Close One! (Neds and Chavs)

[nic283]

Had a close encounter with a wee ned in a Lexus there. I was parked outside my cousin's house having a gab when a car went past and I heard a thump. The eejit clipped my wing mirror and was going to keep driving off if I didn't toot the horn and get out the car. My wing mirror is fine but it was just her attitude that pis*ed me off. She thought it was fine cos "it's just a wing mirror". After 2 years of driving, that's my first incident if you can call it that, and I was surprisingly calm cos I can be a bit hot headed! Mind you, my cousin seemed to lose it a bit and demanded the ned apologise! And how the hell can a ned afford a Lexus?!

[HappyMan]

Sadly having money isn't connected with intelligence!

I had the same thing happen to me about a year ago here in poland and the guy carried on until I hit my horn ( and the fabia horm is VERY loud) and he stopped and I would have given him piece of my mind but for two things, 1) My polish at the time was useless and b) I was very very sick and had returned home to recuperate. The guy did stop and look at me as if I was from mars and I told him in my polish that he was an idiot and should be more careful. He did apologise and there was no damage to my car so I didn't take it any further.

People don't think sometimes and they take stupid risks of going to close to cars and there is nothing you can do about it.

Thankfully there is nothing wrong with your car!

And speaking about wing mirrors, a friend of mine who waited 10 months for her brand new NHB Civic lent her car to her boss after 2 months of having it. He came back to tell her that he had had a 'slight' accident in her car and that she would need a new wing mirror as he had misjudged the space when parking and completely trashed the wing mirror - it was quite expensive to repair actually about 800plm ( about £250 ). Well the boss paid for it to be repaired!

[angie4m]

Originally Posted by nic283

And how the hell can a ned afford a Lexus?!

Either not theirs (stolen or borrowed), their parents or they could have a good line in chemicals? sniff sniff lol!

[nic283]

250 quid?! I won't be calm if it happens again then. My mum (who was also there) agrees that she was either a drug dealer or a 'working girl'! Silly moo anyway.

[Unknownsoldier]

You have to remeber a Lexus is essentially only a pimped up Toyota and so your correct she probably had nicked it (they seem particularly popular with Chav's (and Chavettes, not being sexist here, lol) because of the goldy badges, Chav's take to them like Magpies...). Also, with financing the way it is, anyone can afford anything if they're willing to put themselves in enough debt......take the guy I saw on Campus, 18yo and drives a brand new (well it was brand new then...) E46 BMW 325ci Convertable, yet he always pleaded poverty....hmmmmm something odd there.... financing the way to get what you want when you want it (yet many do not read the small print.....)

Tom

Tom

[HappyMan]

Originally Posted by nic283

250 quid?! I won't be calm if it happens again then. My mum (who was also there) agrees that she was either a drug dealer or a 'working girl'! Silly moo anyway.

I would expect that it is a little higher back in the Uk than here in Poland, so you escaped.

What is a 'Ned' and 'Chav'?

[Brodick]

Originally Posted by nic283

250 quid?! I won't be calm if it happens again then. My mum (who was also there) agrees that she was either a drug dealer or a 'working girl'! Silly moo anyway.

I agree with you that the driver of the lexus was in the wrong
it could have been a company car. I bumped a guys mirror the day before I was trading in my CR-V and I reversed back to make sure his was o.k
it was an automatic thing

did she look nice - did you get the number plate, model and colour of the lexus - if so pass it on ( cause if she was nice I might just try bumping into her the next time

[nic283]

Brodick, what 'Perfect Guy' would want to be set up with a nedette? You need to add some class to your taste in women

[Unknownsoldier]

Originally Posted by HappyMan

What is a 'Ned' and 'Chav'?

Just to clarify for our foreign members, Ned and Chav are essentially the same things, (regional Difference a Ned is a Scottish Chav)....

Definition of a Chav:

Chav, Charv/Charver (male) and Chavette (female) ('ch' pronounced as in chair) are mainly derogatory slang terms in the United Kingdom for a subcultural stereotype fixated on fashions derived from American Hip-hop such as imitation gold jewellery and designer clothing, combined with elements of working class British street fashion. The term appeared in mainstream dictionaries in 2005.[1][2]
There are regional variations; in the north east of England (particularly in Newcastle and Gateshead), the variant charv or charver/charva is most commonly used and has been used since the early 1990s, while in the south east chav and chavette are the usual forms. What is unusual is that the vowel in charver is ɑ (as in 'far') and the mainstream UK equivalent uses the a (as in 'cat') vowel in chav which goes against the usual North-South (a/ɑ) vowel distinction.[3]
The defining features of the chav clothing is the Burberry pattern (notably a now-discontinued baseball cap) and from a variety of other casual and sportswear brands. Tracksuits, hoodies, track suit bottoms and baseball caps are particularly associated with this stereotype. Response to the term has ranged from amusement to criticism that it is a new manifestation of classism.[4] The term has also been associated with juvenile delinquency, the "ASBO Generation", "Hoodie culture", and "yob culture".

For more info see here: Chav - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

A Ned:

Ned is a derogatory term applied to certain young people in Scotland (similar to the terms chav used in Wales and England, skanger in Ireland, and spide in Northern Ireland). The stereotypical view of a ned is a white adolescent male, of working class background, who wears fake Burberry, who engages in hooliganism, petty criminality, loutish behaviour, underage drinking and smoking or general anti-social behaviour[1]. They are often assumed to be unemployed.

Again see here: Ned (Scottish) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Tom

[Brodick]

Originally Posted by nic283

Brodick, what 'Perfect Guy' would want to be set up with a nedette? You need to add some class to your taste in women

Actually you have a point ( don't no what came over me )

I only ever go for ladies with Class & taste

[angie4m]

I always think of Chavs as wearing burburry and Neds wearing white trackies and Lacost trainers (like my ex).

Neds will also be seen swigging a nicely chilled bottle of Buckie (also like my ex - needless to say he was binned after it had irritated my dad enough lol!)

[HappyMan]

Originally Posted by Unknownsoldier

Just to clarify for our foreign members, Ned and Chav are essentially the same things, (regional Difference a Ned is a Scottish Chav)....

Definition of a Chav:

Chav, Charv/Charver (male) and Chavette (female) ('ch' pronounced as in chair) are mainly derogatory slang terms in the United Kingdom for a subcultural stereotype fixated on fashions derived from American Hip-hop such as imitation gold jewellery and designer clothing, combined with elements of working class British street fashion. The term appeared in mainstream dictionaries in 2005.[1][2]
There are regional variations; in the north east of England (particularly in Newcastle and Gateshead), the variant charv or charver/charva is most commonly used and has been used since the early 1990s, while in the south east chav and chavette are the usual forms. What is unusual is that the vowel in charver is ɑ (as in 'far') and the mainstream UK equivalent uses the a (as in 'cat') vowel in chav which goes against the usual North-South (a/ɑ) vowel distinction.[3]
The defining features of the chav clothing is the Burberry pattern (notably a now-discontinued baseball cap) and from a variety of other casual and sportswear brands. Tracksuits, hoodies, track suit bottoms and baseball caps are particularly associated with this stereotype. Response to the term has ranged from amusement to criticism that it is a new manifestation of classism.[4] The term has also been associated with juvenile delinquency, the "ASBO Generation", "Hoodie culture", and "yob culture".

For more info see here: Chav - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

A Ned:

Ned is a derogatory term applied to certain young people in Scotland (similar to the terms chav used in Wales and England, skanger in Ireland, and spide in Northern Ireland). The stereotypical view of a ned is a white adolescent male, of working class background, who wears fake Burberry, who engages in hooliganism, petty criminality, loutish behaviour, underage drinking and smoking or general anti-social behaviour[1]. They are often assumed to be unemployed.

Again see here: Ned (Scottish) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Tom

Well now I know!

I am only in my mid-thirties and I had naver heard of this before - I must have led a sheltered life!

Thanks for the Info!

[Dimplyred]

I didn't know what a ned was either. Thanks for enlightening me

[Unknownsoldier]

No worries, just call me the Chav-finder General, lol. Honestly, if you didn't use the term or hear it you probably wouldn't know it's meaning, I'm guessing you have a Polish version of Chav's/Ned's???

Tom

[HappyMan]

Originally Posted by Unknownsoldier

No worries, just call me the Chav-finder General, lol. Honestly, if you didn't use the term or hear it you probably wouldn't know it's meaning, I'm guessing you have a Polish version of Chav's/Ned's???

Tom

I wouldn't know as I am a brit in disguise but I am going to ask and let you know!

I know that there are hordes of poles over in the UK so it may come in useful

[Unknownsoldier]

Cool, Thanks, Canterbury is littered with signs in Russian/Polish, so there has to be a few here.

Tom

[robbo51]

Originally Posted by angie4m

.......Neds will also be seen swigging a nicely chilled bottle of Buckie ....

What's 'Buckie'?

[angie4m]

Originally Posted by robbo51

What's 'Buckie'?

Buckfast tonic wine. The stuff made by the monks at buckfast abbey in devon

[cgsuk]

you lot should apply for mastermind under general knowledge

[robbo51]

Originally Posted by angie4m

Buckfast tonic wine. The stuff made by the monks at buckfast abbey in devon

Yuk!!!