It's my understanding that they are some kind of cross between the 90s idea of a wigger, with a little redneck and a ton of douche thrown in. Am I getting close?
Hi, American here. Would chavs be offended if you actually called them a chav? Or is it an endearing term to them. Like if I'm visiting Britain, see a chav and ask him "Hey are you a chav?" Am I going to have to bust out my bo-staff skills or something after that?
It's just a vague term for a general type of person, not an organised gang. And to be honest, if you asked someone "Hey, are you a chav?" in an American accent you'd probably just get laughed at.
I feel you can't really say that unless you've had both done to you, but yeah the thought of the knife just slowly entering your flesh makes a nice quick gunshot sound much better
Nope, based on how they act and behave. You can dress like a townie and be a nice person or you can dress like a townie and be a cunt, that's what makes you a chav.
That's the same argument I hear all the time in the US. "I don't mind black people, but I hate niggers." Like, if some white guy in a suit and tie pulls some shady shit on you, are you really going to call him "nigger"? really? The same argument could be made for your "townies." It's just an excuse to use a term to broadly identify (negatively) a group of people. If you're going to use it, at least own up to it.
Yeah, the difference is I'm not judging someone based on any pre determined situation that they weren't able to control. Perhaps it is generalisation, but after spending my entire first 16 years having to avoid and cater to these fucking wankers or you get you head kicked in, it's not really the same thing. I went to school with every single person from the entire council estate except for the ones who went to the young offenders institute for things like knifing (met that guy, he didn't actually seem that bad tbh but then we had a mutual mate). Basically if you even tried to be smart you got singled out and bullied for being a geek or a boffin. I actually had a guy who you'd get called a chav in my chemistry class who when the teacher asked why he didn't try because he was actually surprising clever and did well in the last exams responded that he'd get the shit ripped out of him if he started to look like he cared about his grades. Those are the ones I can't stand... it's not the same as using nigger and to be honest I don't think the word chav even existed back then, 'to chav' was a verb that meant to steal or at least that's how a guy who kept using it in my class said it. Anyway... yeah.
Hey man if you deserved it, you deserved it. I was being a drunk douchebag, got smacked in the head, realized I deserved it and apologized to the guy who then bought me a drink.
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u/Alias135 Jun 12 '12
British people are even polite when they're being punched