Chavs in Britain

[MarillionFan]

Only a moron?

Not a village idiot or cretin?

The standard of insults is depreciating quicker than our wealth.

[d000hg]

Not many immigrants in the North but LOTS of chavs. Generally from poor families and badly educated, so the spiral repeats because your parents are more an influence than your teachers at school.

I don't think you can blame immigrants unless people are chavs because they tried to get work and failed... most seem to become chavs in their early teens before they even think about work.

[sasguru]

So what you're trying to say is that because you estimate the percentage of young immigrants to be 6.6% that youth unemployment should be 6.6% rather than 12.6%. You really are a cretin.

Is that what I said?
I can see why you are unemployed. You lack basic numeracy and logical skills.

[TimberWolf]

Is that what I said?
I can see why you are unemployed. You lack basic numeracy and logical skills.

As if you, in you 20,000 posts, have ever demonstrated any competence in either. I've posted many posts containing numerical calculations, any of which were open to be critiqued by you or anyone else. But you stick to your bultuliping posts where your expertise lays.

While you bring the issue up. Not once in the time I have been on here have I seen you attempt to answer any quantitative problem posed here, and yet you claim to be doing a Masters in Mathematics or some such. How academic standards have slipped.

[Incognito]

Now I'm not going to pretend that no other country on earth has chavs or a local equivalent. Here in Holland we have Tokkies and the like with their resplendent mullets, and anywhere in the world there are little groups of failed ugly little tulips who spend their days generally annoying everybody else, nicking stuff, vandalising stuff and so on.

The thing is, in most countries you only see a few of them here and there. But on my last 5 or 6 visits to the UK, entering through different airports or railway stations, I've noticed that the time-to-first-chav-sighting has fallen to about 30 seconds after alighting from train or plane. It then goes on; even in quite attractive towns and rather posh areas, groups of acne ridden greasy haired tracksuit wearers are to be seen on every corner, meaning it now seems almost impossible to spend more than one minute traversing a populated area of Britain on foot without seeing a chav.

What is it precisely about Britain, an otherwise rather splendid place that has given the world so many good things like railways, jet engines, decent rock music and nuns in latex outfits (huh? Zat voz ze Germans!), that has led to such a surplus of grotty little tulipes?

Try riding the 50 from Lelyann to RAI at half 8 in the morning and you'll see plenty of the Dutch 'Untermensch'

[MaryPoppins]

While you bring the issue up. Not once in the time I have been on here have I seen you attempt to answer any quantitative problem posed here, and yet you claim to be doing a Masters in Mathematics or some such. How academic standards have slipped.

I think you've had 'im there TW.

[OwlHoot]

WHS.

And a village idiot AND a moron.

HTH

[amcdonald]

England has Chavs, Scotland has Neds, so what are they called in Wales ?

[SizeZero]

Try riding the 50 from Lelylaan to RAI at half 8 in the morning and you'll see plenty of the Dutch 'Untermensch'

You aren't wrong about the 50. But it runs from Bijlmer to Bos&Lommer; it was never going to be classy folk using it.

[xoggoth]

If you look at the supposed "scholarly articles" they seem to show different results. Maybe we should not assume that a source is unbiased simply because it comes from some university. Economics and immigration are political issues and real impartiality will not be found.