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!!!

I always smile when i read it, Its a pisstake, and an eyeroll at those
"what think they are posh"

It’s such an original “term” to use on this site. I imagine the users thing they are being “vair vair” amusing. But they aren’t. As for the shopping list, that is just a lame myth.

Noice is Kath & Kim to me. It’s noice, it’s different, it’s unusual.

It's used in RL and not just on MN.

The shopping list isn't a myth, I put nice bread/nice ham etc on my lists all the time to differentiate between sliced Hovis and bread from Waitrose.

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I always smile when i read it, Its a pisstake, and an eyeroll at those
"what think they are posh"

It really isn’t with smiling about.

I find it really funny that people get so het up about gentle in-jokes like that. They happen everywhere, it’s a simple way of cementing social groups. No big deal, really. And of course people don’t think they’re being hilarious. Very few things are actually hilarious.

It really isn’t WORTH...

Two things are being conflated. The shopping list said 'nice ham'. In the beginning MNers weren't using it to symbolise class aspirations, it was just about the different sorts of ham and it was funny because although 'nice ham' sounds entirely subjective everyone knew what was meant.

Naice goes back to years before Mumsnet. It wasn't just used by working class people satirising middle, it was upper middle class people looking down on lower middle and was meant to sound like a common person's idea of what talking posh sounded like. Think Hyacinth Bouquet.

I hate it because I hate the snobbery involved. Whether it's aimed from above or below on the social scale it's mocking people for supposed difference.

I hate it because I hate the snobbery involved. Whether it's aimed from above or below on the social scale it's mocking people for supposed difference.

Yes. Those who use it here are those who imagine they are classy.

I’m mocking myself more than anyone else, so I’m quite happy to play along.

It's not snobbery,it's a piss take.

Obviously, the word "nice" is used in real life. The "nice ham" shopping list wasn't written "naice" though.

I’m mocking myself more than anyone else, so I’m quite happy to play along exactly!

I'm with you OP. I hate it with a passion.

Those who use it here are mocking the snobs!
Reading comprehension ain't what it used to be fo' sho'.

And yes, obviously the shopping list wouldn’t have actually said ‘naice’ on it, since that is not a real word! I’ve always taken that just to be an overt spelling embellishment...

Mocking people is not “naice”. In fact, on this site, it shows the users up for trying so terribly hard to fit in. It really isn’t big or clever. I have in my head an image of the types of posters who think it’s so amusing.

It's not snobbery. Someone had a go at me on a thread recently for using 'naice' in what I thought was a tongue in cheek way and said it was snobbery.

I'm categorically not posh. If I try to make an effort to buy or do something I think is posh, I would slightly self-mockingly say it was 'naice' (only on MN not in real life) as a pisstake of myself. That's it.

Those who use it here are trying to show that they haven’t got minds of their own. Lol

(only on MN not in real life)

You are just trying to fit in with a certain type of vapid poster.

Hyacinth Bouquet is yet another lazy cliché. Do in my mind’s eye the users are not as interesting as HB.

SO

YANBU.

I hate ‘get the rage’ - sounds like something a 14 yo would say. Same with ‘I was raging’. Do adults actually say these things?