Tony Erikson Posted June 3, 2011 Share Posted June 3, 2011 So now you're saying it's thing people can control? Anti social behaviour is a thing all can control. It's linked to poverty. An anti social millionaire would never be called a chav. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony Erikson Posted June 3, 2011 Share Posted June 3, 2011 You can have a rich chav. Like Jordan, or Kerry Katona. They're seen as working class. They have money but they're working class. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Agent Orange Posted June 3, 2011 Share Posted June 3, 2011 You can have a rich chav. Like Jordan, or Kerry Katona. Apparently, yes. Or so says the article in the OP. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
missymoo73 Posted June 3, 2011 Share Posted June 3, 2011 Why, surely chav would suffice, after all isn't it about anti-social behaviour? If you re read my post I did say what they wear also ie the Burberry label etc...it has nothing to do with someone being poor etc - jesus if they can afford burberry and those heavy gold chains - they arnt exactly poor are they? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CXC3000 Posted June 3, 2011 Share Posted June 3, 2011 I didn't say clothes did I. I put "Like poverty". If poverty is so easy to get out of why does the government spend so much money trying to eradicate it. A few years ago it was really clamped down on people using the N word and P word. Then someone came along and chose the word Chav which was originally aimed at the Special Brew drinking, Burberry wearing down and out. People loved that they had a new word they could label people they didn't like with. To compare calling someone a chav to racism, is pretty idiotic. I have mainly seen it aimed at the poor working class who people don't like. It may only come with anti-social behaviour but it's only used in relation to the poor and anti-social. Personally, it's got nothing to do with poverty. It's as you say, their anti-social behaviour (and possibly the clothes they wear) that determines what they are. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevie1957 Posted June 3, 2011 Share Posted June 3, 2011 Not sure it's people's financial state that gets them described as chav..more their behaviour.. I agree with you. But if they find “chav” offensive, lets go back to calling them juvenile delinquents. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
taxman Posted June 3, 2011 Author Share Posted June 3, 2011 In short, to 'qualify' for being a chav, one should wear certain clothes and act (and talk) in a weird manner. That describes the Royal Family to a tee Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ronthenekred Posted June 3, 2011 Share Posted June 3, 2011 Could be just a word to make us feel self righteously better about ourselves. 'I'm a nobody but at least I'm not a chav?' Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
truman Posted June 3, 2011 Share Posted June 3, 2011 Anti social behaviour is a thing all can control. It's linked to poverty. An anti social millionaire would never be called a chav. If they are poor how do they afford the gold and burberry? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cyclone Posted June 3, 2011 Share Posted June 3, 2011 Argued this for years. It's as offensive as the N and P word to me. Some argue that the N and P word are labelling people on things they have no control over. Like poverty. I can't see a link between poverty and being a chav though, an association, yes, but not a direct link. Who was the bin man who won the lottery. He was a chav even when he was rich. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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