Chavs

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I am now nearing the end of my fifth decade and consequently have lost touch with present day youthspeak and slang. One of the newer words I have heard quite often is "CHAV". Not quite understanding the meaning of this I typed it into Google, one of the sites found was "Chavtowns". I typed Accrington into the Chavtowns search facility and was directed to the following link: http://www.chavtowns.co.uk/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=907.

Is this an accurate picture of Accrington and Hyndburn in general?
 
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I am now nearing the end of my fifth decade and consequently have lost touch with present day youthspeak and slang. One of the newer words I have heard quite often is "CHAV". Not quite understanding the meaning of this I typed it into Google, one of the sights found was "Chavtowns". I typed Accrington into the Chavtowns search facility and was directed to the following link: http://www.chavtowns.co.uk/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=907.

Is this an accurate picture of Accrington and Hyndburn in general?
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I'm none the wiser. Who or what are these "Chavs?" Are they some variation on Gypo's/Travellers? Burnley fans? Unemployables?
 
The letter on that site is spot on. Me and a colleague have made a pastime out of chav spotting. We used to be avid people watchers, but chav spotting is more fun. Belive me Accy, Blackburn and Darwen have no shortage of them. I think it is an accurate reflection of most towns, even the Ribble Valley has a chav element. It's such a shame that standards such as good manners, looking after your environment by not littering etc and petty violence seem to have somehow been lost over the years. These standards are probably buried amongst the benefit and insurance claims forms that these people believe are their right to have, when they have contributed nothing to the system.:)
 
I've just read 3 articles there relating to Accrington and they do not sound like the town I live in. It's no wonder outsiders get a bad impression. Surely it can't be as bad as that?

Yes we complain about the abundance of pound shops and lack of imagination re Broadway but it isn't quite the dump depicted there.

As for all the "Chavs" locations - I know someone who works in one of those locations described and she is an honest hard working young woman.

They reckon you can buy a house round here for under £20,000. Is that possible do you think?

I also know people in the FernGore and Scaitcliffe areas who are respectable decent people. I live sort of in between the two here on Willows Lane. Yes there are scruffy houses but I think they are in the minority (annoyingly a couple are too close to me for my liking) but it doesn't mean everyone is the same.

From that site the impression I get of "Chavs" are people on benefits with an "attitude" and think the world owes them a living, young mothers who look barely old enough to have babies with one or more in pushchairs and/or toddling alongside, obligatory jewellery that you'd think they would have been better spending their hard earned dole on more constructive things like proper food and usually spoiling for a fight.

Come to think of it - they also sound a bit like some of the crowds Busman gets on his private hire outings bringing crates of lager onto the coach and spilling it all over the place.
 
They reckon you can buy a house round here for under £20,000. Is that possible do you think?
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you can buy houses in accrington for even less than that lol

btw the dictionary was been polite in its defintion of chav as the term chave basicly means scum

i use the name chav1 as a joke as accrington and surrounding areas like burnley and blackburn etc are known over the country as chav towns full of poorly dressed scuffy and unwilling to work youths which if you take a look around accy centre during the week you will see plenty of

spare change guy for instance would be classed as a chav :D
 
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poorly dressed scuffy and unwilling to work youths which if you take a look around accy centre during the week you will see plenty of

spare change guy for instance would be classed as a chav :D
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So how does this equate with the description of the burberry and the must have baseball caps and all the blinging (sp. intentional) jewellery?
 
So I take it that the "Pollard"character featured in the bbc Comedy series "Little Britain" is a chav-ette?
 
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So how does this equate with the description of the burberry and the must have baseball caps and all the blinging (sp. intentional) jewellery?
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in general the desription off dress code for a chav would be tracksuit bottoms , trainers thick gold chain ( usualy low quality ), burbery check patterned shirt , baseballcap ( usualy worn backwards) and the manditory staff dog on the thickest chain lead made or rope with makeshift leather handle( probably made from dads belt)

there are many variations of chav but when you see one you cant miss em lol
 
The baseball cap is worn the right way round, but at a definite angle.

I was also led to believe that they don't often wear shirts, which is why the baseball caps are Burberry.


I wouldn't worry too much about it, try Hailsham and Tunbridge Wells, both towns that I have lived in. You'd think that they were all down here!
 
We have just been served by a definite chav in a cafe this dinner time. :rolleyes:

On the menu they have chicken kiev and chips (served with either peas or salad) and I'm partial to a chicken kiev.

After waiting for ages ( we were going to give them another ten minutes and then leave if no-one had come to take our order) up strolls Waitress Chav, complete with enormous earrings and peering through her fringe.

Me: Do you have the chicken kiev?
Chav: We 'aven't got no chips coz chip pan's broke.
Me: But do you have the kievs?
Chav: You can 'ave em with summat else like mashed or roasted or summat like.
Me: I'll have the roasted please.
Busman: (orders sausage and egg) and instead of the chips........
Chav: We 'aven't got no chips coz chip pans broke.
Busman: Yes I know. I'll have the roasted. And two cokes please.

Off she goes. Re-appears a little while later with a huge plate bearing two small chicken kiev's and three and a half roast potatoes looking rather lost.

Me: Shouldn't there be a salad with that?
Chav: (slowly) Oh yeah.

Off she goes again with the plate and brings it back with salad on. Busman's meal also arrives. We wait for the cokes, we wait a bit longer, we wait some more. Chav starts to play with her mobile phone. Busman attracts her attention (eventually)

Busman: We ordered two cokes.
Chav: (even more slowly)Oh yeah.

She goes to the fridge, gets two cans and plonks them upside down on the table inside two glasses, wanders back to play with her mobile phone.

We didn't leave a tip. :D
 
What did I say.... They're everywhere!!! Chav spotting can be such fun. There should be some sort of selective breeding programme to keep their numbers to a minimum, but unfortunately these people are not usually choosy about who they breed with..:D
 
And where was this temple of the culinary arts, Willow? Are you going to name and shame? Oh go on.
 
So now we have townies (tracksuit bottoms and rockports), goths (all dark and moody), bo bo chic (hippy influence) and chavs. Whatever next??? :rolleyes:
 
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