LED Christmas lights - not very cheery are they?

Emp_Fab

Load of old bollocks.... unless you’ve got kids.  There will be no tree or deccies in chez Emperor_Scroogeulous this year.  Bah humbug!

RandallFlagg

My wife sorts out the Christmas decorations and we have lights inside and out. As I came home Tuesday night after my wife had spent the day putting the decs up, I looked up and there was a queue of commercial jets lining up in the sky a couple of miles apart preparing to land in our close. “That's odd” I thought, but all became clear as I entered the close and panicked as I thought I was on a major airport runway, but quickly realised that it was our house that was now festooned with enough lights to resemble Heathrows westerly runway. FFS.

chillidoggy

BRISTOL86 said:

Give me a nice warm clear light anyday (cat sold separately)




Old style lights with the pointy flower shaped plastic collars were the bomb however and evoke a massive sense of nostalgia

Looking at that, I’d be having a bit of a sniff around the tree just to make sure.

BRISTOL86

chillidoggy said:

BRISTOL86 said:

Give me a nice warm clear light anyday (cat sold separately)




Old style lights with the pointy flower shaped plastic collars were the bomb however and evoke a massive sense of nostalgia

Looking at that, I’d be having a bit of a sniff around the tree just to make sure.

Haha! Luckily he doesn’t do that!!

Kilgore

I decorate my tree with the pale, flickering souls of the unbelievers.

Corvus

Moominpapa

RandallFlagg said:

My wife sorts out the Christmas decorations and we have lights inside and out. As I came home Tuesday night after my wife had spent the day putting the decs up, I looked up and there was a queue of commercial jets lining up in the sky a couple of miles apart preparing to land in our close. “That's odd” I thought, but all became clear as I entered the close and panicked as I thought I was on a major airport runway, but quickly realised that it was our house that was now festooned with enough lights to resemble Heathrows westerly runway. FFS.

I hope she had a nice pot of stew bubbling on the stove while she was putting up the lights.

Bridgehouse

Moominpapa said:

RandallFlagg said:

My wife sorts out the Christmas decorations and we have lights inside and out. As I came home Tuesday night after my wife had spent the day putting the decs up, I looked up and there was a queue of commercial jets lining up in the sky a couple of miles apart preparing to land in our close. “That's odd” I thought, but all became clear as I entered the close and panicked as I thought I was on a major airport runway, but quickly realised that it was our house that was now festooned with enough lights to resemble Heathrows westerly runway. FFS.

I hope she had a nice pot of stew bubbling on the stove while she was putting up the lights.

Turkey stew, no doubt..

randella

What @ICBM says.  I have two kinds, warm white ones (which look no different from the old filament ones) for the tree which are a little less bright, and cool white ones for outside for a bit of light around the edge of the drive.

Outside being somewhere you couldn't put those old ones.

The crucial thing about both sets is that they work, even having been stuffed in a carrier bag the other 49 weeks of the year.

randella

The other thing is they seem to have wised up with the control unit thingy - personal taste but I prefer them not flashing.  I bought a new set for outdoors this year (moved house in the summer and now have a hedge and everything!) and they finally default to 'solid on' instead of a random setting somewhere in the middle of 23 different patterns.

RandallFlagg

Bridgehouse said:

Moominpapa said:

RandallFlagg said:

My wife sorts out the Christmas decorations and we have lights inside and out. As I came home Tuesday night after my wife had spent the day putting the decs up, I looked up and there was a queue of commercial jets lining up in the sky a couple of miles apart preparing to land in our close. “That's odd” I thought, but all became clear as I entered the close and panicked as I thought I was on a major airport runway, but quickly realised that it was our house that was now festooned with enough lights to resemble Heathrows westerly runway. FFS.

I hope she had a nice pot of stew bubbling on the stove while she was putting up the lights.

Turkey stew, no doubt..

you bunch of dumplings

Myranda

I guess Rocker would prefer an all valve tree with tonewood baubles... Powered by an unobtanium plated power lead 

axisus

Rocker said:

Ah yes @axisus, LEDs are bright, colourful, can flash.... You left out the bit where they can cut the eyes out of your head with glare

Actually we have a TV to watch in our house so we don't spend the evening looking at the Xmas tree.

Ravenous

Myranda said:

Powered by an unobtanium plated power lead 

I'd do a Mark Watney and power them year-round off a radioisotope thermoelectric generator.

(I suspect I just put myself on some sort of watch list. Again.)

fields5069

We were much happier during the war.

The hundred years war.

RandallFlagg

Myranda said:

I guess Rocker would prefer an all valve tree with tonewood baubles... Powered by an unobtanium plated power lead 

Stick a Klon in front of it to give haunting flicker

57Deluxe

Oh yes one of my Hobby Horses!

Used to be Xmas lights were colourful and subtle and hugely exciting to a child in the early 60s when everything was still black and grey from the war; coal fires; no Sunday colour Supplements; cars were grey/beige/black/pea green or if you lucky pale blue; no colour telly; fluorescent dye hadn't been invented... As such Christmas seemed magical!

Only the very wealthy had outside lights and these were mostly those painted light bulbs or were a very charming golden glow that gave an air of romantic mysticsm - like the Lantern in the Narnia wood!

Nowadays it is all about - LOOK AT ME!!  - - SEE ALL MY MEGA FUCK-OFF LIGHTS!! --  HAVE OVER 10,000 LIGHTS ON MY HOUSE - MORE THAN YOURS!!!!  - - I AM THE MOST CHRISTMASSY CUNT IN THE AREA - - I WIN!!!! I AM SO FESTIVE AND FUN-FILLED...

BRISTOL86

57Deluxe said:

Nowadays it is all about - LOOK AT ME!!  - - SEEM ALL MY MEGA FUCK-OFF LIGHTS!! --  HAVE OVER 10,000 LIGHTS ON MY HOUSE - MORE THAN YOURS!!!!  - - I AM THE MOST CHRISTMASSY CUNT IN THE AREA - - I WIN!!!! I AM SO FESTIVE AND FUN-FILLED...

So much wis. All the nicest outdoor decorations on our street are the simplest. None of this twinkling 10,000 a minute in 75 different colour bollocks. 

Phil_aka_Pip

I think you ought to obtain planning permission to put lights outside your house, the cost of application would be 1 year's council tax, and if granted, the fee for putting them up would be another year's council tax on top of what you paid for the application. If you're willing to deface the environment the least you can do is pay into the public coffers for the right to do so. (And if you were caught doing it without planning permission, the automatic fine would be 3 year's council tax)

RandallFlagg

57Deluxe said:

 I AM THE MOST CHRISTMASSY CUNT IN THE AREA - - I WIN!!!!

LOL!