You are a skanger if

Leandro Witty Chimp wrote: »

Their the people who your all afraid of! The reason you sit on the lower deck of the bus. Some are entrepreneurs who you probably get your drugs off. And in a weird way you admire them cause they don't really give a fuk about societies rules and norms unlike you!

Cianos wrote: »

Still, poverty does correlate with lack of opportunity, poor education, poor resources, poor opportunity and, given these conditions, more likely antisocial behavior.

Cianos wrote: »

Yeah, not everyone who is illiterate is antisocial. But some environments are typically more contributive to becoming antisocial than others, for example those that don't encourage literacy.

It's obvious that money isn't the deciding factor, because as you say many poverty stricken people are very decent. In the same way many wealthy people are antisocial in their own ways.

Still, poverty does correlate with lack of opportunity, poor education, poor resources, poor opportunity and, given these conditions, more likely antisocial behavior.

smash wrote: »

We should start a "have you ever made love to a skanger" thread...

mrroboito wrote: »

This thread is just offensive.

CruelCoin wrote: »

You can also blame yourself.

Everyone has the choice to either

a: trun bricks at an oncoming car
or
b: go home, apply to college and turn on nat geo.

Social background, and disadvantaged njeighbourhood cannot realistically force you to behave like a chimp.

• The wearing of baseball caps at improbably large angles.
• The wearing of white, branded trainers, with the laces behind the tongue of the shoe. Often, tracksuit bottoms tucked into white branded socks are worn.
• The wearing of very short haircuts (sometimes with a short fringe or quiff at the front) in males.
• Older male scangers can be seen sporting a small furry moustache made famous by Irish boxer Barry McGuigan.
• Very fond of the bling culture so the wearing of prominent jewellery: facial jewellery, large rings (mostly sovereigns) and thick chains (worn around the neck or wrist) is compulsory. Jewellery is often made of gold, or has the appearance of gold. Large neckchains are commonly worn over clothing; typically on the outside of a t-shirt.
• Often smoking, prefered brands being John Player Blue for men and Silk Cut Purple for women.
• A particular gait, often likened to the walk and bobbing head of a pigeon.
• A stance similar to that of someone with a tennis ball underneath each armpit .
• When walking solo down the street, will keep his eyes firmly on the footpath.
• Habitual public spitting.
• When using the bus, will sit upstairs at the back and smoke.
• Quite often malnourished
• Males usually go topless in sunshine, but carry jacket in hand just in case.

• The speaker speaks in a rather high-pitched nasal tone, and some sounds are consequently slurred to some extent.
• There is apparent difficulty in pronouncing vowel sounds such as the short 'o' sound of 'oh', often enunciated as 'ah', as in 'story' ('starry'). The flat 'u' sound of 'uh' also causes some difficulty: this is variously rendered as either a long and emphasised 'uuh' sound, or 'eh', as in
• A corrupted form of Dublin slang is used, which is so modified it is sometimes quite unintelligible to other Dubliners. A common greeting used by so-called scangers is pronounced 'starry buud?', a corruption of the Dublin phrase 'what's the story, bud?', meaning, 'how are you, my friend?'. Generally, diphtongs are not pronounced, rather separated into two different sounds.
• Syllables are often added to single-syllable words. For example "I bunked off skoo-well" rather than "I took some unauthorised absence from school"
• 'Wha'?', a contraction of 'what?', is used frequently at the end of a statment to pose the question 'do you understand what I am saying?'. For example, 'Deadly buzz that is, wha'?'. 'Wha' is also used in conversation with non-scangers to force the non-scanger to repeat their question, this allows the scanger time to comprehend 'non scanger' speech. The overuse of the term 'wha' has developed into scangers often uttering a 'Swha' noise at all times.
• Some scangers, along with some Dubliners not identifiable with the scanger stereotype, use a curious version of the possessive adjective form of 'you' (plural), normally enunciated as 'your', which is pronounced in this case as 'yezzer'. A possible explanation for this is that it is a combination of 'yez', a corruption of Dublin slang 'yous' (the second-person plural pronoun), and 'your'.
• 'Anyway' has mutated into 'Inanyways' as a preferred sentence opener or to notify a change of subject, for example: 'Inanyways, have yez any blow?'
• The generalisation of the ending of peoples names with a vowel, most commonly "O,A,I & E". Example, Thomas - "Tommo", Anthony - "Anto", Declan - "Decco". Girls names for example, Patricia - Patricieaaa - extenuating the "a" at the end as well as "ic" into an "ieeeeeeeee". The elocution has developed to somewhat like talking while trying to keep words inside the mouth. This is achieved in a sense like making an "O" of the mouth as if to blow out a candle before talking. Vowels are thus easier to include in normal speech patterns.

• Swearing and general vulgarity is usually common during speech.

CiscoStudent wrote: »

It's only offensive if you're a skanger. If so well done you must be in the top 1% of skang that can read and use the internet, give yourself a jonny blue and a dutch gold.

Jester252 wrote: »

Bud?
What happen to dutchies?