I use to be a chav (punk!!) but I'm toutching 40 so think a change is in order. Anyone from adimin reading??

Chavy, you don't look like these Chavs though.

My name, is because I like Toads.

Edited December 9, 200817 yr by mrtoad

Cindy is my nickname.

Cindy is my nickname.

It's amazing how many new or rarely heard from members jumped on this thread.

Is it too late to change my name?

I use to be a chav (punk!!) but I'm toutching 40 so think a change is in order. Anyone from adimin reading??

<H3 id=siteSub>From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia</H3>Jump to: navigation, searchChav is a slang derogatory term applied to certain young people in the United Kingdom. The stereotypical image of a chav is an aggressive white teen or young adult, of working class background, who wears branded sports and casual clothing (baseball caps are also common) who often fights and engages in petty criminality and are often assumed to be unemployed or in a low paid job. The term appeared in mainstream dictionaries in 2005

Hmmmm......not too much punk about that

As for mine, it means a statement of irrefutable logic, from the latin: quod erat demonstrandum

Edited December 9, 200817 yr by QED

I use to be a chav (punk!!) but I'm toutching 40 so think a change is in order. Anyone from adimin reading??

<H3 id=siteSub>From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia</H3>Jump to: navigation, searchChav is a slang derogatory term applied to certain young people in the United Kingdom. The stereotypical image of a chav is an aggressive white teen or young adult, of working class background, who wears branded sports and casual clothing (baseball caps are also common) who often fights and engages in petty criminality and are often assumed to be unemployed or in a low paid job. The term appeared in mainstream dictionaries in 2005

Hmmmm......not too much punk about that

As for mine, it means a statement of irrefutable logic, from the latin: quod erat demonstrandum

And all this time I thought you were named after a ship.

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Chav as in respect of what you are talking about is a fairly recent word. As for Chavy, he's far too old to be a Chav.

I reckon it comes from one of these meanings. Maybe Chavy can verify, but I got a feeling it was a cockney work mate that started calling him it.

"The origin of the word seems to have lots of possible sources. For many decades at Charterhouse, the public school boys used the word to refer to everyone who didn't go to public school.Now that British journalists have just recently discovered the word, all the papers seem to have an opinion as to its origin and are proudly announcing it as the word of the year. Hmm. One dumb hack wrote that it was a contraction of 'Chatham average', Chatham being a town in Kent, but this is certainly wrong. Another dubious source is an acronym derived from 'Council House Violent'. For decades, Chav was a traditional phrase used by Londoners 'she dropped a Chav' was used to mean 'gave birth'. In this context, 'Chavs' are simply 'kids' apparently deriving from 'Chavi' a Romany word meaning 'boy'. So we have an etymological contender that fits the bill... but used by caravan gippos." (Source: Everything2.com)

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Chav as in respect of what you are talking about is a fairly recent word. As for Chavy, he's far too old to be a Chav.

I reckon it comes from one of these meanings. Maybe Chavy can verify, but I got a feeling it was a cockney work mate that started calling him it.

"The origin of the word seems to have lots of possible sources. For many decades at Charterhouse, the public school boys used the word to refer to everyone who didn't go to public school.Now that British journalists have just recently discovered the word, all the papers seem to have an opinion as to its origin and are proudly announcing it as the word of the year. Hmm. One dumb hack wrote that it was a contraction of 'Chatham average', Chatham being a town in Kent, but this is certainly wrong. Another dubious source is an acronym derived from 'Council House Violent'. For decades, Chav was a traditional phrase used by Londoners 'she dropped a Chav' was used to mean 'gave birth'. In this context, 'Chavs' are simply 'kids' apparently deriving from 'Chavi' a Romany word meaning 'boy'. So we have an etymological contender that fits the bill... but used by caravan gippos." (Source: Everything2.com)

It's CHARV !!!

From Urban Dictionary: 3. Charv

The correct spelling of chav. 'Chav' is the bastardised variation of charv, which is both in correct and stupid sounding. The word charv (short for charver, i mean come on, how can 'chav' be short for chaRver?! Some idiots on this website have defined the word 'chav' but have also made refrence to the word 'chaRver'. Don't they notice their stupid term isn't even a shortened version of the correct word?!) originated from the birth place of charv culture; Newcastle, UK. Charv culture then spread across the nation and the idiots in the south (ie, the media) started picking up on the North East's word but for some idiotic reason missed out the 'R'.

Edited December 9, 200817 yr by popmybubble

After stumbling across TV when I first came to Thailand, I quickly registered using the name of my Boat/Boat Charter business in the U.S.A. Many times have regretted not changing it to something a little more creative and a little less "USA", but too late now.

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Chav as in respect of what you are talking about is a fairly recent word. As for Chavy, he's far too old to be a Chav.

I reckon it comes from one of these meanings. Maybe Chavy can verify, but I got a feeling it was a cockney work mate that started calling him it.

"The origin of the word seems to have lots of possible sources. For many decades at Charterhouse, the public school boys used the word to refer to everyone who didn't go to public school.Now that British journalists have just recently discovered the word, all the papers seem to have an opinion as to its origin and are proudly announcing it as the word of the year. Hmm. One dumb hack wrote that it was a contraction of 'Chatham average', Chatham being a town in Kent, but this is certainly wrong. Another dubious source is an acronym derived from 'Council House Violent'. For decades, Chav was a traditional phrase used by Londoners 'she dropped a Chav' was used to mean 'gave birth'. In this context, 'Chavs' are simply 'kids' apparently deriving from 'Chavi' a Romany word meaning 'boy'. So we have an etymological contender that fits the bill... but used by caravan gippos." (Source: Everything2.com)

It's CHARV !!!

So you're a Geordie then?

Mine is a play on the Thai currency and a popular tv cartoon character.

So you're a Geordie then?

Mine is a play on the Thai currency and a popular tv cartoon character.

I like it!

Mine is just pure unadulterated self adoration.

(a long duration girlfriend of Polish origin nicknamed me this, and it just stuck, I'm the gift that just keeps on giving )

Edited December 9, 200817 yr by Thaddeus

I have a few hobbies and characteristics in common with that character of Ch.Bukowski

Mine is just pure unadulterated self adoration.

(a long duration girlfriend of Polish origin nicknamed me this, and it just stuck, I'm the gift that just keeps on giving )

Oh, right.

Pull the other one it's got a tracking ankle thing on which is on the cat's neck as we speak

Edited December 9, 200817 yr by Patsycat

My first ever girlfriend gave me my nickname, and before you lot get started, she was 4 years old and i was 5, and i was always licking lollipops or sweets!!

And thats honesty for you!! Cheers, Lickey..

I tried to choose a screen name that incorporated the 3 passions I enjoy most in life which are flying, playing sports, and women. I first came up with the name 'jetjockpussy' but since that sounded like it might be a little too crude for an intellectual crowd like we have here on TV, I dedided it would be best to shorten it .

Due to a passion for Coleman's and Cluedo.

'Aijin' means 'mistress' or 'lover' in Japanese

More like a woman who is secretly seeing a married man, not outright derogatory but not very positive.

An Aijin is just a 'girl on the side', much like a mianoi...desu!

The guys at the dojo in Japan where I lived for 20yrs, put the OZ from where I was born on there as I am into martial arts.

Oz

I have no imagination. Yas is my nickname (and a shorter version of my real name) and the X was added to spice it up.

I use to be a chav (punk!!) but I'm toutching 40 so think a change is in order. Anyone from adimin reading??

Cindy is my nickname.

Chavy, maybe you could change yours to CindyCindyCindy. Cos you drink like a GirlGirlGirl

I use to be a chav (punk!!) but I'm toutching 40 so think a change is in order. Anyone from adimin reading??

Cindy is my nickname.

Chavy, maybe you could change yours to CindyCindyCindy. Cos you drink like a GirlGirlGirl

Or how about Sleepy?

I have a few hobbies and characteristics in common with that character of Ch.Bukowski

Respect to that.

I am also a big fan of Buk.

Bukowski's Hanks hobbies = Drinking (lots of drinking), Betting on Horses, writing poetry and sleeping around with younger women.

I think you found the right town buddy (apart from the horses bit)

Mine is just pure unadulterated self adoration.

(a long duration girlfriend of Polish origin nicknamed me this, and it just stuck, I'm the gift that just keeps on giving )

Oh, right.

Pull the other one it's got a tracking ankle thing on which is on the cat's neck as we speak

No, honest it's true, I would never lie to you Patts.

Mine is becoulse i live on hills of cash.

if only i could pay with bags of sand

a little too crude for an intellectual crowd like we have here on TV

Being an intellectual I thought it was something like Maigo6 - lucky seven?

Or flying Scotsman.

Mine morphed out of Fuddler's Fick which was deemed inappropriate.

Because I'm the biggest hog at the trough

Because I was younger then . . .

JxP

Cindy is my nickname.

Ha!

Another tree hugger.

Anyway, my name comes from a movie aired long time ago when there was only black and white TV.

My mother was pregnant of me (do I say that right) and and she and my father where looking TV and discussing how to name me.

In the movie they were looking there was a character named Alex.

So they decided that if the baby turned out to be a boy it would be named Alex.

And so they did.

The amazing part of it is that this character in the movie happened to be some kind of secret agent.

And guess what I am now.

The Lah is refering to Singapore and suggested by Boo.