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Fewer Christmas Lights?

  • 15-12-2011 12:44am
    #1
    Belly_Dancer
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 88 ✭✭


    just wondering if anyone else noticed how few houses seem to be festooned with flashing bright lights in the build-up to Xmas this year?

    in previous years every second house looked like a minature Vegas.

    is it just my imagination, or are there much fewer of them this year?:(


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  • #2
    Guill
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,332 ✭✭✭Guill


    Belly_Dancer wrote: »
    just wondering if anyone else noticed how few houses seem to be festooned with flashing bright lights in the build-up to Xmas this year?

    in previous years every second house looked like a minature Vegas.

    is it just my imagination, or are there much fewer of them this year?:(


    Good, tacky ****e IMO.


  • #3
    starbelgrade
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,739 ✭✭✭✭starbelgrade


    It's all the people trying to not draw attention to their houses in case they have to pay the property tax.

    I blame the bankers, the IMF & the Germans.


    There. Thread ruined. It'll save the moany fuckers the bother.


  • #4
    DEFTLEFTHAND
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,500 ✭✭✭✭DEFTLEFTHAND


    I suppose the following months ESB bill doesn't look too pretty.


  • #5
    Yakult
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 7,943 Mod ✭✭✭✭Yakult


    starbelgrade wrote: »
    It's all the people trying to not draw attention to their houses in case they have to pay the property tax.

    I blame the bankers, the IMF & the Germans.


    There. Thread ruined. It'll save the moany fuckers the bother.

    Dont forget single mothers and the dole.
    Bastards. :mad:


  • #6
    TeddyTedson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,758 ✭✭✭✭TeddyTedson


    There does seem to be fewer around. I wonder if it's people just trying to cut down on the ESB bill or are people not really feeling the Christmas spirit this year?


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  • #7
    starbelgrade
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,739 ✭✭✭✭starbelgrade


    Yakult wrote: »
    Dont forget single mothers and the dole.
    Bastards. :mad:

    And civil servants, EBS workers, people who live in one off houses in the countryside & travellers.


  • #8
    El Horseboxo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,341 ✭✭✭El Horseboxo


    Not where I live. When I stand in my hall it's like there's a fire engine parked outside my house with the amount of shít my neighbors have up.


  • #9
    Temptamperu
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,303 ✭✭✭Temptamperu


    The poorer the family the more lights... or maybe its just me, but I think you can see Killinarden in tallaght from space at christmas :D


  • #10
    7Sins
    Closed Accounts Posts: 526 ✭✭✭7Sins


    Heard on the radio this morning, some young one was boasting that St. Vincent de Paul would be paying her electricity bill for the bazillion lights on her house.


  • #11
    Guill
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,332 ✭✭✭Guill


    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rp8lwpvQEIM


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  • #12
    phasers
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,159 ✭✭✭✭phasers


    my estate looks like feckin Vegas this year there's so many lights!


  • #13
    Turtyturd
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,398 ✭✭✭✭Turtyturd


    No planes have landed on the road where my house is this year so there must be less lights.


  • #14
    massdebater
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,251 ✭✭✭massdebater


    Temptamperu wrote: »
    The poorer the family the more lights... or maybe its just me, but I think you can see Killinarden in tallaght from space at christmas :D

    That's not from the xmas lights. It's the shine of the fake tan from the douches on Tallafornia.


  • #15
    Jimmy Garlic
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,349 ✭✭✭Jimmy Garlic


    Waste of time and money, I have no lights up at all. I didn't even bother getting a Christmas tree this year. One present each for the wife and the kids, a bit of Christmas dinner and then a roadtrip if the weather is reasonably good.


  • #16
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 3,505 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Yeah there do seem to be less lights this year, thank god.


  • #17
    wolf moon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 644 ✭✭✭wolf moon


    Belly_Dancer wrote: »
    in previous years every second house looked like a minature Vegas.
    Christmas 2011 - good taste FTW.

    PS: I bet that if you visit areas heavily infested by skangers you still see plenty of cheap, sh1tty-looking lights all over the place.


  • #18
    AeoNGriM
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 712 ✭✭✭AeoNGriM


    massdebater wrote: »
    That's not from the xmas lights. It's the shine of the fake tan from the douches on Tallafornia.

    That's an American term. We just say arseholes or gobsh!tes here.

    :pac:


  • #19
    Belly_Dancer
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 88 ✭✭Belly_Dancer


    the consensus appears to be there's much less of them.

    Who said austerity was such a bad thing?:D


  • #20
    x_Ellie_x
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 513 ✭✭✭x_Ellie_x


    Temptamperu wrote: »
    The poorer the family the more lights...

    I agree. Most of my neighbours have lights up and the majority of them are on the dole. On the road behind mine, EVERY single house has lights up and they've all gone completely overboard with them. Its like they're all trying to out do each other or something. I swear there's not one house without lights on that road.


  • #21
    PseudoFamous
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,514 ✭✭✭PseudoFamous


    wolf moon wrote: »
    Christmas 2011 - good taste FTW.

    PS: I bet that if you visit areas heavily infested by skangers you still see plenty of cheap, sh1tty-looking lights all over the place.

    Conversely, I notice that it's in "better off" areas in my experience. Tends to be the late middle aged couple with no children at home that do it.


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