Chav?
"Chavs"
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I think the bacronym sums it up well enough in itself: Council House And Violent
That violent little feral miscreant that roams the streets and thinks that robbing, stabbing and generally anything illegal is cool.
Don't act like you have no idea, you know exactly what a chav is.
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This post is right on the money, thank you!
Haha quality.
Show me a word in popular culture with such popularity and meaning as "chav" that doesn't get misused ? I have yet to understand why you care so much, it seems weird unless many of your friends or family are indeed what could be described as chav, or you yourself have been called chav on occasion and thus find it offensive. Either way who really gives a ****.
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When did it become a bad thing to think less well of people who are scum, criminals, moral lacking drain on society.
Is it really snobbery to look down on people because they are scum?
Personally I see snobbery as any people that simply regard themselves better for no reason. LIke a rich person who might look down on a doctor because he didn't go to Oxford and the like, or someone who instantly behaves rudly and instantly distrusts someone because they appear poorer, like someone who treats a waiter, shop assistant, plumber like scum because they aren't lawyers/doctors/bankers(lately, probably not the latter one
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When you aren't a criminal, and treat people well, and think its wrong to knife people to get their wallets or for ****'s and giggles, are you a snob for thinking badly of those who do, and giving that group of people a name?
If you don't think yourself better than those people, if you don't look down on them and want to always be better than them, somethings wrong IMHO. If you think what they are doing is wrong, they you should naturally feel better than them, if you don't think you're superior to them, you probably don't think what they are doing is wrong in the first place, again, somethings wrong there.
It doesn't matter what started or what an original meaning of a word was, they change, people use words for different things and as slang. Chav is very obviously and widely used to describe, well, scum. Its not council house people, its council house people who act in a certain way, its not all criminals, its criminals who , I guess you'd say do a certain subset of crimes for a certain reason. Muggings for personal gain, or for no reason at all, murders, petty crimes, vandalism, etc, etc. I wouldn't really call a white collar crime person a chav, though I don't hold them in any higher esteem either.
The only people that seem to get upset by the term is those that say, maybe live in a council house, live around chavs but aren't one, but assume everyone thinks they are one too. Don't act like one, people won't treat you like one basically, its that simple.
Is it really snobbery to look down on people because they are scum?
Personally I see snobbery as any people that simply regard themselves better for no reason. LIke a rich person who might look down on a doctor because he didn't go to Oxford and the like, or someone who instantly behaves rudly and instantly distrusts someone because they appear poorer, like someone who treats a waiter, shop assistant, plumber like scum because they aren't lawyers/doctors/bankers(lately, probably not the latter one
).When you aren't a criminal, and treat people well, and think its wrong to knife people to get their wallets or for ****'s and giggles, are you a snob for thinking badly of those who do, and giving that group of people a name?
If you don't think yourself better than those people, if you don't look down on them and want to always be better than them, somethings wrong IMHO. If you think what they are doing is wrong, they you should naturally feel better than them, if you don't think you're superior to them, you probably don't think what they are doing is wrong in the first place, again, somethings wrong there.
It doesn't matter what started or what an original meaning of a word was, they change, people use words for different things and as slang. Chav is very obviously and widely used to describe, well, scum. Its not council house people, its council house people who act in a certain way, its not all criminals, its criminals who , I guess you'd say do a certain subset of crimes for a certain reason. Muggings for personal gain, or for no reason at all, murders, petty crimes, vandalism, etc, etc. I wouldn't really call a white collar crime person a chav, though I don't hold them in any higher esteem either.
The only people that seem to get upset by the term is those that say, maybe live in a council house, live around chavs but aren't one, but assume everyone thinks they are one too. Don't act like one, people won't treat you like one basically, its that simple.
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Oh do try harder!
I don't "care" that much at all, it just seems like it's a word that pops up far too often to, as has already been stated describe someone that the poster doesn't like, be they chav or not. It's lazy.
Because personal insults aren't allowed, I could call you an annoying pedantic git but that's a bit personal. So I'm going to allude to you being a chav instead.
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innit
You don't care, yet you post a thread complete with emotive language and tone, a rolleyes smiley, and a virtual tear rolling down the screen. Oh do try harder...
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I didn't say that I didn't care, I said that I didn't "care" that much. This is the internet, it's not always easy to get meaning across so when they're written in context it helps if they're taken that way.
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