To really wish posters would stop using ‘naice’

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It was amusing many years ago when it was first used but now it’s just so old and a little bit lame.

@SheldonesqueTheBstard

i find the posters obsessed with "hair hands" and sexual content very creepy frankly.

That is your right.

But I would rather be wary of trolls than not.

Aye. The defenders of trolls and the 'what does it matter if it's not true! It's the most hilarious thing I've ever read! Team OP!!!" always make me just file them in the chinny reckon box.

@Sparklingbrook

Apparently a diagram is 'MN rules' with a parking thread. I worry about people possibly being unable to read a book without pictures.

Anyway, as I learnt don't point out a diagram isn't necessary because you get a right backlash.

I'd say being economical with the truth is the biggest prerequisite to a parking thread.

I need a diagram for lots of the parking threads. The descriptions aren't always easy to follow.

A MN parking thread is like cricket to me. I know lots of people are really in to it but I personally find it deadly dull. Yet hope they have a great time pursuing that hobby!

What about "noice" in Jake from Brooklyn nine nine accent?

[quote MurielSpriggs]All this talk made me look up Celia Johnson - by coincidence at 14 seconds in she demonstrates how to pronounce "so vair naice"

[/quote] I almost didn't make it to "naice" as I was so caught up in the way Trevor Howard makes the word "no" into two syllables.

@DrSbaitso

I need a diagram for lots of the parking threads. The descriptions aren't always easy to follow.

If it involves loads of different drives, and a weird road/house type set up then possibly. Especially if explanation is poor. But one car blocking one drive, or indeed one car on one drive it shouldn't be on, then no, no diagram required. Some posters were even asking for a photo. Madness.

I completely agree. Some MNers are reaching for the Tena Lady when they see ‘parking’ in a thread title… I’d rather read the phone book.

When I first arrived on MN a picky tea with naice ham was all the rage

Post clash - that was to @FadoFado.

@ToykotoLosAngeles

The worst is bloody DS used for sister and not son. "My DS doesn't like my DH" takes on an entirely different significance.

There was a thread the other day about DSIL and the op kept mentioning her brother (DB) and I was like what does your brother have to do with your son -in-law

@FadoFado

A MN parking thread is like cricket to me. I know lots of people are really in to it but I personally find it deadly dull. Yet hope they have a great time pursuing that hobby!

The only ending that is deemed acceptable for a parking thread is for a HUGE ding dong between car owner and aggrieved OP. Where OP gives it to them all guns blazing.

There's almost a formula now. People settle in with popcorn for the night while the OP curtain twitches after blocking them in.

My worst thing is when people say ‘ds8’ and despite the fact I have encountered this situation many times it still takes me a moment to realise they mean their 8 year old, not their 8th, son.

I could only see myself reading a parking thread if it had an added frisson eg. 'Darren Day just parked across my drive and now Theresa May has got into his car and started snogging him. I need to go and do the big shop. What should I do?'

@Snoozer11

I like naice. It's useful.

But starting a post with "Goodness!" or "Gosh"? Winds me up!

Yes, or even worse “oh dear, OP”.

But all of these pale into insignificance compared to, “Reader, I married him.”

Not just a spelling mistake then.

@FadoFado

I could only see myself reading a parking thread if it had an added frisson eg. 'Darren Day just parked across my drive and now Theresa May has got into his car and started snogging him. I need to go and do the big shop. What should I do?'

Fgs woman! Don't give the starters-of-parking-thread-bollocks-ideas!

Yes I think parking threads have peaked now. They're going to need something special to break the formula.

I’m the originator of darked on. It was a term used by my mother & her friend and neighbour in the very early sixties. Both were forced to leave their jobs (teaching & accountancy) upon marriage. Neither were stupid as has been suggested before in other threads.
They had neither central heating nor tumble- dryers, and only had terry nappies. For them being ‘darked on’ meant that washing that was dry would get damp at dusk, and give them a problem about where to hang it, so it should be taken in. It’s still a term that I use; if I’m working I’ll tell my sons to get the washing in before it gets darked on. I wish I’d never posted it now.

Do you have a link to the thread @Spermysextowel? How long ago was it?
I wonder who was responsible for the spider willies?

Another washing out overnight thread popped up tonight.

Spermysextowel
I've wondered where darked on came from on here. My mother used to nag us to bring the washing in on time because it would get damp again. As kids we thought it was funny, but I love the expression from your mum.

'Give your head a wobble' absolutely detest that saying. Just makes me cringe.

Not much annoys me but if I see 'you do you' written one more time .....

This ^

Yes, “you do you” is a horror, along with “did ye aye”.