to eradicate the words 'chavvy' and 'common' from the MN lexicon

[OrmRenewed]

They are lazy words. They mean 'anything that I don't like and am not'. If you dislike something enough to issue a sweeping and insulting comment about it, have the decency to give accurate and precise reasons for it.

can i keep chavtastic and chavpoline?

What about Twunt?

I love Twunt...

YABU
Let the deeply insecure keep their means of feeling better about themselves.

I was just thinking the same thing Lady!

can we get rid of chillax as well? ITS NOT A WORD!

Yes you can keep twunt - it a good word. I don't like 'chav' in any of it's manifestations TBH biddy. Sorry

BTW what is chavpoline?

'Common', I love common, that's my (v working class) Mum's highest insult. Usually applied to swearing teenagers.

the big trampolines that overrun all council estates

I don't agree.

Chav doesn't mean anything I don't like - there are lots of things I don't like that are not Chav. David Cameron for one.

I don't get why people don't like term, it's purely a statement of fact.

OOh well you definitely can't keep it then. We have a big trampoline in a garden too small for it. And DC love it. Not a council estate though.

Common was applied to anyone who lived on a council estate according to my mum...

Relieved about Twunt..

Are we not allowed trampolines anymore?

But housewife, if you wore big gold hoop earrings you presumably wouldn't call them chavvy as you like them, but others might.

Only council houses have big trampolines? thats why I hate the word chav ..right there

I must admit most of my ire is directed at 'common'. I hate it! It seems to me the essence of petty snobbery.

Then you also have to wipe "posh" "snobby" "middle-class" "Rah"

And "Chavvy" is simply aa summing up of "Everything I dislike about people who are poorer and less educated than myself"

I only use common when someone is claiming that their way is better, for some indefinable reason (ie ironed jeans and matching socks).

It's not common to do these things, it's common to insist that doing these things is the only way to reasonably conduct one's life.

We lived on a council estate but, according to Mum, weren't common because we didn't swear or have drunken slanging matches in the street.

Well I'm not sure. As quite a posh middle-class and possibly 'Rah' (when younger) person myself I don't find those offensive. I think I can live with them.

i lived on a council estate when i was little and my friends mum wouldnt let her play with me cos i was 'common'

guess where my friend lives now?

How am I going to give out about chavs and commoners? I don't think they're lazy descriptions, they're handy becasuse they're normally pretty accurate.

How about "colourful" Mayor? That's the term my grandmother would use. Much less sneering.

Colourful.

Ugh

I'd rather someone thought I was commmon than so plain awful I had to be described with a euphemism.

Well what does common mean then mayor? Give me a precise meaningful description that does not display personal prejudice. And no, saying 'there are a lot of them' is not a meaningful definition, it means a great deal more than that.

So what word CAN I use for 'anything that I don't like and am not'?

If we get rid of common and chavvy can we also get rid of snobby and up him/herself? They are after all just the other side of the class was.