Brands that aren't chavvy in the slightest.

Brands that aren't chavvy in the slightest.

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fulham911club

2,046 posts

248 months

Wednesday 3rd October 2012
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Zod said:
fulham911club said:
Zod said:
Rushmore said:
Food:
Venison
(thin) Pizza when in Italy and in a rural location the true home of pizza is urban Naples
Wild boar

Drink:
Vin de pays of all sorts
all 2nd wines from the Premier Crus (i.e. Pavillon Rouge)Too safe, dull and overpriced. Burgundy is the lodestar.
German Riesling ice wine instead of Sauternes Eiswein is a nouveau product. Auslese-upwards Pradikat wines are the unimpeachable quality standard, particularly the auction wines.
Tap water instead of Swedish imported bottled water That's just inverse snobbery (much like the 80s Volvo thing). Yorkshire tap water is good. London tap water tastes dreadful.

Life:
Buck's Club and Pratt's Really?
Rules Restaurant Dreadful place
The Beau-Rivage Hotel Assuming you mean the Beau Rivage Place in Lausanne, I agree.
Hate to say it Zod but your response to Rushmore's effort does make you come across as a total pompous tool
Isn't that the whole point of this thread? I engaged with Rushmore's pompous post in an equally, if not more, pompous manner.
Don't call wine from Bourgogne "Burgundy" then ! wink


Charlie Michael

2,753 posts

190 months

Wednesday 3rd October 2012
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Longines.

Zod

35,295 posts

264 months

Wednesday 3rd October 2012
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fulham911club said:
Zod said:
fulham911club said:
Zod said:
Rushmore said:
Food:
Venison
(thin) Pizza when in Italy and in a rural location the true home of pizza is urban Naples
Wild boar

Drink:
Vin de pays of all sorts
all 2nd wines from the Premier Crus (i.e. Pavillon Rouge)Too safe, dull and overpriced. Burgundy is the lodestar.
German Riesling ice wine instead of Sauternes Eiswein is a nouveau product. Auslese-upwards Pradikat wines are the unimpeachable quality standard, particularly the auction wines.
Tap water instead of Swedish imported bottled water That's just inverse snobbery (much like the 80s Volvo thing). Yorkshire tap water is good. London tap water tastes dreadful.

Life:
Buck's Club and Pratt's Really?
Rules Restaurant Dreadful place
The Beau-Rivage Hotel Assuming you mean the Beau Rivage Place in Lausanne, I agree.
Hate to say it Zod but your response to Rushmore's effort does make you come across as a total pompous tool
Isn't that the whole point of this thread? I engaged with Rushmore's pompous post in an equally, if not more, pompous manner.
Don't call wine from Bourgogne "Burgundy" then ! wink
I'm not taking that from a Fulhamite. You probably wear red cords, a polo with the collar up and drink at the White Horse while braying "Yah" at your mates. hehe

(I used to live in Parson's Green)

FiF

45,388 posts

257 months

Wednesday 3rd October 2012
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Fishtigua said:
Classic yachts are very classless.
That's a pretty good call actually.

Gaspode

4,167 posts

202 months

Wednesday 3rd October 2012
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FiF said:
Fishtigua said:
Classic yachts are very classless.
That's a pretty good call actually.
Isn't anything 'classic' (in the old sense) the very antithesis of that which the chav might find appealing? A brand new Rolex, for example, is a bit chavvy, whereas a battered 30-year old Datejust is pretty cool.

BadRotorFinger

441 posts

198 months

Wednesday 3rd October 2012
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theironduke said:
TwigtheWonderkid said:
theironduke said:
BadRotorFinger said:
Debrett's

Coutts
Coutts are part of RBS....that's got to be a bad thing...your money might rub alongside that of those commoners who bank at Natwest wink
Loads of prem footballers bank with Coutts. These days Coutts customers are largely new money. Plus the Queen.
Can't get much more chavvy than Liz, just look at all that bling she wears!
Not to mention the family in all the magazines, I rescind my nomination forthwithbiggrin

FiF

45,388 posts

257 months

Wednesday 3rd October 2012
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Gaspode said:
FiF said:
Fishtigua said:
Classic yachts are very classless.
That's a pretty good call actually.
Isn't anything 'classic' (in the old sense) the very antithesis of that which the chav might find appealing? A brand new Rolex, for example, is a bit chavvy, whereas a battered 30-year old Datejust is pretty cool.
True, but I think the classic yachts is a particularly good example as they require so much hard and careful painstaking work just to keep them in trim and everything shipshape.

Maybe it shows my bias but I'd always thought chavs and hard dedicated accurate effort didn't mix.

Iceman82

1,311 posts

242 months

Wednesday 3rd October 2012
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Zod said:
Watches:

IWC, Universal Geneve, Patek Philippe, Vacheron-Canstantin, Jaeger Le Coultre, Breguet
Longines should be added to that list.

Sorry, just noticed Charlie Michael has already mentioned them!


Iceman82

1,311 posts

242 months

Wednesday 3rd October 2012
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mat777 said:
Brietling
I think not. Brietling have become massively chavvy.

anonymous-user

60 months

Wednesday 3rd October 2012
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Zod said:
Greg66 said:
Zod said:
Rushmore said:
Food:
Drink:
all 2nd wines from the Premier Crus (i.e. Pavillon Rouge)Too safe, dull and overpriced. Burgundy is the lodestar.
Lodestone?
Lodestar = guiding light.
Yeesss.

Lodestone = focus of attraction.

Agrispeed

988 posts

165 months

Wednesday 3rd October 2012
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wsurfa said:
John Deere - the only way to cut the grass
Chavviest tractor brand... John deere and fendt are chav. (more expensive and flash)

hehe

Valtra are the least chav make. drivingbiggrin

rolex

3,115 posts

264 months

Wednesday 3rd October 2012
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C2james said:
Rolex.
Thank you

Simon Brooks

1,524 posts

257 months

Wednesday 3rd October 2012
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Asprey guns, now known as William & Son

theironduke

6,995 posts

194 months

Wednesday 3rd October 2012
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Agrispeed said:
wsurfa said:
John Deere - the only way to cut the grass
Chavviest tractor brand... John deere and fendt are chav. (more expensive and flash)

hehe

Valtra are the least chav make. drivingbiggrin
JD's with their yellow and green liverys just shout brash wink You want a nice understated blue New Holland wink

fulham911club

2,046 posts

248 months

Wednesday 3rd October 2012
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theironduke said:
Agrispeed said:
wsurfa said:
John Deere - the only way to cut the grass
Chavviest tractor brand... John deere and fendt are chav. (more expensive and flash)

hehe

Valtra are the least chav make. drivingbiggrin
JD's with their yellow and green liverys just shout brash wink You want a nice understated blue New Holland wink
Nope you are all wrong : classic Fordson Major

CommanderJameson

22,096 posts

232 months

Wednesday 3rd October 2012
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Twincam16 said:
Alfa Romeo
Heh

The pre-facelift 156 is a favoured chav-chariot.

Zod

35,295 posts

264 months

Wednesday 3rd October 2012
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Greg66 said:
Zod said:
Greg66 said:
Zod said:
Rushmore said:
Food:
Drink:
all 2nd wines from the Premier Crus (i.e. Pavillon Rouge)Too safe, dull and overpriced. Burgundy is the lodestar.
Lodestone?
Lodestar = guiding light.
Yeesss.

Lodestone = focus of attraction.
Different meanings, but both work really.

VoziKaoFangio

8,202 posts

157 months

Wednesday 3rd October 2012
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Ever noticed how it's really things that are over-advertised and/or (over)promoted by celebrities that become the real chav brands?

Just about everything quoted on here as non-chav is barely advertised, if at all.

Asterix

24,438 posts

234 months

Wednesday 3rd October 2012
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Probably as it is stems from the saying 'Money talks but wealth whispers'.

I'd argue that wealth doesn't actually mean vast amounts of money but a wealth of class, knowledge and an appreciation for the truly fine things in life that bling can never achieve.

CommanderJameson

22,096 posts

232 months

Wednesday 3rd October 2012
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Asterix said:
Probably as it is stems from the saying 'Money talks but wealth whispers'.

I'd argue that wealth doesn't actually mean vast amounts of money but a wealth of class, knowledge and an appreciation for the truly fine things in life that bling can never achieve.
Chris Rock said:
Shaquille O'Neal is rich. The white man who writes his paycheck - he wealthy.