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Again, the poverty line isn't exclusive to flats, or tracksuits. Tracksuits aren't exclusive to flats either.Let's be clear. It's someone else that has called a group 'scumbags', not me.
I was trying to see how wide or narrow he was casting the net.
I wasn't applying it. I was asking if he was.
If he meant people below the poverty line living in the flats that wear tracksuits, then he's talking about my relatives, and I take exception to it.
If he's talking about scumbags, it's in a personal way. the way that there was always some lads looking for a scrap or on the rob or generally being a nuisance. This happens everywhere. But I can't speak for Anthony. I just know what he's talking about.
It seems like you have a very personal relationship with this word. you need to become a rapper or design a flag or have a march. Take the word back. Oh, society will blanch! "But that's OUR word for YOU!" They'll cry!!!!
Round my way the very worst thing you could be was a "rat". You were a scumbag if you picked your nose.