Massive family row about flashing lights. IANBU.

[PreMadonna]

Outdoors tree.

I cannot abide a flashing light. Absolutely loathe them. They give me rage.

Every single bloody arsing time I leave the house some fucker changes the lights from static to flashing.

I have lost my rag and threatened to cancel Christmas if anyone puts the bastard lights onto flash again.

The discussion got quite heated. Nobody is talking to anyone else.

IANBU am I?

lol. do you also dictate what channels can be watched on television when you're not there?

YABVU to deny the rest of the family their moments of flashing lights.

You are absolutely right.

Static white, or subtly twinkly white are the only approved lights in my house.
I am not a big fan of multi-coloured ones, but can live with them if needs must.

Flashing things however, and those hideous blue strings of garish crap, have no place in a Christmas display.

Lol at "emergency services blue". V popular this year in my 'hood.

I'd cut the plug off.

I dont like flashing lights, but white lights are not Christmas-ey.

Can't stand flashing lights. Oddly, emergency service lights don't bother me (unless it's coming for me!) but I have an irrational aversion to flashing lights. I threatened to leave our local restaurant last week unless they changed them to static. It's not that I just don't like them - they really do something to me and make me feel a bit panicky. I used to have the same problem with strobe lights in a nightclub (in my younger days) and had to stop still on the dance floor until they stopped.

Do I have a 'condition'?!!

yanbu all lights nowadays come with a million flash options, it's disgraceful. Only the slow option is allowed here.

As an aside a neighbour has covered the tree in the most whiteyest white lights and white lights round the window. Wtf? it burns our eyeballs every time we go past.

YANBU!

Flickering lights are the work of the devil.

Nuff said.

Yanbu in the strongest possible terms. I hate flashing lights and I hate coloured ones (soft white on constant only 'naice' ones imo). I get migraines very easily and triggered a horrible headache trying to get our new outdoor (battery operated) lights onto the non-flashing setting. (It took ages.)
It seems to me that the lights your h bought need to have a little 'accident' only to be replaced by some nice soft white (non flashing) lights from John Lewis or similar :-)

YANBU. Static or very gently twinkling white only.

Blue flashing lights - only for emergency services.

YANBU. That is all.

YANBU.

I cannot believe that anyone could disagree with this... ;-)

at Worra

How can a family fall out and not speak because of flashing lights?

I don't like flashing. ..I have turned mine to half fade in/out and the other half fade in/out. It's so hypnotic ...I get nothing done when they're on!

Yadnbu flashing lights are an abomination.

I did used to have very nice white lights on my Christmas tree which had different settings and one was a lovely slow fade on/off, very restful.....then they broke and DbastardH took it upon himself to replace them with lights that not only flash but flash in time to the fucking tinny music they also play luckily there's a static setting, he is no longer allowed to be responsible for purchasing lights!

If the rest of the family want flashing lights, they can go in their bedrooms.

As these lights are outside, then seriously, how much time are the family actually going to spend looking at the lights?

And with people getting real problems from flashing lights, how will the rest of the family know if their lights have caused a problem? If they aren't outside looking at the lights?

YANBU flashing lights give me optical problems and headaches. They also give my friend seizures.

YADNBU.

Cut them through the middle of the wire after everyone else has gone to bed. Blame the local riff raff. Replace with non-flashing ones.

(This actually happened to our whole street one year - some b***d cut through 10 or more sets of outdoor lights including my old fashioned gentle off-white, non-flashing, ancient lovely lights. I had to 'upgrade' to those bluey white horrible LED ones )