You mean the piece on NPR this morning? It couldn't have been more condescending and insulting if she used an electric insult machine on National Condescend to Fans Day.

It was a British colonial sort of condescending. "Oh, look at these silly natives and let me imply the superiority of Britannia, er, New York-based totebag carrying liberals."

Yeah, Chav is a particularly unpleasant new term - it's precisely cognate with "white trash".

I want a monte cristo sandwich.

Sadly, it doesn't appear I'll get one.

Chavs = B&T crowd. also? all the Gottis.

I was just thinking Chav = redneck. Go team region-specific associations!

These pants are in excellent condition. They were never taken on pirate expeditions. They weren't worn onstage. They didn't straddle a Harley, or a guy named Harley. They just hung there, sad and ignored, for a few presidencies.

Too funny. Oh, to have the 30 inch waistline that would let me bid on them...

Chavs are known as neds in Scotland.

Also, at work, I listen to an American radio station and during the news, I half caught a story about some guy who said on a TV/radio interview that if you aborted all the black babies then the crime rate in America would drop.

I didn't hear that right, did I?

New York-based totebag carrying liberals.

look. me.

You mean the piece on NPR this morning? It couldn't have been more condescending and insulting if she used an electric insult machine on National Condescend to Fans Day.

To be fair, there are VAST numbers of tone-deaf singers in Fenway Park any given night, and she was sitting next to one of them.

I didn't think she was insulting the tone-deaf singers, but rather the whole tradition of singing Sweet Caroline.

I didn't hear that right, did I?

You did. And he used to be a cabinet secretary.

Yeah, I've been getting to know what a chav is since I got here. At home they're knackers. Or skangers. Or scobes. We have a lot of words.