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

Ooh I've just remembered our neighbours at our last house. They put a sort of blanket of tiny white and blue lights over their shrub border so it looked like it was covered in frost. It looked absolutely beautiful and was the envy of the street every Christmas.

I'm so conflicted now.

I think we can all agree, antisocial flashing is the worst.

Only warm white will do. Bright white and royal blue are vile.

Flashing or not.

I agree and sadly even Disney lights are blue this year

I too sign the petition to ban blue-only light strings! I live in London and when our neighbours turned on their flashy blue lights for the first time I thought I was fucking getting raided.

Pale blue is one thing - a bit cold but not awful - but the mid-blue flashing ones give me the rage.
We live rurally and there's one of the old farm cottages decked out with them - deserted road and on a corner. I shit myself every year thinking I'm coming across an accident.

I had no idea this was a thing for other people! I also hate the ice white lights too. A neighbour a few doors up from us used to have beautiful warm white decorations every year but last year added ice white lights to his display, it was an abomination.

@idontbelieve I love the light mutiny in your neighbourhood!

And to the PP who put forward that blue lights resemble what it would feel like to freeze to death in a glacier

I think that blue lights are perfectly acceptable in a string of other coloured lights, but never on their own shudder

However, the absolute worst colour for Christmas lights has to be plain red. A neighbour went all out last year and had red lights on his tree, porch, drive and all the windows. It truly was like peering into the fiery depths of hell every night.

Ok so further to deliberation by this MN AIBU consultation comittee, we clearly need to add the class B lights such as Red and Ice white to the Ban petition and we absolutely must not have any antisocial flashing.

Death in the glacier though... howling!

YANBU. Blue lights are an abomination. They are the cold heartless Scrooges of joyfully taste;ess Christmas decor, matched only by upside-down, black, fake trees.

Why can't people who want to be tasteless at Chritmas just recognise the way to go is tinsel, fake Victorian tat and lots of multi-coloured lights and baubles like I do?

I plan on buying outdoor lights for the first time this year. Before I do so can someone please tell me what I should be looking for so as to avoid the ban - warm white?

Completely unrelated by one of my neighbours still has a gazebo up following a party in July. Can we add winter gazebos to the banned list or is that too random?

Yes, warm white, gold or amber. Or red. Nothing cold, nothing flashing.

Homely Warm white and soft multi colours are perfectly acceptable Zac and the comittee will certainly consider your motion to banish unsightly gazebo’s being left up for longer than their intended purpose.

Several of my neighbours use those blue lights every xmas. Hate them.

They are an abomination.

I'm sorry, I seem to have wandered into a lunatic convention!.

I don't mind them unless they are flashing, then it looks like the police have turned up. Someone down our road has blue lights that flash at a seizure inducing speed, I feel sorry for his neighbours.

Let's face it LEDs aren't great compared to the old style 1980's fairy lights, the lanterns you used to get for the tree. A fire hazard, but a proper Christmas fire hazard at that!

Mine are cool white and turquoise are they acceptable? Plus i dont have them flashing

Blue lights should definitely be banned. I hate them. I also hate when people mix warm white and bright white together/next to each other. My neighbour has two ornamental trees either side of their front door. Last year one had warm white lights in it, the other had bright white. I found it deeply upsetting.

YANBU, blue lights kick off my vertigo!

Yes, I HATE blue Christmas lights. They're not Christmassy!

I have blue lights in and out and I'm proud of it!

I had an abusive controlling ex who wouldn't let me have anything blue at Christmas and now I'm free I'm making the most of it.

I love the blue lights. Mine fade in and out slowly.

This year we are just having cool white lights and white decorations.