C.H.A.V... What does it mean?
 

A report the other day revealed what chav actually meant and even the kids didnt know the meaning.
Apparently it means...." Council Housed And Violent " and the police have been using the term for many years. Now all of a sudden its come to light and the do gooders are trying to say that it shouldnt be used as its derogatory.

Admitedly i didnt know what it meant but for it to stop being used just because its meaning has come to light is ridiculous. http://www.blackpoolweb.com/forum/im...es/grrrrrr.gif

Its high time that folk stopped playing around with words in fear of offending and started to get back to saying what they mean.

IMO Its far more hypocritical to dance around words than to speak the truth, No wonder the youth of today are beginning to speak a language all of thier own..

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Admitedly i didnt know what it meant but for it to stop being used just because its meaning has come to light is ridiculous.

You lost me on that one.Do you mean you can call anyone what you want as long as they don't know what the hell you are saying.

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its certainly new on me, had no idea, but the do-gooders can go n get stuffed as far as cashy is concerned, i shall continue to use words i am familar with, n no doubt a certain member on here will continue to report me, n they can get stuffed as well.:D

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The word "chavs" has been used long ago.."chavies" was used by cockneys to say children...years ago.. but not used now days.

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I was thinking that too.

Why would you call someone a name if you didn't even know what the name meant? :confused:

I don't say chav myself, I say dobber.......and I shall continue to apply the word dobber to anyone I believe to be a dobber. :mosher:

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well said lilly, stuff em all.:)

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Maybe we should get posh and refer to them as Richard Craniums. The term CHAV is so out of date anyway. Most of them don't live in council houses :D

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agree it is out of date, but SCUMBAGS never dates dave.:D

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Named or Anon?.....Get's right up your apple pips dun it?

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oh cashy knows roy, cashy knows.;)

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Admitedly i didnt know what it meant but for it to stop being used just because its meaning has come to light is ridiculous.


You lost me on that one.Do you mean you can call anyone what you want as long as they don't know what the hell you are saying.



Ok sorry I put that badly. No thats not what I mean at all.
What I should have said is that this meaning has apparently been used by the Police for quite some time, now all of a sudden because the meaning has come to light people are saying that it shouldnt be used anymore. why??
IMO if its been used by the police to catorgorise certain individuals all this time then why shouldnt they keep using it for the same purpose.



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A dobber is an informer (a grass):dancedog:

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Think what Cherokee is trying to say that she didnt realise what the acronym stood for, rather than not knowing what the word meant

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Fair point :D

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Is it still alright to call the police The Filth as they do in parts of London:gooddog:

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Think they do that in parts of accy and ossy too so dont really think the police are going to get offended do you?

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well they get offended if ya call em " Pigs" that i can say with confidence.:D

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ROFL!!!!:alright:

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Think your still missing my point Benipete:)

Im not saying its ok for any name calling at all . What Im saying is that if its something thats been going on for yrs and even the general public have used the term freely, then why should the police stop using a term just because the do gooders have discovered what it means.

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Is it still allright for you to call the Police "fillth" ?... what part of London are you in?..never heard that and is more likley to be used where you live!

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i heard it in Bethnal Green mancie around 5 yrs back when me son had n exhibition there.:)

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I reckon you know what I mean Cashy.. been used well before the newspapers got hold

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It used to be used in the Sweeny:D or what ever it was called lol

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I don't slag your town off (the whole Cherokee Nation) so watch out bruv!:)

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Hear it down the battle all the time my son:thankya:ere have a word.

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nice to hear the "my son" stuff..nice time to get the "battle" down the streets we Know and own.. come down anytime rovers.. get a good welcome down the New Den!

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sin it done it,got the t-shirt, mind that was the old den, didn't much care fer 50 odd yr old dockers wi meat hooks though.;)

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So the dockers don't take yer fancy eh Cash?...still a good day out as long as you can run...!!!..ah the Old Den..long walk from Surrey Tube.. pubs (well so called pubs).. down canal road and the Old Den..magic.

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always a good day out, millwall, west ham,were good uns, honestly never ran, was enough of us mid 60s.;)

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A Millwall supporter....holy tom tit.

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To right .. nowhere to run anyway.. but was good in them days.. we all used to **** it but ..no blades,..a few smacks but no tooled up stuff.

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Nah BoyRoy..Millwall.. just go there ..sunshine..not many

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Welcome to Lancashire...;)

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No you are quite wrong there.A chav is an uneducated hooded missfit who relays on the state to keep them and is no use to anyone.But enough of this talk about MP's.It is wrong to group council house tenants together and stigmatise them all in this way.Having said that I didn't know what it meant till you mentioned it:hidewall:

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It isnt me that is catorgorising at all, My interpretation of a chav has always been very much the same as yours. This was something on BBC News 24 the other day and it just got me thinking. And to be honest I dont think the police should change their abbreviating just becase what they are abbreviating has come to light.:)

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i agree its wrong to stigmatise council house tenents, no question, but the question is to me- WHO actually decided what CHAV meant?whoever that was bears the responsibilty, cos i'm near certain most folk have no idea what it stands fer. plus its bin used fer yonks innocently, knowing the meaning aint gonna make much differance to me, cos it aint said in " that way"

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Apparently this is a 'backronym', or in other words, an acronym that has been devised afterwards for a word already in use. Another invented acronym for Chav is 'Council House Adolescent Vermin'.

It's generally acknowledged that the term Chav is actually derived from the Romani word 'chavi', meaning child.

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For all do-gooders and Political Correct types to be complaining seems a bit much , probably 'invented' by one of them (Home Office employee) if the truth was ever to come out , as a way of identifying a special social class without being accused of racial profiling

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Thought I was one when my doctor said - :theband:can't have any viagra

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On the theme of police names, in Liverpool they're called the Bizzies, and in parts of Manchester they're called the Dibble, when I was young (many years ago) we used to call the police Rozers, can't think where that came from ;)

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Not to me and Dave Spikey it isn't. ;)

YouTube - Dave Spikey - Dobbers

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.... the long and the short and the tall .... there is the beginning of a song here:theband: