Comments on Lunchtime Quickie

Dammit, I FUCKING LOVE CHAVS! Oh...so, is that a cosmetic/fake Chelsea or is it for real? EITHER WAY nice touch!

It's so much fun when guys like this come up to you on the street and ask you questions that you can't understand a vowel or a consonant of.

Do Neds and Chavs = Wiggers?

Sue Ann, why don't we go to UrbanDictionary.com for the best explanation of a "Chav" I've ever seen:

Derived from Chatham in Kent, this term can be applied loosely to every culture with a nasty, thieving element. There are many variants of this creature but all are subject to the following commonalities:

Chavs are completely Amoral, having never been subjected to right and wrong by their inattentive, uncaring and often absent parents.

Chavs are part Magpie, evidentially supported by their love of all things shiny, or as vaccuous, illiterate street-slang would say 'Bling'. They can be seen twokking from the Jewelry counter in Argos/Index.

Whatever their ethnic background, Chavs have a built-in affinity to hip-hop/R&B, even if they are inherently racist (see the Scottish). They see their life as glamorous and cool.

Chavs are for the most part, extremely stupid. However, some of them render a form of low cunning, which can be misinterpreted as intelligence. However this is false. A Chav has no desire to better themself through honest means nor learn anything outside of car modification.

All chavs think that they are nails. Again, this is false. Sitting in a beaten up nova smoking lamberts does not precipitate a healthy body. The irony being that a Chav owns mainly sportswear, yet will only break a sweat if running from the police.

Chavs are incredibly fertile beasts, and are highly successful breeders. Where they come unstuck is having to look after the offspring which their 13 yr old drunken fumble produces. More often that not the child will crow to be a Chav, having received no more guidance on life than the parent.

Chavs have a fond love for cars, as well as a Vin Diesel fixation. Rather than buy a nice car to start with, a chav will spend all their dole and tax-free labouring cash on upgrading a 10 year old car with 200,000 miles on the clock. The end product will invariably be a luminous monstrosity with at least one serious collision to it's name.
Come back with my bumper, you fucking Chav thief.

Money.

Yeah, I read that, and I can't think of an American equvalent for those terms. Closest I could get was "wigger."

I dunno, I've always thought "guido" was a pretty close American equivalent.

really sue ann? i think 'gangsta' would technically fit the rough definition of a chav.

Guido is closer than gangsta, but gangsta does not specifically refer to a suburban white poseur wearing giant cap and a tracksuit.

A Ned is a yob and a Chav is a yob as they all commit various acts of yobbery, however a Chav is not a Ned. As the Chav is a highly specific/specialized...um, "culture." I believe Ned is just a "nu" word for the generic yob. Right. Um, I reckon you could consider that Chavs would/could be the even more tragic cousin of the wigger.

Thanks, Nip. But why is it that fucking Scotland has specific and colorful terms for these creatures, and we Americans who spawned them do not?

"Ned" is geographically specific to Glasgow, as "Scally" is to Liverpool. "Ned" has been around for 30 years; "Chav" is much more recent. The claim for Chatham, Kent is specious; no one really knows where the word came from. The closest American equivalent is "white trash", not "Wigger". "Guido" is again too geographically restricted; there are no Guidos in Seattle, and could not be.

You can see American chavettes in any Wal-Mart, queuing up with their shopping carts full of disposable diapers and six or seven kids under seven in tow.

I am totally going to be in Glasgow in a week and a half....I should shoot my own version of this video while I'm there.

Whoa. For the first thirty seconds I was just amazed that this Swede was rapping in Japanese.

Good heavens, you boys! Blue-blooded murder of the English tongue!

Sarah @12, you can try, but you'll never get to watch it. They'll have that video camera off you before you've got the lens cap off, then immediately fence it for money for cider.

Fnarf, I respectively disagree with you on the American equivalent.

I think that Sue Ann is more correct, as it's clear from the attitude and dress of a Chav that young gentlemen in America, most specifically young white teens who think they're g-bangers (i.e. ~ "wiggers") most definitely fit this description.

Please stop using the offensive word "wigger". The appropriate term is "milk chicken".

@15, you've only seen a tiny sample of chavs in action, though. Gangster style is but a tiny part of it.

Fnarf is right. White Trash is closest, but not quite on the money somehow. Chavs are chavs! It's 100% a working class thing, which rules out the wanna-be gangster middle-class suburban kids. My home town is full of em ...

@ 16 - Skwigga please!

@ 11 - ah, thanks Fnarf...the "Ned" is region specific then! Thats why none of my English pals had heard it. Kinda like how I'd never heard the term "Buttrock" used till I moved out to these parts...uh, still don't get that term tho', eesh.

what a bampot!

So, basically, we have a Chav Belt around Seattle... Lynnwood, Shoreline, Burein, Tukwila, Renton, Auburn, Kent, Everett, Tacoma... etc.

I agree with the Walmart comment.

It also reminds me of David Cross explaining the difference between a southern accent and a redneck accent...