Silly questions from the Colonials

[Bigcol49]

So I chucked it a nearby front garden

Hi!
So that's where it came from!

 

[CX500T]

Next silly question.

Chav? What exactly is it.

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[BarnBrian]

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Chav? What exactly is it.

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Council Housed And Violent I believe.
Offensive to me as I grew up on a council estate.

 

[GerritT]

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Chav? What exactly is it.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chav#Etymology

 

[Cwrw666]

Chav is actually a gypsy word which just means `young man'. Normally used by non-gypsies to describe undesirable youngsters.

 

[Bigcol49]

Hi!
This is a typical chav.

 

[Bigcol49]

Council Housed And Violent I believe.

Hi!
Generally accepted to be an acronym created well after the word chav was first used.

 

[darkbright]

Like a modern day ....

 

[Saisonator]

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Chav? What exactly is it.

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I think you'd call them trailer trash in the US.

 

[GerritT]

I think you'd call them trailer trash in the US.

Pikey would be the better word.

 

[Gunge]

Hi!
This is a typical chav.

Just look at this clown. Who would ever get bored of repeatedly punching him in the face?

 

[Bigcol49]

Just look at this clown. Who would ever get bored of repeatedly punching him in the face?

Not I :lol:

 

[Chippy_Tea]

 

[dad_of_jon]

Like the one in the Hovis ads... Many years ago I bought this smart-looking pushbike to save on petrol and to do my bit in fighting climate change (lol) etc. but I piled it on my very first trip to work on the damn thing. The left pedal had hit the kerb whilst rounding a corner and the back wheel ended up banana-shaped. So I chucked it a nearby front garden and continued my journey on foot. Never thought about getting another.

I otfen wondered how I woke up to a bike with a bent wheel in my garden :wha: as i'd not cycled for years. I replaced the rear wheel and took up cycling again, you've changed my life. Now I know the original owner and that I hadn't bought it or pinched it on a drunken whim, cycled home and crashed! :thumb:

Do you want it back ? - I'll have to charge you for the wheel I bought though :lol:

 

[partist]

So, I've been mostly in a reading mode, trying to absorb homebrewing from a UK point of view.

Versus cluttering up other threads I figured I'd ask my silly questions here.

I'm familiar with some slang and colloquialisms from owning a couple British motorcycles over the years, as the Triumph and Norton forums tend to be probably 40% US, 30% UK, 10% Aus/NZ among the active members.

What is a pushbike? Here it is sometimes used for a pushcart/bicycle hybrid used by urban deliverymen and food vendors. (I live in Virginia Beach, a tourist heavy area)

Contextually it seems to be a bicycle, but assuming things where different English dialects are involved can be fraught with peril, as I learned years ago working oil rigs with Englishmen, Scotsmen, Australians, New Zelanders, Canadians and a couple Bahamians.

We all officially spoke English and none of us understood each other.

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So... Have you learned anything about home brewing ???

 

[CX500T]

I've learned a few styles mentioned that I hadn't heard before.

Which led to more research. Which led to wishing I had a beer.

 

[Duxuk]

At school we didn't always call them push bikes. We'd often call them shove irons instead. The kids these days have no imagination.

 

[Gunge]

At school we didn't always call them push bikes. We'd often call them shove irons instead. The kids these days have no imagination.

Cripes, so did we! Haven't heard that for aeons and forgot all about it.

 

[Chippy_Tea]

We called had a slight variation we called them them push irons.

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[CX500T]

I'm sitting at Amsterdam Schipol Airport, and I believe I may have actually encountered Chavs in the wild.

Didn't take a picture was more interested in searching for Lambic.

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