To think outdoor Christmas lights shouldn't come with flash mode?

A lot of people are thick and arrogant though. And potentially violent. I'm not going to tell our drug dealers family to turn off their tacky flashing lights as I'll get a brick through my window.

I fail to see why any person would need to be told/asked to turn off their flashing lights. Isn't it common sense that they may cause a nuisance to other people.

I put it on a par with all night parties, early Sunday morning building work, excessively revving up cars/motorbikes, etc. Just ignorant attention seeking tossers who don't care about anyone else but themselves.

The kind who'd probably punch you if you respectfully asked them to turn them off or be quieter etc.

I hate Flash mode in or out. Epileptic here so it's genuinely a real issue, not just a preference. They make me feel really unwell.

Your tree sounds shite to me (orange slices?) ....but if it's inside your own house not affecting me what do.i care?

Btw si e of us are allergic to real trees

My mum spoke to her neighbours about their flashing lights as she is prone to migraines. Fortunately they were reasonable and turned the flashing off.

But if you have arseholes for neighbours...or people who claim they can't change them...

Tacky and awful. And also totally pointless because if you are inside your house you can't see the dreadful flashing, you are just supplying an unwanted display to your neighbours.

LOOK AT ME!!! I'M SO CHRISTMASSY!!!

No, you're an antisocial twat.

I would love a ban on flashing lights both indoor and out, multi coloured lights, blue lights...in fact any lights that are not white or even better warm white.

Ditto glittery tat that people put on their giant fake trees.

and
Don't.
Get.
Me.
Started.
On.
Tinsel.

What's wrong with a 5ft real tree, a little string of warm white lights, a few handmade paper decorations, some orange slices and ribbons?

Yes I'm a Tree Snob. Come at me 😂

Yes probably. Flashing Christmas lights are like loud music late at night or clouds of weed smoke or screaming arguments spilling out of the house....strong indicators that the occupants are anti social twats of the highest order who may well deck you if you asked politely for them to stop

Our neighbours across from us have the flashing blue ones all over the front of their house. I’m on edge all of December and into the new year, the blue flashing triggers my fight or flight nosey neighbour response because I think somethings happened, “oh oh, it’s all kicking off out there, I wonder what’s happened…….oh fuck, tricked again, it’s just their sodding Christmas lights!”

I was in bed the other night, around midnight, and I saw blue and red flashing, thinking it was emergency services I poked my head through the (blackout) curtains and it was the Christmas lights over the road 🙄 would love a blackout blind against the window to keep all the light out but the cat always ruins them because she’s a nosy cow (like me 😂) and always forces herself behind them
I think someone might have mentioned it or they realised it looks like police have swarmed their house because they’re on static mode now…

Your neighbours may be afraid to say something to you. Presumably people who are not neighbours drive or walk past your house, and they may be affected. Several commentators have asked why you like the flashing lights so much since you can't see them in the house (though maybe you don't use blinds or curtains), and I'm curious as well.

I've never heard of that. I have chronic dizziness (labrynthitis that permanently destroyed balance function in one inner ear) but am super sensitive to flashing or flickering lights. Things like some fluorescent strip lighting, old style computer monitors (before they became flat screens) and flashing/flickering lights make me feel awful within seconds. I also struggle with things like driving past sunlight through trees or railings where it creates flickering. There's a few shops I can't go in because of old flickering fluorescent tube lights. But I'd definitely avoid ships with flashing christmas lights too.

100% with you on this. Due to a TBI my brain can't cope with the flashing and I struggle to walk past them. Neighbours opposite did change theirs when requested last year as I work from home, and they were constantly at the edge of my eyesight.

I hate flashing lights!
I would happily ban all flashing outdoor lights and music and those moving projector things!
Call me a grinch, I don't care but I would be so annoyed if I lived next door to a "Christmas house" 😂

Well they're just attention seekers. After all, when they're in their own house, they can't see them, so they're obviously for the "benefit" of other people!! We've a demented neighbour opposite who puts them up every year, and leaves them switched on 24-7 - what's even more demented is that she's barely ever there - she's away 4/5 nights per week and just leaves them on. She's no children at home either, so it's not as if she does it for her children's sake. She's just a demented attention seeker (in others ways too!). One day I'll go over with some wire cutters!

I totally agree. Static should be the default mode. Flashing lights are awful and the 'cycling through' mode is the absolute worst.

Do you sit with the curtains/blinds open all night so you can see them, if not then what's the point of having them?

Someone near me has obliterated half the front of their house covering the windows with a giant inflatable Bart Simpson. I am not exagertating. The other half they have added a snowflake projector.

I just can't figure out why someone would think this is a good idea. I am hoping the local thuggery take it out.

Take over some mince pies / bottle of wine and ask nicely for the flashing mode to be switched if or off at least off at your bedtime time they may not be nice people but you never know if you don’t ask you don’t get

curtains over the blinds

It drives me mad.

How do they not notice?!

Our neighbour has them all year round too, then extra for Christmas. It lights the whole house up, flashing, hanging colour. Drives me mad.
Also hate the blue ones that flash, forever making me panic and think I need to pull over for an emergency vehicle when I'm driving.

I am wondering the same thing. My neighbour with the flashing lights till 2 am has all his curtains shut in the evenings leading me to believe that he puts the lights up for my benefit.

If you can't talk to the neighbours, have you considered using a scissors (on the lights!). 🤣

I don't understand the I like them so I'll pur them up argument. If you like them that much surely you would put them inside your house where you can actually see them. Why put them outside where you can't see them but all your neighbours who probably don't like them can see them?