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

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  • #152
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 6,025 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    I think Lapin was simply making an observation,I personally didn't get he/she was looking DOWN on anyone.

    Think yizzer all a bit too hard on him/(her)

    :)


  • #153
    SpaceTime
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,088 ✭✭✭SpaceTime


    Lapin wrote: »

    I agree, but that is the conventional term in use and neither you nor I are gonna change that here so its the one we're stuck with.

    I mostly hear it in the UK.

    It's amusing when someone doing postdoctoral research whose dad was a manager in a car plant describes himself as "working class".

    British class system can be very rigid even today.


  • #154
    Lapin
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 18,184 ✭✭✭✭Lapin


    Jake1 wrote: »
    I think Lapin was simply making an observation,I personally didn't get he/she was looking DOWN on anyone.

    Spot on.
    Jake1 wrote: »
    Think yizzer all a bit too hard on him/(her)

    :)

    I'm a him. :)


  • #155
    Son Of A Vidic
    Registered Users Posts: 32,370 ✭✭✭✭Son Of A Vidic


    Gowlasauras Rex wrote: »
    Oh law de daw. I don't know where they find the time to do things but I find loads of time to bitch on the internet.

    First World problems. The Third World doesn't know how good they have it.


  • #156
    nadey
    Registered Users Posts: 367 ✭✭nadey


    Lapin wrote: »
    Something I've noticed in recent years is an apparent race between the occupants of a number of houses in a council estate near me to don their homes with the most gaudy over the top Christmas lights, and the determination by some of the residents to get theirs up before the neighbours.

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

    And each year they seem to get more and more outlandish and ostentatious with larger then scale figures of Santa Claus lit up at the chimney to be seen for miles around and further lights now festooned around the garden and every available space on the walls of the house.

    I don't have a problem with anyone tarting up their houses for the festive season. It has long since been accepted as the most tasteless time of the year, but I'd prefer if they were confined to the festive season rather than two months of the year.

    Of course I acknowledge that there are middle class people who turn their residences into garish winter wonderlands every year too. I don't know where they get the time. But the phenonmen of displaying the most jaunty glittery tat annually, and the quest to get it up first every year is overwhelmingly a feature of working class council estates urban areas.

    Its not as if there are prizes for doing so like there are for the Tidy Towns competition during the Summer, (although that doesn't seem to be an insentive in many of these estates anyway.)

    The first electricity of the new year for families with such displays must be eye watering, but that's none of my business. I do wonder though it this race to get the lights up earlier every year adds increased pressure to fire crews around the country as the potential for fire risk must be a lot higher with so many lights and electrical sockets in use.

    Theres working class areas in galway? Never would have thought it. Big crime news in galway is someone robbing a dog


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  • #157
    Lapin
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 18,184 ✭✭✭✭Lapin


    nadey wrote: »
    Theres working class areas in galway? Never would have thought it. Big crime news in galway is someone robbing a dog

    What has crime got to do with anything being discussed here ?


  • #158
    nadey
    Registered Users Posts: 367 ✭✭nadey


    Lapin wrote: »
    What has crime got to do with anything being discussed here ?

    Working class usually equals crime


  • #159
    etoughguy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 344 ✭✭etoughguy


    I put mine up July 16th would that be considered a little on the early side?


  • #160
    Lapin
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 18,184 ✭✭✭✭Lapin


    nadey wrote: »
    Working class usually equals crime

    Try reading the thread before coming out with that shít here.


  • #161
    ireland.man
    Registered Users Posts: 1,080 ✭✭✭ireland.man


    Wait wait wait wait wait.....

    This was an episode of Roseanne from years ago. She puts up house lights at Christmas to spite her neighbours who hold anti-working-class, snobby opinions of her family and complain the decorations are gaudy.

    http://www.tv.com/shows/roseanne/white-trash-christmas-28225/

    Is the OP a senile 80 year old reliving Roseanne episodes from the perspective of her neighbours?


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  • #162
    nadey
    Registered Users Posts: 367 ✭✭nadey


    Lapin wrote: »
    Try reading the thread before coming out with that shít here.

    So is it ballybane, ballinfoile or westside youre giving out about. Our xmas lights are up now a few days and I dont see the problem


  • #163
    Lapin
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 18,184 ✭✭✭✭Lapin


    nadey wrote: »
    So is it ballybane, ballinfoile or westside youre giving out about. Our xmas lights are up now a few days and I dont see the problem

    Thats a limited list for the second biggest county in the country. Could you not think of any others?

    Don't even think I'm going to mention the estate I'm referring to here.

    Either way, its not unique to Galway.


  • #164
    nadey
    Registered Users Posts: 367 ✭✭nadey


    Lapin wrote: »
    Thats a limited list for the second biggest county in the country. Could you not think of any others?

    Don't even think I'm going to mention the estate I'm referring to here.

    Either way, its not unique to Galway.

    Im not from galway but lived their awhile and theyre the best bunch of people. The way youre lookin down on folks looking forward to xmas is downright wrong. Cop the hell on


  • #165
    nadey
    Registered Users Posts: 367 ✭✭nadey


    Lapin wrote: »
    Thats a limited list for the second biggest county in the country. Could you not think of any others?

    Don't even think I'm going to mention the estate I'm referring to here.

    Either way, its not unique to Galway.

    Oh, forgot to ask. What other '''working class''' area is there in galway city?


  • #166
    gozunda
    Registered Users Posts: 18,996 ✭✭✭✭gozunda


    All house Christmas lights displays are tacky and tasteless imo.

    Apart from the frackin light pollution and the risk of Boing 747s trying to land in the back garden theannual Christmas / fairy light one upmanship can be a pain in the whole tbh.

    And the ol argument of 'ah won't ye think of the charities' - I would love to know how much goes to pay the resulting electricity bill and how much goes to charity :rolleyes: Tbh don't really care if it's Jacinta in Ballybock or Justine in Foxrock - if ye want the place lit up like wembly then do it inside and try not to blind the passing motorists. -


  • #167
    ireland.man
    Registered Users Posts: 1,080 ✭✭✭ireland.man


    gozunda wrote: »
    All house Christmas lights displays are tacky and tasteless imo.

    Apart from the frackin light pollution and the risk of Boing 747s trying to land in the back garden theannual Christmas / fairy light one upmanship can be a pain in the whole tbh.

    And the ol argument of 'ah won't ye think of the charities' - I would love to know how much goes to pay the resulting electricity bill and how much goes to charity :rolleyes: Tbh don't really care if it's Jacinta in Ballybock or Justine in Foxrock - if ye want the place lit up like wembly then do it inside and try not to blind the passing motorists. -

    Not that much it seems considering thousands can be raised per house for charity: http://www.consumerenergycenter.org/lighting/holiday.html

    My problem is with those sensor lights that light up a street like daylight every time a leaf falls.


  • #168
    Richard Hillman
    Registered Users Posts: 12,033 ✭✭✭✭Richard Hillman


    The xmas tree in my house has gone up today. I am appalled. We usually wait until about 10 days before xmas. I will be mortified if they turn the lights on.


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