Talk:Yobbo

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

	Yobbo is part of WikiProject Australia, which aims to improve Wikipedia's coverage of Australia and Australia-related topics. If you would like to participate, visit the project page.
???	This article has not yet received a rating on the quality scale.
???	This article has not yet received a rating on the importance scale.
Article Grading: The article has not been rated for quality and/or importance yet. Please rate the article and then leave comments here to explain the ratings and/or to identify the strengths and weaknesses of the article.
WikiProject Australia To-do: edit  Here are some tasks you can do to help with WikiProject Australia: The current Australian collaboration of the fortnight article is Torres Strait Islanders. Requests: Bicentennial Heritage Trail, Daintree Reef, George Adams, Insurance in Australia, Poppy Industries, Sports Rorts affair, State Orchestra of Victoria, Yarmirr v Northern Territory Attention: Aboriginal Protection Act, Australian Payments Clearing Association, Coral Sea Islands, Qantas, Peter Foster, Reg Ansett Expand: Barossa Valley, Coorong, South Australia, List of Australian military memorials, Palm Island, Queensland, Rossiter Bay Juanita Coco Stubs: Australian Racing Museum Australian women's cricket team, Barry McKenzie, Calgardup Bay, Western Australia, Mortein, Prospect Creek, Russian Jack, Yabbying, Younghusband, South Australia Images: Darwin beer-can regatta, Darwin International Airport, Dingo Fence, Driza-Bone, Eucalyptus coolabah, Esky, Four'N Twenty Pie Quality watch: 37 FA-Class Australia articles - 21 GA-Class Australia articles.

In New Zealand Wal Footrot is not certainly not considered a thug - I was dissapointed and a bit offended to see Wal being used as the example for Yobbo - could this be removed and replaced with something more suitable perhaps?

While Wal's not bright, he's a country boy and a farmer so not a blue collar worker, and he's not considered a trouble maker - he's an average (if dumb) guy and a co-operating member of his family (with Aunt Dolly, Pongo etc.)

The main thugs in Footrot Flats are the Murphy brothers (family?) who really ARE thugs and nasty pieces of work!

I have to agree. Wal Footrot is not a yobbo and I've never heard him described as one until now. The Murphy Bros. certainly better qualify but given we rarely (if ever) see Footrot Flats characters drinking excessively I'd say its a poor example all round. 202.154.74.114 06:42, 17 October 2005 (UTC)

This might not be either here nor there, but the Japanese word Yabo means "boorish, uncouth behaviour" Just thought was an interesting coincedence.

[edit] Removed Some text

I've removed the following:

"Yob Slang consists of words like 'What' 'Ya mam' 'Oh NO YOUR GAY' The yobbo coulture originated in manchester and first started out as 'scallies'. most yobbos hang around in groups with black nike airmax jumpers"

from the bottom of the Oceania tab, I don't see how this correlates to the topic at hand, and really just seems to restate what the article has already established. Also has some unbased bias, like "black nike airmax jumpers".SumGuy 19:13, 25 May 2006 (UTC)

removed the claim that yob stands for "young objectable bastard" -- couldn't find secondary confirmation of this outside of this article. --24.164.137.114 04:57, 17 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Unwieldy Paragraph

This paragraph needs to be edited:

In Britain, as the word 'yob' came out of the London back-slang and into more general English usage, it and latterly, 'yobbo' have meant 'working class, adolescent, male person'. Within his own culture, he was not necessarily seen as uncouth, though a person writing about him rather than speaking of him was likely to be of another social class and prone to seeing him as loutish.

It can be made much more concise.

Rintrah 05:55, 26 June 2006 (UTC)