Thu Aug 19, 2004 2:34 am
lol. altar boys, that explains a lot 
I was a choir boy, but all I remember about that was using it as an excuse to meet the choir girls 
@bret I'm from wigan originally, I've moved around a lot - Manchester, Derby, Lichfield, Birmingham, Cardiff - but now I live in Canterbury, Kent. I've seen every single one of the tribes mentioned (hence why I found it amusing in the first place), and I have to admit that 10-15 years ago I went through stages of a few of these two. Grunge was a big underground thing in the early 90s, especially in the north....as was Goth and New Romantic. Over the last couple of years in Kent I've seen quite a few Goths and Grungers, Skaters and Townies....but more Pikeys than I've ever seen anywhere else in the country.
But saying that, I do work in Chatham, home of the Chav (its where the word Chav comes from - Charver means "child" in romany, and as there was a lot of gypsys in the chatham area, the "Chav" was soon born).
Funny you should mention Whitstable as its just down the road from me. It got quite run down, but recently its seen a lot of new development and is starting to attract a more affluent character. There's a huge hippy community there still - as there is in Canterbury - but they prefer to be known as "bohemian"
Very cool place to live at the moment.
@ff my girlfriend is a criminal solicitor - 80%+ of her clients are pikeys. She works in ashford.
I was a choir boy, but all I remember about that was using it as an excuse to meet the choir girls
Out of interest Grom, where abouts in the UK are you. I'm on the Surrey/Hampshire border, and for the last 6 maybe 7 years, the only "tribe" we have in numbers is, like i said, townies. Grunge has never really been a big thing in my area. Goth certainly hasn't either. I was in Whitstable, Kent a few weeks back attending an insurance company meeting(and booze up) and i saw one townie. Everyone else was normal. *thinking i should move to whitstable*
@bret I'm from wigan originally, I've moved around a lot - Manchester, Derby, Lichfield, Birmingham, Cardiff - but now I live in Canterbury, Kent. I've seen every single one of the tribes mentioned (hence why I found it amusing in the first place), and I have to admit that 10-15 years ago I went through stages of a few of these two. Grunge was a big underground thing in the early 90s, especially in the north....as was Goth and New Romantic. Over the last couple of years in Kent I've seen quite a few Goths and Grungers, Skaters and Townies....but more Pikeys than I've ever seen anywhere else in the country.
But saying that, I do work in Chatham, home of the Chav (its where the word Chav comes from - Charver means "child" in romany, and as there was a lot of gypsys in the chatham area, the "Chav" was soon born).
Funny you should mention Whitstable as its just down the road from me. It got quite run down, but recently its seen a lot of new development and is starting to attract a more affluent character. There's a huge hippy community there still - as there is in Canterbury - but they prefer to be known as "bohemian"
Very cool place to live at the moment.
@ff my girlfriend is a criminal solicitor - 80%+ of her clients are pikeys. She works in ashford.