I, come from Stoke Gifford which borders onto Bradley Stoke and Filton. For those who aren’t informed, Bradley Stoke is a fairly new establishment of houses. Just houses and a leisure centre, a few pubs, a tesco (And a tesco express, wow, what a choice) and a load of offices. They went about building approx 5 un-needed primary schools, but forgot about a secondary school for the chavs and chavettes that spend their time at school shagging in the toilets or having a fag behind the bike sheds at breaktime. They’d better make the school indestructable. So, because of the lack of secondary schools, the Chavs and Chavettes are either pointed in the direction of The Ridings High School at Winterbourne (Notorious for its drugs problems) and Filton High School in Filton (You would never have guessed, haha). Filton High got the worst or the second worst GCSE result in Bristol, which came second last in the UK League Tables. When I drive to school (Yes, I’m only 12 years old but I am able to spell properly, use correct grammar and speak properly without using the word ‘Love’ after everything I say when adressing another woman or girl), I have the unfortunate luck of driving past the Filton High School rabble, with their baseball caps pointing at the sky, gleaming white trainers and tracksuit tops over the tops of their uniforms. The girls however, probably sign contracts with the company that make hair gel, and invest on 365 pots of hair gel (One for every day of the year) to make sure that their hair is pulled back so tight they practically have a facelift. All you can hear is a lot of shouting, and incredibly chav like voices. The Bristolian accent is very flexible, and suits the chav group perfectly.
If I feel like going shopping, to purchase some new clothing, I have the choices of : Broadmead, The Mall or Yate. All are chav infested, and as I live closest to The Mall, I generally go there. The minute I stepped in the revolving door, the smell of BO (Tracksuits, eurgh), Cheap perfume and the leather of Nike trainers hits you. You have to push your way though the crowds, and The Mall happens to have a JD Sports, JJB Sports and a food outlet consisting of Pizza Hut, Singapore Sam, KFC and Burger King. There is also a Starbucks, but no chav would be seen dead in that coffee place. Because the charming people that decided to build shops in the Cribbs Causeway area also decided it would be a great idea to place some other shops around it. So now we have; Halfords, TK Maxx, B&Q, Hobbycraft, Makro, Asda, Morrisons,MFI, Argos, Yet another Burger King, McDonalds (or maccy d’s as known to chavs) and an assortment of other shops of the like. When I decided to venture into Asda (Or Asdalls, as prounounced by the bristolian locals) one day, My mother was getting some cold meat from the counter. The woman behind the counter had the typical short chavette haircut (Meaning she was over 30), the tacky gold earrings, the trainers and after everything she said there was the word ‘love’. How can you call somebody you don’t even know ‘love’?
But, this is not the end. This is the North of Bristol, which is nothing compared to the areas of Speedwell, Hartcliffe, Knowle West, Bedminster, St Pauls, Montpelier, Yate, Southmead and other places in and around Bristol. Most people that live in the areas go shopping in the city centre, commonly known as Broadmead. Everywhere you go, all you see is a mass of tacky gold jewellery, burberry, baseball caps and trainers. Just sit on a bench for a little while and watch. Its appalling, spitting everywhere, the twin buggies being pushed by someone barely older than 17 with a fag hanging out their mouth.
In Bristol, there is no escape unless you migrate to the area of Clifton, but a whole house around there will set you back a small sum of approx £800,000 so no chav living on a giro could afford a property there, and most chavs regard the people that pay extortionate amounts of money to get away from them in areas as Clifton and Sneyd Park, the posh knobs. I got accused by a 17 year old, belly hanging out over trousers, fag in hand, spitting at every possible moment that I was a ‘posh f***’ for saying the word sibling.
Anybody wishing to pay a visit to a fantastic chav spotting area, come to Bristol and have a free burberry cap courtesy of the locals.
well i have to disagree with most comments ! so what where chavs and chavettes ! nothing wrong with being a chav and having another way of looking at life i mean us chavs can sit there and talk about how posh people always have there noses in the are doing nothing looking down at the other kids as chavs ! and emos are wrist slitters ! but do they have a reason for it ! goths are dramatic and scene are colourfull and make them selves heard ! all them catagories only say an image on how people live there life !
chav – act tough rough and dont care
posh – they have what they want in there life show it of
emo – im down im depressed i want you to know attention seeking
goths – dramatic take things serious and belive in rock music and the devil (unrealastic)
scene – belive in peace and love and are colourfull and love it !
each group says something to differ with life ! … and I SAYS ! who the hell do you think you are ! can a chav do that ! YES WE FUCKING CAN THANK YOU ! just cause we have a bad image doesnt mean we dont do what we do ! im going to be a single mother in december and im 17 in september ! IM PULLING THROUGH WELL ! i have 3 GCSE’S and i only need 4 for my college corse but im going back after my child is born to get that gcse ! and wow a doctor whoop de doo ! ive been trained for a secutary ! and with my qualification i can go on to do more things high level than that ! just because we have a good time no how to drink and smoke and have fun ! doesnt mean we dont live and cant have are lifes ! yeaa so what a chav with a fag bottle of cider vodka anything (: we are partying and knowing how so before you sit there and right your snooty as comments ! NO WE AINT ALL PERFECT AND THERE ISNT ANYTHING BY THE NAME OF NORMAL ! EVERY ONE IS DIFFRENT AND HAS THERE OPINION SO HERE IS MINE ! ….
UNTILL YOU THINK YOU KNOW HOW LIFE GOES DONT SIT AND JUDGE PEOPLE SAYING CAN A CHAV DO THAT ! IM LIVING PROOF WE CAN DO IT ! NOT EVERY ONE NEEDS THERE HEAD UP THERE ASS TO GET PLACES IN LIFE THEY NEED TRAINING ! KNOW HOW TO HAVE FUN AND LIVE TO KNOW WHATS RIGHT AND WRONG ! WE ALL MAKE MISTAKES THAT WE CANT UNDO ! BUT WE CAN MAKE IT BETTER AND LEARN ! dont slander any ones name on the image they have especially if you dont know them (: simple (Y) and i will argue and shout AND BE THE ORIGINAL CHAVETTE AND MAKE MY VOICE HEARD IF NESSACERILY ! people that dont understand probably mean they dont need to so dont stick in your noses ! IF YOU PLAY WITH FIRE YOUR ONLY GUNNAH GET BURNED ! (: and im sure you have had chav days (: TRACKSUITS ARE AWSOME (Y) its all about being comfy ! not every one wants to wear high heels 24/7 trainers are comfy and so is trackies (: dont judge people by there look (:
and that i believe would be spoken for most chavs ! we aint bad where awsome . we aint good we better (: just dont fight the changes in life we are desighned like this cause if every one was like you ! i know id be driven to madness ! IM ME AND PROUD TO BE IT !
I fuckin’ love Bristol, and it’s not chav infested at all! I will agree that living in Winterbourne 17 years of my life, venturing down to Bradley Stoke/Stoke Gifford area is pretty gash because it is incredibly chav infested, aswell as Yate. But all in all, I love Bristol City, I don’t think I’ll ever leave the place.
To be honest mate, if you said ‘sibling’ you deserve to get a fucking kicking.
twat.
this is so funny and so true,i DID go to filton high and however i do believe in different years and with different teachers pupil’s etc it may have been good but gotta say filton high school was complete and utter shite!!! Let me tell u a little about filton high school shall i??
aww poor me,unable to do my work ,owh and i must point out i was scared to ask for help because when i did the teachers would almost take the piss out of me.So what did i do in school i sat in the corner drawing away in my happy place,but yet still i was yelled out as a keener,lol. By the time i got to year 10 i seriously couldnt hack going to school anymore and would hide under my bed all day,as it was better then going to that shithole!! And when i did go to school i hated it so much and when my one friend i made wasnt in, i resoretd to taking drugs every morning so’s i could last the day,on my own every morning in the toilets sniffing coke and popping pills,not one teacher notice how fucked up i was,this carried on till i left my grades wernt great i got 2 C’s the rest were shit, i wish to god i didnt go there as my junior school was so great but now feel i have lost 5 years off my life gained nothing but problems and hurt!! I left my juniors school with above average grade but left filton with way below average,i was a happy child with many friends and worked hard but that soon dissapeard in filton. Why did i have to go to that shit hole!! Well one good things come out of this,i am moving to portugal to set up home there i will take my daughter away from Bristol so she has a much better life!! Good riddens filton High (literally) good bye Bristol shitty!!!
I think i had one good teacher Mr lewis his name is i had him all the way threw, since year seven and i got a C whoopy doo in geography,other then him we very rarely got anything other then a shit supply teacher to be honest i think the pupil’s would have been better teaching themselves!!!!
So we got taught hardly anything,the teachers who wernt supply were dirty pervets forever gazing down minor’s shirts!! The pupils owh the pupil’s the majority of boy’s used to abuse and grab any girl they wished and the girls would love it!! causing one rape insident,appologies for the spelling i did go to filton. So some of these boys got expelled and the others were left carried on. Bullying was another big one and yes i know bullying goes on everywhere but this school was very bad for it!! All the clever kids would forever be tormented and bullied even smacked in the face a few times! So what happend to me,i was the quit girl in the corner with no friends
So im guessing your about 16-17 by now if this was posted in 2005 depending on your birthday Obviously. you are old enough to know that what you have posted is Bulls**t, How much time have you actually spent in bristol Hmm ? Have you spent any time in Filton high school ? doesnt seem like it, We may not have the highest grades In bristol and yes even i admit we have a hell of a lot of chavs lurking around here, but they are not all “shagging in the toilets” and Smoking! You do see a few groups of friends that do smoke during school hours, our teachers do know about this And people do get in trouble for it so it doesnt go un-noticed and there are consiquences for people who get caught. Like any other school, IM SORRY if we are not as strict as Bradley stoke community school Or paha Monks park, Sorry but look at every other school around bristol, Chavs everywhere! its not just filton, i am so very sorry you are FORCED to drive past our crappy school, thats life eh ? I Dont want to hear about poverty and war But i still do and im not complaining, You really do need to grow up. I’m classed as “Emo” or “Scene” my friends are mainly metal heads and rockers, i have another group of friends who are brainy and Normally get A*”s I have “chav” friends and i see no problem with them ? They are always nice and they dont argue in class or ruin lessons, Most of my lessons run smoothly, our head teacher is not the best ever but at least she knows how to run this school. Nothing in life is perfect, Deal with bristols faults. Note – I Have lived in bristol for about 11 years now and I love it here, i have amazing friends a good education, we have an amazing shopping centre in Town and at cribs causeway, it is nice living in bristol, Sorry your too fucking stuck up for us.. maybe if you hate bristol that much you should MOVE ? simple. Grow up, you need to realise your opinions are invalid and nobody actually cares, Rant over
I happen to:
A) live in bristol
B) go to filton high
C) be doing amazing well in Triple science, with a A in chemistry and a A in physics (with a A* exam result) and B in biology, which in turn means i can take the respective A levels, and that opens up the chance of becoming a doctor which is a profession im intrested in. could a chav do that?
btw above comment, double check the comment, i dont think she ever says shes not chav.
but enough about me and my intelligince youve just mocked, how about you
what qualifys you to mock Bristol, a amazing comdey scene, and a town full of history, you posh fuck?, after all if you check your family history, some of the wealth would have come from the docks of bristol which was one of the biggest shipping towns.
anyway how much free time do you have to lrean the spelling and use of words such as “extortionate” and proper grammer at the age of 12, you sad no life, and as you say i should say Posh fuck.
Bet you where bottle fed all your vaules and given whatever you want. never lreaning anything or earning what you want ever.
People like you think youre great, but youre not, does mocking chavs give your ego a boost? or is it your confidence you obvisly dont have, since you hide behind pieces of binary code.
You my friend, are as bad if not worse than chavs.
get a life mate.
Ive got one.
Its in Bristol
With its Thirving Theatres, Quatlity Comdey Clubs, and Excellent Shopping.
Wtihout mention dramas such as Casulty and Being Human have been filmed here.
so in short my life, in Bristol, Is fucking amazing.
and becki you are trying to say your not a chav but it really isnt working .. try harder
There is a lot of intensive driving done by the writer in the city. Looks like he is severely prejudiced and has his nose high up in the air.
a few things i have to disagree with especially what you said about the schools …both of which are not in bristol at all but in south gloucestershire which is fairly high up in the league tables ,obviously your research needs a bit to be desired and it saddens me to see the amount of prejudice you have built into you at such a young age …by the way my daughter goes to filton high and I have just been told she her sat scores this year put her in the top 5% in the entire country and even with that she still sounds like every other teenager i know (asdall and all)
and bekis not proving that she a chav at all
incase ure an idot i am being sarcastic
night shade r u tryin to say ther as many goths and emo kids as chavs cos if u ru r very much mistaken and even if there wer goths and emo kids and punks and metal heads and sk8rs r still cooler than chavs
p.s expect from straighedge emo that just suks extremly badly
oi ya lil slag! dnt fukin slate bristol, u r a posh fuk! yeh sum places do av sum chavs in lyk easton n shit but not places lyk hartcliffe cuz i live ryt near hartcliffe so get yo fukin facts ryt!:@
Good article but there are so much more “chavier” places in the areas you have brought up.
I will name some;
Speedwell which u named is 1 of the most chav infested areas around and all the areas round are too, such as St George and Redfield, wherever you seem to go in these areas you are garenteed to see chavs and chavscum,another small area which people from far away i doubt would of heard of.. is Hillfields (famous for the dreadfull killing not long ago), this area is full of chavs there is not any other kind of person round that area.If you do find any other kind of person round that area i would like to know.
Chavs prefer to hang about in more “ghetto” areas because of the music they listen to, or that there simply from that area