You're speaking of 2 common levels of the mind-constructed personality,

Sorry for the multiple posts (again!) It is just the way my brain works. I have just realised that this is something I was going to address. We used to call it 'Talking broad and talking bang'. Talking broad was, and still is, speaking in a manner that outsiders would not understand. Pretty much like the chavs in my OP. Talking bang is what was done in polite conversations with outsiders. I have always understood and done it. My Grandad did. My Mother did. It was perfectly accepatble to talk broad amongst your peers, but everyone talked bang when anyone else (like the bus driver) was involved. Those who cannot see the difference are, at best, immature and, at worst idiots.

BTW - While I was typing this the doorbell rang. Sorry for being so middle class... Anyway, there were two young lads outside letting me know I had left the satnav in the car, switched on! I thanked them of course and when I went to retrieve the satnav they had gone so I could not even proffer any recompense. This is the type of attitude that I know and expect in my City. There are those who would have it that inner cities are pits of despair and no go areas. There are those, on this thread, who have said that certain places are no-go areas. Yet, when it suits them. they cannot sing the praises of youngsters enough.

It is. I guess, those mind-constructed personalities once more. Maybe split-constructed. Or just wankers? I don't know...

Cheers

MP