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.

@Saidtoomuch

Punching either way is crap. I went to a school in a rough area, but because my accent was considered slightly posher I was picked on. This is now called punching up but it felt horrible. I don't know why people object so much to other people's speech patterns or sayings. Some are regional, some are family quirks, some are cultural, all are valid.

That's exactly what I mean about punching up or down not being the same in all contexts. You might have had the advantage in some circumstances, but you hadn't in that one. They had.

@Etulosba

I don’t know about naice, but nice itself grates. A nice meal or a nice hotel etc.

It probably stems from not being allowed to use the word in English classes when I was at school.

I use "nice" on this forum to avoid going into an argument if I use different words. "Nice" is neutral enough.

Naice is that horrible smugness about being above a vaguely higher-end place or hotel or item.

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Someone up thread says "no one knows what the biscuit means" which is not true! Gordon Brown came on and was asked his fave biscuit and couldn't answer and that's the origin of the biscuit. Happy to be corrected if that's not true.
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I didn't know that (& don't remember the Gordon Brown incident), but that still doesn't explain what it means to give someone a biscuit on here. I had assumed it was just - giving someone a biscuit :-), could be accompanied by a .

@Maggiesfarm

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Someone up thread says "no one knows what the biscuit means" which is not true! Gordon Brown came on and was asked his fave biscuit and couldn't answer and that's the origin of the biscuit. Happy to be corrected if that's not true.
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I didn't know that (& don't remember the Gordon Brown incident), but that still doesn't explain what it means to give someone a biscuit on here. I had assumed it was just - giving someone a biscuit :-), could be accompanied by a .

It kind of robs it of the joke to explain, but...

You know how MN has the online chat thing with various important people, and you can submit your question days in advance on the thread? Most posters did ask serious questions, but there would always be one person who would ask 'what's your favourite biscuit?' It was kind of traditional.

So GB came on, was very serious, very professional. But he didn't answer the biscuit question. In true MN fashion, the thread then descended into EVERYONE asking 'what's your favourite biscuit?' - which he didn't answer. So 'biscuit' came to mean 'I have nothing to say'.

Really awkwardly we subsequently found out that he wasn't avoiding the question, his aide was reading the questions to him, and didn't bother asking him that one because it was so silly. But to those of us on the thread at the time it looked like he was dodging a perfectly nice question...

@FourteenthDoctor

Not as bad as 'picky bits'

Oh I hate that too 😬

The washing thing is because someone sarcastically intoned that the laundry had been "darked on" i.e. that the OP was being ridiculous in rewashing. And then something about spiders dragging willies across it all.

Yes, I think most people are aware of the origins. It’s still not funny

@MurielSpriggs
|| Very interesting, but you still haven't told us what the biscuit means!

Or how is that meaning related to the Gordon Brown thing? ||

It's because during his MN webchat, he (Gordon Brown) didn't acknowledge the 'favourite biscuit' question at all. It was asked numerous times, so it was a glaring omission on his part.
And now, on MN, when someone wants to "blank" someone, the biscuit ermoji is unleashed.

The biscuit started out in fun, but has since become somewhat hostile.

@Chunkymenrock

Its awful, I agree. Can't stand 'vair' either. Also all the 'D' this, that and the other. Just say my H, my S, my SD etc.

The one that drives me mad of is "my ddog". What is the point in saying that? I always think that the posters have to go back and change the AutoCorrect as well.

So originally meant 'no comment', but now it's kind of a way of saying 'yeah, right'. Meanings evolve. But giving someone a is definitely NOT a nice thing to do.

"Goodness", used as an expletive,
WTF works better.
Picky bits is awful, sounds like a really bad dermatological complaint, not something to be eaten.
Worst of all are the people saying "it makes my teeth itch" urgh.

There are other forums if you don’t like this one

@frazzledasarock

Naice not naive

Is a naive ham a bit green around the edges?

@FourteenthDoctor

Not as bad as 'picky bits'

Oh, god. This just turns my stomach for some reason. Give me naice any day.

I hate it

Can someone please put me out of my misery and tell me how the hell you lot pronounce nice and naice??? Sound exactly the same to me.

@Andante57

I think it's ok for common people to laugh at the way posh people talk, but not the other way round

Murielspriggs why do you want to laugh at how posh people talk? And if you do, why shouldn’t they defend themselves?

Just to be clear, I'm posh, I talk posh!

I think common people being rude about my accent is, well rude. But I think it's widely regarded as acceptable.

Gosh, I’ll just leave this naice book here.

@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

How can it be shorthand when there’s more letters in “naice” than in “nice”?

I always assumed this was a word used by people whose first language was not English!

Naice is that horrible smugness about being above a vaguely higher-end place or hotel or item.

That's even worse than I imagined though I knew it wasn't complimentary. Just because someone has an accent that results in them pronouncing 'nice' as 'naice', it doesn't mean anyone else should be smug and 'above' them. It's rather snobbish to be like that.

@Maggiesfarm, it was never about accents. It was about the perceived income of people who say nice as naice and their buying habits. On Merseyside, or rather Liverpool, we'd say decent, so 'pick up some decent ham'. When naice took off on here, 'proper' was in use on Merseyside. But it's the assumed income behind the accent.

Naice is as pretentious as fuck.
It reminds me of a horrid place where I briefly lived

@Zenithbear so is the word “horrid”, according to a previous poster

Naice is as pretentious as fuck.

That's the point of the joke.

How can it be shorthand when there’s more letters in “naice” than in “nice”?

@Ilovemypantry naice isn’t shorthand for nice. It has a different meaning.

There are lots of things that I wish posters would stop doing, but using an innocuous word like naice isn't one of them. To me, naice is just shorthand for 'more expensive'.