact sometimes it seems to be encouraged!

They are earrings of course peacelily. Didn't you even know that

I am NOT middle class, what a flaming insult

Thanks for clearing that up !

Well said Scottishmummy - ned is an excellent word.

I don't like it - Janice Turner wrote about it in T2 this morning saying that it was a ghastly word. I agree with her. It seems that the white working class are the last group that its ok to laugh at and take the piss out of.

Not on really.

When someone wearing Boden visits your house and asks to "use the toilet" you might suck your teeth in and think they were COMMON. They would be unlikely to be a CHAV, though.

I have heard some people refer to others as non-PLU. I didn't know what this meant until I was told it stands for "People Like Us". I thought that was an awful put-down!

I just did, laughing, whats wrong with boden anyway?

If anyone was judgemental enough to use the term "non PLU" about me, I would take it as a compliment.

PLU is a Gay term for people like us!

NED = Non Eductated Delinquant(sp?)

We left them behind when we moved. Good fucking riddance.

It seems that 'Boden' is applied in a similar way - a general catch all word to describe middle class gentille folk - it annoys me because that is so lazy

dont actually know what boden is

tbh i think the boden classes can take it. it's when people kick downwards at an underclass that it's particularly shitey, imo.