Chavs were made up by a middle/upperclass newspaper in 2004 to paint the working class as all animalistic thugs. They never actually existed, and like with The Loch Ness Monster, the stories of run-ins with them were always too ridiculous to be true

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    Roadmans are currently being made up. Kids wearing balaclavas wearing bomber jackets talking with a heavy London grime artist accent dont exist.

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      23 hours ago

      Back when roadman was just starting to become a term I had a friend who started calling himself one, he didn’t like it when I told him it was just another version of a chav

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        Aren’t Roadmen a Black sub culture while “Chavs” are a myth that was always portrayed as being white and working class?

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          Um, never heard that roadmen are a black subculture, so that’s you projecting that. But I’m sure you have a badly sourced rationale for that too.