Chav-tastic

[dreamer_easy]

Oh, now I get what the hell a "chav" is. They're the young people in Britain you're supposed to be afraid of and allowed to sneer at. It was a reference to "the national sport of chav-baiting" in a news item that tipped me off. The Australian equivalent at the mo would be young Lebanese-Australian men.

Comments

[kateorman.livejournal.com]

Think you might be using a bit of Internet mathematics there, mate. :-)

[infinitarian.livejournal.com]

Well, I wasn't trying to extrapolate a general rule -- just suggesting that, for a BBC programme in the mid-60s, mid-60s Who tried to be more class-inclusive than one might have expected. Of course it did so from a very middle-class perspective -- Dodo and Ben are clearly working-class characters written by middle-class writers. (But then so are Rose and Jackie.)

Later on, the programme wouldn't even make this effort, which I agree was a shame... and Ace on TV isn't a much more convincing working-class teenager than Dodo was, so they hadn't learned much in the interim either.