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  • kip@piefed.ziptoShowerthoughts@lemmy.world•[deleted]English
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    3 个月前

    good points, the inter class rivalry in particular. i think it’s a reasonable guess that the term lost its more specific original sense when it escaped containment and got into the mouths of littlejohn et al but just saying middle class was reductive. sun/mirror hacks would have been in on the action too

    i read about chav being derived from charva but never heard it said personally - i’m from the south though

    re hooligans there’s definite similarities but chavs lack the same kind of rallying point so were more dispersed. maybe some chavs got promoted to casuals

  • kip@piefed.ziptoShowerthoughts@lemmy.world•[deleted]English
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    3 个月前

    there is a grain of truth in this. chav culture certainly existed and still exists in the south of england but they came in around 2000-2010 or so for much greater demonisation than their northern (scally) or scottish (ned) counterparts, likely due to UK media being concentrated in the south

    the great chav danger was blown wildly out of proportion and i’ve no doubt the term expanded beyond the original sense of a sort of tracksuit/burberry clad antisocial petty criminal youth to include just about any working class kid in the minds of home counties handbag clutchers

    so to say they never existed is false, and to say they never caused anyone any bother is false. but the middle class media confected version of them never existed in any great proportion either

  • kip@piefed.ziptoNo Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Why are so many people role playing as animals?English
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    3 个月前

    first you see anthropomorphic cartoon animals and find them appealing, then the internet shits in your brain and makes you want to fuck them. after that you start pretending to be one. if somebody intervenes at this point or your remaining sense of shame kicks in you may be able to recover, otherwise your condition will deteriorate until you are found dead under a bodily fluid sodden pile of threadbare animal toys with holes cut in the crotches

  • kip@piefed.ziptoPeople Twitter@sh.itjust.works•"Trans Ideology"English
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    4 个月前

    The chart in the image was reproduced by the Washington Post from a 2009 study by I C McManus

    The Post article makes a similar claim to the one in the screenshot

    McManus theorizes that the late-Victorian dive in left-handedness reflects stigma against southpaws

    https://archive.ph/y543P

    But he actually said this is unlikely

    One possibility, extensively discussed in the handedness literature, is that left-handers die earlier […] An alternative explanation of the lower rate of left-handedness suggests that the elderly are more likely, because of social pressure, either to have been forced to shift from writing with the left hand to writing with the right hand, or they prefer to call themselves right-handed, because of a taboo against left-handedness. Both this and the differential mortality explanation become unlikely when one looks at the entire Gilbert and Wysocki database […] The best account of the Gilbert and Wysocki data is that it directly reflects the actual rate of left-handedness in the population

    (pdf): https://jhanley.biostat.mcgill.ca/bios601/CandHchapter06/HistoryGeographyHumanHandedness.pdf