What do you think is Naff?

NanKate

Photos of women with their boobs barely covered. What would my mother have said 😳

I still remember a quote from a novel I read many decades ago - an American one, where the mother said to the daughter, ‘Remember, Susan (or whatever her name was) women who have to use their bodies to create an impression are vulgarians of the most cheap and vulgar sort.’ !!!

Might not be quite word for word now, but it certainly made an impression on me at the time!

Yellow cars, the words posh, serviette and settee, waiters with white gloves, pedestal mats, made up baby names, artificial grass, decorated wheelie bins and finally I can’t believe there is such a thing but covers for vacuum cleaners, photograph for proof!
I would go on but I have probably offended enough people!

You have haven’t offended me Sago however I have been known to say settee. 😏

Witzend 👍

Sago

Yellow cars, the words posh, serviette and settee, waiters with white gloves, pedestal mats, made up baby names, artificial grass, decorated wheelie bins and finally I can’t believe there is such a thing but covers for vacuum cleaners, photograph for proof!
I would go on but I have probably offended enough people!

😂oh don’t stop now, you’re on a roll.

Very long fake nails, garden gnomes😁

People calling their partner ‘my soulmate’.
Folk who ‘reach out’ or ask me to.
Renewing wedding vows.

Houses lit up worse than Blackpool illuminations at Christmas. Blow up Santas.

Just wondering where the words 'settee' and 'serviette' came from and why Nancy Mitford should have regarded them with such horror that it persists for decades...

Cleavages. Any... but particularly bad on mature over endowed females. Yuck.

Oh, and constant reference in media stories to friends and relatives as 'loved ones'. Who knows. some might be absolutely loathed..

hollysteers

People using the expression “Making memories”.

Loath that expression, you can't choose your memories, some stick others fade
and 'my bad' too american

Scouse brows trout pouts fake anything tattoos smoking vaping women flashing boobs the list is endless.

Houses lit up worse than Blackpool illuminations at Christmas. Blow up Santas

Driving home from a Carol concert the other night I passed a house with an enormous blow up dinosaur in the front garden!

At least it was wearing antlers! 🤣

What’s wrong with wearing antlers I wear them while drinking Cava on Christmas Day🥂

Auntieflo

Enhanced buttocks. Who needs those? Definitely not me.

So agree with that. It’s ridiculous. And WHY?

Much of what has been said. Famous people who have to send birthday greetings to offspring, which should be personal and then litter it with meaningless nonsense such as "you are an amazing, exceptional person" yeah right they've done what exactly? other than exist, anyway more often than not the child is right next to them so just tell them that, without putting it out there just boastful. The acronym LOL usually after something that isn't remotely funny.

Similarly people who pose with their kids, all in pj's at Xmas in an expensive home, every mod con, but not a book in sight. I was just thinking the other day when Keeley Hawes posed with a lovely newly acquired dog from Battersea, her and Matthew McFadden never do that with their offspring, plenty more like them, usually big names too. Good taste and class is never about money!

Serviette is a towel in France. It's napkin according to Nancy Never mind she's long gone

Driving home from a Carol concert the other night I passed a house with an enormous blow up dinosaur in the front garden!

There was a recent mumsnet thread about a blow up dinosaur... What goes through people's heads? 😂

People who say, ‘Oh! 100%’ (usually twice) just because they happen to agree with you. 🤔

Cleavages
Fat spilling out of tops
Long nails
Slug eyebrows
Trout pouts
Visible tattoos
Makeup put on with trowel
Toilet
Hubby
Fur baby
Rainbow bridge
Off the shoulder wedding dresses
Short skirts on chubby legs
Vaping
Chewing gum

I could go on …

Naff to me is lacking style or maybe "vulgar" - many things mentioned above such as phrases aren't exactly vulgar (though I find them a bit glib).
I think naff is usually something to me. It's often tacky.
Thinking here of joke cushion covers and aprons, mini-me stuffed toys, joke salt and pepper sets, electric photo frames that constantly scroll and yes to.... decorated wheelie bins and elf on a shelf.

merlotgran

People who say, ‘Oh! 100%’ (usually twice) just because they happen to agree with you. 🤔

I hate it when people say 110% or any number which is not 100! it doesn't make sense!

When in my twenties I made matching dresses for myself and 2 toddler daughters plus a tie for my husband! What was I thinking?? The fabric was a cheap job lot, but we only wore them together once!

MaizieD

Houses lit up worse than Blackpool illuminations at Christmas. Blow up Santas.

Just wondering where the words 'settee' and 'serviette' came from and why Nancy Mitford should have regarded them with such horror that it persists for decades...

Settee was originally a settle. Something like a wooden Church pew but with a high back. Rich people would have elaborately carved ones, poorer people's would be plainer.
I suppose as upholstered seating developed the word persisted but changed slightly.

Everything that GSM said, and particularly (combining two of her choices) brides whose arms and backs covered in tattoos!

I am just shattered by the snobbery shown on here.

Germanshepherdsmum

You’ve described half the population of my Town 😂

I agree with NanKate and BlueBell - I'm not to keen on matching pyjamas and jumpers for the
family plus dog especially on the annual Christmas card with the round robin .

My mother once bought us matching jumpers .
I had to drive miles away to donate them to a charity shop as my teenage daughters went berserk .
And she saw them , but thought that it was a coincidence !