To get the rage when people use the word NAICE on MN?

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Would upu ever use it in real life? Makes me cringe to my bones!!!

That's naice, OP.

Well no one has said cutted up pear for a while so maybe it’s tailing off

OTOH, AFAIK no one says AIBU IRL either, and I'd certainly never say ODFOD.

So, YABU.

It’s an expression that’s designed to dismiss MC attributes as being “not for the likes of us”. It’s anti ambition. I guess it’s a bit like the use of any description that pigeon holes people and where they live. “Sink estate” is the opposite! I think it’s best to get a Thesaurus and use more nuanced words. I hate it too!

But how else do you describe good quality ham?

@JoshArcherStoleMyTractor good point!

Organic?

There's obviously more important things in life but ahhh everytime someone uses that word I want to scream. Yanbu

@EdgarAlanPoe I should hope not! Terrible grammar also gets my goat 🐐🐐🐐🐐🐐🐐🐐🐐🐐🐐🐐🐐

It’s an expression that’s designed to dismiss MC attributes as being “not for the likes of us”. It’s anti ambition
I've not read it like that. When I've seen it I've alway read it as a bit of a light hearted piss take, as in "when MIL has guests round she gets out the naice soap".

It's a pisstake used ironically.
I think it was about 10 years ago, or possibly more now that it started.
They don't actually use it in real life!

Yes it’s a lighthearted pisstake.

What's naice?

But how else do you describe good quality ham

Ham.
Or if home cured from village pigs ‘Gerald’s ham’

It's an MN word that I find funny so yes, YABU.

Would you use “the rage” in real life....?

@Delbelleber, it was (I think I recall but might be wrong...) from an old found shopping list thread where someone had written 'naice ham' [nice ham] - or was it that 'naice' came first because it sounds like a MC way of saying it and then people started putting it on shopping lists?

'Get the rage' sounds like hyperbole, I'm curious to know what emotion this stirs.
(I didn't buy it, it was a prize. It arrived with its handle broken hence being used as a pen pot so it's never even had coffee in it.)

You wouldn't use it irl it's a MN joke like LTB.

It was from a shopping list that an MNer found (at Waitrose, surely?) which had ‘naice ham’ on it.

Wasn't it from when a shopping list was found with "naice ham" written and henceforth it entered into MN lore. I don't think people do use it in real life.

I always took it to mean like when you get out posh biscuits because you are trying to impress. I buy naice ham for guests!

Naice is a very useful word! It conveys a value system in a very simple but flexible way, that has a specific meaning conferred by context. it's something everyone immediately understands & saves a lot of words.

"She's moved to x suburb, apparently the school there is very naice" - meaning high achieving academically, probably a low proportion FSM, pushy parents & pta.

"naice ham" - pricey pork product probably from a hand reared pig fed solely on champagne soaked acorns.

I've heard people say noice in rl but never naice. Maybe it depends on where you're from!

I don’t mind it when it’s used to paint a picture. Hobnobs are nice, but they’re not niace, hand made organic oat and molasses biscuits with a hint of Madagascar vanilla are niace. I don’t think it’s anti aspirational at all, it’s just a short hand for things which are of slightly better quality than the average but are sometimes (not always before I get jumped on) being used by the owners of those things to signal being classy or knowledgeable about the “right” things to have or consume.

I always thought it was a throwback to the desperate-to-be-middle-class types of yesteryear. The gem LaQueen springs to mind