Scrounging Whingers? 

That's a good one!

Well done Pengy

 .... Hi Pengy  

Bone idle scrounging whingers? You know the type of people I mean.... chav seems to be used by the media to mean anyone who lives on a council estate and wears trackie bottoms, which just isn't right  

Orooooh its a good argument .... well nice chav lovers, come on, what say you? 

Erm......... we need to get the Oxford English Dictionary to properly define a "chav"?

*goes to google to see if they already have*

 I thought the original meaning was the latter (or something along those lines) and it has been reduced to mean the former It did in my head anyway

 

 

We've always called them charvas in the North East, and I always understood  it to mean the former

boss back

ducky, i will leave the list in your capable beak but only until my return

*dreads to think*

Originally Posted by barney:

Orooooh its a good argument .... well nice chav lovers, come on, what say you? 

 

Erm......... we need to get the Oxford English Dictionary to properly define a "chav"?

 

*goes to google to see if they already have*

Yes, the problem here seems to be the definition of the word chav  

The South Park episode about Head Lice was one of the best ever! 

Originally Posted by Ducky:

 I thought the original meaning was the latter (or something along those lines) and it has been reduced to mean the former It did in my head anyway

 

 

We've always called them charvas in the North East, and I always understood  it to mean the former

I think it may mean slightly different things depending on where you come from. Hence it's a bit of a dangerous word to use, especially at the moment while it seems to be still evolving.

The dictionary peeps need to sort it aaaart!

Value Chips 

Oh crap. I put fish fingers in the oven over an hour ago. I blame you for this Barns.

Where did the word come from?

Lexicographer Susie Dent

It's likely that chav originates in the Romany word "chavi", recorded from the middle of the 19th Century.

In the 20th Century it was prominent in Kent, used among Chatham builders in the same way as mate. "Chatham average" is probably a later rationalisation.

Like many insults it's short and punchy. Its brevity lends itself easily to spin-offs, such as "'chavtastic", "chavsters", "chavette", "chavdom".

This century there is a new lexicon of tribal vocabulary that draws on "us and them" and the idea of a "peasant" underclass.

There is a long list of similar regional examples - skangers, spides, charvers, and neds, for the uneducated, lower-class, and vulgarly-dressed.

For a while it seemed like it might lose its sting. Some fashion houses were even rumoured to be contemplating using the term for a new line.

But the bite behind the caricature has persisted - the label is being used as a "catch-all" for people of a particular social class.

But what will the Scrounging Whingers eat?

Does the Duck in my avi look like it cares?

Lice Capades episode

Warning, contains strong 'humour'. 

http://www.iamboredr.com/media...1E03_-_Lice_Capades/

Well as I'm in charge. Sorry Saz.

Work

Sorry Sprout....can't put that one on. If there was no work...Barney wouldn't have put me in charge of the list ...and I'd still have to put up with number 21. 

I could put "Sprouty's work" on if you like? You have to make it worth my while though

You forgot Scardeycats!!

there is no middle lane..    in fact there is one lane...    if you hear oncoming traffic you have to steer into the bushes! 

*Dons Professors Hat*

The point of Scardeycats is that they are scared of something. Be it spiders, snakes, the dark or erm...butterflies.  This allows folk to mock these so called 'scardeycats' by calling them names. Therefore making 'scardeycats' have a point.

Chavs...  well chavvies...  originally meant kids.

My ex used to call kids chavvies..   before the word chav got a whole new meaning

Very good Professor Roo.

.... It's OK Rawky....... it's only Ducky and Barney I was aiming at... and it's a standing joke

Christine Bleakley 

*runs back in*   REMOVE BUTTERFLIES NOW!

please add people who are scared of their birthday surprises

*waves to mrsb*  *runs back out*

I would like to add... 

I mean...  what is the point?

ROFL

You tell her, Barney!

I drink it cos I can't stand fat coke and normal thin coke gives me a headache....this one doesn't 

Ditty.... is that caffine free you are protesting about (if so yep, it's on the list) or diet coke? Cos I drink diet coke cos it doesn't taste as strong as normal coke (so therefore can not go the list )

caffeine free mainly..     though if it were caffeine free fat coke then at least you are indulging in a sugar hit...   but to be sugar free & caffeine free...   what's the point? 

Does it get on the list then?

*nicks Rawky's professors hat*

Irritating celebs are needed as a "control" to compare other irritating celebs by.

If I didn't find James Corden so irritating I wanna gouge my eyes out, then how could I tell that Christine is irritating in a non-self harming way only?

Rawky your hat don't work.

*sulks because the Duck is obviously ignoring my post*