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dogscoff November 3rd, 2005 09:00 AM

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What the heck is a kappa-slapper!?


Kappa: A brand of so called "sportswear" that churns out nasty shell-suits by the million.

Slapper: "****" or "Slag" would be the closest translation I could provide, but it's imprecise at best. The fact that it derives from "Slap", a colloquial term for "make-up" gives you better picture of what is implied.

Kapp-slapper: I'd never heard this term before reading it on the linked page but it is so incredibly evocative I can picture precisely what the author meant:

Imagine an underweight, chain-smoking, ignorant, foul-mouthed, aggressively-defensive young woman with poorly-concealed acne and her hair gelled flat down onto her cranium. Put her in a white Kappa shellsuit, and adorn her with lots of nasty gold jewelry. Imagine for her a similarly-attired boyfriend (let's call him Wayne). Wayne owns a baseball cap and a Ford Escort with the suspension dropped, muffler removed and a disproportionately large sound system. Typically these two would live on a council-estate or coucil-run tower block somewhere. They have a child together, whose name (or so it would seem) is "Shut the [censored] up you little [censored] or I'll [censored] smack you again." This child has a series of elder siblings (by different Waynes) named "Stop screaming you little bastard or the social workers will take you away", "for the last time, [censored] PUT THAT DOWN!" and so on.

Vicky Pollard from "Little Britain" is a pretty good rendition of a proto-kappa-slapper. Look her up, or better yet download an episode or two from somewhere. (Verrrry funny stuff.) Alternatively, google for definitions of "Chav" or "Chavette". That's fairly close.

I'm going to shut up now, before I say anything else to reveal myself as an elitist, middle-class snob.

Randallw November 3rd, 2005 10:09 AM

Re: Scamming the Scammer
 
here we call them "chiggers" from the nearby suburb, Chigwell. Now that I come to mention it I think I just worked out its slightly insulting simularity. In the rest of Australia I think "Bogans" is the right term.

"I want 10 ciggy breaks a day and I don't work holidays or overtime"

Starhawk November 3rd, 2005 08:03 PM

Re: Scamming the Scammer
 
http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/guide/ar...003526_3.shtml


Omg omg omg omg omg omg omg omg make the burning stop for the love of all that's holy PLEASE make it stop......omg omg omg


LOL oooooh that's just nasty thanks for the translation.

dogscoff November 3rd, 2005 09:02 PM

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Starhawk said:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/guide/ar...003526_3.shtml

Omg omg omg omg omg omg omg omg make the burning stop for the love of all that's holy PLEASE make it stop......omg omg omg

Dude, you have no idea how funny what you just said is. Get hold of video/ audio of vicky (she's played by a bloke, btw) speaking. "Omg" is one of her catchphrases...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/littlebr.../series1.shtml
http://www.davidwalliams.com/media/clipvicky.wav


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