Pikies (Chavs) and their volume.

[Ducati]

A friend of my wife had a party yesterday afternoon for her one year old daughter: My wife's friend married into a pikey family so, naturally, there were a lot of pikies there.

 

This is a serious question by the way, I'm not just having a pop at pikies.

 

Why are they so damn loud? Every pikey I've ever met has been loud when they talk.

 

  

[FP]

Where I live (Norfolk) a Pikey is the name given to a traveller (not a Romany), i.e. like the guy who was shot by Tony Martin.   We understand Chavs to be the Beckham/Posh/Rooney types, i.e. baseball caps, white trainers, Burberry clothing, etc. 

Yes, Chavs as I know them are usually very loud and like everyone for miles to hear their conversations.

Pikeys are not particularly loud.

[Ducati]

In my part of the world they are called pikies - chav is a comparatively new expression 'round these ere parts.

[kick3m0n]

Up here (Scotland) the normal term for them is Neds.  At Edinburgh Zoo with our little one yesterday, we encountered a very loud, very foul mouthed group of individuals who shouted and swore at some of the animals (hilarious!) and generally just stomped about hte place being wide and agressive. They were all, without exception, dressed in burberry or shell suits (or a combination of both) and had the worst sort of weegie accent.  Truly awful creatures.

[andy hughes]

They are loud because they haven't grapsed the notion of conversation as in, I speak, you kisten, then you speak, I listen. They grow up in families where everyone speaks at once, and therefore they need to speak at some volume to be heard. Extend that to outside, where it combines with the urge to seek attention, and voila - loud chav behaviour.

[FP]

Oh dear, and they start breeding very young and very prolifically, so the world will become even noisier!

[delilahcat]

I think the old saying 'empty vessels make most noise' says it all!

[PurplePixie]

I've got some next door...chavs/pikies, not sure which, but definitely loud. They don't have conversations as such, they have competitions to see who can scream their opinion over everybody else's voice!

I'm not really complaining tho, it's like living next to a live Trisha show everyday, and they don't have any secrets...I know all the sordid details!!!!   It's best when the mother gets plastered, she's actually called Jean but we refer to her amongst ourselves as Meg (short for megaphone!)

[secretspirit]

Maybe because they're used to having to shout to make themselves heard over the TV turned up to full volume or the loud music comstantly pumping out of their cars.