Trailer trash/ Chav names
PaganKitten:
Quote from: Kyna on 2008 February 15, 00:44:11
I went to school in the 60s and 70s with people named Wayne, {snip}
I don't know why I didn't think of "Wayne!" I have an uncle named Wayne, and that seems to be a fairly common "trailer-trash" middle name around here. (Think "Bubba Wayne," or somesuch, and you've got the idea)
Some names that actually come from people in my family: Robert (or Bobby) Lee, David Allen, Lisa Marie, Hulda Mae
Other good names: Tiffany, Stephanie, Lynn (as a first or middle name), Elizabeth (Liz or Lizzy/Lizzie).
Also, anything biblical: Ezekial (Zeke), Matthew (Matt), Naomi, Joshua (Josh), Ezra, Esther, Amos, Jeremiah, etc.
Gwill:
Quote from: PaganKitten on 2008 February 13, 21:24:08
If you want to get REALLY silly, you could use "Bubba Bo Bob." ^_~
Any combination with the name "Bubba" results in a perfect trailer trash name.
Tchan:
Wayne is a really, really chavvy name.
Aiden is NOT a real name. It's a variation of the name "Aidan". It's a Bad, Bad Thing to name your child Aiden/Ayden/Aydan/Aidyn. Exactly the reason why I put it there.
Chavs are mainly an England phenomenon. We have them over here (Jersey), but they shouldn't technically be called "chavs". They're called "neds" in Scotland. They're generally pretty nasty and uncouth, and stereotypically they go out "Happy Slapping", wearing Burberry--a chav's favourite thing is posh brands that they've stolen, that nobody else will touch with a barge pole--and tracksuits, the girls' hair (usually bottle blonde) pulled back into a "Croyden's facelift" and the boys with a baseball cap on their heads. Also stereotypically, they all have ASBOs (which is not true). If you watch an episode of Catherine Tate and her really annoying teenaged girl scenes, or Vicky Pollard scenes from Little Britain, you'll get an idea of the extremes of chav girls.
David Cameron, head of the Conservative party/Tories, calls them "Hoodies" for the fact that that's what they wear over their tracksuits, but I find that objectionable because I wear hoodies too and am most definitely not a chav!
Chavs are not actually synonymous with rednecks, but I guess they're pretty close to trailer trash.
ETA: Contrary to PaganKitten's post, Biblical names are most definitely not chavvy--in even the slightest. You will NEVER meet a chav with a Biblical name, because it suggests their parents were cultured. Even if they were born with a Biblical name, they will NOT go by it. EVER. They'll go by their surname.
But Tiffany and Lynn are very chavvy.
Lorelei:
Quote from: Sapphire Scratches on 2008 February 15, 12:37:03
Wayne is a really, really chavvy name.
Also, along with Lee, the favourite name of serial killers.
Daniel Lee Corwin
Henry Lee Lucas
Robert Lee Yates, Jr.
Lee Boyd Malvo
Bruce Lee (not THAT one...)
Derrick Todd Lee
John Wayne Gacy
John Wayne Goble
John Wayne Glover
Elmer (or Elmar) Wayne Henley
Keith Wayne Jesperson
Patrick Wayne Kearney
Wayne B. Williams
Wayne Nance
Wayne Clifford Boden
Ray is another popular serial killer middle name.
Henry, Richard, David, Jeff and Robert are also popular, but are popular in general.
Among women, Mary/Marie, Cynthia/Cindy, Linda/Lynn, Terry/Theresa, Elizabeth/Lizzie, Caroline/Caril/Karla/Carine and Catherine/Kathy are common. Hey, Aileen Wuornos has a "lee" in her first name, too.
Another serial killer name trait is naming a boy something vaguely feminine. Ask Coral Eurene Watts.
Or childish, like "Billy (Ray)," "Bobby (Jo)," "Artie," or "Johnny".
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Chavs are mainly an England phenomenon. We have them over here (Jersey), but they shouldn't technically be called "chavs". They're called "neds" in Scotland.
Right, for Non-Educated Delinquents. :)
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Chavs are not actually synonymous with rednecks, but I guess they're pretty close to trailer trash.
Though I loathe the not-so-subtle racism of the term, they are akin to "wiggas" as well. In other words, Caucasians emulating the worst of "gangsta" culture, which is viewed as being mostly an African-American thing. Whereas the culture sprang up from the roots of poverty, desperation and defiance for The System, whites adopting it tend to be well-to-do suburban punks who truly have little to rebel against. Appropriating the slang and costuming and music of an oppressed group is like kicking them again while they are down.
Oh, Bros. It isn't yours to steal, you arseholes. It's you they are mad at, the WASPy middle-class, well-fed, orthodontically-enhanced, McMansion-dwelling, complacent, and educated folks--with expendable income from mom and dad and a new car on your 16th birthday--who get a free leg up in the world thanks only to benefits you were born with. "Bitches and Hos"? Wigga, please. You couldn't get laid if you were covered with twenties and thrown into the parlour of a brothel. "Fuck Da Police"? How does that have any relevance to your life, really? Did you roll through a stop sign? "Straight Outta Compton"? You'd piss yourselves running for your lives if you, by some chance, found yourself there. Hell, try driving through Yamacraw Village at night with your car doors unlocked, whitey. Let's see how "gangsta" and "down" and "street" you really are, with your "jailed" pants and untied shoes and baseball hat worn at a jaunty angle. "Eastside reprazent, yo?" Amirite?
Dumbasses. Srsly.
Both groups are insanely materialistic and misogynistic, that's the common denominator. They want the labels, the stuff, and some fake sense of big-swingin' dick-edness. What really kills me are the girls who go along with the Bro Ho schtick. It's like wanting to belong to a leper colony, and thus deliberately finding a way to infect yourself with leprosy. It's not a good plan. Knowhutimean?
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ETA: Contrary to PaganKitten's post, Biblical names are most definitely not chavvy--in even the slightest.
I'd agree with this assessment. Biblical names also predate "chavviness" (and Bro-ness) by centuries. Obviously. Ditto names from Greek/Roman mythology.
Basically, if you're looking to be convincingly chavvy, spell everything wrong, and add a lot of apostrophes, Ys, Zs, Ks and Is where they do not go. Use adjectives, adverbs and nouns as names. Euphoria, Harmony, Clarity, Brook, Rain, Golden, Merrily, and so on. Then spell them wrong.
This is a good way to make up soap opera names. My joke is that they all have to be parts of nature, like topographical features, plants, weather events or small, cute animals or insects. Brook, Cliff, Ridge, Lake, Savannah, Cricket, Sky, Breeze, Aspen, Laurel, Field, Meadow, Hill, Stormy, Dell, Misty, Windy, Sunny, Bracken, Ivy, Holly, Ledge, Fern, Crystal, River, Stone, Brick, Hawk, Rose, Violet, Lily, Daisy, Bay, Lark, Robin, Gale, Dusty, Loch, Moor, and so on. I don't watch "stories" and the only name I know for sure is a soap opera name is "Cricket," but I'd be amused to know how many of my guesses are correct. Also, if you are stumped for hippy names, this works for those, too. (Rainbow, Phoenix, Leaf, et cetera.) And the names ending in the "-y sound" are good for strippers. (Bunny, Bambi, Misty, Stormy, et cetera.)
And, hey, "Bambi" brings us, conversationally, full circle back to killers. How about that?
morriganrant:
See I've also been thinking of Chav and keep coming up with Brittney Spears, white trash with money. That's how I've always seen them act. Also, white trash that acts above what they actually have, acting rich and pompous when they do not have the financial means to back it up, other then the Hollister clothes that they steal and the rest. Pompous little jack asses they are. I used to get slack from them in school, I never bought name brands, I had no desire to advertise for some clothing company all over me, I'd rather save my money and go to the thrift store.
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