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# I'm American
so what the fuck is a chav? and how is it pronounced?
(Hairy Midget, Mon 13 Sep 2004, 2:02, archived)
# Its hard to describe...
what a chav is.
The word actually varies across the country, as I'm sure it does across the world, since there are "chavs" everywhere, especially so in England :(

I don't call them chavs myself. I use scally/scallies, heh.


I'm guessing it would be pronounced like "mav" of the word "maverick", except "ch" instead of "m"
(terrorbite, Mon 13 Sep 2004, 2:07, archived)
#
Chavs? Eurgh.
(philip_wilson, Mon 13 Sep 2004, 2:08, archived)
# try
britains answer to rednecks..
(I helped save b3ta! toxie, Mon 13 Sep 2004, 2:08, archived)
# Nah
I wouldn't say they are like that...

The description from UrbanDictionary is:

"Picture this a young lad about 12 years of age and 4 ½ feet high baseball cap at ninety degrees in a imitation addidas tracksuit, with trouser legs tucked into his socks (of course, is definitely the height of fashion). This lad is strutting around, cigarette in one hand jewellery al over the over, outside McDonalds acting as if he is 8 foot tall and built like a rugby player, when some poor unsuspecting adult (about 17/18) walks round the corner wanting to go to mcdonalds for his dinner glances at the young lad, the young lad jumps up in complete disgust and says “Whats your problem? Wanna make sommin of it? Bling Bling” when the adult starts to walk towards the young lad, the young lad pisses himself and runs off to either his pregnant 14-year-old girlfriend or his brother in the army crying his eyes out."
(terrorbite, Mon 13 Sep 2004, 2:10, archived)
# Or also...
"A scally is a low life loser who lacks the basic education to string together sentences of more than five words. This prevents them from taking up the only job they are qualified for as they cannot say "Do you want fries with that?"
To make up for their shortcomings they wear a uniform of fake designer clothes and hang around on the streets looking for stuff to steal. The ultimate outfit is anything by LaCoste "Cos its kewl laaa". They normally only own one tracksuit and their single mothers dont know how to clean it so they are a bit grimy and they stink.
Once a person has succumbed to scallydom there is no saving them and they are doomed to spend the rest of their lives hanging round street corners with other losers drinking cheap cider and lager.
To rebel against their sad lives, scallies actually create a perverse sense of pride in belonging to the group and attempt to 'out scally, the other members to gain approval."
(terrorbite, Mon 13 Sep 2004, 2:14, archived)
# kinda what we here call wiggers then?
white + niggers = wiggers.
(Hairy Midget, Mon 13 Sep 2004, 2:17, archived)
# Nah, probably not
I doubt there are any kids (for it is predominantly 8-16 year olds) in America who act like these wastes of space.
(terrorbite, Mon 13 Sep 2004, 2:23, archived)
# yea
we have little gay pop punk skater kids.
(Hairy Midget, Mon 13 Sep 2004, 2:25, archived)
# infinitely preferable
trust me.
(Obi Wan Jonobi, Mon 13 Sep 2004, 2:26, archived)
# we have other kinds of people here
that are probably just as worse. Here in Florida, the puerto ricans spring to mind.
(Hairy Midget, Mon 13 Sep 2004, 2:27, archived)
# You're in Florida,
so think 'Cracker'
(I helped save b3ta! b2 I'm not really here..., Mon 13 Sep 2004, 3:04, archived)
# completely different
and we have them too...
(I helped save b3ta! toxie, Mon 13 Sep 2004, 2:27, archived)
# and of course the female chav
one of which i saw on the bus yesterday... she looked about 12 years old, wearing the trademark fake designer clothes, one of those awful clown pendants and garish hoop earrings.. she was also pregnant, at (about) 12 years old, its kinda scary :S
(I helped save b3ta! toxie, Mon 13 Sep 2004, 2:20, archived)
# I think
the girls are often the worst, as far as personality goes (or what little they have of one...)

Although the boys dress worse.
(terrorbite, Mon 13 Sep 2004, 2:21, archived)
# yes, but..
Pregnant. At 12. She'll be a mum when shes just 13 years old. When i was 13 i didnt know anything about any of that lot (sheltered childhood) i just feel sorry for the kid...
(I helped save b3ta! toxie, Mon 13 Sep 2004, 2:23, archived)
# We need to introduce some sort of
compulsory temporary sterilisation to combat the problem :)
(terrorbite, Mon 13 Sep 2004, 2:25, archived)
# what a good idea
or, we could just pour some bleach into the gene pool...
(I helped save b3ta! toxie, Mon 13 Sep 2004, 2:29, archived)
# our equivalent of rednecks
but less inbred and more anti-social with dire dress sense
(I helped save b3ta! MrSanity has maybe kicked the WoW habit forever, Mon 13 Sep 2004, 2:11, archived)
# -
"haaaw wit you talkin bout - ye dobba - im wah tey chib ye in yir face ye get me - haw what, wit you making fun ov my family - im wah tay nail ya - ya cunt - haawww"
(I helped save b3ta! connor, Mon 13 Sep 2004, 2:15, archived)
# and the classic chav call
"ya pure schmental goffic! i'll chib ye! i'll get ma da on ye!"
and when you ignore them the foghorn-esque
"aaaahw-naaahwwww"
(I helped save b3ta! toxie, Mon 13 Sep 2004, 2:22, archived)
# hahah
i would like to meet a chav.
(Hairy Midget, Mon 13 Sep 2004, 2:26, archived)
# no!
take it back!! for the good of your soul!

edit: unless you mean for the requirement of "cap'n biscuit"-like...... treatment. powerdrills, etc.
(Obi Wan Jonobi, Mon 13 Sep 2004, 2:27, archived)
# seconded
dont ever come to scotland lest you be attacked by neds
(I helped save b3ta! connor, Mon 13 Sep 2004, 2:29, archived)
# agreed
we are over run with the buggers... i hear a fight and sirens right now.. man i need to get out of this town :(
(I helped save b3ta! toxie, Mon 13 Sep 2004, 2:30, archived)
# hmm
i wonder if dundee neds would beat edinburgh neds in a fight

*ponders*
(I helped save b3ta! connor, Mon 13 Sep 2004, 2:32, archived)
# neither
cos the glasweigan neds would hear the foghorn-call and beat them both.. but of course so may get killed in the fight... *plots*
(edit: oh and the ones i can hear are musselburgh neds, a different breed alltogether)
(I helped save b3ta! toxie, Mon 13 Sep 2004, 2:35, archived)
# I find English accents hilarious
combine it with your odd words, I'd imagine I'd get a big kick out of it. I can talk like a Liverpudlian too so I wanna go to Liverpool and see if I could blend in.
(Hairy Midget, Mon 13 Sep 2004, 2:30, archived)
# haha
im getting mental soundbits of an american twist on liverpudlian... its odd, very very odd...
(I helped save b3ta! toxie, Mon 13 Sep 2004, 2:31, archived)
# I imagine England
as what I see on Monty Python. Giant walking cats eating buildings and people walking silly.
(Hairy Midget, Mon 13 Sep 2004, 2:35, archived)
# oh i wish
i wish i wish i wish it was like that *sigh*
(I helped save b3ta! toxie, Mon 13 Sep 2004, 2:37, archived)
# i dunno,
how good are you at nicking cars?
(Obi Wan Jonobi, Mon 13 Sep 2004, 2:31, archived)
# he dosent have to stick to cars
anything that isnt nailed down will do... (lived in liverpool for a while)
(I helped save b3ta! toxie, Mon 13 Sep 2004, 2:34, archived)
# so the only thing safe are nails.
silly scallies.
could melt them down you could.
there's money in that
loadsa money!

oops. switched number there. well its late and im tired. sod it.
(Obi Wan Jonobi, Mon 13 Sep 2004, 2:38, archived)
# Keep your wallet safe
and I personally can't stand Liverpool accents (sorry if there is anyone from Liverpool here :)
(terrorbite, Mon 13 Sep 2004, 2:32, archived)
# the true definition is a little hazy, but
chavscum.co.uk covers the basics rather well.
(Obi Wan Jonobi, Mon 13 Sep 2004, 2:15, archived)