I (32 F) like the look/vibe (love the flannel/plaid look especially). I also like how intimidating they can be. I’m not sure how I’d go about trying to find one, though.

  • njm1314@lemmy.world
    341·
    8 days ago

    I don’t really feel like redneck is the appropriate parallel. It just feels off.

    • Death_Equity@lemmy.world
      192·
      8 days ago

      Yeah, a UK chav is more like a US white guy that acts and dresses like a black guy.

      A bogan and a redneck are roughly equivalent, but a bogan and a hillbilly also works.

      • Dr. Moose@lemmy.worldEnglish
        21·
        8 days ago

        Nah but Chavs are illiterate and uneducated like rednecks just less country and more urban

        • Death_Equity@lemmy.world
          133·
          8 days ago

          Check your biases.

          I clearly meant that they adopted black culture in terms of mannerisms, dress, and speech.

        • njm1314@lemmy.world
          82·
          8 days ago

          I think you’re the first one who used the phrase lower class behavior here. Which is kinda telling…

          • curiousaur@reddthat.com
            48·
            8 days ago

            That’s the dictionary definition of Chav:

            a young person of a type characterized by coarse and brash behavior (with connotations of low social status).

            • Cethin@lemmy.zipEnglish
              31·
              8 days ago

              Note, this says “connotations of low social status.” The “urban black” culture usually has this same connotation. It isn’t a rule that people from either of these groups have low social status, it’s just associated with it. This is not racist, though the association could be viewed as problematic, but that is a cultural issue, not an issue with what the user above said.

              • curiousaur@reddthat.com
                22·
                8 days ago

                They didn’t say urban. They said act and dress like a black guy. What do you think “acting and dressing like a black guy” means, exactly?

                • Senal@programming.devEnglish
                  2·
                  7 days ago

                  Sounds like you have an idea of what it means to you and are trying to foist that upon others.

                  The lady doth protest too much, methinks.

        • ThrowawayPermanente@sh.itjust.works
          5·
          8 days ago

          I’m really surprised to see the vote ratios here. I mean, I assume the person you’re replying to isn’t actually a racist, but the association of black guys with being thugs definitely is.

    • DicJacobus@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      7 days ago

      Chavs and yobs would actively fight with rednecks.

      Worst of the British urban population and worst of the American rural population. They wouldn’t xo exist

  • DoGeeseSeeGod@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    18·
    8 days ago

    Send msgs via baby goats you let loose in the country side. Worked for my aunt. Then again she was serial killer, but I think the tactic still applies

  • Cracks_InTheWalls@sh.itjust.works
    14·
    8 days ago

    Based on your definition of chav (I too thought tracksuits, trainers, and UK urban slang), think about the kind of hobbies folks like this do. Dunno if it’s an exact equivalent, but if someone was looking for a redneck here in Canada, they’d be going to car and truck shows/events, hunting events, small town bars, fishing derbies, small circuit pro-wrestling events, farm/harvest festivals, county fairs, that kind of thing.

  • Fleur_@aussie.zone
    13·
    8 days ago

    Idk literally any club on a Saturday. You’re asking where to find air to breathe here.

    • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world
      4·
      8 days ago

      Or they might be Mick Foley.

      Hey OP? Does you “chav” need to have all his teeth? Because I wouldn’t call Mick Foley a redneck, but he IS missing teeth from falling off of Hell in a Cell. Which is a cage that’s about 20 feet tall.

      Imagine just waking up one day and saying to yourself “I’m going to go to work today, and I’m going to throw myself off a ledge onto a concrete floor. With the only thing to break my fall being a wooden table and a nearby steel guardrail. If I throw myself too far, I’ll most certainly be hurt or dead. And I won’t tell ANYBODY that I’m going to do this. So no safety measures will be set in place beforehand. In fact, I’m going to force my coworker, who has a broken foot, to ALSO climb a chainlink fence cage, with nothing in the cage made easier to climb…again, because nobody knew ahead of time that was the plan.”

      Ever wake up, and just think that’s what you want to do at work? Or that’s what you want your boyfriend to do?

      I guess what I’m trying to say is…go watch hell in a cell. It’s insane. Even moreso when you consider that the only people who knew the plan long ahead of time, were Mick, and Terry Funk (who was not supposed to be part of the match at all).

      The Undertaker only knew the plan that day. He was NOT happy he had to climb that thing…and he didn’t know he’d have to climb it a second time until it was happening. I mean seriously. Who was going to expect a 300lbs man to crash to the floor, and then think he’d INSIST on standing up, pushing medical staff away who were legitimately telling him “no, stay down! You’re going to the hospital!”, pushes them away and runs back to climb the cage again?

      And thats when he almost died…

      Guys! What I’m trying to say is go watch hell in a cell. It’s like watching 9/11 without the tragedy or terrorism.

      • LilB0kChoy@lemm.ee
        12·
        8 days ago

        Your comment reminded me of the user on Reddit who would start out a comment talking about the whatever and then halfway through it became about Undertaker throwing Mankind off Hell in a Cell.

        Edit: ShittyMorph is the user.