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To dislike the term 'naice'?

83 replies

MemoryOfSleep · 14/11/2018 12:59

I am starting to see this with increasing frequency on MN. From what I gather, it means posh/expensive. I don't know how those who use it pronounce and for or some reason I find it incredibly irritating! AIBU?

OP posts:
TheQueef · 14/11/2018 16:09

Iirc the Mugabe thing started because an OP wanted a cheap eyeliner.
The market type eyeliner somehow became eyeliner touched by Robert Mugabe and then it got busy with accusations of racism etc.
I'd had a sherry or two and I just couldn't stop laughing imagining Mugabe gleefully contaminating eyeliners Grin

Eliza9917 · 14/11/2018 16:11

GrinGrinGrin

I need to look for that one.

I think fat balls has been my favourite so far.

XiCi · 14/11/2018 16:12

YANBU OP. It's the most annoying, irritating word used on MN. Thankfully only ever seen on Mumsnet. Can you imagine someone actually saying it out loud IRL. Everyone would think they were a right arsehole Grin

Petitprince · 14/11/2018 16:12

I'm still laughing about "Snapped and farted".

Eliza9917 · 14/11/2018 16:15

YANBU OP. It's the most annoying, irritating word used on MN. Thankfully only ever seen on Mumsnet. Can you imagine someone actually saying it out loud IRL. Everyone would think they were a right arsehole

We say it in a pisstakey way.

southnownorth · 14/11/2018 16:18

YANBU, I absolutely hate it.

People use if they have name changed to prove they are a true Mumsnetter. Also to be used in conjunction with pom bears and cutted up pears.

Balaboosteh · 14/11/2018 16:18

I like it. It’s naice.

TokyoSushi · 14/11/2018 16:19

Oh I love 'naice' it really conveys a point well!

GreatDuckCookery6211 · 14/11/2018 16:20

People use if they have name changed to prove they are a true Mumsnetter. Also to be used in conjunction with pom bears and cutted up pears

What's wrong with that? With the amount of trolls on here it's just to prove they're not one of them. No big deal surely?

GreatDuckCookery6211 · 14/11/2018 16:21

Can you imagine someone actually saying it out loud IRL. Everyone would think they were a right arsehole grin

It's just a MN thing though for the umpteenth time

TheCountessofFitzdotterel · 14/11/2018 16:22

I am fairly sure that is wrong. The shopping list didn't say 'naice ham', it said 'nice ham'. The original point was that we all smiled in recognition because we knew exactly what it meant.
'Naice' has long (pre Mumsnet) been a derogatory term to express a certain sort of lower middle class snobbery - think Hyacinth Bucket. It used to be used that way on here.
If it has now evolved to just mean decent and that projected back onto the original ham, that would make sense, but I remember the original shopping list threads from around 10 years ago and I really don't think it started off as naice ham.

notacooldad · 14/11/2018 16:23

I kniw it's an old joke , it's been going on for years but I can't help but think 'ffs, it wasn't even funny first time round, now you sound like a dick' everytime I see it.'

southnownorth · 14/11/2018 16:23

What's wrong with that? With the amount of trolls on here it's just to prove they're not one of them. No big deal surely?

Nothing it just annoys me for some reason. A lot of the trolls who have been PBPs and around for a while as well use this phrase.

tellmewhenthespaceshiplands · 14/11/2018 16:24

Countess you're showing your "MN age"! Wink

tellmewhenthespaceshiplands · 14/11/2018 16:27

Personally when I hear people use the phrase "Nom nom" in reference to food I get the urge to stab them in the eye.

DoubleNegativePanda · 14/11/2018 16:28

Yeah, MN changed a lot after penis beaker. Got really big. Not necessarily for the better but things change.

The classic threads I remember and still giggle about were cubes of poo and rivers of sweetcorn. Oh lord and that pouff one.

Naice has been around for years and years and is tongue-in-cheek.

GreatDuckCookery6211 · 14/11/2018 16:33

I'm pretty sure it was naice originally.

notacooldad · 14/11/2018 16:36

While we are going down memory lane with some old threads does any one remember about the lady in the public toilet. I know im going to sound like the vague news here but she claimed to have had an 'accident' I think it may have been at a train station . People were coming up with all kinds of suggestions to help but it suddenly went quiet when someone saud they were in the area and they would help.
I'm sure I haven't dreamed that one, it went on for ages!

GreatDuckCookery6211 · 14/11/2018 16:42

Yes I remember that. Was she the original poo troll? Grin

TheQueef · 14/11/2018 16:45

I always avoid poo threads.
Ever since mnet taught me poo trolls existed and why.
I led a sheltered life then.

DoubleNegativePanda · 14/11/2018 16:46

It wasn't "naice" on the list. The OP that posted it misspelled "nice" and it's been a joke ever since.

Ghanagirl · 14/11/2018 16:49

I love “elderly Korean woman”
Must read it again...

Heuschrecke · 14/11/2018 16:50

Yes, I think she was in Victoria station and, as GreatDuck said, she might have been the original 'poo troll'. I don't live that far from Victoria; there was no way I was going to turn up with clean clothes for her - but was intrigued by the help offered and how the thread rolled out, or not!

OksanaAstankova · 14/11/2018 16:52

The market type eyeliner somehow became eyeliner touched by Robert Mugabe

That all completely makes sense now Grin

weegiemum · 14/11/2018 16:58

My favourite MN classic is the guinea pig obituary poems one. Sheer delight!!

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