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Working Class areas and the annual race to get the tacky Christmas lights up first.

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    #62
    SpaceTime
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,088 ✭✭✭SpaceTime


    Ah the old Irish and British tradition of being class obcessed, killjoy, curtain twitchers.

    I really thought we'd moved on.


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    #63
    anncoates
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,925 ✭✭✭✭anncoates


    The arbitrary fickleness of the internet.

    You polish up a perfectly decent proletarian bashing thread for AH, sit back and wait for the blizzard of thanks to roll in but it mystifyingly goes down like a lead zeppelin.


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    #64
    Lapin
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    realdanbreen wrote: »
    What question are you asking?

    Why the rush to get the lights up six weeks before Christmas?

    And why is this determination to get the lights up so early a predominantly notable attribute of working class areas.

    Thats not me being snobbish or insulting to anyone as some of the respondents on here are quick to claim. Why would it be? Its a couple of simple questions based on my own observations.

    Perhaps if people actually addressed what I'm saying rather than just attacking it because they can't see past the words 'working class' and automatically go into insulted mode, we might get somewhere.


    Also I'm beginning to wonder if many of the posters on hear can actually read. There is an assumption that I don't like Christmas or Christmas lights.

    Both are untrue. I enjoy Christmas and love lights. At Christmas.


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    #65
    anncoates
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    Lapin wrote: »
    Why the rush to get the lights up six weeks before Christmas?.

    4


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    #66
    Lapin
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 18,184 ✭✭✭✭Lapin


    anncoates wrote: »
    4

    See what I mean about people who can't read?

    From my original post...
    Lapin wrote: »

    Two houses in particular have had theirs up for almost a fortnight now.


    As for this....
    anncoates wrote: »
    The arbitrary fickleness of the internet.

    You polish up a perfectly decent proletarian bashing thread for AH, sit back and wait for the blizzard of thanks to roll in but it mystifyingly goes down like a lead zeppelin.

    Oh please. I learnt long ago that AH isn't the place for me to win popularity contests. I tend to challenge the conventional thinking of many people around here and they are uncomfortable with that. Thats why I get the usual insults in reply. But I can live with that as there are usually one or two capable of reasoned discussion.

    If I wanted to go thanks whoring I'd open a thread about lighting farts, pissing contests or something along those lines. The kind of simple 'humour' that keeps so many around here amused.


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    #67
    anncoates
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    Lapin wrote: »
    I tend to challenge the conventional thinking of many people around here and they are uncomfortable with that.

    We just can't handle it, man.


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    #68
    Larbre34
    Registered Users Posts: 23,920 ✭✭✭✭Larbre34


    No, OP is right. I don't assume everyone in social housing is unemployed, but why should welfare go towards supplementing the stratospheric ESB bills for Christmas lights for those that are, not to mention the purchase cost?

    It used to be in Ireland that people were brilliant at making ends meet, stretching a pound, saving and budgeting, and that was in a time when money was properly scarce, with very few external supports.

    Now, the welfare suite has become so extensive, that people have no incentive to make responsible decisions and judgments of their own.

    The Priority list seems to be - 1. Sky TV 2. Smartphones 3. Drink and Going out 4. Holidays 5. Toys 6. Food. 7. Medicine 8. Education


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    #69
    BeerWolf
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    First world problems...


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    #70
    The Moldy Gowl
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    Fat Christy wrote: »
    I don't have any on! Sexist! Are you assuming I wear make up because I have lady features?! :mad:

    Things aren't going well for you....Gowlawhatever: Blacklisted.

    I have no proof you have lady features. I was just trying to cheer you up because obviously you are self conscious about your eyes if you only go out in the night wearing sunglasses.

    You on the rag or something?


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    #71
    Fat Christy
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    I thought working class meant those who were working....not on the dole. Oh gawd, I'm so confused! :(


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    #72
    Larbre34
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    Fat Christy wrote: »
    I thought working class meant those who were working....not on the dole. Oh gawd, I'm so confused! :(

    No, working class means not working, middle class means working. Keep Up.


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    #73
    Icepick
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    Why do you say working class when you talk about people who don't work?


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    #74
    Fat Christy
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    Larbre34 wrote: »
    No, working class means not working, middle class means working. Keep Up.

    So all working class people don't work. Oh the deception!!


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    #75
    recyclops
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    I love when people complain about there electricity bill in jan/feb and complain that its the companies fault.

    absolutely no sense of responsibility on their part for adding the electrical equivalent of a runway in their garden


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    #76
    Karl Stein
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    There's a couple of working people's dwellings near the entrance to the manor that are adorned with the very 'ilumitatty' you've highlighted. I used to have my driver stop at the gatekeeper's lodge so that I could leave stale bread and tins of peas on their tiny little lawns to help them through this time of year.

    One year one of the uncouth brutes that resides within chased the Benz and tossed a tin of peas right through the rear windscreen! No more help from me!


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    #77
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
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    Lapin wrote: »
    And why is this determination to get the lights up so early a predominantly notable attribute of working class areas.

    But it's not! This is where you went wrong. You probably need to get out more.


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    #78
    Frank O. Pinion
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    Whether on a council house or a Celtic Tiger mansion, either way, can't we all agree it looks like shit?


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    #79
    Karl Stein
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    Frank O. Pinion wrote: »
    Whether on a council house or a Celtic Tiger mansion, either way, can't we all agree it looks like shit?

    No. I kinda like it, and not in an ironic cider-can-hipster way.


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    #80
    [Deleted User]
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    Oh mother of sweet divine jesus a thread about Christmas lights turns into a dole scroungers thread.

    Yis are a shower of Bah Humbugs.

    I hope all yizzer curtains fall down and yis have to see ALL THE LIGHTS ALL THE TIME.

    Yiz.


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    #81
    AndyBoBandy
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    Could we get some pictures of the offending houses?


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    #82
    Generic Dreadhead
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    IBTL


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    #83
    Summer wind
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    I love driving around at Christmas with the children in the car looking at the lights. They love it too and some of the houses collect money for charity so that's good too. Why not have a bit of colour and sparkle in our lives.


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    #84
    anncoates
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    The best light display I've ever seen is in Ballyfermot.. The house and even the garden is bedecked.

    I've often swung by there to have a look even though it's out of my way.

    If they have kids, they have won Christmas


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    #85
    TheLastMohican
    Registered Users Posts: 1,837 ✭✭✭TheLastMohican


    Deleted User wrote: »
    Oh mother of sweet divine jesus a thread about Christmas lights turns into a dole scroungers thread.

    Yis are a shower of Bah Humbugs.

    I hope all yizzer curtains fall down on real lighting candles and yis have to see the lines of fire engines with the blue flashy lights clashing with your orange glow ALL THE LIGHTS ALL THE TIME.

    Yiz.

    Just a minor tinkering with your post in a corrective manner


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    #86
    Magico Gonzalez
    Registered Users Posts: 2,328 ✭✭✭Magico Gonzalez


    What harm, if they like it, let them get on with it.

    Some of you deserves nothing but soot and coal for Christmas. Miserable shytes.


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    #87
    ireland.man
    Registered Users Posts: 1,080 ✭✭✭ireland.man


    I hate these threads. Young middle-class people (or the ones who aspire to be) post about how they hate some signifiers of 'working-class culture' (certain clothes, pyjamas in public, now christmas lights). The poster looks like a narrow-minded tool lacking in self-awareness and doesn't realise he's just using a piece of culture to vent his dislike for a whole group of people. Then a few posts later you have people fighting about and focusing on welfare fraud, disability and those lazy bast*rds we're all paying just to sleep all day and watch telly, reinforcing the OPs prejudices.


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    #88
    mariaalice
    Registered Users Posts: 12,412 ✭✭✭✭mariaalice


    Deleted User wrote: »
    Oh mother of sweet divine jesus a thread about Christmas lights turns into a dole scroungers thread.

    Yis are a shower of Bah Humbugs.

    I hope all yizzer curtains fall down and yis have to see ALL THE LIGHTS ALL THE TIME.

    Yiz.

    Turning a thread on Christmas lights in to a dole bashing thread must almost win first prize for stretching the most tenuous link.


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    #89
    Smidge
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    Maybe its just me but what's wrong with it?
    Its been a tough year for a lot of people and xmas is a time to ENJOY.
    To see friends, have family return from abroad, have a couple of days off work for some folks where you can sit about all day watching shyte on the telly while eating entire tins of sweets in your pyjamas, and no-one bats an eyelid as well, its xmas.
    I love to see people put up lights and decorate their homes and gardens.
    Doesn't matter a jot to me if it is done in an entirely white and totally tasteful theme or if the strings of multi-coloured, flung up lights look like a very unfortunate trip to a drunk dentist. Its the entering into the spirit that I like.


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    #90
    Iranoutofideas
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    No Christmas lights here, my house looks like Dracula's castle (fun sized version)


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    #91
    jimgoose
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    Deleted User wrote: »
    Oh mother of sweet divine jesus a thread about Christmas lights turns into a dole scroungers thread.

    Yis are a shower of Bah Humbugs.

    I hope all yizzer curtains fall down and yis have to see ALL THE LIGHTS ALL THE TIME.

    Yiz.

    Couldn't agree more. 'Specially for you Whoopsie, have one of my favourite Christmas carols:



    :D


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