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Member Since: May 2008 Posts: 13,382 Send Message	Muffyxx	Report	15 Jul 2008 19:02
	Or is it PC gone mad? http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2008/jul/15/socialexclusion According to the above article it's now being objected to. What are your thoughts?xx
	Researching: All comments made by me are all mine unless otherwise stated. Any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, or real life events unless otherwise stated is purely coincidental.
Member Since: July 2005 Posts: 23,508 Send Message	₪ TeresaW elite empress of deleted threads&#	Report	15 Jul 2008 19:08
Member Since: July 2005 Posts: 23,508 Send Message	QUOTE: The stereotype description applied to members of the white working class is offensive to a group that cannot defend itself, according to Tom Hampson, editorial director of the Fabian Society er......unable to defend themselves????????
Member Since: February 2007 Posts: 73,136 Send Message	AnnCardiff	Report	15 Jul 2008 19:09
	rubbish - what about thugs and yobs! and yuppies
	Researching: Breakspears of Berkshire and Cardiff, Williams and Harman of Whitchurch, Melingriffith &Tongwynlais,Glamorgan WE HAVE NO CONNECTION Do not share your tree with me
Member Since: May 2008 Posts: 13,382 Send Message	Muffyxx	Report	15 Jul 2008 19:15
	I didn't think it was only working class white people that were chavs.......look at some of the WAGS !!!! Can people of other ethnic groups not be chav too? Sounds like a load of old baloney to me !!xx
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Member Since: April 2003 Posts: 13,636 Send Message	♥ Kitty the Rubbish Cook ♥	Report	15 Jul 2008 19:26
	Demi-TashaDee kitty is my chav name and I am 33% chav Check this site out.............LOL http://www.getlippy.com/play/quizzes/chavquiz/
Member Since: May 2008 Posts: 13,382 Send Message	Muffyxx	Report	15 Jul 2008 19:27
	oooooooooooooo great. I'll do it now xx
	Researching: All comments made by me are all mine unless otherwise stated. Any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, or real life events unless otherwise stated is purely coincidental.
Member Since: May 2003 Posts: 20,705 Send Message	maggiewinchester	Report	15 Jul 2008 19:32
	Quote from it: "The stereotype description applied to members of the white working class is offensive to a group that cannot defend itself", according to Tom Hampson, editorial director of the Fabian Society. That implies it refers to any member of the white working class!! I am a member of the white working class and am not a Chav! - I don't own trainers or a baseball cap! However the many Chavs that live around here seem to take a pride in the term!! I also know of some Asian and Black Chavs. I thought the term was originally from the Romany word chavo (boy) The most prominent Chav I can think of is Victoria Beckham - and she's hardly poor. Chavs were called 'Townies' in the not too distant past.
	Researching: Henry Floyd (g x 4 grandad)
Member Since: May 2008 Posts: 13,382 Send Message	Muffyxx	Report	15 Jul 2008 19:35
	23% CHAV You clearly know you are not, nor will you ever be anything even closely resembling a bonafide chav but that doesn't stop you from jumping on the bling bandwagon every now and then. There's nothing wrong with a bit of pretending though you'll never be able to hold your own with the true Burberry brigade. And my chav name is Jade-Destinee Smith pmsl It was the pot noodle questions which upped my score lololol xx
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Member Since: July 2005 Posts: 23,508 Send Message	₪ TeresaW elite empress of deleted threads&#	Report	15 Jul 2008 19:37
Member Since: July 2005 Posts: 23,508 Send Message	Oooo I am Kayla-Kayleigh Walker...and I am 33% chav........according to the quiz. Maggie, we both picked up on that one paragraph in the report, and personally I think it is the most patronising , insulting, and offensive phrase to have put there as a 'reason' for banning the word chav. He's not going to get far with a so called argument like that.
Member Since: April 2008 Posts: 2,797 Send Message	Eldrick	Report	15 Jul 2008 19:37
Member Since: April 2008 Posts: 2,797 Send Message	How stupid to think that a word can be banned lol Freedom of speech? Freedom of the press? But then again, the Fabian society is a left wing extremist socialist club........and it was in the Guardian...lol
Member Since: July 2005 Posts: 23,508 Send Message	₪ TeresaW elite empress of deleted threads&#	Report	15 Jul 2008 19:38
Member Since: July 2005 Posts: 23,508 Send Message	You mean you think you're posh now you eat the posh noodles? PMSL
Member Since: July 2005 Posts: 23,508 Send Message	₪ TeresaW elite empress of deleted threads&#	Report	15 Jul 2008 19:38
Member Since: July 2005 Posts: 23,508 Send Message	Don't know about freedom of the press, I think we all need freedom FROM the press...
Member Since: May 2008 Posts: 13,382 Send Message	Muffyxx	Report	15 Jul 2008 19:40
	No TW it was just the fact that I ate them......that and admitting to wearing white stillettos.......but THAT WAS IN THE 8Os FGS !!! Everyone did honest guv !!!lol! xx
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Member Since: May 2003 Posts: 20,705 Send Message	maggiewinchester	Report	15 Jul 2008 19:41
	I'm 15% Chav (it was sneaking the gin into a club that did it LOL) and am called Tiffany Chandice!!
	Researching: Henry Floyd (g x 4 grandad)
Member Since: July 2005 Posts: 23,508 Send Message	₪ TeresaW elite empress of deleted threads&#	Report	15 Jul 2008 19:43
Member Since: July 2005 Posts: 23,508 Send Message	Yep, it was the white stilettos that did if for me....well I am an Essex girl and it was the 80s lol
Member Since: January 2003 Posts: 11,594 Send Message	~~~Secret Red ^^ Squirrel~~~ 007 1/2	Report	15 Jul 2008 19:44
	Tw, *shock* Don't you know you shouldn't use the word POSH anymore? lol
Member Since: July 2005 Posts: 23,508 Send Message	₪ TeresaW elite empress of deleted threads&#	Report	15 Jul 2008 19:53
Member Since: July 2005 Posts: 23,508 Send Message	Least it wasn't Malibu Maggie LOL (it was bacardi for me LOLOLOLOL)
Member Since: May 2008 Posts: 13,382 Send Message	Muffyxx	Report	15 Jul 2008 20:03
	It was in the Daily Mail too Eldrick.......but no surprise there either lololol xx
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Member Since: February 2003 Posts: 24,533 Send Message	Bobtanian	Report	15 Jul 2008 20:21
	twokkers and chavs go together like jellied and eels...... imh(umble)o a class of their own...... bob
	Researching: me and my darling wife at our wedding in 1960
Member Since: February 2005 Posts: 32,472 Send Message	Purple *^Sparkly^* Diamond	Report	16 Jul 2008 02:19
	pmsl am 26% chav and called Kristina-Tiffany W. if I use my full name or if I use the abbreviated version, i.e. Liz, am Donna-Leeanne W.

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