peggy
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Ooh toast and marmite... on white bread? Mmm
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littleme
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Gadget
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My friend is also taking part, his girls are very excited as they get to go to Spain this year to cheer on their Dad
Best of luck to you.
That-Crazy-Rat-Lady
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#When your other half is rude to you.
The next minute he cant find his house keys.
He rumbles around the house swearing.
You know exactly where they are but say nothing...
The next minute he cant find his house keys.
He rumbles around the house swearing.
You know exactly where they are but say nothing...
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arthur
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Just read the acronym JAM for 'just about managing', thats a new one I haven’t heard before. It reminded me of a conversation I had with my daughter in sign language as she is profoundly deaf and has no speech.
We were doing a mother and daughter girlie shop day and went into Primark to browse. I was looking at earrings and saw some large hooped silver (tin) earrings. I asked her what do you think of these darling will you be able to put them in mummy’s ear. Her response in sign language was, you will look like a CHAV.
I was shocked surprised and appalled that CHAV (council House Adult Vermin) is being used BSL.
We were doing a mother and daughter girlie shop day and went into Primark to browse. I was looking at earrings and saw some large hooped silver (tin) earrings. I asked her what do you think of these darling will you be able to put them in mummy’s ear. Her response in sign language was, you will look like a CHAV.
I was shocked surprised and appalled that CHAV (council House Adult Vermin) is being used BSL.
photography_bloke
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Hello folks, it's been a while!
What have I missed?
What have I missed?
Gramaisc
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Quite a bit of stuff worth missing.
John Marwood
I ♥ cryptic crosswords
lochdhu
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Me too, yes I still stalked this site... especially when not sleeping well
staffordjas
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Been working an hour in front for most of the day...hubby just informed me he's already put all the clocks forward this morning " to save doing it tomorrow" 
joshua
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It comes from a Romany word, ‘chavi’ which means child and this is quite a well established etymology and it happened in the south east of England that this was borrowed into English and it’s sort of spread from there via the internet and the media.
In 2004 it entered the Oxford English Dictionary as the first ever Word of the Year and was heavily promoted as such and that led to quite a lot of media coverage of the word and an increase in use in sort of the mainstream media, although it had been bubbling away on the internet and in people’s speech for a while.
There are various sorts of false etymologies, false stories about where the word comes from, the most famous of these, is to say that it’s an acronym of ‘Council House and Violent’.
And what this shows is that people are reading a meaning into the word and they go back and they make a story up where they think the word’s come from based on what they think the word means or how people are using the word and what this false etymology shows really is that it has these sort of class-related meanings.
So they’ve reinterpreted it as meaning something to do with council housing and violence it’s used in the demonization of the working class, especially young working class people as if they constitute some sort of underclass distinct from the rest of us non-chavs.
In 2004 it entered the Oxford English Dictionary as the first ever Word of the Year and was heavily promoted as such and that led to quite a lot of media coverage of the word and an increase in use in sort of the mainstream media, although it had been bubbling away on the internet and in people’s speech for a while.
There are various sorts of false etymologies, false stories about where the word comes from, the most famous of these, is to say that it’s an acronym of ‘Council House and Violent’.
And what this shows is that people are reading a meaning into the word and they go back and they make a story up where they think the word’s come from based on what they think the word means or how people are using the word and what this false etymology shows really is that it has these sort of class-related meanings.
So they’ve reinterpreted it as meaning something to do with council housing and violence it’s used in the demonization of the working class, especially young working class people as if they constitute some sort of underclass distinct from the rest of us non-chavs.
photography_bloke
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proactive
Enjoying a drop of red.
Oh dear. Referring to a class system is so tedious. However, if we must refer to working class and middle class etc then one does not have to be working class or live in a council house to be a chav.
Jonah
Spouting nonsense since the day I learned to talk
Me too, yes I still stalked this site... especially when not sleeping well
Good to know the thread is being used how I intended it to be used. It's the reason why I started it many moons ago.
tek-monkey
wanna see my snake?
I always thought chavs came from chattham, an ex lived in Maidstone in the late 90s and you could spot the people from chattham a mile off!
BobClay
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I decided to mow the lawn the weather is so good. First cut this year ..... 
Shouldn't have left it so long, it nigh on bloody killed me !! ... and there's a peculiar plant in one corner that looks like a Triffid. Even the lawn mower wouldn't go near it.
I've retired to the pub.
Shouldn't have left it so long, it nigh on bloody killed me !! ... and there's a peculiar plant in one corner that looks like a Triffid. Even the lawn mower wouldn't go near it.
I've retired to the pub.
Alee
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Lmao. , what is this , is it for real ?
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