Chavs were made up by a middle/upperclass newspaper in 2004 to paint the working class as all animalistic thugs. They never actually existed, and like with The Loch Ness Monster, the stories of run-ins with them were always too ridiculous to be true

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    14 hours ago

    Grew up in the era there were definitely chavs it wasn’t a class thing either as a lot of them tended to be role-playing middle class kids who wanted to look hard as usual.

    Walking through local shops and being challenged about which part of town you lived in or getting called a “greebo” all a day in the life of the era.