I find the site funny but a bit harsh at the same time
although people get the impression from message boards I’m some sort of “intellectual/scientist” type, TBH I could so easily have gone down the “chav” route in my life…
even if your family do try and give a good upbringing there’s no guarantee you will do all the right things – I only have formal education up to sixth form level and my uni career ended within 2 years in a haze of drugs and a warning to get out of college and stop pissing around with their computer networks to obtain illegal info from the Internet (this was in 92 before it was release to the public!) or they would tell the old bill…
someone posted up a home office report on Squatjuice with a list of juvenile crimes a while back – I read it and shocked myself by realising that in the darker, angrier days of my youth I had indeed done virtually all those crimes at one point or another (or assisted others to do so) – bar violence, sexual deviancy and bicycle theft (even then I still had some principles 😉 ).
The site is funny; but it also has a strong “I’m better than these scum” type attitude. OK when the term “chav” is used to describe people who steal , cheat and cause violence at parties its fair enough I suppose – but there is something about labelling people in this manner just by appearance that worries me.
I managed to get myself back from the slippery slope, and I didn’t end up on some sink estate, estranged from my family and fathering feral kids by different mothers as a substitute whilst going in and out of HMP – but when I see some of the urban deprivation in my city and the lifes that some people lead I realise how close I came to ending up that way.
Even now I stil hate the “intellectual superiority” of lecturers / professors and loathe the culture within formal education institutions (the way they are run, not the students though who are OK!) – I suppose I’m just a chav with a few more brain cells really 😀
