I am at University of Liverpool at the mo, but used to live in what many refer to the ‘asshole of the world’, that is Andover. As my family still lives there I have the unfortunate duty of going back there every few months to visit this chav-infested, culture-free, hell-hole.
The Chantry centre is home to most chavs in Andover. You will find them there at almost any hour on any day, whether it be 11am in the morning, skiving of school (which are all shocking in Andover) or pissed at 7pm on cider. Typically they hang round the bus station, this is a good spot for them as it allows them to torment innocent passers-by to and from the bus station, as well as shoppers going to Waitrose which is situated adjacent to the bus stop. I have been caught on numerous occasions, called ‘grundger’ because I wear converse, or ‘girl’ because I have hair much longer than the traditional townie shaved head, or quiff, or that I do not insist on wearing a baseball cap tilted at the only accepted angle of 45 degrees. I have heard stories of chavs shunned from their interbred circles because this moronic fashion item has not been titled to this exact angle.
Chavs may also catch you on the way to the bus route. After a quiet drink one night (or as quiet as you can get in Andover) with my friends, I went to get the bus at about 6:45pm. Even at this early hour I was encountered by a 13-strong group of boozy 14 year old thickos, one of which challenged me with the old classic chav ‘i wanna fight’ line ‘watchya say abaaat ma muffa?’. After telling one to f**k off, i was hit by one member of this gang of brutally ugly commoners (who for some reason insisted on wearing no shirt, despite his skinny frame). One of my friends was also lamped by another of these morons, who is quite possible the ugliest man on earth. Why are chavs always so ugly? Maybe that is another debate.
Getting a hair cut is even difficult in Andover. Once I was happily waiting to get my ears lowered, when some little shit started calling me a ‘grundga’. Do you listen to death metal rar rar! he yelled. No mate i don’t like metal i replied, f**k off. Still he insisted on getting up in the middle of the hairdressers and singing some shit hip-hop song! Obviously off his face on some drug he started shouting at me ‘wankaaaa’, until he was escorted out of the chantry centre by security.
Maybe it is the complete lack of things to do in andover that makes it such a good home for all things chav. There is no culture unless you include turkish takeaway joints (Keskins is pretty damn good mind you), there is no cinema, no arts, no decent music, no decent venues, it is absolutely shite. Maybe it is the frequency of council estates (not saying all council estate ppl are bad, just most of them). Perhaps it is because Andover’s main attraction is the Tesco’s superstore, one of the main chav spotting sites in the town. It is one of the worst worst towns in England, its only slightly popular as it is on the direct train line to London. Take my advice boys and girls, stay away from this abyssmal little town filled with the absolute shit and filth of England.
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some of u people on here m8k me laugh go and live in hounslow west and then say andover is a shithole live with the somaies muslims and whatever other cultures there is and then say adover is a shithole i dont think u will i moved from west london and its 100 times grow up and stop hating
Andover isn’t a bad place, it’s just a little town where you notice everything and everyone. Keep complaining about it, your going to make it a ‘shit place to live’. Everyone calls us young ones ‘chav’s'! The chav word isn’t nice. I lived in cricketers way, it isn’t bad at all. Oh and by the way council estates aren’t just council – there are private rented/buyer houses too. Also Tesco bench are covered in teenagers, so what.. Just get on with your lifes & chill out. Only live once, do what you want to do & stop thinking about ‘THE CHAVS’. & STOP MAKING ANDOVER WORSE!
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Well, well, well. I don’t believe that I have ever had the misfortune to read such a biggoted piece of mis-informed, childish, ill thought out, badly spelt and plain wrong jibberish. I have lived here most of my life. Andover is a small place and its true that things have become run- down. This is hardly the fault of any section of society. I live on the INFAMOUS King Arthurs Way and have to say its one of the prettiest places in Autumn, with thoughtfully placed trees. It is in no way the ghastly pit described by our expert analytical wordsmith above. Whatever harrowing incident occurred to lead You to use the term ‘chav’ needs to be left behind. Get a grip! Incidentally the word chav is offensive and does not describe anyone that I know. Ps I didn’t know that housing estates could possess a frequency. Whatever You are studying try a bit harder!
I’ve lived in Andover my whole life, I went to Harrow Way and some of my good friends live in the infamous ‘King Arthur’s Way’. I can reassure that Andover really doesn’t deserve this reputation. I have family that live in the outskirts of Liverpool, where my Dad is from, and I can personally assure you that if you believe Andover to be ‘rough’ you are truly naive. I so much as ‘dare’ you to enter some of the outskirts of cities if you believe Andover to be this ‘chav-infested, culture-free, hell-hole’, I know for a fact that your sheltered vision of Andover will change.
The criticisms aimed at the education systems are also incorrect and frankly irritating. Myself, and plenty of others, have done extremely well and excelled in this condemned schools, myself, and many of my ‘class mates’ achieved GCSEs better than the average grammar school student.
The generalisation of the population of Andover is verging on hilarity, how can you condemn these ‘chavs’ for stereotyping you personally and then respond in the exact same manner?
Thus, in general, your grammar, your line of argument and your generalizations are tragic. To be frank I’m glad you’ve left Andover, it is means one less arrogant, self-righteous and frankly ignorant member of the public I won’t ever have to meet.
I think its sad theese uneducated people will go on to become members of the conservative party , the BMP or the EDL. My mother works with children who require specail needs and have autism , my mum was confronted coming out of her workplace by 14 year old female chavs” your teach those f**king spastics dont ya” amoung other things said. I pity them , they have no compassion or intelligence and will go on to breed more pitiful human beings. But I dont blame them I blame the goverment for not trying to combat the poverty theese people clearly live in mentally and physically, but of course we need a lower class otherwise there wouldnt be an upper class for aristrocrats to live in
I’ve lived in Andover my whole life. I moved to Leeds in 2010 for Uni. I love Leeds & it’s so much better in Andover in all ways but Andover will always have a special place in my heart.
It’s got a nice side too, near John Hanson school, that’s not rough like King Arthurs!
You get it wherever you go though, there’s posts on here about Leeds and it’s surrounding areas.
You’ll always get the ‘chavs’ who pick on the ‘goffiks’. I used to be the goth kid who picked on the chavs!
I went to Test Valley, I turned out alright!!
I <3 Andover, even if it is a shit hole
shup andover is like well beast but yeah there is this dude called callum and he says his dick is like huge like and i say thats funny cos you aint got one and everyone was like oooooooooohhhhhhhhhhhh and i was like yes bruv so you sifisticated stuck up snobs can suck my dong you get me
hurst by anychance ahahah funny cunts
ANDOVER IS THE BIGGEST SHITHOLE IN THE f**king WORLD.
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HEY, FROM ANOTHER MEMBER OF ANDOVERS SOCIETY.
actually i go to the PRIVATE school in andover where there are no chavs. And now there is also a cinema, not that I am on Andovers side, because it’s shit, i was just sayin….
Andover’s a shit hole and can suck my balls.
It’s full off uneducated dickheads, all drugged up and pregnant.
Ludgershall’s even worse, dirty foul place but any how I love this article. :’)
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shuttt up you bunch of bumders, andovers amazing, your just jealous and have smelly mooeys!! DANDARD
I dont think people realised how bad andover is until you move out of it. Its a shitty town full of people with shitty attitudes who think there the gods gift to the world when there just idiots with a big mouth (not saying all but quite alot). When I came back from uni and went for a visit I went into the chantry centre and it was f**king awful, overrun with chavs and full of crap shops.
To be fair though I went to John Hanson and that was a pretty good school and there were some fantastic teachers there but like all schools there were some pretty shit ones too.
The best thing I ever did was get out of Andover because I think once you pass a certain age (early 20′s) you just end up there forever. So my advice to the people of andover get the f**k out when you can it’ll be the best move of your life
To the ‘girlwholoveandover’ hahahaha sounds like an amazing time if thats the best time of your life you seriously need to get a life
I actually quite like your article, some of the comments on here though have really tickled me. For a start, the ‘chavs’ in Andover are not chavs, they’re just uneducated wannabe’s with nothing better to do. I’m from Manchester and we’re overrun with the thieving, foul mouthed cretins, since we moved here (army) it’s funny to watch ‘Andover chavs’ getting lippy and giving people shit, as soon as they’re challenged back they crap their pants and run back to mum. Most of them seem completely convinced that Andover is the ‘ghetto’ (hilarious),continue to gob off to people from ‘out of town’, and are still wondering why they keep getting put on their arses.
Sorry ‘Andover chavs’, but you live in hampshire, in a shit hole town in the middle of the countryside, go and live in east london, merseyside or moss side in Manchester, then come back and tell me how hard you are. You wouldn’t last two minutes. Back home if you were to sit on a bench shouting shit at random passers by, you would without a doubt get your arse handed to you. Idiots.
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In your article you say that quite a few people called you a grundga and you didn’t like that because it was a stereotype you felt you didn’t fit well your stereotyping a lot of people who live in this town so what makes it right for you to be able call that. I live in Andover and I know there are area which are worse than others and crime happens but everywhere you go there is going to be bad areas. These people you speak of may have serious problems or got into a bad crowd it’s easy enough to do.
All teenage kids go through the stage where they drink and hang around in parks and different area no one not even the police can stop this everywhere on this planet we live on.
I absolutely LOVE this article. Succinct, to the point and accurate. How apt that all of the responses in support of the chavs are written by illiterate morons.
its not that bad in all honesty. i think that you are just dramatising it a little.
lets be fair here. every wherre you go there are going to be chavs, emo’s goths you hame it. they are every where. The educationnal standards have rose and the morgority f people are fairly nice.
i may be a little bias on the educatioon as i do go to a private school located in Andover called Rookwood. i have lived in Andover all my life and i know people from all over Andover . i know eople who suposidly live in ‘the bad lands’ and let me tell you there is nothing bad about it. i used to live in k-way which is suposed to be the bad land but my family pay for my education and are very well spoken people. ou say there is no culture but thats bullshit. all you hgave to do is look up the roud and there i toes. what about the 16th century church and the original buildings. the pup the town mills used to be a flour and yeast station.
All you have done is scimmed over the top of andover bu you have to look further in order to truly apreicate it.
some point you have stated are fairly true but most are just bs.
this is coming from a 15 year old girl and i personally feel that you have andover wrong :/ sorry.
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…and yet you can’t spell! Rookwood standards must have slipped; sorry, don’t like to be rude to people but your spelling is attrocious. This whole article is complete rubbish. YES Andover is a rubbish town, we don’t have anything more than supermarkets, charity or mobile phone shops. We DO have a cinema now which is great. Unfortunately that’s all there is for kids to do and that’s not their fault. It’s about time money was invested in putting up a bowling alley, ice-rink and some decent shops. I go to Basingstoke to get a decent shopping day but that’s only because you can’t get anything in Andover. I’ve never been abused in Andover and have lived in the area since 1986….there really are some terrible places to live and although this isn’t the best, it certainly isn’t the worst as is made out in the starting article!
Andover isnt THAT bad, the chavs arnt that bad, just amusing, and they dont really attack people unless there really hammered, and lets be honest fighting drunks isnt really much of a problem, methinks your being a lil bit pessimistic…
Right i totally agree with this article Apart from on some parts
I mean not all schools are shit, Harrow way Turned out pretty well i think, I mean i went there and it wasnt ALL bad, I mean it deffinately had a good educations system and what not but unfortunately im the unlucky one so nothing good happened to me whilst i was there…
“GIRL WHO LOVES ANDOVER” is obviously a complete retard. She’s one of those chavs i guess, specially the way she types which for some reason, She insists on CAPITALISING some of the most down right STUPID things ever
Andover is a shithole
, And so are the two neighbouring towns which just so happen to be Ludgershaul and Tidworth….Dear god…
your an idiot who thinks your better than anyone else !!!!
ANDOVER aint bad at all its f**king brill there mate god you must not no anyone, KAW aint a bad place i used to live in romanway best time of my life andover was SMOKING and drinking down by ONESTOP shop and falling out with GEMMA MATTIA and KICKING THE SHIT OUT OF HER DOWN THE FAIR a few yrs ago… its all good now tho lol … move to andover for a good time and sum good ppl who aint going to grass for spitting in the street like most town IE WINCHESTER posh shithole !! posh snobs…COME TO ANDOVER FOR A GOODTIME
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Errrr doesn’t this say it all?….. I really think English is a second language in Andover! I am a member of management in a town centre store and if it wasn’t for chav scum we’d have no trade at all…… I have seen amoeba with greater vocal skills (please look up Amoeba in the dictionary, if you know what one is!) This really grips my shit that they are so thick, and the poor kids stand noooo chance……. a really threatening chav told me to suck his bellend the other day, I nearly fell over laughing! I wouldn’t have touched him with someone elses!!
Ur a f**king twat so u have a management job in town I bet I can guess who u are!!!! …..think ur clever do you?? You and your fat skanky ass are stuck in andover for the rest on your life working in the heart of a town which is the biggest shithole going, wow you no a posh word well now ain’t you clever still it never got you into oxford so ur still just as shit as the rest of us shame u swallowed the dictionary ur be talking out ur arse for the rest of your shitty little life, shame u nearly had me going there if you wasn’t such a thick shit ! X