It's a yuppie drink here.
Having had to deal with North American bath-water more than a few times this year I can attest that Stella can be a sight for sore eyes.
Yeah I think that's correct. Wonder what the root of the word "chav" is.
I don't think anyone actually knows for sure, but if you ask the average person they'd probably reply with something along the lines of, "Council House And Violent."
I think that's what the original meaning was, but in recent times I've seen the word being tastelessly used as a slur against people from poorer backgrounds in general -- usually by the Daily Mail crowd.
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If I don't want to be a "Chav" I shouldn't refer to my Grandmother as "nan"?
Really?The way in which that loaded term morphs into revulsion of working class culture and habits is clear when laid out in such a way. I'd recommend checking out
Chavs: The Demonization of the Working Class by Owen Jones for anyone who's interested in understanding how the term came about and how its usage has created a corrosive social stigmatisation of an underpriveliged section of society:
In modern Britain, the working class has become an object of fear and ridicule. From Little Britains Vicky Pollard to the demonization of Jade Goody, media and politicians alike dismiss as feckless, criminalized and ignorant a vast, underprivileged swathe of society whose members have become stereotyped by one, hate-filled word: chavs. In this groundbreaking investigation, Owen Jones explores how the working class has gone from salt of the earth to scum of the earth. Exposing the ignorance and prejudice at the heart of the chav caricature, one based on the medias inexhaustible obsession with an indigent white underclass, he portrays a far more complex reality. Moving through Westminsters lobbies and working-class communities from Dagenham to Dewsbury Moor, Jones reveals the increasing poverty and desperation of communities made precarious by wrenching social and industrial change, and all but abandoned by the aspirational, society-fragmenting policies of Thatcherism and New Labour. The chav stereotype, he argues, is used by governments as a convenient figleaf to avoid genuine engagement with social and economic problems, and to justify widening inequality. Based on a wealth of original research, and wide-ranging interviews with media figures, political opinion-formers and workers, Chavs is a damning indictment of the media and political establishment, and an illuminating, disturbing portrait of inequality and class hatred in modern Britain.
Dickhead.
Kyle is vile.
Topic: Are you a Chav? Take The Chav Test!