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Otta Wrote:

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> They've been around the area for a while now. The

> bike are annoyingly loud, but the worrying thing

> is that not one of them wears any kind of helmet,

> and you can't help thinking it's a matter of time

> til one of them takes a tumble.

>

> Dunno about chavs though.


Must say that it's the riding and doing wheelies on the pavement that irked me. Don't really care if they don't wear a helmet and get themselves killed as long as they don't hurt anyone else. At best they'd make an organ doner.


Chavs ... judging by their attire and demeanour they didn't seem to be particularly smart or sensible and they all seemed too white to be playing east coast gangsta in south london.

???? Wrote:

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> White working class=chavs discuss? Go on root you

> start with your clever analysis and that



Yes the were white and pasty, but I wouldn't go as far as saying they looked like the working kind. I am of a port and rig upbringing, so hardly anything gets under my skin more than chichiness. Acutally ... those kids did.

Louisa Wrote:

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> Here we go the blow in onslaught of anything

> working class yadda yadda. I bet if they were

> hipster/yummy mummy/city gent types on a lambretta

> doing this not an eyebrow would be raised.


If anyone has video footage of yummy mummies on Lambrettas doing noisy wheelies, please... er... PM me... (rubs thighs Vic Reeves-style)

So riding up the pavements on dirt bikes, doing wheelies is 'working class'. You are a terrible snob.


Louisa Wrote:

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> Here we go the blow in onslaught of anything

> working class yadda yadda. I bet if they were

> hipster/yummy mummy/city gent types on a lambretta

> doing this not an eyebrow would be raised.

>

> Louisa.

Absolutely Otta. Riding on the pavement is indefensible on every level. But the tone of this root persons second and third post in particular is pushing unnecessary boundaries with racial and social stereotypes. Interestingly, I was the questioned. Bizarre sometimes this forum is.


Louisa.

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