Part-time chav??
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Hello all,
I need to put a question to the p/h family.
I have been lurking on the site for quite some time now and have recently started posting and all that. I have noticed this phemonemon whereby people automatically class people by dress sense,lack of money or other reasons as 'chavs'.
Now, im only 21 and will be 22 in two weeks. I have never been un-employed or claimed state benifits. Everything i own i have worked for and to be honest i feel like Mr Winky and his minions are shafting me at every opportunity. Reason being im more broke now compared to being 16. And no i dont flounder my money.
However, would you call me a chav for wearing hoodies, trainers and jeans? maybe a slighly out of the ordinary hairstyle?
Do you get my point?
(sorry for the s
te post)
I need to put a question to the p/h family.
I have been lurking on the site for quite some time now and have recently started posting and all that. I have noticed this phemonemon whereby people automatically class people by dress sense,lack of money or other reasons as 'chavs'.
Now, im only 21 and will be 22 in two weeks. I have never been un-employed or claimed state benifits. Everything i own i have worked for and to be honest i feel like Mr Winky and his minions are shafting me at every opportunity. Reason being im more broke now compared to being 16. And no i dont flounder my money.
However, would you call me a chav for wearing hoodies, trainers and jeans? maybe a slighly out of the ordinary hairstyle?
Do you get my point?
(sorry for the s
te post)payner2008 said:
But would you not aggree that a lot of people just assume? Go down the stereotype route?
Of course. As long as they don't hurl abuse at you or treat you any differently, does it matter if you're behaving? I'm a mess of stereotypes. I wear hoodies, ripped trousers and skate shoes, I am oriental looking, I drive a hairdresser's car and I have a well-spoken Southern English accent. That must screw people up a bit. 
cazzer said:
No, but the use of a random fish instead of the word Squander will probably be remarked on.
Err...oh...err...like this.
haha Is flounder a word?Err...oh...err...like this.
As for chav's to me (In Liverpool) a chav is someone who wears heavy gold Jewellery and burberry, caps pointed upwards, socks over tracksuit pants etc.
payner2008 said:
But would you not aggree that a lot of people just assume? Go down the stereotype route?
Absolutely not. You can spot a chav a mile off, it's the whole package - the slouched walk, the spitting, the swearing, the pseudo-black vocabulary (sick, innit blud?) accompanied by exaggerated hand gestures.
Put a 'normal' person in a hoodie and trainers and they'll more than likely just look casual. A chav in a suit is still a chav.
As the saying goes, you can't polish a turd.
ShadownINja said:
payner2008 said:
But would you not aggree that a lot of people just assume? Go down the stereotype route?
Of course. As long as they don't hurl abuse at you or treat you any differently, does it matter if you're behaving? I'm a mess of stereotypes. I wear hoodies, ripped trousers and skate shoes, I am oriental looking, I drive a hairdresser's car and I have a well-spoken Southern English accent. That must screw people up a bit. 
payner2008 said:
Amy-Lea said:
cazzer said:
No, but the use of a random fish instead of the word Squander will probably be remarked on.
Err...oh...err...like this.
haha Is flounder a word?Err...oh...err...like this.
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