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If you buy and drink beer in huge quantities and are not in a college 
fraternity, you're a Chav.

P.S. I have been pointing to a set of fashion quirks that seem Chav-ish out 
here in Albuquerque, such as plucked eyebrows painted back in and certain 
sorts of eye makeup and lipliner. Well, yesterday at a Mexican restaurant 
which I think is probably owned by actual Mexican immigrants rather than New 
Mexicans, I saw those quirks put into context and done right and realized 
what the goal was.

The server had the dark lbrown lipliner and lighter brown lip coloring, the 
elongated lined eyes, the eyebrows, and the tight high on the head hairdo 
the UK contingent here has been calling a Croydon Facelift and it actually 
looked very nice, col and well put together, not Chav-ish at all but rather 
a different cultural style.

Then I saw her in profile and realized what the look was aimed at 
reproducing - it was straight off an Aztec or Mayan or Incan carving.

What I had been seeing earlier was details of this look taken out of context 
and reproduced by people who either didn't get the big picture or didn't 
want it (too foreign? Wrong political statement?)

I've been in the Southwest for 40 years and this was the first time I 
understood that particular style.

http://idiotgrrl.livejournal.com/

"If you listen to the weather forecasts on the radio in the morning, they'll 
probably be accurate for the entire day. If you listen to stock market 
forecasts in the morning, there's a good chance they'll be wrong by 11 am." 
John Xenakis

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>From: Rachel Ganz <rachel at compromise.fsnet.co.uk>
>Reply-To: "Discussion of the works of Lois McMaster 
>Bujold."<lois-bujold at lists.herald.co.uk>
>To: "Discussion of the works of Lois McMaster 
>Bujold."<lois-bujold at lists.herald.co.uk>
>Subject: Re: [LMB] Chavs, and their definition OT:
>Date: Fri, 25 May 2007 14:06:44 +0200 (CEST)
>
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>========================================
>  Message Received: May 24 2007, 02:55 AM
>  From: "Eric Oppen" <technomad at intergate.com>
>  To: "Lois Bujold List" <lois-bujold at lists.herald.co.uk>
>  Cc:
>  Subject: [LMB] Chavs, and their definition OT:
>
>  There's always been a difference between poor-but-respectable and what 
>our
>  cousins Across The Old Herring Pond call "chavs."
>-------------------------------
>
>And for those who have seen Mr. Shaw's Pygmalion, or even the version of 
>the play that appeared with musical interludes as "My Fair Lady", may 
>recognise Mr. Dolittle's description of "the undeserving poor".
>Rachel
>
>Brevity, clarity and cups of tea
>
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