What do you think is Naff?

What is rainbow bridge? What are fur babies?

VioletSky

I only judge people by their rubbish behaviour towards others

We all judge others VioletSky, it’s human nature. Even your perception of what is rubbish behaviour will not be someone else’s.

I only judge people by their rubbish behaviour towards others

VS Disliking certain fashions in make-up or dress has got absolutely nothing to do with making any judgements about the people wearing them.

It is sad toknow that you do.

Judging people by appearance

Definitely naff

Sucker fish lips, drawn on caterpillar eyebrows and fake fat arse cheeks, what's that all about!

OP did ask.

Norah

RosiesMaw

Houses done up like Blackpool illuminations, flashing lights, coloured lights , flashing coloured lights.
Inflatable Santas I just take as ironic.

Do drop round Blackpool in the Fens. My elf has seemingly done up one million white lights. The lights in his rather tacky inflatables are a multitude of colours. Happy old man with happy grandchildren.

I make an exception of course for displays in aid of charity as happens in a nearby town.

LovelyLady

For me it’s Tattoos that are definitely naff, cheap looking and lacking elegance. Tattoos are a complete turnoff. I listen to the arguments and the stories why folk get them, no no no tattoos please.
If a shop assistant has them, I go to the other cashier.

I dislike tattoos too, but going to another shop cashier?
Seems rather extreme.

RosiesMaw

Houses done up like Blackpool illuminations, flashing lights, coloured lights , flashing coloured lights.
Inflatable Santas I just take as ironic.

Do drop round Blackpool in the Fens. My elf has seemingly done up one million white lights. The lights in his rather tacky inflatables are a multitude of colours. Happy old man with happy grandchildren.

I agree about false eye lashes, those talon like nails and ‘making memories’

A word of support for the cheeky elves. They’re causing chaos at our vet’s surgery, the daily reports of their antics are making me smile. They’re also running riot in my grandchildren’s homes. The children are thrilled

I quite like over the top Christmas decorations .
But my neighbour and I both suffer from migraine ( yesterday I had a real humdinger as my American friends say ) and our neighbour opposite has lights which strobe .
Negotiating with him over anything is so difficult .
He is horrendous to his immediate neighbour .

Houses done up like Blackpool illuminations, flashing lights, coloured lights , flashing coloured lights.
Inflatable Santas I just take as ironic.

Oh god yes.... "Rainbow Bridge" 🤢

Dogs dressed in any type of human style clothing, I don't mind a doggie coat, but draw the line at Tutu , Halloween and Christmas costumes.

For me it’s Tattoos that are definitely naff, cheap looking and lacking elegance. Tattoos are a complete turnoff. I listen to the arguments and the stories why folk get them, no no no tattoos please.
If a shop assistant has them, I go to the other cashier.

Fur babies and rainbow bridge

This is an interesting thread . I always thought naff was poor taste or style but many on here seem to associate it with being common or chavy.
Eg
Photos of Family’s in matching Christmas pjs are naff .
Men on holiday wearing football shirts, exposing a huge beer belly are chavy .
Maybe there’s a fine line 🤷‍♀️

The over long nails - FASCINATING ! How do these people function in the real world ? ( You know what I’m talking about .)

We don't use that phrase here, so I had to look it up. 'Lacking in style and good taste' says Miriam Webster.

But looking at some of the replies here, does it mean thinking something is classy when it isn't? For instance, it seems over now, but for a year or two, every young lady was going around in Hunter boots even when there was no chance of encountering mud or rain.

When I was young it was ‘lavatory’ both at home and at school. I tend to say ‘loo’ now.

Body modification are a type of expression , but fashions age . The perm I wanted so much when young was thankfully no a permanent feature. I looked like I’d been in a wind tunnel. Also the magenta lipstick, again wiped off. It’s nice to experience something just not the expensive body modification that are around now . Ps I do like to look at the tattoos, lots of life stories.

Fake grey/white hair.

I forgot tattoos.
All of them.

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 in daily use amongst my grandmother's generation in Scotland, "sofa" being considered by them to be lah-di-dah, and couch, vulgar" Did an expression such as "set thee there" for "sit down" morph into the piece of furniture you sat on? Anyone know? Yes, Chambers' Dictionary, but it is upstairs and I down, and I am too lazy to go and fetch said dictionary

Serviette is something that serves a purpose, I imagine the word does exist in French, although it may at one time have meant a cloth you wiped your bottom with rather than your mouth!

My mother used it in preference to napkin, as to her a napkin was the formal term for the homely article called a nappy in my childhood, whereas my great aunt happily distinguished between table napkins and babies' napkins and never spoke of a nappy for the last-name kind of napkin.

I doubt Nancy Mitford was solely responsible for the dislike of words like serviette - I think all Edwardians who considered themselves upper middle class scorned them.

And of course, well-educated Edwardians did tend to scorn Scottish, Yorkshire or , Tyneside or Scouse expressions, didn't they, and the farther away you got from London, the more common, in the sense of usual, these words became.