Collective Noun for a group of Chavs?

[flip-flop]

Is there a collective noun for a gathering of chavs?

If not, may I be so bold to suggest a Stain of Chavs, or possibly a Scum of Chavs.

On Saturday I saw one of the largest gatherings I've ever seen - the Stain were outside McCrappy (obviously) generally being loud, obnoxious and downright offensive (again obviously).

A big yee haa to the best suggestion, and a big yaa boo sucks to the person who posts that they are human, and you shouldn't tar them all with the same brush etc etc etc, yawn yawn yawn (there's normally one!).

[GruntFuttock]

In that case, how about:-

A Zebuk of Chavs?

[flip-flop]

Pretty much read the whole book with this particular Stain of Chavs and I think I'm spot on - in the space of 10 mins whilst waiting for what seemed like an eternity outside Monsoon, which left me �300 worse off, I digress, I saw two of them spit at a couple of goth girls, tell one old boy to **** *** you old **** because he had the temerity to ask them to move to oneside so he could pass them (the Stain were taking up the whole pavement) and throw their McDonald's wrappers all over the floor, becuase it was just too hard to put them in the bin that one of them was sitting on.

This was in 10 mins - what would the Stain have got up to in an hour? The mind truly boggles.

So, ZebUK, don't feel sorry for me, I'm perfectly happy, although I must admit I'd be happier if these Stains didn't pollute our high streets by their horrible presence.

[noxlumos]

So you were never an obnoxious teen flip-flop? Seems you left it until you grew up.

True the behaviour you describe was not acceptable in any way, but did you really have to regail us with information about how much you spent in Monsoon?That just smacked of "look at me, look at me" which is actually exactly the same thing your "stain" of Chavs is trying to do.

Monsoon sell cheap,badly made clothes by the way and the High street is not yours, it belongs to your community of which these people are part, so if you really want to do something about them "polluting" I suggest you find out why they think their behaviour is acceptable and do something about it at a more grass roots level rather than genralising in such a ridiculous way.It's like me saying "Oh look she's got a Monsoon dress on, must be a silly bigot".

[Drusilla]

Why do the English seem to hate young people so much?

[bernardo]

A chavalanche.

[thikasabrik]

I had no views on Chavs until I recently when I was in McDonalds and one of them nicked the drink out of the hand of my friend's two year old son, who was sitting in his pushchair minding his own business. When I remonstrated with him all his mates spat at us. I am now totally bigotted against anyone wearing a white track suit tucked in socks, cheap Argos jewellery, Burburry, and baseball caps. If ZEBUK thinks these are nice people, god help us!

[jackholl0]

An ASBO of Chavs!

[jackholl0]

Or A collective noun for their crappy, clapped out Nova's and Saxo's etc..... Chaviots of Dire!!

[flip-flop]

Chavalanche - love it.

Where I said there's normally one in my original question, I was clearly mistaken - in this case, there are two chav sympathisers.

But then it occurred to me...the vehemence suggests they are both chavs themselves, albeit chavs with the ability to type, and therefore they can be roundly ignored.

[BigMac]

flip-flop(n) - the movement or sound of repeated flapping.

Have a look at Brachiopod's recent response to a query about Dail Mail readers.

[MsBehave]

Chavs are the people who wear cheap fake clothing, whiter than white trainers, trackie bottoms tucked into their socks, baseball caps and lots of (blinging?!) gold rings and chains right? Well i have nothing against people looking like cloned muppets. Thats fine. I DO have a problem with them hanging about the streets and shops making me feel intimidated though. In MY experience chavs dont do themselves any favours. The ones ive encountered have been loud, obnoxious and rude. End of.

Going back to flip flops original request i dont have any suggestions but i did like bernardos 'chavalanche'. Whether you like chavs or not, you have to admit that is funny!

[Xollob]

Found the following on a site giving the collective nouns for birds. Some food for thought here...

• a siege of cranes


• a mischief of magpies


• a mutation of thrushes

or my favourite...

• a knob of wigeon

[jackholl0]

A troupe of 'Burberry Apes'. Don't get me started again.....

[flip-flop]

Well if a dislike of a group of rude, loud, obnoxious, offensive, violent, threatening people who are the epitome of the 'yob culture' we are experiencing makes me a Daily Mail reader, then I guess I must be........and would much rather be bracketed as such than a hand wringing sympathiser.

I am amazed that people appear to find this behaviour acceptable. Utterly gobsmacked (although I strongly suspect a number of tunes would be changed were they subjected to this behaviour).