BS: Some people are so stupid...

Subject: RE: BS: Some people are so stupid...
From: Musket
Date: 14 Apr 11 - 04:35 AM

Oscar Wilde pointed out that we are all lying in the gutter, only some of us are looking up at the stars.

Speaking to many people whom some would dismiss as chavs, you will find that aspirations are low, expectations even lower.

I wonder if those pointing out the issues could point towards the solution?

When I worked down the pit, many of us had two languages. That which we spoke at work and that which we spoke at home. The main difference being that at work, most nouns were preceded by an adjective. Normally beginning with the letter F. I'm not sure the vocabulary was shortened, and neither was the inherent intellect. I'm sure the armchair psychologists can tell me why that was, but I reckon it was about tribal belonging. Much the same as the chavs as they are referred to?

Subject: RE: BS: Some people are so stupid...
From: GUEST,Shimrod
Date: 14 Apr 11 - 03:50 AM

When I first to the North West (of England) around 40 years ago the old covered markets (like Stockport, for example) used to be fun. They were a bit scruffy and full of character and characters - and there was a sense of history about them. There was also, at least the possibility, of obtaining a bargain. Now they've been tarted up and they're just dull, dull, dull, dull! They're also full of cheap Chinese tat that's not worth buying.

Subject: RE: BS: Some people are so stupid...
From: GUEST,Patsy
Date: 14 Apr 11 - 03:15 AM

Gnu, ditto almost everything you said. It seems that we all have towns like that near us. I presume you mean open town markets with stalls selling counterfeit clothes, tatty t-shirts, chunky jewellery, dodgy food, dodgy watches and electrical goods. Some of the ones in market towns like Salisbury or Hay on Wye are a little bit better but I know what you mean.

But I don't see a solution to chavs when their inspiration are the biggest chavs of all Katie Price and N-Dubz, their lifestyles are another world to me so I just ignore it now.

Subject: RE: BS: Some people are so stupid...
From: J-boy
Date: 14 Apr 11 - 01:01 AM

Stupid people aren't the problem. Assholes(politicians and capitalists,mostly) who make use of them to service their own needs deserve most of the blame. Sorry if I sound a bit Marxist but from what I've seen it's all too true.

Subject: RE: BS: Some people are so stupid...
From: Rapparee
Date: 13 Apr 11 - 08:50 PM

Kendall, some mediocrity doesn't even reach that high.

Subject: RE: BS: Some people are so stupid...
From: kendall
Date: 13 Apr 11 - 08:13 PM

Mediocrity know nothing higher than itself.

Subject: RE: BS: Some people are so stupid...
From: Don Firth
Date: 13 Apr 11 - 07:17 PM

Some years back I remember hearing some ignoramus in a coffee shop going on and on about how there ought to be a law passed limiting the English language to no more than 350 words.

He was actually serious!

Don Firth

Subject: RE: BS: Some people are so stupid...
From: Leadfingers
Date: 13 Apr 11 - 07:16 PM

Q - A Market in UK is a collection of Cut price traders who would generally make Walmart look REALLY Up market !! Usually small stall in an open area in a Town Centre

Subject: RE: BS: Some people are so stupid...
From: GUEST,Mrs Olive Whatnoll
Date: 13 Apr 11 - 06:46 PM

I carn't stand them fecking chavs! Wot a stupid lot o' bleedin' knownuffin's they are! Vicky Pollard is a fecking chav of the worst sort. 'As anyone 'eard 'ow she goes on? I 'ave. I fink the Queen must get roight bloody well sick and tired of all this sub'uman ghetto trash loiterin' about in the streets and givin' England a bad name in the world. Sodding degenerates, the lot of them! Their kind ought to be incarcerited is wot I say. For fecking life! I will vote for any politician wot promises to get tough on crime and give criminals and delinquents and troublesome foreigners and such the maximum sentence. Why are we not sendin' these scum off to the penal camps in Australia loik we used to???

- Olive Whatnoll

Subject: RE: BS: Some people are so stupid...
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 13 Apr 11 - 06:27 PM

Gnu and Mad Polly- Chav? a new word for me.

market? you mean Walmart?

Subject: RE: BS: Some people are so stupid...
From: Rapparee
Date: 13 Apr 11 - 06:06 PM

Shucks, we got a whole bunch of those up at the State House in Boise....

Subject: RE: BS: Some people are so stupid...
From: gnu
Date: 13 Apr 11 - 05:22 PM

Chavs are retards who think that they're rebels and also think that their local McDonalds is a 5-star restraunt.

Male chavs wear clothes and jewellry which come from a market, they have a attitude problem and smoke since the age of 11.

Female chavs wear tight trousers and when they sit down they're thongs show, have fake blonde hair as straight as an ironing board or they have the "croydon face-lift", they lost their virginity at the age of 14, they have a attitide problem and they have really really bad teeth.

Chavs also use stupid words such as "safe" or "mint" or "y'wot?" or "quali'ee" or my favourite "innit" what are they trying to say?, it's like trying to communicate with a dog.

you usually find them in your local bus stop or your local town.

... from an urban dictionary I found on Google.

Subject: BS: Some people are so stupid...
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 13 Apr 11 - 05:09 PM

I was on the bus last weekend when a couple of female chavs got on.

'D'yer stop at Salfod preeky?' one asked. The driver (East European I think )looked blank for a minute so I translated

'She is asking if you go via Salford Precinct.'

'Oh, sorry' he replied 'No - You are better with the 37. It will be along soon.'

Well, she gave us both a look that could kill.

'Fuckin wogs. Can't even talk proper...'

They both stormed off amidst fits of giggles from most people in earshot.

I was very tempted to say something but kept quiet as I guess they would not have responded well. Mind you, I know a lot of people like that. No sense of humour. Some would not know if you were taking the piss unless you inserted a catheter. With a mallet.

:D

MP