Xmas lights outside people's houses

I blame The Range.

There should be a by-law against it !

I've lived in Canada for twelve-years now, having been born, raised and lived in England until I was 29.

I see the Christmas lights and inflatible Snowmen and santas, then more lights, now the yucky coloured LEDs ... what a flipping waste of electricity !!!

I think its wonderful.

Worried about global warming?

Wear a coat indoors.

Switch you Naims off too!

Is that your house?

Sister LOVES fairy lights

xx

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Originally posted by Paper Plane:
They've started here in my village with a vengance. Those appalling, tacky santas, snowmen and all the other cr*p wasting the earth's resources on their pointless and vulgar displays.

I can take a few twinkly lights, even those "icicle" ones but not this tasteless tat. There must be some bye-law that can get them banned surely.

steve

Stop being a grinch ...

They're not to my taste but if they make people happy then what's the harm? It's only for 4 or 5 weeks.

Eloise

I love Christmas and think the houses are wonderful when adorned with lights. It's clichéd to be cynical at Christmas, as the world's greatest songwriter once sung.

I think Tony's house looks superb. Though his neighbour's ditto sign is a bit of a cop out.

THere is only one set of tree and lights that should be removed and that is the one outside 10 Downing Street. The house should be draped in black cloth to signify the deep mourning the tenant should be in for bankrupting the country.

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The house should be draped in black cloth to signify the deep mourning the tenant should be in for bankrupting the country

Derek

I think your common sense has been affected by too much tea. Methinks Gordon is picking upthe pieces of excessive deregulations and risk taking by others. Which you know as well as I do. More lights for Horndean!!! The lights in my road go up this weekend - pop round for a mince pie!

Nigel

After twelve years it is still someone else's fault?

Come on! You can stretch blame back perhaps as far as one election before, but not twelve years! Myself I blame Mr. T B Liar, and who was Mr. Liar's chancellor? Mr. Bottle It Brown! The man has never stood for anything like integrity or prudence, and has never even been subjected to the right of passage at a General Election as leader of his party.

He would not be PM today if he had had the guts to go to the country after assuming the leadership of the Labour Party, which Mr. Straw has mentioned from the position of a leading Labour Politician …

Role on the General election and let's make the current New Labour Party as extinct as the Dinosaurs. I want a proper Socialist alternative, not this bloody shower!

I blame it all on Harold Wilson and the 1967 Sterling devaluation myself ... Not ...

ATB from George

Commie! :-)

You will rue the day Cameron gets in.

I love lights on houses to get back to the hijacked thread!

Jim

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I want a proper Socialist alternative, not this bloody shower!

Yes yes yes!

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You will rue the day Cameron gets in.

NoNoNo!

I love lights on houses to get back to the hijacked thread
Aw, If we must

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Originally posted by Exiled Highlander:
Commie! :-)

You will rue the day Cameron gets in.

I love lights on houses to get back to the hijacked thread!

Jim

I want the Lib-dems to have a crack at the whip!

I have absolutely zero faith in the current Tory line-up unless they can be moderated with common sense. The Party should never have disposed of William Hague. I want a hung Parliament made of a Conservative minority government forced to listen to sense from the Lib-dems.

But then the Lib-dems are actually properly leftish, rather than the pathetic [do anything to get into or stay in power regardless of the damage to the greater interest of the country] Champaigne Socialists that pass for the current cabinet.

ATB from George

Politics aside,
Yes, in extreme, they are tacky.
But, its just for the kids & I'd guess that most who moan about exterior xmas lighting don't have any kids/or they're grown up.
There is SO much cynicism & reality that kids and parents have to deal with these days, that a bit of imagination/wonderment/excitement for a couple of weeks each year doesn't do much harm, does it?
Matt.

While agree on grounds of 'taste' (ie some are completely tasteless) I do enjoy the fact that it is actually still allowed to happen in this country - plenty of schools / public buildings have ruined the spirit of 'Christmas' by banning a load of stuff and now it's just happy holidays.
What would you do if they did actually ban them altogether - oh how pc that would be.
I also wonder just how long it will be before christmas trees are banned on H&S grounds, what with all that eckletricty 'n' stuff, lights, snow, fine glass ornaments - one could do serious harm to oneself being even close to something like that.
As for power wastage - the words life and get come to mind.

Bah, humbug!

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the fact that it is actually still allowed to happen in this country

Right on Steve, but N.I.M.B.Y. thanks.

For me as a stargazer the additional light pollution is very annoying .

Manfred

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I want a proper Socialist alternative, not this bloody shower!

"Or I'll sthcweam and sthceam until I'm sthick..."

OK....I'm biased, I could never stop my wife buying Xmas lights when we were in the US...and to be honest it brightened up a dull winters evening and I missed them when they came down.

Our house and then the cul de sac we lived on respectively.


Environmental vandalism or just some festive cheer?

Cheers

Jim

Why does it not look wrong when there is snow about?
To be honest they are not too OTT.

The most beautiful Christmas illumination is the clear winter sky with the impressive constellations Orion, Gemini, Taurus and so on. A pair of binoculars will help to see it even better.
Compared to the beauty of the universe any artifical light is crap and part of the environmental pollution.

Manfred

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Originally posted by garyi:
I blame The Range.

To be fair , they haven't had much to do since Bruce Hornsby went solo .

At least the fairy & Christmas lights aren't on all year and kids love them. The Santa half in the chimney does it for me.

Could be worse, Naim could produce valve amps, which would remove the need for radiators in the listening room