Is SKANGER an offensive term?

Bottle_of_Smoke

And if so, what's a nice way to describe them?

Was just thinking about this, sometimes people refer to me as a "a bit of a rocker" I wear baggy jeans, music tshirts, lip pierced and I do listen to rock music so i don't have a problem with this.

My brother hangs around with a few skangers and I asked him do they mind being called skangers. He just got pissed off so I left it.

So if you were describing someone you know and said "ah ya know him, red hair, he's a bit of a skanger", would that be ok?

Basically I'm sure there are some track-suit cladded types who don't lie, steal and pillage, how can we label them?

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar

skanger lookalikes

I know a few people who when I met them, I thought "skanger, skanger skanger".. but I'd consider that my failing before I'd consider it theirs. They've all turned out to be pretty nice people, even if one of them is in jail atm

the_syco

I think they're called "dub's".

/me runs away before anyone can hit me!

Bottle_of_Smoke

/hits the_syco

popey21

There no nice way of offending someone

how about they look a bit Chav as in http://www.chavworld.co.uk/

Zulu

Bottle_of_Smoke wrote:

Was just thinking about this, sometimes people refer to me as a "a bit of a rocker" I wear baggy jeans, music tshirts, lip pierced and I do listen to rock music so i don't have a problem with this.

Do you like being called smelly?
When I see rockers, hanging their heads, wearing all black, I think: spotty, smelly, and greasy. Does that bother you?

That being said, if I see a knacker, I think: knacker.

My brother hangs around with a few skangers and I asked him do they mind being called skangers. He just got pissed off so I left it.

:rolleyes:
What reaction did you expect from your brother? You just slagged his mates.

Bottle_of_Smoke

Zulu wrote:

What reaction did you expect from your brother? You just slagged his mates.

No I didn't, I asked him do they find the term offensive, I can't see how that's slagging them? They're nice kids they just dress like skangers.

jezza

tracker knackers (wannabe skangers) or holla hollas

Zombrex

Bottle_of_Smoke wrote:

And if so, what's a nice way to describe them?

Er, no

Skanger is a term I would use to describe scumbags, not necessarily working class kids. I know a lot of nice friendly working class kids from north dublin. It is the ones that are drunk and pissing down the back of the 45 bus that I call skangers

Maybe I have been using the term wrong, but just like scumbag, I don't think there is a nice way to call someone a skanger

MiCr0

why do you need a group name for "these type of people"?

Bottle_of_Smoke

no need as such, just for descriptive purposes

pretty-in-pink

street-knackers, chavs, skangers(cant believe ppl say that)

"bit of a rocker", could be a rocker, could be just normal (i mean it is pretty fricking popular at the moment)

then you have metal-heads (some nice, generally arrogant a-holes, personnal experience there!)

Skaters(those little kids on boards, u know who they are, but aside from some dodgy music they r lovely- personal experience)

knackers-knackers

geeks, don't get me started.

players- sad sad sad. u can't get everyone+ur not all that

ah society is so tiered.