When did Neds become Chavs?

[The Bull]

I've noticed recently that "Neds" are increasingly being referred to as "Chavs". It's like an Americanism except this time is an Englishism (Is that a word? It is now).

Now I'm not anti English, (let's not get that started again!) but what was wrong with using "Neds" 8)

[Mon the fish]

Exactly! At least ned means something, Non Educated Delinquent! Chav is a rubbish word :evil:

[PACMAN]

quote:Originally posted by Mon the fish

Exactly! At least ned means something, Non Educated Delinquent! Chav is a rubbish word :evil:


chavs are youths who like wearing tracksuits and burberry, plenty of baseball caps and trainers. They have young girlfriends with babies and have names like wayne and kev and dillon :D

[Mon the fish]

That would make them neds then!

[PACMAN]

Basically a Chav is a britsh Ned

quote from Worldwideword.com

The press in Britain has recently been having fun mocking a group for which pejorative descriptions have been created such as “non-educated delinquents” and “the burgeoning peasant underclass”. The subjects of these derogatory descriptions are said to be set apart by ignorance, fecklessness, mindless violence and bad taste.

To illustrate the last of these, critics point to their style of dress: a love of flashy gold jewellery (hooped earrings, thick neck chains, sovereign rings and heavy bangles, which all may be lumped together under the term bling-bling); the wearing of white trainers (in what is called “prison white”, so clean that they look new); clothes in fashionable brands with very prominent logos; and baseball caps, frequently in Burberry check, a favourite style. The women, the Daily Mail wrote recently in a characteristic burst of maidenly distaste, “pull their shoddily dyed hair back in that ultra-tight bun known as a ‘council-house facelift’, wear skirts too short for their mottled blue thighs, and expose too much of their distressingly flabby midriffs

:)

[X30YES]

quote:Originally posted by PACMAN

Basically a Chav is a britsh Ned

quote from Worldwideword.com

The press in Britain has recently been having fun mocking a group for which pejorative descriptions have been created such as “non-educated delinquents” and “the burgeoning peasant underclass”. The subjects of these derogatory descriptions are said to be set apart by ignorance, fecklessness, mindless violence and bad taste.

To illustrate the last of these, critics point to their style of dress: a love of flashy gold jewellery (hooped earrings, thick neck chains, sovereign rings and heavy bangles, which all may be lumped together under the term bling-bling); the wearing of white trainers (in what is called “prison white”, so clean that they look new); clothes in fashionable brands with very prominent logos; and baseball caps, frequently in Burberry check, a favourite style. The women, the Daily Mail wrote recently in a characteristic burst of maidenly distaste, “pull their shoddily dyed hair back in that ultra-tight bun known as a ‘council-house facelift’, wear skirts too short for their mottled blue thighs, and expose too much of their distressingly flabby midriffs

:)
:approve:Brill how true as well :p