Lifetime cost of a chav

[KathyWoolfe]

One thing you neglect is the poor and hence chavs have a high propensity to spend all of their 'income' which bizzarely helps to keep the economy ticking over.

PS the kidnapper of Shannon Mathews was a computer programmer, anyone like to make some wild stereotypes about those individuals?

I'm not knocking the poor, I'm due to become relatively poorer soon and living off state benefits myself.

PS. what language did he program in?

[PAH]

PS the kidnapper of Shannon Mathews was a computer programmer, anyone like to make some wild stereotypes about those individuals?

Computer programming is about as widespread as operating a TV remote control. Just using Windows can be classed as programming, you see about the same number of error exceptions as us 'professionals'. In fact with my code, you see less.

[Spacecadet]

What is really annoying is that they've given the once-reputable brand "Burberry" a bad name os that anyone seen wearing it is now automatically assumed to be chav

Depends what it is and how its worn, i got my wife a Burberry belt which looks very nice on her and doesn't smack of chav.

On the other hand, burberry baseball cap (usually fake Burberry) is totally chav and wearers should be shot (or at least mocked) on sight.

[xoggoth]

Our disincentivising society creates chavs. It is a chav factory. All those hard working migrants will be chavs too within a generation.

[KathyWoolfe]

Our disincentivising society creates chavs. It is a chav factory. All those hard working migrants will be chavs too within a generation.

Not sure I agree with you. There are lots of poor out there who aren't chavs, simply because they might be too old to fit into the chav "culture".

On the other hand I can think of at least a couple of celebrities who have £millions and have their own TV show who I would class as world-class chav.

[PAH]

On the other hand I can think of at least a couple of celebrities who have £millions and have their own TV show who I would class as world-class chav.

It'll be an olympic sport for 2012 we're that desperate for medals.

[shelby68]

Contraceptive-injection linked benefits. It's the only way...

Well that would be the first step Mein Fuhrer, I mean Mr OS, Zen ve build railroads from the council estates straight to ze, Camps!

Seriously though it goes deeper than just what they wear, it's actually fashionable now to be uneducated and aspire to sweet FA.

When I was growing up you didn't want to be associated with the slower kids at school, now they wear being thick like a badge of honor.

[PAH]

When I was growing up you didn't want to be associated with the slower kids at school, now they wear being thick like a badge of honor.

That's the hare and tortoise race for you. The slow ones always win in the end.

[Bagpuss]

When I was growing up you didn't want to be associated with the slower kids at school, now they wear being thick like a badge of honor.

Being outside the norm causes the problems as it always has. Be it a swot or a thicko or a goth, the herd don't like that they seek to be average. Now it's fashionable to dress chavy and sound like "I iz black", at a time when black people are trying to dismiss negative stereotypes, the white youth are actively embracing them.

[r0bly0ns]

Age 18 to death (assume age 68 due to poor lifestyle choices):
Benefits @ £10k/year (housing benefit, council tax benefit, JSA, income support, etc.)

Probabaly closer to 40k a year with 7 kids.

I seem to remeber that Lizzie Bardsly was getting about 28k with 5 kids.