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8.21.2005

Are you neddy?

After speaking with a U.S.-dwelling Brit who doesn't know what a chav is (!), I decided to pay the Chavscum site a visit, and found a link to a test that asks, "How Neddy Are You?". I don't know because I don't know what "neddy" means. And I have no idea how to decifer this question, either: "Are you a ned or just a wee hopeful gadgie?

Doesn't anybody speak English over there?

If you want to take the test, it's understandable enough for us lowly Americans to take, so there's no worries. Just beware that there is some British English thrown in.

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