What the hell does 'Naice' mean?

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I'm seeing it everywhere on here and I've been coming on long enough.

Is it how people from the UK spell the word 'nice' ?

Naice croissant, naice jacket, surely...?

I think its a wsy of gently mocking the middle classes for being a little bit snobby and into the finer things in life.

High Street shops are the kind of shops you'd find on the main shopping street in a large ish town before out of town shopping centres existed. I think they're also usually chains.

High Street shops are the kind of shops you'd find on the main shopping street in a large ish town before out of town shopping centres existed. I think they're also usually chains.

High street shop indicates a chain store, well established, that sells usually clothes, shoes or a department store.

For example, there might be a Poundland in your local town but although they are a chain, they are not generally referred to as a "high street shop".

Next, river island and debenhams are the epitome of High Street shop.

Oh, now I understand what the nice ham thread is! I like Waitrose! ❤️☕️

I didn't think the word was sarcastic though, just used for emphasis.

The biscuit refers to the political webchats around the 2010 election i think. Gordon Brown was asked what his favourite biscuit was and something happened - IIRC he didn't answer and the question was asked again and again. Can't remember if he ever actually answered but if he did, it was a bland PR-bot type answer. Since then politicians are pretty much always asked it on here. And the biscuit means 'your question is so pointless i have nothing to say'. I believe.

It kind of is sarcastic.

"Naice" isn't necessarily sarcastic, it implies a specific type of product or event (almost any product or event) with certain class and taste-related qualities.

A downmarket cafe with a neon coloured sign serving egg and chips on Formica tables can be very nice indeed but it will never be naice. A cafe in which the menu is hand-written on a chalk board, the walls are painted in Farrow and Ball colours, they declare all their cakes to be handmade and they serve babycinnos is naice. If it's done well the naice cafe can also be very nice indeed, although it will probably be quite a lot more expensive.

"Naice" is, to many, an homage to Jilly Cooper and her character Valerie Jones (in Rivals) who spoke in that over-enunciated way. An unpleasant social climber, alluding to her style is not a term of approbation.

Wait, I thought the was a way of calling someone a tit because it looks like a nipple!! That's what it is in my head.

It's not sarcastic, it's supposed to be the posh pronunciation, like how the Queen would say "nice." Because the "nice ham" of the Waitrose shopping list clearly means "posh ham" rather than "better tasting ham."

So when you post on here "we live in a nice area," it means something quite different to posting "we live in a 'naice' area." The aforementioned means somewhere pleasant to live with friendly neighbours, the latter means somewhere with high house prices, a residents' association and a village centre full of organic greengrocers and artisan delis but nowhere to buy a packet of fags.

Naice, to be delivered alongside a head tilt.

The biscuit means "no comment." It was added to the emoticons because Gordon Brown did not answer the Mumsnet question "what is your favourite biscuit" when he came on for a webchat. This is because he is a serious politician who thought he was coming on to talk about serious issues to a web community of intelligent women.

Mumsnetters thought banging on about the lack of response to the biscuit question hi-lair-ious and it made a big news splash but of course the net result was to make Mumset look as if it is populated by a load of biscuit-obsessed airheads.

So posting means "I am not dignifying your post with a response," (except you have just responded by posting a bloody biscuit).

This is because he is a serious politician who thought he was coming on to talk about serious issues to a web community of intelligent women.

Or because webchat people don't read the thread themselves and the people "feeding" the question to him thought he was too serious a politician for the biscuit chat.

All other politicians after that were given the biscuit question.

The Queen says naice, I dont think she is trying to put on a "posh" accident!

It's class prejudice, taking the rise out of people who speak with clarity.

Class prejudice being the only acceptable prejudice left.

Haha. No, we don't spell it this way.

It is purely a MN thing, a bit of a mickey take. It can't be just nice, it has to be "naice".

Waitrose "naice" ham. I live in "naice" area, etc etc.

Thanks balloon. Good example of how myths start.

Or because webchat people don't read the thread themselves and the people "feeding" the question to him thought he was too serious a politician for the biscuit chat.

Yes exactly! And also because he is partially sighted he really wouldn't have been reading the questions himself. Yet Mumsnetters slagged him off good and proper for ignoring it. It was wince-making.

But as you say, the biscuit question was well-established even then in politicians' webchats and he should have been prepared for it.

BTW I'm Irish so usually would be the first to get that kind of humour

wineusuallyhelps I think when people give a biscuit it's kinda like, ah here's a pat on the back, well done/ sit down and enjoy your biscuit could be wrong

I effing love sliced wafer ham from tesco

Okay so the local cafe who sells cinnamon buns and has a daily 'nourish' bowl is DEFINITELY naice!