Scally v Chav

I'd agree with what you seem to be getting at that 'chav' has lost any meaning it might have had and just used as a general catch-all term to demonise/demean ordinary working class people now. I just say dickheads if I have reason to believe the people are dickheads.<br /><br />-- Sun Jul 15, 2012 4:06 pm --<br /><br />
Banned Tosspot said:
CHAV means Council House And Violent.

That's a backronym
 
southern muppet said:
I'd agree with what you seem to be getting at that 'chav' has lost any meaning it might have had and just used as a general catch-all term to demonise/demean ordinary working class people now. I just say dickheads if I have reason to believe the people are dickheads.

-- Sun Jul 15, 2012 4:06 pm --

Banned Tosspot said:
CHAV means Council House And Violent.

That's a backronym
Indeed.
 
southern muppet said:
I'd agree with what you seem to be getting at that 'chav' has lost any meaning it might have had and just used as a general catch-all term to demonise/demean ordinary working class people now. I just say dickheads if I have reason to believe the people are dickheads.

-- Sun Jul 15, 2012 4:06 pm --

Banned Tosspot said:
CHAV means Council House And Violent.

That's a backronym
i think you meant to say thats a load of bollocks
 
Not a lover of the word Chav, people seem to use it without knowing any real meaning behind it. However, the word scally has scouse undertones to it for me so grates on me
 
Uncle Wally One Ball said:
Not a lover of the word Chav, people seem to use it without knowing any real meaning behind it. However, the word scally has scouse undertones to it for me so grates on me

Its Irish that's why it was common right across the Northwest until some stuck up southern twat invented chav.<br /><br />-- Sun Jul 15, 2012 4:45 pm --<br /><br />
True_Blue69 said:
Scally is the proper term, chav is a media invented word used mainly by southerners.

At least someone knows the truth.
 
Challenger1978 said:
So which word do you use scally or chav ?

Personally I use scally and not that media concocted southern shite term chav. In fact it annoys the fuck out of me people using chav especially manc. As chav just sounds so fucking stuck up and southern to me.

Is scally short for scallywag?

I've been called a scallywag a long time ago.
 
The word 'chav', which derives from gypsy slang, has been appropriated by the middle classes to validate their snobbery. I realized how bad this had got about 8 years ago when my best mate's girlfriend at the time, a girl with Cheshire Set pretensions, described cheddar as 'chav cheese'.
 
brass neck said:
allthough, geordies would traditionally call scallies "charvers" or something like that. The Scotts call them "Neds" I think.
I remember an episode of Auf Wiedersen Pet from 1986,in which Oz refers to a local troublemaker/lout as a Charver,so it is not a recently introduced phrase.
And isn't NED an acronym for Non Educated Delinquent??
 
Didsbury Dave said:
The word 'chav', which derives from gypsy slang, has been appropriated by the middle classes to validate their snobbery. I realized how bad this had got about 8 years ago when my best mate's girlfriend at the time, a girl with Cheshire Set pretensions, described cheddar as 'chav cheese'.

The king of English cheeses and she's describing it as chav cheese, fucking hell.
 
Didsbury Dave said:
The word 'chav', which derives from gypsy slang, has been appropriated by the middle classes to validate their snobbery. I realized how bad this had got about 8 years ago when my best mate's girlfriend at the time, a girl with Cheshire Set pretensions, described cheddar as 'chav cheese'.

Hahahahaha

Did she speak it with a cheshire accent?

I hope you educated her Dave.

My parents are middle class, live in Wilmslow but are in no way Snobs.
 

Don't have an account? Register now and see fewer ads!

SIGN UP
Back
Top