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AIBU to think that the word chav is crass and overused in this talk section?

82 replies

wrongun · 28/10/2009 01:01

Chav and Chavvy, and they are always used by the same class of poster
Am I the only one sick of seeing this?

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BunnyLebowski · 28/10/2009 01:04

But how else (zipping up one's boden pintuck tunic) does one describe 'the others'?

Monsterspam · 28/10/2009 01:07

It's better than "lower-class" or "peasant"

Missy8c · 28/10/2009 01:07

LOL Bunny!

BunnyLebowski · 28/10/2009 01:07

Of course one doesn't zip up a boden tunic. Ignore me in my errazuriz soaked state

What do you mean by 'class of poster'?.

BunnyLebowski · 28/10/2009 01:10

To elaborate, one pulls it over one's immaculately coiffed do as opposed to zips. What was I thinking?!.

One wouldn't want to get a pull in the merino dahling

Quattrofangs · 28/10/2009 01:10

I find the baby names threads the most hilarious threads on MN

Only in this section do you get posters wanting to call their sons Bear. And River.

Rofl

People need ENCOURAGING to post here, not being abused as chavvy

And most of the threads belong in classics

wrongun · 28/10/2009 01:12

The 'class of poster' (ie lower-class or peasant ) who use the word chav and chavvy and other vulgar terms of course.

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Monsterspam · 28/10/2009 01:16

They should be shot. I bet they're all single mothers on benefits anyway.

nearlybeans · 28/10/2009 01:22

Crass and overused?

1001cylinder · 28/10/2009 01:31

Yanbu

nearlybeans · 28/10/2009 01:36

A thread about a thread...

I don't like it myself - why don't people just say common? (If that's what they mean...)

Poohbearsmom · 28/10/2009 01:39

Hehe yer so funny and at last i think i understand what chav means (since noone explained it for da poor Paddy earlier )

nearlybeans · 28/10/2009 01:46

Actually, I find it all offensive. But especially the word "chav".

bwhoooaaraghost · 28/10/2009 01:47

I'd say what I really meant.

It seems to be a lazy generic term used by the aspirational working classes in order to disassociate themselves.

Boden is not posh surely

bwhoooaaraghost · 28/10/2009 01:50

Barbour maybe.

MonstrousMerryHenry · 28/10/2009 01:50

Sorry, am confused by the positioning of this thread. Are you suggesting Chav and Chavvy as baby names??

nearlybeans · 28/10/2009 01:52

Ha! Depends who wears it...

nooka · 28/10/2009 05:40

I'm not too keen on the term, but names do have connotations, and if you post for opinions, opinions is what you get.

Earthstar · 28/10/2009 07:18

Perhaps there should be an autoresponse for all proposed baby names saying "yes that's lovely dear"

if you want to know what people really think then let them reply however they like.

GibbonWithAnAppleBobbingBibOn · 28/10/2009 07:37

I had a long break from MN and came back recently. Have to say I was gobsmacked at how it is seemingly OK for such words to be bandied about on MN these days.

CantThinkofFunnyName · 28/10/2009 07:42

CHAV actually means Council Housed And Violent. It was an abbreviation first used in Chatham, Kent - just for everyone's information. FACT.

And YANBU - winds me up just because I wish people knew what it actually meant before using the term.

VineGruesomeCock · 28/10/2009 07:46

I hate the use of this word, especially on MN, but i guess some posters can't think of anything more articulate to say

As for this - 'They should be shot. I bet they're all single mothers on benefits anyway.' same as above

MaggieBruja · 28/10/2009 07:53

Chav doesn't mean council house or violent . Some say it's an old romany word that just means child.

But wherever it came from, it just means deliberately flash, ostentatious, label-conscious. Chav people can live in a five bedroomed mansion.

I'm a single-parent on benefits fwiw, don't shoot me but I don't see it as nasty to let people know that names they are considered may be perceived negatively by the rest of society. ALL things being equal, most people would rather give their child a name which won't be problematic or disadvantageous. If somebody offers up the chav adjective, well then at least the OP knows, even if they choose to ignore or disbelieve that comment.

DougalDoneGood · 28/10/2009 08:08

"Some say it's an old romany word that just means child"

That's what I was told too. It's short for Chavioli which means child. No idea if it's true or not.

MRSwereWOOLFhasabroomofherown · 28/10/2009 08:59

I dislike the term, but it is a term favoured by a few, and it does (and will continue to) come up often on the board regardless.

I confess I thought chav came from the Cheltenham average I'd personally define it as somebody who was rather vulgar; moneyed or otherwise.

ps I love Boden, but it is quite mainstream nowadays.