Outdoor xmass lights

[Blue_SV650S]

I mean WHY???

They are everywhere now, clearly it is keeping up/one upping the Jones'!?!?!!?!?


What is your take on OUTDOOR lights??
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[Misc]

Err, maybe kids like them.

[Stelmer]

It gets worse....the USA took it one step too far:


Carson Williams from Mason, Ohio did this in 2005....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmgf60CI_ks

Christmas lights sequenced to Wizards Of Winter by the Trans Siberian Orchestra.

Since then, it's been copied and copied everywhere as youtube has the videos.


I say it's a waste of Electricity. Maybe in parts of the USA that gets lots of snow it looks pretty.

Over here it looks dull and boring.

[Ste]

People putting large amounts of lights and other crap on their houses is daft, but if people want to spend lots of money on electricity then that's up them.

What is stupid and wrong is the way all town centre have lots of lights that are on 24/7 from around the start of december.

[Chris750]

The house across the road from me is really over the top. The whole house is covered plus loads of illuminated objects all over the front garden. Its a eye sore but each to their own.

[Charlie]

Most of it is a waste. Although I have to say certain types done tastefully look good. Like the golden looking incandescent bulbs round 1 tree.

Although most of it is a waste of electricity.
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[Flip]

Out door lights are tacky, I might do a drive by photographing of the tasteless crap in my area and post up.

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[Paivi]

Patterns and lit Santas etc look tacky, but I quite like tasteful strings of light, e.g., around the front door or wrapped around a tree in the garden. Even then, only from Xmas eve onwards, not earlier.
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[Vin]

I like them....it means I know where the chavs live

[Flip]

[Vin]

I hadn't thought through why I need to know where chavs live
On reflection I can't think of any reason.....so a bit of a fail really

[t121anf]

we have some simple tasteful outdoor lights.

cheap as chips to run bieng led. (so much so my elec usage is barely more in december than it is in november)

[Vin]

Nothing wrong with a few lights......

[Drew]

[oldpink]

everyone is up in arms about global warming
how much leccy is wasted in the world with stupid xmas lighting on lots of homes and most main streets up & down the country
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[Ariel Badger]

We light our cities and the light from them destroys our vision of the night sky.
Our earthly imitation of nature kills that which it is supposed to glorify. Give me a clear sky over a billion neon bulbs any-day.
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[Dragonfly]

My brother is a massice fan of outside xmas lights. He done up my parents so much so they where embarassed as people where driving to the house to see it. It was apparently for my little sister but not really as he loves christmas and likes to show off. He has been allowed to do it on my parents new house which is smaller this year but not to the extent he was as most of it would be stolen as its in a badish area. I wouldnt do it, I have lights on my banister,tree and round the conservatory door and thats the height of lights for me I dont need to pay for that. And I think it loks tacky covering a house. There area a few I seen on youtube that look half decent.
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[Stelmer]

There is a house in Fulford, York that puts clear decorations up. They do look more tasteful being clear and not multicolored.


As for global warming......

Anyone seen the new lights on the M1 J27-24, A1 J38, M62 J29-30 and M62 J29-25?

Apart from the A1, these new lights run 600w lamps each. The old lights were 400w or 180w on the A1.

Soon you'll be able to grow weed by the motorway

One mile of these new motorway lights on a newly widened dual four lane motorway, uses more energy in one hour than 4 average UK households over the whole day.

That's just motorways. Similar wastage happens everywhere else in the name of safety.

Obviously us normal members of public are the scapegoat in the energy efficiency greenhouse gas argument.

[lostboy]

The big question is how does a bloke who who claims sickness benefits cos he has a bad back 363 days of the year manage to put these up then take them down again. This is one of the more tasteful arrangements I have seen this year.
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[lostboy]

ste didn't say I hadn't pulled the image off google was using it as an example I apologise if that was the impression I gave
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[Ariel Badger]

Where the hell do those chimps keep all that carp for the other 11 months of the year?
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