Many of the chavs in Didcot attend either St Birinus School (for boys) or Didcot Girls School (for girls). This works, until the girls decide to move themselves to the boys school and flash at the windows when told to go away. Whilst this in itself isn’t necessarily a bad thing, the girls in question are typical Didcot girls – ugly, overfed and often carrying visible marks of street violence.
Which brings me on to my next point. Didcot is probably the most aggresive town in the country. Passengers travelling through the station will often be confronted by the chavs of Didcot jumping onto their trains passing through, often the chavs using the trains are the most violent, and will challenge anyone who does the outrageous task of refusing to give up their seat. This often fuels a change in the Didcot chav – from a fairly placid person who sits and stares, to a aggressive thug who will most probably pull a knife out of a freshly created oriface in their body (no-doubt the mark of another Didcot youth) and brandish it at said commuter. Another favoured method of the Didcot chav is Hitler’s pincer movement. Often, one chav will lure a member of the public into a corner, under the pretence of asking for information. When the ensnaring process is complete, another four or so chavs boxes them in, politely enquiring if they might spare some change for the chavlet, or ask (in no uncertain terms) if they might perhaps purchase some alcohol or cigarettes for the gang.
The third thing the chavs have developed is a low form of cunning, often misinterpreted as intelligence. Their deceptive skills enable them to work out when a person is most vulnerable, and how to attack this person at the peak time. I am fully in favour of quarantineing the entire town to stop this scary prospect from reaching other parts of the country.
The final worry is the ‘chavlet’. A smaller, often yappy younger sibling of a renowned chav. These chavlets are between the ages of 10 and 13, and often are kitted out in Adidas, Nike or Reebok, and will overpower anyone within 10 yards with the scent of teenage desperation mixed with that of a caravan. Chavlets often display the same qualities as an ordinary chav, however they are used in much smaller quantities. I compare them to Weetabix Bitesize. They are often good practice for the larger variety of chav, who use them as bait, tools and most probably sexual favours that they cannot get from their female counterparts.
Hopefully for the sake of th country, Didcot will not continue to expand, and instead implode on itself, causing these people to be dispersed into space, where they can cause as much mischief as they like in the 15 or so seconds before they suffocate…
Known as Brown Town! say no more!
‘Didcot really is a town filled to the brim with the worst society has to offer’ REALLY?
I don’t live anywhere near Oxfordshire but after visiting Didcot today with the intention of buying a house there, I have to laugh at the sheer ignorance of people saying this town is chav central or anti-social. Clearly these people have lead sheltered lives and not lived in say… Stockwell (London), Erith or Chatham (Kent) or Conventy all of which have undesirable youths on every corner doing all they can to make you feel unsafe and worried for your safety (I carry a rape alarm as I have been accosted on a few occasions)
Every town has its little idiots who (for some unknown reason) have nothing better to do that verbally abuse passers by, but I wondered around the area for a good hour and went to a few house viewings and I think I saw enough of the area to make an informed decision. There were certainly no violent, drunk, swearing, crazed psychos which sadly there are where i currently live at any time of the day.
In my opinion, I think this town looks quiet, if slightly dull but as a married 30 year old woman with a baby on the way and a mortgage to increase, Didcot appears to be a good place to settle.
Don’t know about the residents of Didcot – all I know is that it always seems dirty, full of litter, weeds growing every where, and mobility scooters that need a speed reduction!
Didcot is probably the safest place I’ve ever lived in! The chavs in Didcot are the posh variety. They boys have skateboards and floppy hair. The girls are indeed mostly fat and pig-like, but they do not bear the same bruises and scars of domestic violence or drug abuse as, say, the girls of Aldershot.
It’s one of the few places I’ve lived where I can happily go for a jog at 11pm with my iPod, without fear of being mugged silly by a gang of ferals.
If there is a gang of youths looking menacing sat around a park bench, I’ll jog past only to realise that one of them has some sort of French poodle on a lead, and another is wearing corduroy trousers and Airwalkers. No danger there!
One time a typical Didcot ‘chav’ asked me to buy some cigarettes. He was posher than Prince William and couldn’t apologise enough for taking up my time. I think he even called me a ‘top chap’.
I’ve only been in Didcot for 2 years, and it has apparently undergone a massive facelift in recent years, so maybe the chavs that used to live there have moved on to s**ttier towns; gone to prison; been re-housed or died.
Brilliant! I never knew such time and energy would be dedicated to the praises or otherwise of Didcot. Actually, if I had to live in a small town in the UK, I’d choose somewhere like it (I grew up in a posh village just outside). I have never known a town in the UK where you can come across so many people who have always lived there, who know each other well and actually contribute to the community of their town. Take this example: there was a meeting I went to about the merging of a doctor’s practice into the hospital about 15 years ago. It took them 30 minutes to actually get started because of all the people from Didcot standing up to congratulate the doctors, nurses and other staff for doing such a great job for the town over the years.
Want posh and overpriced? Oxford. Want somewhere where people give a s**t about their town and their neighbour? Didcot.
I’ve lived in Didcot for nearly five years now. It’s really not bad at all; I think the teenage author of the article may have had quite a sheltered life. The town’s pretty safe, and relatively chav-free compared to nearby Swindon or Reading (or some parts of Oxford, for that matter). Any chavs that do live in Didcot tend to head out to those cities come dusk, attracted by the s**tty nightclubs. About the worst thing you can expect in didcot itself is to get lightly heckled by bored youths if you wander around Broadway at night – but why would you want to anyway? By day, it’s pretty tolerable. Ugly and dull, but tolerable. Better than paying obscene rent to live in Oxford.
didcot ent got any chavs shop so who eva put this on have you eva been here or dont you no wat chav means.. and two men fighting that happens were eva u go
I’m spending eight weeks in Didcot (I live in Newcastle), and it’s one of the nicest places I’ve ever lived. I’ve never seen a town with so many parks and fields! It sounds like you’re pretty deluded… Also, no town that contains separate boys and girls schools can be scummy! How very posh!
For a fair while I worked just outside Didcot and commuted to there. I didn’t notice any real amount of chavs and I think you’re overstating the town’s flaws.
I’m not exactly a massive fan of most of Oxfordshire aside from Oxford itself to be honest, Didcot included, but I would call it unexciting rather than chavvy!
Didcot Herald 20/09/2011
Shoppers watched on in horror as two men fought in the aisle of Budgens in Broadway, in Didcot.
Police were called on Friday night after violence broke out in the shop at 9.38pm between two men in their 20s.
It is believed that the pair, who are not thought to be known to each other, had a disagreement outside the store moments earlier.
A man was then seen following the other into Budgens where he punched him, before going to a nearby kebab shop, police said.
The 21-year-old victim was taken to hospital in Oxford where he had stitches and surgery on a fractured arm.
Det Con Victoria Roberts said: “We are appealing to anyone who may have witnessed this incident to come forward.”
Anyone with information should call Det Con Roberts on 0854 8 505 505 or Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555111.
A 23-year-old man from Chalgrove was arrested in connection with the attack and has been bailed to appear at Abingdon Police station on October 20.
This is a little over the top. I’m from Didcot and haven’t ever seen Didcot teenagers pull a knife on anyone on a train. Clearly you don’t get out very much and have just heard hyped up gossip! Also I went to DGS and I am now doing a degree in nursing, so it can’t be that bad. Stop stereotyping.
At least the people of Didcot can spell “the” correctly.(Final paragraph,first line)
I am a teenager (13) living in the Ladygrove estate of Didcot and all I have to comment on this is, what a load of crap :L Didcot isn’t that bad! Yeah at school you see all of the ‘ruff’ people who can’t be bothered to go to class but that’s only 95% of all Didcot teens
Although well written, this article is very biased and often untrue. You clearly haven’t been to other parts of England, such as certain towns up north. Personally, I don’t understand where you got the thing about the station from, neither do I understand how you think it is the most aggressive town in England, a bit more research needs to be done. Yeah Didcot isn’t great, but its not that bad!
Carl:
“Waste cadets”? I’m still no wiser.
for the people below me. it is waste cadets. not waise cadets. haha. this article is not breeze. it typifies whats happening to the formerly great country of England. so ‘hush yo gums’ he. blessed to the chavs =].
“B.B.L 4 LYF”
Please kindly write your reply in English. Thankyou.
all dat chat i jus red bout didcot is fictional u man in dem sides are all 1 big battyfish bout didcots aggressive yha mad 10 b.b.l heads walked frew didcot n boied off who eva dey see u man r waise cadets chattin a bag of brezze didcots not grezzy its posh u neeks
i live in didcot and am part of the BMF crew
but we are here to stop the unruley and uneducated terror street troopers from pissing us and the rest of didcot off
The path of the righteous man is beset on all sides by the inequities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men. Blessed is he who, in the name of charity and good will, shepherds the weak through the valley of the darkness. For he is truly his brother’s keeper and the finder of lost children. And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger those who attempt to poison and destroy my brothers. And you will know I am the Lord when I lay my vengeance upon you