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Houses & Christmas Decorations
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Just interested in what other people think about the houses covered in lights. It seems to get worse every year.
Personally I see them as just another example of the chav approach, very showy but fuck all susbstance.
You?
Personally I see them as just another example of the chav approach, very showy but fuck all susbstance.
You?
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Each to their own, though I'm glad I'm not paying the leccy bill or living next door to them.
But people love them, so if it gets some people in the Christmas spirit (and I don't have to live within 5 miles of them) I really don't mind!
But how can they possibly make anyone happy and in the Christmas spirit?
And why can people in two room council flats afford to have a lavish lighting display? Is it the old working-class shiny doorstep frame of mind? I hope so.
what the fuck do you mean ...how can these people afford it?
do you think everyone in council housing is poor?
i suppose you beleive council houses are only for poor people yes?
Christmas? I thought it was Winterfest!
because they hold down well paid jobs by any chance?
This would be valid if I was going by something I'd read in a paper or someone else had told me about. I KNOW the people who live in these flats. The flats are very close to my own house and I know what kind of lives these people lead because, as I said before, I know the people who live inside them.
What the fuck? Since when was it a serious question? And when did I say it was my business?
Completely irrelevant really.
Rolly calls me a snob for asking a rhetorical answer and then stupid for not knowing the answer to the rhetorical quesiton.
No getting wound up.
It's fuck all to do with fun though.
It's more about showing off to your neighbours. There are very few displays which look attractive.
Each to their own etc, but the problem with these is that it's not a personal thing. We all get blinded by them...
Humbug.
That's Diwali.
None of those things are true though.
I'll get in the spirit of Christmas, I do the dressing up thing with my kids, I take them to see Santa. Xmas Eve is the carol singing in the town centre (we get the Archbishop of Canterbury leading it... can get holier than that really) and I'll do the early morning, drunken afternoon thing on the day too.
What really pisses me off about the lights is that so many have been up since November FFS
By the time the fuckers take them down again, it will have been for 1/10th of the year. mark my words.
Next year they'll be up in October.
More to the point though, lights have fuck all to do with the festival at all. Just another american import...
Diwali is the festival of light. It is all about lanterns and fireworks and other bright things.
Some people have decided that we should do exactly as the Americans do and find out who cover their house with the most bright shit, and doesn't really have anything to do with the holiday.
Kids like bright shiny things. Should we cover our houses in Foil now then?
I thought that you were talking before about defending "Englishness" and yet here you are defending the americanisation of the cultures of this country.
I hate the lights for so many reason, but the main one is just the in your face tackiness of them...
Yeah, MoK, you aren't supposed to debate at Christmas!