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?

I'm with you Soup, I haven't used my blue icicles in the window forcthe last couple of years, might go and get them down.

Blue and white icicles are what I put up with the red and white ones last year and thought "WTF have I done?!"

I love those lights Lying, we have a set kicking about somewhere. DH hates them, he says they're tacky and remind him of a box of quality street.

Lol at silenceoftheprams

Blue lights are EVIL. And bollocks are they meant to represent snow and ice, they're meant to look like candles.

I used to really hate colourful lights too, but I last year I rewatched The Snowman and liked the colourful lights on their tree. So I feel they have come round again, in a comforting retro sort of way.

Nooooooo! You people intent on getting out the blue lights should be arrested for crimes against humanity.

I agree Dead there is a sort of retro nostalgia with soft coloured lights on trees. I kind of miss those ones. But these eye piercing blue things people insist on putting outside? Nopey nopey nope nope.

ASBO lights.

wookie I salute all of your posts.

at raging nationalist lights!

If we're talking classy, a decade ago I actually lived in a town called Penistone. Wags liked to remove the bulbs so the Christmas lights said 'WELCOME TO PENIS'.

Also, one man created a giant 10 foot topiary cock and decorated it with lights. Proof: www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/my-x-rated-xmas-tree-706538 My favourite comment is from the forgiving Christian neighbour, whose only objection was 'It looks more like a mushroom' (it did).

I agree!last year I brought what I thought were warm white lights for my Christmas tree.once I put them up and turned them on I realised they were blue!I couldn't find the receipt.so I am now stuck with blue lights in a Christmas tree that is decorated with gold red and cream decorations and tinsel.it looks awful.but can't really afford to replace them,and nobody I know wants to swap their regular lights for my blue lights

They're cold, cruel little lights

Yes!

Hate them too.

Cold and tacky imo.

while we're at it, it's really hard to get warm white lights these days, and I loathe the bright white LED ones

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Haha shove that link is amazeBALLS!

I really wish I had taken a picture of the giant cock ones last year, although, they were so bright my phone may have exploded if I did!

Off to buy the biggest, tackiest most common set of blue lights I can find now.

I love 'em but am clearly channelling an inner peasant

Yeah soup I wouldnt add the purple too, you will look like a UKIP supporting raging nationalist!

wookie - It was quite an adventure in wood.

By the sounds of things, a video would have been required to capture the full magnificence of your neighbours', ahem, erection.

Haha shove, am really regretting not capturing evidence now!

Here is am example of my worst kind of christmas nightmare...

wookie. That looks.....sinister. Blue lights always remind me of those Insect O Kill things you get in industrial kitchens. I'm a multicoloured tacksville woman all the way.

They've become very yesterday. For the icicle effect I far prefer plain white.

Oh twitter, that is just not cricket.

See, if someone was going for 'ghostly outline of a house, with a slightly Amityville vibe' I'd say that look was perfect. 31st October - no problem. 25th December, I'm not feeling it.

Oh YANBU! The house opposite ours is adorned in blue lights. I'm glad we've got thick curtains.

I also have an irrational obsession and hatred of blue Christmas lights, YANBU!

Yeah soup I wouldnt add the purple too, you will look like a UKIP supporting raging nationalist!

I have Nigel Farage coming round for Christmas dinner.

For "ghostly outline of a house" I would go with warm yellowy white or green.