You know what's REALLY chavvy....being poncy....

[SmileysPeople]

Reading the poncey thread it dawned om that many of those things are just the sort of thing the Beckhams would do.

And the Beckhams are the barometer of chavness. Chavness with money of course, but Daarling that's worse!

What do you reckon, would they:

Use Mont Blanc pens? check
have a personal trainer? check
Buy champagne (not Moet) by and case load and laugh with friends at the discount? check
Have a house with turret? check
get regular manicurse/pedicures? check
Never use plastic coat hangers? check
Order hampers from 'posh' shops? check
Only buy perfume that can't be purchased in high street chemist? defenitely

Be careful people, not so long ago, Burberry was poncey, you're trying to keep one step ahead of the nouveau, but feel that hot chavvy breath down your neck.

Give up go to Tesco's

this is going to kick off, mark my words

florence and fred aye

LOL if having a PT (personal trainer to you darrrling) is chavvy. You clearly haven't been in any of the gyms inside the big corporations at Canary Wharf!

And what's wrong with a regular pedicure, you only get one set of feet - you may as well look after them.

As for only buying perfume that can't be purchased in high street chemist who the hell wants to line the pockets of a celeb cashing in on their fame to flog us goods

errr I'm not quite sure that you understand what chav is ... you're not going to get the reaction you want with such a weak arguement.

wrong understanding of poncy AND chavvy here IMO

Indeed, Enid.

There are quite few chavs in Canary Wharf kaloo

My view of 'Chav' today is the Beckhams and the 'nouveau riche'ilk, an unsubtantiated and lighthearted throw away viewpoint I'm taking on for the day.

But I'm sure you're not one. Victoria Beckham would never be so defensive if it was suggested to her

Smileyspeople: I may be wrong but I thought that chaviness was buying fake designer gear and JJB Sports stuff etc. BTW, I hate the word chav: think it's just another way of displaying class contempt.

The Beckhams aren't chavs - they're nouveau riche. i.e. they show off their wealth in an ostentatious manner.

Agree the other thread was like that, but it's a larf innit.

chav seems to be the new label of todays youth, loads of jewellery, tracksuits and trainers, cider drinking and hanging outside the local off license and fake burberry.

This was meant to be lighthearted list which others could add to of poncey behaviour been taken over, by Chavs,as embodied by the Beckhams and WAGs etc.( aparticular brand of cahv with money i concede)

Not a critque of the word Chav. That's so much more dull.

SmileysPeople,

Round here, Tesco is poncey! Normal folk go the Asda!

Blimey where do you live??

Am I mistaken?

Is it not a truth widely known that the Beckhams are the King and Queen of Chav's? They are what the ones hanging around the chip shop aspire to.

Chavs with money seek to purchase the ponce, and then, sadly, it ceases to be poncy.

I refer to the Burberry example again.

but the point is that you can't purchase ponce

you just are

(admit nouveau parents may have genuinely poncey kids though)

St Helens - all right maybe Tesco isn't poncey exactly but it's certainly posher than Asda (and a hell of a lot more expensive!)

We don't even have a Sainsburys!

the asda !!

we have tesco, asda, sainsburys, morrisons, lidl, aldi and we did have waitrose but it closed and moved 10 miles away !

No Sainsburys??! so where do you buy your basil?
(basil quality in Tesco appalling)

Please tell me there IS a Waitrose.

Or should I send a food parcel

Waitrose? We don't even have one in Liverpool! I think the nearest is probably Manchester or Chester!

We do have an M&S.

I grow my own Basil though. How poncey is that!

But of course, all posh food parcels greatfully received!

Lulumama where is the Waitrose then is it in Preston?

formby !

Cath Kidston. Ultra chavvy.

Growing your own basil is pretty damn poncey

(but not Beckhamesque poncey )

but needs must, you ARE in an extreme situation, no Sainsburys OR Waitrose...has Ray Mears been there??

Do you just nip in for some buffalo mozzerella and foccacia bread to make sandwiches (not butties, not from Waitrose!) and sit watching the red squirrels at Freshfields?

Well Smileys, I have just learned there's a Waitrose in Formby... so when I learn to drive (public transport's not very poncey so I'll have to wait) I can just pop there!

Ray Mears is welcome to come here any time though I adore him

isn't it amazing how people in parts of the country like mine manage without a Waitrose

you have so got the wrong end of the stick about me mossy!!! LOLO

we love oeufs and pommes frites avec sauce brun !!