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Original poster

To hate blue Christmas lights?

97 replies

gorgeousgirl · 07/12/2009 20:44

Ok not the end of the world, but they are everywhere this year.

Ok - they are elegant/ pretty etc. But they are NOT Christmassy. Christmas is about warm colours - reds/ golds/ greens/ yellows etc. When it's cold, drab and drizzly, the warm colours brighten the place.

The blue lights just seem so cold and yuk. Snow Queen and cold, not Christmas!!

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Curiousmama · 07/12/2009 22:17

Blue lights inside are different they aren't bothering anyone. Those blue ones on the front of houses are awful

Jackaroo · 07/12/2009 22:18

I always loathed (Huw?) blue tinsel and now loathe blue lights. Fortunately being in Oz for only my second ever Christmas I have far bigger things to worry about. The WRONG weather, wrong food, coconut in everything. I feel as if I haven't actually had Christmas for 3 years

marmitetoastie · 07/12/2009 22:19

YABU I'm dreaming of a blue Xmas. xx

PfftTheMagicDragon · 07/12/2009 22:20

seeker, I will also do away with them when I am dictator.

We should make a pact.

YANBU, they are tasteless and vile.

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gorgeousgirl · 07/12/2009 22:22

You see blue white and silver is a lovely colour scheme for an ice queen not Christmas!

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garciasangria · 07/12/2009 22:41

Haha, just driving in from work, and noticed the neighbour opposite our house has just put up her tree, in the window, curtains open, and it's got ALL blue lights on - and they're flashing like mad, not a nice twinkle but FLASHFLASHFLASHFLASH. Seriously, it would pull the eyes out of your head!

MuppetsMuggle · 07/12/2009 22:43

My lights don't flash they are stand still lights. Would upload a photo to show my tree isn't Ice Queen like but beautiful however, its taking forever to upload grrr

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gorgeousgirl · 07/12/2009 22:47

ps I don't really mind what people have in their own homes - that's up to them whether I like it or not (and I don't dislike blue - it just doesn't mean Christmas to me)

It's the blue lights that are everywhere outside that I really don't like (hate)

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EccentricaGallumbits · 07/12/2009 22:49

Our whole bloody town is blue lights. paid for by the local shops and peoples and after the town council (scrooge bastards) refused to get any or put them up. but which colour blind eejit ordered blue ones? they are hideous and make it look like some sort of emergency service convention is going on.
I hate them. passionately.

mrsboogiefairylights · 07/12/2009 22:49

horrid horrid cold blue lights. I can't stand 'em. Depressing, they are.

AvrilH · 07/12/2009 22:58

It is the emergency services association for me when they are flashing.

And the butcher's window when they are not.

Irrationally hate them.

Raychill · 08/12/2009 09:49

don't like them at all - cold & chilly.

themildmanneredjanitor · 08/12/2009 09:53

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TheMightyToosh · 08/12/2009 09:57

YANBU - there's nothing Christmassy about blue lights, I always say.

I also can't stand flashing lights or rope lights for Christmas decs. Ditto the dance floor sentiment.

Multi-coloured lights or white, but not blue and not flashing. Only twinkling if they are proper ones that actually twinkle, not just flash randomly.

I'm not fussy...

GetOrfMoiLand · 08/12/2009 10:01

Ooh what a perfect thread.

I drove past a house which was covered in them yesterday, I ranted on at dd about the inappropriateness of it all. Blue lights are spooky and cold, and strangely dim looking. They look like something that baseball cap wearing teenagers put on their souped up Clios.

I am quite prepared for the fact that people will have green, red, yellow and pink lights despite the fact that it is clearly WRONG, however blue lights are beyond the pale.

They are worse than inflatable santas and flashing icicles (also on my hate radar).

GetOrfMoiLand · 08/12/2009 10:02

Oh hideous rope lights (add to list of things to be banned).

bamboostalks · 08/12/2009 10:06

I think they look quite cheap. Do not like them. Hates themed trees anyway.

SkipToMyLou · 08/12/2009 10:07

Oh goodness, we did blue here three or four years ago, it's white now, get with it! Not often that Suffolk leads the way...

TheDevilWearsPrimark · 08/12/2009 10:09

My friend has a black tree with blue lights and decrations. It's very arty but not at all christmassy.

We have white ones with various twinkly settings.

sarah293 · 08/12/2009 10:10

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TheMightyToosh · 08/12/2009 10:18

Can we add fibre-optic 'glowing' trees to the list of banned things? ANd 'chili pepper lights'? What is Christmassy about those??

Also agree with banning flashing icicles, though I don't so much mind them if they aren't flashing.

There's nothing classier or more Christmassy, IMHO, than a simple string of lights (either white or gently multi-coloured) round a little tree or bush, or window or door. But not 10 of them, not flashing, not rope, and definitely not blue. Any combination of these and you end up looking like a funfair.

Mistletoesnowman · 08/12/2009 10:24

I have plain white lights on my tree although they have a setting to turn them flashy (which I like but DH hates).

notagrannyyet · 08/12/2009 10:27

I did a silver and blue tree last year for a change and quite liked it. DH wants the red and gold back this year. We will probably end up with both (in different rooms).
We also do a few multi coloured lights on a Christmas tree outside.

TheDevilWearsPrimark · 08/12/2009 10:27

I have chilli lights on my mantlepiece in the kitchen all year round.

TinselianAstra · 08/12/2009 10:28

Stars are blue.