to think there's a grain of truth in this article about Christmas decs

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www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-6430199/Etiquette-expert-William-Hanson-reveals-Christmas-decorations-make-look-common.html

Yes it's a Daily Mail link, so what.

Totally tongue in cheek article about how Christmas decorations are a class thing. Very funny. Highlights include:

"Covering your PVC door in some enormous, shiny taffeta bow is not going to make the door look any better. "

"The rule is: the further away from green it is, the more common it is. Thus: pink and white trees - the pits."

"should your husband (and it is always men) return home with an electronic dancing Douglas Fir, or a fake mounted reindeer head that bleats Good King Wenceslas to passers-by, then you have two options: get rid of it, or get rid of him."

"If a house’s baubles have gone up in November then however much repenting you may do during Lent, it will never be enough. "

So, so true.

The Daily Mail has probably alienated about 90% of their readership with this article.

So few people get what this guy is about.

I LOVE William Hanson. His articles are the one thing I've missed since boycotting the Mail Online some years ago.

He is a genuinely funny writer and I'm surprised his humour hasn't found a wider audience, to be honest. Or maybe he continues writing for the Mail as an extra ironic twist.

There was one article where he visited a McDonalds and reviewed it as though he was writing for the Michelin Guide. Pure joy.

Our tree is a collection of homemade decorations plus ones the children have chosen - we have penguins, disney characters, cows, fairies, reindeers, horses - you name it! Good taste it ain't but it makes us happy each year when the old favourites come out.

Nasty class driven hatred disguised as “light hearted ‘ . What else would you expect from that fascist rag.

"Another article in the daily mail saying let's laugh at the people on the council estates who put up a shit load of Christmas decorations in November."

Are you equating council estates with poor taste? Fuck off. Your ability to decorate tastefully doesn't depend on where you live.

Funny article that was as much inviting us to laugh at the peasants as it is the nobs. A do love a good old nondiscriminatory piss take.

True UC'ers or people with class would never, ever make comment on others decorations being common.

Its funny, all the UC I know stick to this, and all the WC / 'commoners' like me stick to this, the Wannabees OTOH are very classless and rude about it.

Go figure!

I did not know that the CofE say no crib before the 17th. I shall dutifully await the date before getting the playmobil Holy family out then.
Good to see he's saying 12th night is the 5th too.

Hate to break it to you op but no one with class or taste reads the Daily Mail. It's only the faux middle class Hyacinth types or racist knuckle draggers. Which category do you fit into?

twatty please enlighten us what those with class and taste are reading? Are they all ensconced in their studies with World of Interiors and the Financial Times?

Of course they read the Daily Mail. People read the Daily Mail for a host of different reasons. If you are sooo busy being tasteful and classy all the time, then I'd suggest you have disappeared up your own arse and are not tasteful or classy at all. And worthy of being mocked for your taste anxiety by William Hancock.

So few people get what this guy is about.

Indeed. But MN does love a good rant about people being "classist". even more so in the daily mail.

His twitter feed is gently self-mocking. Emma Thompson warring trainers to collect her damehood has left him unable to watch Nanny McPhee again. Trouble is, the average Mail reader will take him seriously.

@AnnaMagnani I wouldn't give a newspaper that proclaimed "hurrah for the Blackshirts" or a column to Katie Hopkins the time of day but I read plenty of other newspapers which have both left and right leaning tendencies. I'm solidly working class btw. My decorations are mostly traditional but I have some tat mainly because my 5 year old likes it. I find sneering at people because of your perception of their position in some bollocks social hierarchy to be completely vulgar.

Criticising how other people choose to celebrate a religious festival is rather infra dig...

I can't imagine many ways to make a holiday less joyful than to invite an etiquette expert in to tell you how best to impress the neighbors.

Liberace comment

The Liberace bit was a missed opportunity to expound on the joys of a goth Christmas, imo. Like Halloween but with mince pies.

He'll hate my Dunelm snowman then
I think he is supposed to be humorous but people take him seriously

I thought it was funny. I mean, I'm clearly common as muck according to the article, but I enjoyed the pretentiousness of it all. And I thought the way it was written quite amusing. Like the presenter on the extra slice who goes out of his way to pretend to be bitchy and obnoxious. But I get that not everyone enjoys that brand of humour.

Me too Memory. I actually do everything he said posh people do - it cuts a bit to know I am so snobby and was good to laugh at myself.

I have asked DH to start work on building us a cellar though Must keep up standards.

I don’t like the tone of the article, and I don’t think it has anything to do with class - lots of middle and upper class people have hideous decorations, and lots of working class people have gorgeous ones.

That said - I agree with everything he said, so his tastes happen to coincide with mine! I would never sneer at someone with different tastes to me, though. People are allowed to be different.

I am outing myself to our poor neighbours here but DH and the children have taken to decorating our garage door with a Christmas tree every year “drawn on” with electrical gaffer tape. Green for the tree, red for the pot and decorations.

Is that minimalist or tacky for outside declarations? I must ask the Daily Mail said no one ever