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What's Wrong With 'Knackered Converse'...

If anybody is a fan of Arctic Monkeys, they will have undoubtedly heard the song, "A Certain Romance". Now, I personally take offence to the opening lyric: "Now they might wear Classic Reeboks, or knackered Converse or trackie bottoms tucked in socks...they'd probably like to throw a punch at me".

:eek: :eek:

How dare the fine shoe that is Converse be uttered in a sentence with "trackie bottoms tucked in socks". Mortally offended, I say I am, mortally offended!

Whoever heard of a scally/chav wearing Converse?!!

Not happy with the Arctic...*Sulks*.

(And yes this is General Discussion, not Music....)

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Reply 1
zhivago
If anybody is a fan of Arctic Monkeys, they will have undoubtedly heard the song, "A Certain Romance". Now, I personally take offence to the opening lyric: "Now they might wear Classic Reeboks, or knackered Converse or trackie bottoms tucked in socks...they'd probably like to throw a punch at me".

:eek: :eek:

How dare the fine shoe that is Converse be uttered in a sentence with "trackie bottoms tucked in socks". Mortally offended, I say I am, mortally offended!

Whoever heard of a scally/chav wearing Converse?!!

Not happy with the Arctic...*Sulks*.

(And yes this is General Discussion, not Music....)

Cheer up. I've never seen a pair converses on a chav if that helps. :tsr:
out of the topic, but i love converse sneakers!
Reply 3
Converse was taken over by Nike a few years back, wasn't it?

A lot of the chavs wear Converse. So does every sod else.
Reply 4
dogtanian

A lot of the chavs wear Converse. So does every sod else.


Hear hear :smile: They're so common nowadays even the neds are wearing them
Reply 5
converse owned by NIKE make more than just the chuck taylors you're thinking of..

they make a lot of shoes.. used to specialise in basketball shoes, were funky too. anyway.. they make a lot of shoes!! so "chavs" might wear em.
Reply 6
My boyfriend's band know the Artic Monkeys - asked them to play with them but they had another gig :-\
converse are way too kewl for chavs...seriously....lol. ...oh how i hate that word "chavs", where did it even come from!?!
CHAV - Council House And Violent

And loads of chavs wear Converse, because of I Robot. After the film mentions Will Smith wearing them about 5 times in ten minutes, all the chavs think "OHMIGOD a celebrity is wearing dem dey must be like well trendy INNIT!!!!!"
Hence the high numbers of pink converse around town centres.
Reply 9
I didn't care that Chavs wore them, but having just heard that Will Smith does, I'll be burning mnie.
Reply 10
Converse are supposed to be knackered. The scallies and chavs have nothing better to do than clean them with a toothbrush after every outing.
Lauren
Converse are supposed to be knackered. The scallies and chavs have nothing better to do than clean them with a toothbrush after every outing.


My converse are really clean, and I've had them for about 2 or 3 months. Haven't washed them once, they just don't seem to get dirty.
Reply 12
JoeCool_Lemming
My converse are really clean, and I've had them for about 2 or 3 months. Haven't washed them once, they just don't seem to get dirty.


Are they dark coloured? Mine are navy blue and they look a little dirty around the edges but I like them too much to ruin them :redface: You have to really wear them to damage them...they're damn good quality.
One pair is black with blue flames running up the side (they're kinda dirty) and the other pair are just plain black and white ones.
JoeCool_Lemming
One pair is black with blue flames running up the side (they're kinda dirty) and the other pair are just plain black and white ones.


black and white converse are the best ones :smile:
Reply 15
Lauren
Are they dark coloured? Mine are navy blue and they look a little dirty around the edges but I like them too much to ruin them :redface: You have to really wear them to damage them...they're damn good quality.


Oh God...*feels ashamed*. :redface: I live in mine. No wonder they've all got holes in...and I'm rushing to Open and Drome to buy about five million more pairs... :eek:
Reply 16
hallucination
black and white converse are the best ones :smile:


Yeah, they are rather cool...
Reply 17
JoeCool_Lemming
My converse are really clean, and I've had them for about 2 or 3 months. Haven't washed them once, they just don't seem to get dirty.

Go to a music festival... or run through a recently ploughed field after a downpour. That'll sort them :cool:
And before you say it, yes, I'm serious.

Chavs don't wear Converse... well, not proper Converse anyway. Some borderline chav girls might wear the pink ones because they're pink... but then again, I'd wear a pair of them just because they're pink :rolleyes: Thats besides the point. Converse are meant to be dirtyfied. They look silly when they're all shiny and clean.
Great song :smile:

Chavs can and do wear what the frick they like, of course they wear converse and good on them, if it makes morons question the stereotype they have come to curse and love and begin to doubt themselves over it then i think that is fan-tabby-tastic.
Reply 19
Converse are meant to be dirtyfied. They look silly when they're all shiny and clean.


That's what I think. Mine are trashed. :p: