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.

I had no idea that "utterly" and "horrid" were considered by anyone to be class signifiers of any kind. Then again, it's MN. Everything is a sign of how low born someone else is.

I can remember my Mum and my Aunty using a piss taking 'naice' 40 years ago, although theirs used to be 'quite naice' I think. Definitely not just a MN thing.

@bathsh3ba

I'd rather ban the constant use of the f-word on here, but neither of us are going to get what we want!

Gosh, that's not vair fucking naice, is it?

I must be reading it wrong. I just hear it as Borat in my head . I’m clearly not posh enough.

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

Is DF your father, friend or fiance?

Also, snapped and farted was never funny no matter how many people in the original thread spit their tea out or woke their husband by laughing.

I get really confused by DS, DB, DN etc. It really obscures the story.

Naice and nice sound sound the same to me - are they meant have different pronunciations?

Naice is fine. We all know what it means

Same with DH. Much better than "hubby"

And the fucking godawful horrid, yum or yummy. it's like the children have grabbed mummy's phone

Gosh, that's not vair fucking naice, is it?

That made me laugh but not 'so hard it made me spit my tea out' - that's another annoying MN expression

@SW1amp

I think it’s a very helpful shorthand I know exactly what a poster means when she describes something as naice rather than nice

I don’t. What does it mean?

I genuinely did laugh out loud once. OP had a twat boyfriend who cheated on her and then when she found out, told her the OW would bear him many sons (OP was unable to have kids and he had always known that). Someone asked if he was from another culture, and she replied that he was as British as the Beatles, raised on sexual repression and Burberry and definitely didn't have a crumbling grousing estate to leave to anyone. I really did properly lol at that.

And again when OW dumped him immediately.

@Anoisagusaris

Naice and nice sound sound the same to me - are they meant have different pronunciations?

Are you Celia Johnson?

@EnglishScot

I don’t mind naice as you know exactly what they mean but when I see a thread entitled ‘I left my washing out overnight’ I groan inwardly.

God yes. It was mildly funny the first time, but now I just roll my eyes.

The shopping list didn’t say naice ham, it said nice ham. It was funny and became a thing because everyone knew exactly what it meant. MNers were going on about Nice Ham long before they started saying naice ham.
Naice was separate and didn’t originate on here, it was a way of describing a sort of prim middle class attitude. As someone above said, Hyacinth Bucket.

Naice is as pretentious as fuck.
It reminds me of a horrid place where I briefly lived, where everyone competed in the
"we're winning at being middle class" competition.
None of them were remotely nice.

@MurielSpriggs - ha ha, no I’m Irish. Slightly different accent to say the least.

@Quarantino

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<strong>MurielSpriggs</strong>

<strong><span class="italic">No is a complete sentence.'</span></strong>

<strong>Those are far more irritating to me than 'naice'.</strong>

<strong>And based on a profound misunderstanding of grammar.</strong>

Quite!

You mean, "quaite!"

Naice is a good descriptor
Washing getting darked on pisses me off. Its so funking funny

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

I presume it's taking the mick out of Merseyside accents

I’ve always read it to mean a “Hyacinth Bucket” faux accent, and “naice” itself to mean something being treated as fancy when it’s really not. Not sure where the Merseyside thing comes in.

“Naice” or “D-whatever” is far better than the use of “lol” as a replacement for the full stop…

If we're banning unfunny MN clichés, please can we obliterate the cringe worthy "Balonz"?
After all these years it still creeps in here and there.

@SheldonesqueTheBstard

It would be naice if people with any sort of posting history would post today.

It isn’t naice to keep reading whining posts by ftp/ncers.

To read sensible posts by folk who didn’t need Immac mittens or a kick up the arse would be very naice.

Agree

I like the word naice. Brings back loads of mn memories.

@SheldonesqueTheBstard

It would be naice if people with any sort of posting history would post today.

It isn’t naice to keep reading whining posts by ftp/ncers.

To read sensible posts by folk who didn’t need Immac mittens or a kick up the arse would be very naice.

Indeed, my friend. Too many hairy hands and folks living under bridges.

I actually find it quite a useful word. It perfectly describes what the poster means.