General Chat

I have a saying too, and it's in the Oxford dictionary............

Rose :-|

:-) Hayley...lot of phrases and words in them there dictionaries ;-)

One of my favourites is 'colloquialism' .

(Rescues the DM from the nail in the out-house)

There is an article in the paper edition today by the journalist Joanna Moorhead about arguing with her teenage daughter.

Two of the daughters' stock responses are
You're butters (ugly)
You're moist (A negative person who tends to ruin other people's good times)

Ah well. There's a time and a place........

Is there a 'wind up' merchant here!

Don't say another word about ..........................

I think Butters is really cute.
Well he seems so in South Park anyway. :-D

The only "slang" words I would use are the old cockney rhyming slang words....none of this modern rubbish

Don't think Chillax is something my 21 or 16 year old daughters would say to be honest

It's chav-speak according to the young people I work with.

There's a book we could buy .............................


The Little Book of Chav Speak: Amazon.ca: Lee Bok: Books

:-D :-D :-D :-D

Rose Ive just had to look that up ;-)

I agree chillax is well chav :-D

The word "chillax" always sounds to me like it should have an e on the end and be wielded by a big hairy man with horns on his helmet.

Now there's a thought!

I really don't know what chav means. Around here it is deemed a derogatory politically incorrect word to describe a certain ethnic group. A word you just dare not say in publc these days.

How would anyone actually use the word in the first person?

'I am going to Chillax...'' Nope I wouldn't say that. I may say I am going to relax for a bit ( stop what I am doing)

I wouldn't use it 'at' another person, ever! ''Why don't you chillax'' because I think it infers they need to take some time out and calm down, in which case I would say just that- If indeed I said anything.

From time to time my s in law tells me to take a chill pill - which means calm down and quite frankly I find it offensive.

I don't really understand "chav" as "chavvy" is the Romany word for child.

"Minging " is not quite the tasteful word for stinking that you might think either.

I much prefer 'wind ya neck in', but I hasten to add, would would only use it in a playful way or to diffuse a situation.

Chavs aren't a particular ethnic group, it's a stereotypical term used by lots of people. It's not a flattering one, for sure. Not sure where you live, Nanasue, but I can't imagine anywhere in the UK where you can't say it aloud. Very strange.

People don't like being called chavs but, to quote the young ones again, "They shouldn't act like them then."

Wiki has an adequate definition.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chav

I'm also reliably informed that Jeremy Kyle has a lot on his show.

I think that is the general gist of others penny, people being told to “chillax” was or is offensive, especially when the people advising others to chillax had at one time been quiet aggressive whilst addressing others, when the person was challenged by others they were told to chillax. :-D

Sounds plain rude to me, Hayley, glad I missed it.

Just talking to the pensioner and saying the word "chav" was unheard of when we were young and was trying to think of an equivalent.

He had the answer - "common".

At my "school for young ladies" our teachers discouraged us from wearing anything common, saying anything common or behaving in a "common" way.

I was never precisely sure of the definition and decided it was anything they didn't like. But my Mum and my Nain knew it when they saw it, oh yes.

Shell suits, sportswear, burberry and bling = Chav!

It's a look....................... :-0

I keep forgetting you were an orginal St Trinians Gwynne ;-)