Chavs, Chav Culture, Gun Culture...
I want it gone, I want the streets to run with their silence..
I will NOT be persecuted for my appearance, IQ, financial status and GOD DAMNED MUSIC TASTE.
rant over.
Just what exactly are "Chavs" and "bovver boys"?
Trying to make me seem stupid eh hateban?
we'll see...
these are chavs:
We're not talking about the law
Hell I would have just posted in the stickied "chav rant thread" but I figure this would get more attention ;p
little shit annoying me when i'm bringing the washing in, I know he's got mental problems but FFS he's 17 years old
Oh christ on a harley davidson..
venting my spleen means having a rant
*starts to think he's the only real british person on this damn forum ;p)
Just my version of an old english slang term for exasperation "Christ on a bike!"
Say, you got msn hun? I'm collecting new aspie friends atm
pm me with ya addy.
Ian
well it's a standard all young people except me, my brother, and people I know are wankers rant
We all do them.
Ian
If the ASBO is a badge of honor in the UK, then are blisters and stripes across the butt a badge of honor in Singapore? (Or 80 lashes with a whip in Iran?)
I try to think civilized, but hearing stuff like this makes me think corporal punishment and public humiliation might be the only way to deal with that type. This makes me think of the @$$#0!3$ who lived in my apartment complex last year until they finally got thrown out. They'd get all loud and obnoxious in the parking lot, and look at me like I'm a freak when I'd get home from work. (Had they actually %#$&ed with me, they'd have been explaining it to the cops real quick.) What bothered me the most was they were killing ducklings and stray kittens. (When I complained to the management, I was told I was by far not the first to complain.) When it comes to the part about animal cruelty, all delusions of civilization fall aside and I'm all in favor of harsh punishment.
I have a cute little theory, if everyone else isn't civilised, why should I be?
Atm i'm experimenting with utilising my "aspie coldness" to my own ends ;p not with friends and reliatives of course, wouldn't get me many girls now would it?
Ian
I’m from the UK.
I do understood the slang terms used by Ian-- but don’t think a lot of them are in everyday use (not in my circles anyway).
Ian--you have a very a clever and colourful use of language--I like the way you put things. Although it would be nicer if you avoided some of the swear words (sorry to seem prudish).
I agree with you concerning the ‘Chavs’ and ‘bovver’ boys--it’s a recognised problem. They can be very intimidating. ABSO’s don’t work as every little yob wants one--they’ve become ‘a badge of honour’--having an ASBO gives them ’street cred’.
‘Yob culture’ in Britain is similar to problems experienced in US with gangs and guns.
‘Yob culture’(really an oxymoron--with accent on moron).
Even though I'm an Aussie, I understand a lot of Brit slang. It's probably because I used to get comics from the UK as a child eg. Whizzer & Chips and Lion & Thunder and have read a lot.
We have yobbos here but we also call them no-hopers and ratbags (bit of an insult to rats, which are often charming creatures).
I also get aggravated with people who always seem to expect me to move aside for them and this is even when they say "excuse me" but in a rude tone of voice. If they say "excuse me" nicely, then I am only too happy to move.
It's not so much the young people here - it's also the middle aged ones who can be rude and pushy and road rage incidents are increasingly, especially amongst women.
When people say "excuuuse me" in a rude tone, I really feel like saying "of course you're excused, I won't tell anybody that you just farted".
My mum recalls with much amusement one incident on the bus..
this old woman sitting infront of her said to another old woman "they ought to learn that Jade Goody to speak proper."
Ian
Oh of course they don't, nobody knows I have AS and that's just the way I like it. ;]
Ian
When I was a young bloke I would go uptown drinking and carrying on. The fun we had was basically rowdy but reasonably harmless. We were not into being disrespectful or into bullying others. We often got into fights with those kind of people (or maybe not quite those kinds of people, but young blokes hanging out causing trouble). I often came home bloodied swollen and bruised after such encounters. It was all even one on one stuff and stand up, even-handed fighting. A few years later I had settled down and was married and the trouble-making kids became drug driving gangs and more than the occasional knifing or fatality occurred.
When my little boy was little we moved to Bunbury. A compelling reason was that that culture had not migrated or spread to Bunbury. The thoughts of my little boy in his late teens getting caught up in a fight and instead of getting home with swollen knuckles and a bloodied face, getting rushed to emergency with an abdominal knife wound.....let's say that I did not feel that in love with Perth!
Yes, that would be just about every parent's nightmare!
My stepdad tells me about all the fights he used to get into as a young man. His recent memory is bad but he can perfectly remember things that took place 50 years ago. He has a fair few scars from all the fights he was in.
My dad (when they were dating) was sitting next to my mum on this wall, outside some pub or club or w/e...and this guy pushed my dad off and broke his glasses.
So my Dad punched him in the face....about 3 or 5 times repeatedly
Apparently the poor fuckers nose is still flat.
Yes, goes to show that it's a mistake to pick on a person with glasses. I bet that thug wouldn't make the same error twice (unless he was very stupid)
Btw, my nose is a bit flat and I have a deviated septum from falling out of my pram onto my face when I was 8 months old.