what do you call them where you are?

[Debbie]

filthy hobbitses.

Hah!

 

[MichaelinChina]

here's a new one for you then..possibly,
In Oz they are called 'bogans'...

they live in the outer suburbs of cities, usually wear flannelette shirts, track pants, ugg boots, mullet hair cuts, drive hotted up cars, often utes, drink lots and lots of beer, or Bundy Rum, get tats, and the men are also called bogans.

 

[lovetoread]

There's nothing wrong with Walmart, and yes I check the site to make sure I don't appear.

I am also a redneck, and it is a derogatory term, but I is what I is.

 

[MichaelinChina]

There's nothing wrong with Walmart, and yes I check the site to make sure I don't appear.

I am also a redneck, and it is a derogatory term, but I is what I is.

lol Walmart here in China is where ALL the high class people shop!

 

[evesdream]

people who scream at each other in the street, spit in public, hurl insults instead of arguing the point, fuck indiscriminately, drink too much?

in most places people seem to have a derogatory term for people who are, in their eyes, the underclass. what is it where you are?

(first troll to say 'dolfs' gets a pat on the head)

There's no real consensus on who the true underclass is where I come from, maybe because it's a big city? There's no common word for it that I know of.

When it comes to your examples I can't picture a grouping who embody those characteristics.***

people who scream at each other in the street: angry

spit in public: gross

hurl insults instead of arguing the point: frequently inventive, entertaining

fuck indiscriminately: nobody does this

drink too much: tiresome


Actually...writing it all out, I think I agree with rosco. Sounds a lot like thesekidstoday to me.




***URGENT does a group have a set of characteristics that embodies them or does a group have a set of characteristics that embody it?

 

[Lorilei]

I just call them trashy and/or low class.

 

[MonaLittle]

I just call them trashy and/or low class.

You said you loved me ~ faults and all

 

[Liar]

I don't call them at all.

 

[dolf]

There's no real consensus on who the true underclass is where I come from, maybe because it's a big city? There's no common word for it that I know of.

i'd go with 'it'.

i'm thinking there will be few people who embody my description. i just described a common stereotype. i suspect it's common to most places.

 

[johnjones1]

The are called GB Litsters

 

[butters]

at one stage it would be chav, but generally it'd be scum or filth and always embarrassing.

as for my family, none of us - my siblings or parents (when alive) - would behave outrageously in public. the only outrageous behaviour i've ever stooped to has been indoors and under extreme provocation. it involved a knife.

as far as i'm aware, my own sons don't exhibit this kind of behaviour either - outdoors. indoors, sons 2 & 3 have been known to exchange 'pleasantries'.

 

[ishtat]

Chavs in NE England. Ferals in Australia. Friends on Benefits - heard in a London Pub!

 

[Lorilei]

You said you loved me ~ faults and all

I do! And you would never act like that.

 

[MonaLittle]

I do! And you would never act like that.

I might drop the F bomb if pushed to my limits.

 

[butters]

dolf, don't you ever wonder if there were times making a scene i public might have been the better way to handle things? i sometimes do. but then i didn't want to end up behaving like scum.

 

[oggbashan]

Our local police call them 'Numpties'.

 

[dolf]

dolf, don't you ever wonder if there were times making a scene i public might have been the better way to handle things? i sometimes do. but then i didn't want to end up behaving like scum.

ha! yes. i think my ex played on the fact that i won't make a scene in public. my kids have certainly tried it, but i made it perfectly clear that there would be consequences and they soon grew out of it.

i HATE public scenes with a passion but, yes, sometimes i really do wish i didn't care.

 

[evesdream]

When it comes to your examples I can't picture a grouping who embody those characteristics.***


***URGENT does a group have a set of characteristics that embodies them or does a group have a set of characteristics that embody it?

This is serious, guys.

To put is another way: is a group a "them" or an "it?

 

[butters]

This is serious, guys.

To put is another way: is a group a "them" or an "it?

it

in most cases

 

[lovetoread]

This is serious, guys.

To put is another way: is a group a "them" or an "it?

Them.

 

[butters]

Them.

depends if you're referring to the group as a single unit or to the components of the group.

 

[rosco rathbone]

Referring to a group by reference to a single member is the stereotypical mark of country club racism. "The Jew can't be trusted...but your Chinaman is OK, as long as you don't turn your back on him for too long."

 

[butters]

 

[Sean]

Referring to a group by reference to a single member is the stereotypical mark of country club racism. "The Jew can't be trusted...but your Chinaman is OK, as long as you don't turn your back on him for too long."

The wogs start at Calais!

 

[butters]

not all groups are made up of people

as i said, it all depends: depends on the context of the sentence.