To kick off the blue christmas light debate in november?

[Theperfectchangeling]

Ok, so this has been discussed many a time, but nothing ever seems to change, every year, people still seem to enjoy adorning their homes with these eye bleeding, migraine inducing, brain splitting fuckers. Would you consider reforming your blue light ways for the sake of your fellow neighbours? Will you finally ‘see the light’ and change to any other colour instead? Please? begging

I second the OPs motion.

Thanksctawdry together we can be the change we want fucking need to see.

Or not see.

I’m in. Our high street Xmas lights are blue. 🤮

I third it. I would like to subscribe to your news reports.

What’s wrong with blue lights? I don’t have any bit an unaware of problems.

Blue lights are awful, and the ones that flash too. They reflect into my house from a neighbour and it feels like the police are outside for like the whole of December. Should be illegal to use them outside killjoy alert

One blue light in a string of multicoloured lights is delightful. An entire display consisting only of blue lights is as bleak as a butcher's fridge.

I don't mind Blue lights but i really dislike multicoloured lights. They give me a headache.

“I’m in. Our high street Xmas lights are blue. 🤮”

Your poor thing! You have my utter sympathy!

Yes I see them out of the corder of my eye when driving and assume there's an emergency vehicle about

Yes warm white (or lovely multi coloured!) all the way!

“One blue light in a string of multicoloured lights is delightful. An entire display consisting only of blue lights is as bleak as a butcher's fridge.”

Totally agree, however I do worry that the use of a single blue, even in a multicoloured string, could be the gateway bulb that leads to more! I vote for a complete ban.

They're all blue in my high street too. Picture a shabby concretey pedestrianised street, abandoned from 5pm, with a sad free blue LED lights wrapped around every lamppost. Not festive.

Get rid of them all! Christmas is about warmth and flashing ice blue lights just make me think of the emergency services and cold! Give me lovely warm white twinkling lights any day. Luckily our high street has resisted the blue temptation.

I do worry that the use of a single blue, even in a multicoloured string, could be the gateway bulb that leads to more! I vote for a complete ban.

No, I can't get behind this extremism. In my opinion the dearth of blue bulbs in earlier displays led to a glamorization of blue bulbs, which has led to the troubling situation we see today. Moderation is my keyword.

I say it every year, blue lights make me feel like I'm in a meat freezer. Cold and uninviting and definitely not Christmassy!

“No, I can't get behind this extremism. In my opinion the dearth of blue bulbs in earlier displays led to a glamorization of blue bulbs, which has led to the troubling situation we see today. Moderation is my keyword.”

You certainly have a valid point, maybe some tighter regulation is the key? Say only one light in twelve may be legally blue?

this must be a very carefully managed rehabilitation, otherwise this becomes the terrifying future for everyone of us,

Where does it stop?

I have some family who live in Bury St Edmunds in Suffolk. It’s a gorgeous, historic market town. For the last few years most of the town’s Christmas lights have been blue. It enrages me whenever we visit. Why?!! Why would the council do that?!!

We have a lovely but slightly over-exuberant Neighbourhood Watch chap down the road. Since he retired he's put forward a motion that everyone in the street only use warm white lights on the outside of our houses come December.

Most obliged but the couple over the road (prone to angry outbursts when NW man leaf-blows his lawn at 7am each Saturday) went to the Asda and bought every single blue light in the world and their house looked like Elsa's palace in Frozen for the whole of Christmas. NW man was apoplectic when he came home and realised they'd not followed the mandate. There was talk of a petition, calls to the council, irate emails.

I cannot wait for December 1st, it'll be like a Midlands version of Eastenders when the lights start going up again.

@idontbelieve

Blue lights belong on emergency vehicles only!

only one light in twelve may be legally blue?

Agreed. I have removed your though, as this is a serious, serious issue.