Why is "Nice" the Adjective of Choice for Pretentious People?

[Bozo Erectus]

(pardon if this doesn't make a lot of sense; it's early in the morning for me )

Makes sense to me, but then Im caffeine deprived at the moment. I'll check back when my caffeine levels are back to normal.

Its true that certain groups of people get locked into using certain words. Physicists and mathematicians always call mathematical equations 'elegant'. Why not 'hot'?

 

[Leonel]

Pardon me while I enjoy this nice serving of vegetable juice while I look down upon the politics of the lower class in disgust.

There needs to be a snob smily.

 

[JollyRoger]

excessive adjectivery is the hallmark of new money wannabes.

excessive, new, money, smug. I wonder if 40% counts as excessive adjectivery.

 

[Jawz II]

I haven't noticed it, but it dosen't make you crazy.

 

[Desmond Hawkins]

We know what it's like to be on the recieving end...


I don't really notice what Fifty it talking about. I use the word nice to describe things, but it's just as interchangable as any other completmentary adjective, it's pure chance whether I call it nice, good, tasty, or whatever comes to mind.

I certainly do, especially with the condo boom and the associated yuppies flowing into Calgary right now. Now don't get me wrong, I like brand new big shiny buildings, but the pretentiousness of the people moving into "Nova", "Luna", "Sasso", "Vetro", and *shudder* "Chocolate" is too much to bear. The all buy the "nice" organic pasta sold for 8 times the price at yuppie chow grocers like Sunterra, and "nice" fatty lattes from the Starbucks.

 

[Fifty]

excessive, new, money, smug. I wonder if 40% counts as excessive adjectivery.

That was the friggen point!

 

[Fifty]

"nice" fatty lattes from the Starbucks.

Its funny, over here (Seattle area) Starbucks has been completely uncool for like 5 years. Now all the resident morons that were all Starbucks fanatics before it got overdone in the Seattle area are into really "local" places that are all free trade and organic and play stupid music and whatnot.

 

[Mark1031]

This is a nice little thread although I detect a hint of bitterness and a strong undertone of class jealousy on the finish.

 

[Fifty]

This is a nice little thread although I detect a hint of bitterness and a strong undertone of class jealousy on the finish.

That was a nice joke but it was rather stale on the nose because it was already done by someone else in the thread!

 

[Desmond Hawkins]

Its funny, over here (Seattle area) Starbucks has been completely uncool for like 5 years. Now all the resident morons that were all Starbucks fanatics before it got overdone in the Seattle area are into really "local" places that are all free trade and organic and play stupid music and whatnot.

Don't get me started on hip, fair trade, local places! The portions are 2/3 the size, but the price is 50% higher. I swear, someone is making a massive profit off of that somewhere. When I say I want an extra large black coffee, I expect it to be big and under 3 dollars.

 

[JollyRoger]

That was the friggen point!

And it was nicely made.

 

[Mark1031]

That was a nice joke but it was rather stale on the nose because it was already done by someone else in the thread!

OOPs I guess I should read the thread before posting. But I'm too good and important for that. I must get back to this nice little Cab I found from a very small and exclusive vineyard.

 

[Sofista]

excessive adjectivery is the hallmark of new money wannabes.

Adjectivery! Niiice word to use whenever I want to go polisyllabic!

"Nice, nice, very nice,
nice, nice, very nice,
nice, nice, very nice
such very different people in the same device."

 

[Lockesdonkey]

I think they use "nice" so that they have the perfect adjective for the wine that went with their meal of human liver and beans...

 

[The Yankee]

You're just all jealous communists towards such high class snobs.

I agree. Time to liberate a case of Gewürztraminer. For the discriminating OT proletariat, of course.

I like brand new big shiny buildings, but the pretentiousness of the people moving into "Nova", "Luna", "Sasso", "Vetro", and *shudder* "Chocolate" is too much to bear.

I wish I could live in chocolate...

That'd be something to get smug about.

Nice is also a word to describe a person you think is an idiot, but don't want to express it publicly. "She's.....nice...."

 

[fishlore]

When person A calls person B pretentious, by definition, doesn't that mean that person A is pretentious themselves? Sort of like the pot calling the kettle black? I think so anyway.

 

[Desmond Hawkins]

I wish I could live in chocolate...

Oh, I am sure it is a great quality of life. Funny thing about Chocolate is that it is just blue and silver glass and steel.

 

[Cheezy the Wiz]

I certainly do, especially with the condo boom and the associated yuppies flowing into Calgary right now. Now don't get me wrong, I like brand new big shiny buildings, but the pretentiousness of the people moving into "Nova", "Luna", "Sasso", "Vetro", and *shudder* "Chocolate" is too much to bear. The all buy the "nice" organic pasta sold for 8 times the price at yuppie chow grocers like Sunterra, and "nice" fatty lattes from the Starbucks.

Oh, we have a lot of hoity-toity upper class yuppies encroaching from D.C., so we're started getting those all-organic food stores and crap as well (personally I don't understand how food - other than twinkies, that is - can be non-organic, that's like saying you're going to buy a deadly rifle). As far as their money goes, they can spend it all they want on their cappucinos and whole-grain rotini, it's not my money.

But as for big shiny buildings, I hate them. If I had it my way our county would go back to the rural tobacco country it was fifteen, twenty years ago, rather than this suburban hellhole we now call home.

 

[Tomoyo]

Quoth my tenth grade English teacher, "If someone sets you on a blind date and says (s)he's nice-- be afraid. Be very afraid."