Christmas lights. Eh - what...?

[Skybird]

Not a perfect shot, since there was no wall, fence, tree, lightmast or parked car I could lean on. It is a house 200 m down the road where I live, at the beginning of the zone where exclusively British soldier families live. Nothing against lights at christmas, but... :lol: http://img178.imageshack.us/img178/6371/img0425rq7.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

[August]

I guess some people take "festival of light" seriously... :lol:

[baggygreen]

I live in the south of my city, in the foothills of the Brindabella Ranges, which are basically the foothills for the Aussie Alps. One of the hills in a very well-to-do suburb has got houses built half way up, and almost every place has got similarly garish lights on it!

Certainly makes for a spectacular view when one drives onver the hills into the valley!

[bookworm_020]

So much for reducing green house gas emisions!:damn:

[Zachstar]

I spent 22 dollars on 2 sets of LED Christmas lights. One of the best investments ever.

Low power
Much better looking than cheapo lights
Last longer
It is GE you twit! What more do you need?

So if they went LED they are fine.

[SandyCaesar]

Hey, that looks like a U-boat in silhouette!

[sunvalleyslim]

Looks like they really get into the spirit of the holidays.....If they can afford the electric bill, let them have fun.........

[Kapitan_Phillips]

Watch out for Cessna's landing on your porch now, Skybird :D

[Iceman]

The lights are for kids Skybird...you know children.
Man are you always a scrooge?, bagging on someones Christmas lights.

http://media.bigoo.ws/content/gif/holiday_events/holiday_events_63.gif

May God pour out his blessings on you.

[A Very Super Market]

Oy.. I lived in a suburb once, this brings back painful memories.
I remember waking up after a nap and getting blinded by the sheer number of christmas lights outside the window..:shifty:

[Aramike]

NASA called. They said your lights are blocking out their view of the sun.

[UnderseaLcpl]

So much for reducing green house gas emisions!:damn:

Aw c'mon......that's not in the spirit of the holiday:D


Besides, I've balanced whatever emissions they may be producing by not putting any lights up or even having a tree.

[Christopher Snow]

The solar panels are on the sloping roof (top right in the photo), and the wet-cell storage batteries are in the basement, so it really doesn't cost him anything.

Or it wouldn't if he were a sub-simmer anyway...(he just has to watch out for buildup of chlorine fumes in case his basement fills with seawater...). :-P

Or maybe he just feeds solar gain into the power grid during the daytime so he can take it back out again at night. That's the "real way," (although proper submariners might roll their eyes in disgust too).


CS

[Skybird]

I like xmas lights. _But this way I think it is massively exaggerated, and kitschig. I also do not like the kind of colourful hectically blinking visual stress that looks more like a brothel than xmas. Keep it a bit simplier, I say.

Oh, and btw, those houses do not have solar panels.

[UnderseaLcpl]

I like xmas lights. _But this way I think it is massively exaggerated, and kitschig. I also do not like the kind of colourful hectically blinking visual stress that looks more like a brothel than xmas. Keep it a bit simplier, I say.

What does kitschig mean? Tacky, or something like that?

Well, perhaps they are kitschig, and massively exaggerated, but that's someone's choice. They may not have much class, but at least they have a lot of enthusiasm:D

[Skybird]

Well, perhaps they are kitschig, and massively exaggerated, but that's someone's choice. They may not have much class, but at least they have a lot of enthusiasm:D
Have seen this morning that they also have a "charity box" put outside - for the electricity bill.

Four years ago, we had a family like that already. At that time I used to occasionally talk with one of the British soldiers in that street who also was stationed in Muenster at that time, he was a dog owner, and as it happens - you get talking to somebody over the dog. That we became friends would be said too much, but we had a lose contact until he left, they rotate every 1-2 years. He said that the other Brits living in that street (around a dozen houses like that) were not too happy, for it gave them a bad image with the Germans, they feared. Well, there are Germans being as excessive like in this example, and worse: there are those who set up a hundred "Gartenzwerge" (garden gnomes) in their garden, which easily tops the Kitsch of the xmas lights in this example. It may be somebody's choice, as you said - but he is affecting the sight of a complete street - and the other people living there never got asked.

kit|schig [È«ê´ƒê’]
1. adj kitschy
2. adv in a kitschy way
© Langenscheidt KG, Berlin und München und HarperCollins Publishers Ltd

Also: lacking taste or class.

[AntEater]

For our german members
Stenkelfeld - Weihnachtsbeleuchtung (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORgsstGBWhU)

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

[Quillan]

Those aren't Christmas lights. This (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TD4g0gmQSLk) is a crazy Christmas light display.

[Iceman]

Those aren't Christmas lights. This (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TD4g0gmQSLk) is a crazy Christmas light display.

Wow those are great...I will show my kids...thku. :) :up:

[Dowly]

Those aren't Christmas lights. This (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TD4g0gmQSLk) is a crazy Christmas light display.

Whoa! That was cool! :rock:

[SandyCaesar]

:o
I've heard of it, but I'd never imagined...

Those guys are awesome.:rock:

[Jimbuna]

Those aren't Christmas lights. This (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TD4g0gmQSLk) is a crazy Christmas light display.


Excellent :lol:

[HunterICX]

:D Wow, that was very nice!

HunterICX