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I don't know if it's because I'm a curmudgeon like Honest Tom or because I'm getting old but does anyone else find this new obsession with Christmas lights covering every square metre of one's house and garden totally crass and inconsiderate of one's neighbours?

I know that many people do this to raise money for charity but I honestly don't think it's an acceptable way to act. Fair enough if it were only for the original Twelve Days of Christmas but I've seen displays in this area that were in place yeserday and presumably will light up their road until January 6th...

Sorry but it's a waste of energy (which we're all constantly being told to save), the amount of light pollution may well be incredibly annoying to their neighbours (who, if they complain, will no doubt be told that they are moaning bastards and that it's all in aid of charidee....) and it would drive me insane, so I'm bloody grateful I don't have any neighbours....
 
Definitely agree Songsheet.

Should have a tax on external lighting of one's house IMO. Would discourage people from putting them up and help to clean up as best possible light pollution.
 
Well here where I live! it seems the in thing to do :o ................but I fear for some of these people when the big bill drops on the mat for this given quarter-period, I can see loads of people just waiting to jump into the Rhymney river, as they cant afford to pay the bills? :rolleyes:

Yes with the energy shortage I think there should be a maximum allowance to power this sort of ideology/trait……………

No not for charities here but for competition? to keep up with the Joneses.................. :rolleyes:
 
Ghastly. Makes the houses look like funfairs. However, lighting is a traditional show of joy during the Hindu festival of Diwali ('the festival of lights') and also the end of Ramadan, the Eid al-Fitr, sees a vast consumption of electricity for that festival, too, so I guess it's just an extension of Christmas shop windows and municipal trees aglow, much as I find it fairly hideous. (HT's Curmudgeon Club is growing apace at this time of goodwill to all men, I see!) :D
 
Originally posted by Merlin the Magician@Dec 1 2005, 11:55 PM
No not for charities here but for competition? to keep up with the Joneses.................. :rolleyes:
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That might explain why there are so many then.
 
The local authority runs a competition round these parts and in the past the prizes have been sponsored by.........................the electricity supply company!! :what:
 
Originally posted by Songsheet@Dec 2 2005, 12:16 AM
I don't know if it's because I'm a curmudgeon like Honest Tom or because I'm getting old but does anyone else find this new obsession with Christmas lights covering every square metre of one's house and garden totally crass and inconsiderate of one's neighbours?
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Absolutely with you there 100%, Jules. This is bound to get me slaughtered. but I am going to say it anyway - strange that most of thses hideous displays are in certain areas, ie where all the chavs live.

I've seen displays in this area that were in place yeserday and presumably will light up their road until January 6th...
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Yesterday???? The least salubrious parts of Southend Bradfield (bear in mind that covers most of the village..) have been lit up like a beacon since the weekend I flew back to the UK, Paddy Power weekend (12th/13th November).

It most certainly is a total waste of energy & it drives me loopy that you can't drive through the village without either driving around the chicane that is the sad bastards who have pulled over to the side of the road to "admire" the pikey aspect of it all, or being stuck behind the same type of person driving at 5mph so they can have a damn good look at Santa parachuting into the garden whilst driving along.... :angry:
 
As a fellow curmudgeon :lol: I feel the perpetrators should be plugged in themselves. And I hope people who send out those vaccuous xmas cards enjoy the spectacle because they'll be the next to go.
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Hey look, I found some pictures of the pikey pictures in Southend Bradfield on the net so you can all admire their tastelessness....

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No surprise there that the worst culprit of them all, the farm on the outskirts of the village, is home to a family famed to be one of the pikiest families in the area.....

Unfortunately I couldn't find a picture of their gaff....damn!!! :lol:
 
I hate them too. I don't care what decorations people chose to have inside their homes, that's their business but I don't see why we should all be subjected to their ghastly illuminations from Poundstretchers on the lawn.

There is a house up the road from us that has lights and decorations outside and last year Mr GG had to drag me away as I was almost weeing myself with laughter at a pair of reindeers on skis :lol: He said it was rude to point and laugh and that I'd probably offended the people that live there :lol: I might take a walk up there this evening with a dog or two and see if the reindeers are back this year......
 
Hey folks, it's Christmas!! Be of good cheer and goodwill, even to the eejits who waste their money on stupid lights.
 
What a miserable crowd you've all turned into while I've been away - Dickens could have used you all as rivals to the main character in A Christmas Carol...
 
Quite so - I'm finding difficult to determine if this is Talking Horses or "Grumpy old/middle-aged/young men/women/notquitesure (delete as appropriate)"
 
Originally posted by Muttley@Dec 2 2005, 05:23 PM
Quite so - I'm finding difficult to determine if this is Talking Horses or "Grumpy young women"
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Perhaps someone on here should back Grumpy Stumpy tomorrow. ;) <_< :lol: :lol:
 
Welcome back, Lord Richgamble, to your most loyal forum.

We have indeed been out of sorts since your Lordship's absence, which we trust was as amicable as it may have been rewarding? Pray, leave us not again for such a time, for we fear that without your Lordship's mild, yet restraining, hand upon the tiller of social propriety, we fair lose our heads in unseemly riot.

Your Most Obedient Servant,

Silas Snivelcrumb
 
"Grumpy Stumpy" - excellent! (Sorry, Dom, but it is kinda cute!) :D We should take more of a cue from 'Bleak House' and give each other, and racing people, descriptive, Dickensian names. I think John McCririck should be John Blatherbore; Tommo could be Creepworthy; Tanya: Miss Screedle; Lydia Hislop: Miss Gabble, and so on. On here, Honest Tom would be Crabbett; Ardross, Swillbottle; An Capall, Jabstick; Julie, Mrs Nibbles (on account of her culinary prowess); while there are many of us up for the title of Miss, Mrs, or Mr Ranter!
 
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