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Let's face it, working class people do christmas lights better than middle class people

80 replies

morningpaper · 15/12/2008 17:35

It's just true isn't it?

All that faffing with coxandcox soft white tree sheaths but what children really like are the massive houses covered with flashing rope lights

Why is that?

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VinegarTitsTheSeasonToBeJolly · 15/12/2008 17:45

Driving down our steet is like Blackpool illuminations

And we are all wired to the lampost

Arf at the festive tree condom

VinegarTitsTheSeasonToBeJolly · 15/12/2008 17:45

Driving down our steet is like Blackpool illuminations

And we are all wired to the lampost

Arf at the festive tree condom

VinegarTitsTheSeasonToBeJolly · 15/12/2008 17:45

Driving down our steet is like Blackpool illuminations

And we are all wired to the lampost

Arf at the festive tree condom

HassledElf · 15/12/2008 17:45

We take complicated detours to drive past one particular house that has illuminated reindeer, a glowing santa that pops up out of a hat (why?) and more glitz than you can shake a Christmas stick at. It's a marvel. Next time I will examine the nearest lamp- post

twinsetiscrapatflouncing · 15/12/2008 17:45

I am from Blackpool so that would explain my yearnings then.

PoinsettiasScareMe · 15/12/2008 17:47

Ooh no I disagree, best house round here (imo) is one of the big posh 'ouses.

It is covered with santa, sleigh, reindeer and just oodles of lights - all of them white.

It somehow looks OTT and classy at the same time

Dusty - we do a tour of the lights every year, can you email me the cul de sac? (Tis Flame)

LynetteScavo · 15/12/2008 17:47

Vinegar - calm down.

morningpaper - are you saying working people have less taste?

Because the christmas lights we are talking about are never tastefull are they?

dustystar · 15/12/2008 17:48

Why do poinsettias scare you Flame?

twinsetiscrapatflouncing · 15/12/2008 17:49

There is house in Blackpool, there will of course be more than one, that turns it garage into a nativity scene. They have angels, kings, holy family, animals and everything as well as the more pagan stuff in the garden.

There are queues of traffic to see this house, down here there is nothing like it.

This house is part of every Blackpool child's christmas

FIMBOingaroundtheChristmasTree · 15/12/2008 17:51

We have a house exactly like that too Twinset (in a Norfolk village) right down the to the garage nativity. The people who own the house collect money for the air ambulance though. My dc love it and we have a trek round nearly every weekend with 2ps and 1ps they have collected.

dustystar · 15/12/2008 17:52

Have emailed you the road Flame - enjoy

PoinsettiasScareMe · 15/12/2008 17:52

they are too red and freaky looking - flowers should look like flowers, not mutant leaves

SatsumaMoon · 15/12/2008 17:53

Actually I regularly drive down one of the most expensive roads in our town and they have their fair share of tacky outside lights. Even the ultra-modern house which has won loads of awards has a few illuminated Santas in the windows! maybe they are all nouveau-riche

herbietea · 15/12/2008 17:56

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Tn0g · 15/12/2008 17:59

Blimey, VT, you do like to bang on don't you?

Coldtits · 15/12/2008 18:00

Yes.

Our estate is done up like Blackpool. The kids LOVE it, it is Tacktastic Lightporn

Coldtits · 15/12/2008 18:03

One house has

A 4ft inflatable glowing snowman
blue flashing rope lights wound around the whole of her border fence
dancing santas at the doorway
a big flashing red arrow saying "Santa stop Here!!!!!"

Flibbertyjibbet · 15/12/2008 18:07

We are going to visit sil tomorrow evening. She thinks the point of the evening is for us to drop off her xmas pressies but really its so our kids can ooh and aah at the lights on the estate she lives on.
Which at this time of year is truly the tacktastic capital of the world.

Vinegar Tits!!! Haven't you taken control of that mouse yet!!!!

Blu · 15/12/2008 18:18

I have just come back from Norfolk, where many a house is risking collapse under the weight of lights and cabling. I love it whne you have been driving for miles in the pitch black and suddenly come across a mini Las Vegas.

Must find out how to plug lights into the lamp post....

Blu · 15/12/2008 18:23

Morningpaper - what IS this cox and cox thing of which you speak? I have googled and it takes it straight back to your post - or a list of patented inventions. Are you claiming that tasteful christmas decorations of any kind have actually been invented?

FrannyandZooey · 15/12/2008 18:29

our estate is full of that tacky kind
what a joy they are, they make the dc (and us) very happy indeed

we also live right next to a VERY middle class couple of streets
white lights only and even FLASHING ones are looked on as a bit risque
boring feckers

Nemostwonderfultimeoftheyear · 15/12/2008 18:33

my Dc would love our house to be covered in lights etc but I simplycouldnt afford it. We have white lights on the porch apex ds has a white light snowman in his bedroom window and some star lights on front window

ladymariner · 15/12/2008 18:42

Distinct whiff of snobbery here, methinks

who cares whether it's a "class issue" or not, have you ever thought some people may just happen to like lights??

elsiepiddock · 15/12/2008 18:42

Half of our snobtastic village is up in arms beacuse some newish residents have dared to put 'icicle' style lights on their house!!

One of our traditions is to drive the dcs round the local estate to see all the garish lights - they love it!!

ladymariner · 15/12/2008 18:50

There's an old people's housing complex where my aunt and uncle live and one of the old boys who lives there has decorated his windows with lights and a star and can you believe the miserable old witch who lives opposite him has said that the lights are driving her mad!!!! (her bungalow is at the top of the slope and his is at the bottom so it's not like they're shining in her window or anything!) The poor old man has terminal cancer and may well not be here next year. Who ther fuck is she to try to spoil his enjoyment.
FWIW they're actually really pretty, and if they piss her off that much, hasn't she heard of drawing the curtains?