Neighbour blue flashing Christmas lights

[Bellyblueboy]

I am gutted 😂. My tasteful warm white Christmas lights have been drowned out by my neighbours blue flashing lights that you could see from space.

I can see them inside my house - it’s like a blue light disco. I know I am a snob but it’s just awful (and I do realise they think the same about my boring warm white traditional look!).

To be fair we hate flashing Christmas lights.... Hubby is an epileptic and thankfully the neighbours no longer put them up..... The blue ones are worse for him
So team no flashing lights here

The blue ones are fucking awful. Like I'm sorry are we celebrating Christmas or looking for blood stains at a fecking crime scene?

The blue lights don’t look Christmassy at all!!

Lights are fine, but surely people must be aware that they are flashing into people's homes?? It's so selfish- they can't see it at all.

I quite like blue lights, I imagine little imps dancing in a tree. Not sure if I'd choose that colour for Xmas though. I also don't like flashing, it's too overstimulating, especially if it's outside your house!

I would'nt say not liking blue flashy lights is snobby. I'm not a snob in the slightest and I loathe flashing lights. I just think those that have them are twats rather than commoners.😂

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Flashing lights are awful. Not least because they can trigger my migraines! I’m team warm white lights.

I particularly hate the blue ones tbh, it’s always a nasty cold corporate-looking blue and not Christmassy at all. I’m not a snob, I love OTT Christmas lights and bright colours and I don’t mind flashing (though I understand they are a problem for people with epilepsy). I just hate the horrible all-blue look.

Do a spot of hedge tidying and accidentally snip the wires?

in several places?

🤣 the have them both inside and out.

there are blue flashing stars in sticks around the garden. Untidy rows of them inside the windows and round the doors and stepped net like over every bush in the garden.it is very fucking ugly.

I dread driving up to my house. We are semi detached so it is very in my face.

Smurf tastic!

Another team no flashing lights. Dh epileptic and flashing lights bring on seizures.

I’m on team snip. You can’t do anything about the indoor ones, but you could disable the outdoor ones.

I must admit, it’s really nice walking in the evening dark past peoples homes with the various static white and coloured lights but then invariably every few houses in, you come upon a frantically flashing display which just disturbs the whole ahmbeeyance! 😅

I have flicker vertigo. This means any colour flashing lights affect my balance and make it difficult for me to walk. I can't go out at night till after Christmas now.

I think flashing lights are tacky and headache inducing. However a friend who lives within very close sight of my house has them so I’ve come to love hers every year because they are hers.
These lights are so bright it is like having a disco in my kitchen at night and I’m often tempted to put on a bit of Earth, Wind and Fire or Kool and the Gang.

I would hate this, but I do have to say half the issue is manufacturers of the lights! We’ve got about 15 sets of lights between different Christmas trees, garlands, lights in windows etc and every time you turn them on they start off on the flashing mode, why on earth would the first mode not just be ‘on’
i feel like I spend half of December pressing the button to cycle through the settings. Maybe the neighbours can’t be arsed.

Flashing lights, and all kinds of external blue lights - and most especially blue ones - should be banned.
My heart skips a beat every time I drive home at this time of year, as i come round the corner, and there are blue flashing lights outside my house (opposite have them), and I think it's an emergency responder for a brief second.

Likewise, lorries driving with blue lights in their windows should have their licenses removed.

I went round to a friends for a pleasant evening last year and she had furiously flashing lights on her tree. I was demented.

I adore Christmas lights more than most things. And we have blue lights. Which we set on a timer. God I love blue Christmas lights.

Tacky, tasteless, not Christmassy. Warm white or twinkly old fashioned jewel colours, static, please.

For a few years my neighbours had a set of these.. Ironically at the time their littlest kid had a serious health condition (recovered now happily) which meant they needed an ambulance several times over a couple of years. So I used to do regular double takes and think "oh no!" before I remembered what the light were from.

Firmly agree that blus is not a Christmassy colour (neither is purple) and have nonidea why people opt for flashing if (and I know there isn't always) there's an option for 'just the pretty lights please')

Your lucky
by us looks like Blackpool illuminations

Maybe MN will give us back the laughing emoji for Christmas.

This comment deserves it 😂