The Fabian Society says people should stop using the word 'chav'. In fact they should stop using it on two counts: it's an unpleasant bastardisation of the Romani/Northern 'charva'; and its southern usage is dripping with class hatred - because it's always fun to laugh at the poor don't you know? Well, apart from the cuddly ones in exotic foreign parts - you can go on nice poverty tourism holidays and watch 'them' in their natural setting, all noble and savage and so, so sad - a cheap holiday in other people's misery ... before their standard of living picks up and 'ruins' it for everyone.