To think blue lights are NOT Christmassy (light-hearted)

[shovetheholly]

I have an irrational and completely unreasonable hatred of blue Christmas lights.

They look HORRIBLE! So cold, and so artificial. They remind me of being in an industrial freezer. Where there is possibly half a dead cow and a rampant serial killer.

Why would someone do this? WHY WHY WHY?

There are some flashing on a house on the A6. It looks like an accident scene as you approach.

Proper festive.

Aw, like a little fairy police cordon on you xmas tree :-D

I love the colour blue AND blue lights. Even love the fact that most of my gadgets have blue lights.
Anything but firelight and candlelight is artificial, anyway. The lights on our family tree (early 50s ) were little bells with fairytale pics and were a variety of colours including blue.
I think blue lights, especially in combination with white, look pure.

blue is my favourite colour but I hate blue Christmas lights with a passion!! So cold looking and the flashing ones are even worse. Those bright white LED ones are pretty cold too but better than blue. Warm white or coloured LEDs and traditional fairy lights are the most festive for me - makes you feel warm, fuzzy and festive. I also like the static and twinkly ones but the brain jarring manic flash you get on so many do my head in (especially when they belong to someone else but the inside of my house is like some sort of flippin rave)

video of blue swirly lights a few houses up the road from me. I'm glad I'm not living right opposite it.

i love my blue lights so there

I loathe them. Blue lights are for the emergency services.

DSis (who lives in much more cosmopolitan parts says Jewish families use blue lights for Hanukkah)

Not really very Jewish round here, but loads of blue, more than any other colour. I'm a multicoloured lights old fart gal, myself.

Favourite lights are warm white, I don't mind icy blue but definitely not actual emergency-service-blue.

I hate the multifunction lights, where the first function is always a flashing one. We have our lights on a timer, but as soon as I get in I have to dash into the garage to flick through the selections (which mysteriously take more presses than the sequence of 8 routines printed on the plug suggest) whilst one of the DDs stands outside to tell me when the lights are just plain on and not doing stupid twinkles. If all else fails I don't mind the slow fade-on-fade-off. I would replace them but the cheapest lights are always the multi-function doo-dahs. And the house is wide so we need a long string or 2 of them.

My lights are multi function and on a timer and they stay on whatever setting I leave them on (Steady)

My neighbours have decorated the entire outside of their house in blue flashing lights, It's bloody horrible. You can't walk in to my hall, kitchen or bathroom without being visually assaulted or thinking a major incident is taking place outside. You can even see them with the blinds closed, sadly I don't have anything to cover the glass on the front door.

We all suffer from migraines so are not enjoying the experience. I can't understand how they can stand it, they must see it too. Or, maybe as my ds has suggested they are trying to kill anyone with epilepsy who lives in the area.

Misskelly, do they give you physical pain at the back of your eyeballs? My neighbours ones do, its like when you accidentally look at the sun!

Yes, and it is bothering everyone else, every so often I can hear cries of "my eyes" every time someone steps in the hallway. I think it wouldn't seem so bad if the lights weren't set at constant flashing mode. For Christmas lights they are really aggressive, lol.

I have cheap lights with a button to press - think if I had some with a dial to select the function I'd be OK!