This is really worrying. I joined in with the Chav thread just for fun and am now feeling more than a bit ashamed of myself. If we made these comments about another race or adherents of a particular religion then this would be clearly bigotry. As it is, we're (and I've done it myself but have resolved to stop it) writing off an entire social group. Like Guest, I live in an area with a high ratio of Chav-dom ... and there are quite a few of the characters Guest describes. But there are also a lot of perfectly decent people who just happen to wear Burberry and masses of cheap gold.