Yeah, Chav is a particularly unpleasant new term - it's precisely cognate with "white trash".
Let him do his thing, and then you get him out. No messing with him for laughs.
Mal ,'Ariel'
Natter 39 and Holding
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Jim - Sep 30, 2005 6:18:16 am PDT #2266 of 10002
Ficht nicht mit Der Raketemensch!
sarameg - Sep 30, 2005 6:18:26 am PDT #2267 of 10002
I want a monte cristo sandwich.
Sadly, it doesn't appear I'll get one.
amych - Sep 30, 2005 6:18:28 am PDT #2268 of 10002
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Chavs = B&T crowd. also? all the Gottis.
I was just thinking Chav = redneck. Go team region-specific associations!
Matt the Bruins fan - Sep 30, 2005 6:18:47 am PDT #2269 of 10002
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
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...
UTTAD - Sep 30, 2005 6:19:19 am PDT #2270 of 10002
Strawberry disappointment.
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?
msbelle - Sep 30, 2005 6:19:25 am PDT #2271 of 10002
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
New York-based totebag carrying liberals.
look. me.
Steph L. - Sep 30, 2005 6:19:34 am PDT #2272 of 10002
I look more rad than Lutheranism
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.
amych - Sep 30, 2005 6:20:31 am PDT #2273 of 10002
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
I didn't hear that right, did I?
You did. And he used to be a cabinet secretary.
Jars - Sep 30, 2005 6:20:40 am PDT #2274 of 10002
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.
Sue - Sep 30, 2005 6:21:40 am PDT #2275 of 10002
hip deep in pie
That is a great article bon, and the second time I've ever heard the word chav used. The first time was yesterday, in this little piece in the Globe and Mail:
"There was something utterly compelling about the revelation this week that [British] teachers can predict from a child's first name just how ghastly he is likely to turn out in the classroom," writes Melanie McDonagh in The Independent on Sunday. "On the Times Educational Supplement Internet site, one teacher wrote, 'I went through my new class list and mentally circled the ones I thought would be most difficult. I reckon I have a 75 per cent hit rate.' In the lengthy discussion that followed, it turned out that the names that 'inspired the most dread' included anything with a hyphen (Bobby-Jo), weirdly spelled variants of common names (Hollee and Kloe) and chav [underclass] favourites Chantelle, Britney, Courtney, Kylie, Chase, Tyler, Wayne ('a terror') and, worst of all, Paige," the newspaper said.