Just been out 'n' about and the crimbo lights are going up in town as i type, should get one planted outside the frontroom window, which is cool, thats a lamp inside i won't be needing to switch on for a few weeks

MrsGood wrote:
Have they managed to turn them on without celebrity help or did they get one in to do the job?

hugorune wrote:
No idea, but it's a small rural town so most probably the mayor or another inbred

Someone round the corner switched their own annual christmas lights show on on 1st november.

All over the outside of their house (including the roof) is illuminated with loads and loads of lights, flashing neon reindeer, all sorts of glowing tat. Its truly gruesome.

They do it every year. Fuck knows what their leccy bill must be like.

MrsGood wrote:
But you should have posted it in the, 'Show us the pretty back of your head', thread Mrs Dodger.

diamondgeezer wrote:
Would you like to barrow a knife and go along cutting cords at random areas so the lights don't work in some spots?

There are some folk near me who can't be mythered taking their lights down. They don't have them lit all year round, but the Rudolph & Santa lights are always there, adorning their slum.

Gilly wrote:
It's on a 'need to know only'.

( but at least it was recent )

But you surely know we do need to know, for goodness sake! You're not crediting us with nearly enough nosiness.

Gilly wrote:
I'm just too ugly for the camera to take, i know sad and all that but i'll crawl into my single bed and have a good cry, then tape up my tattered brown bag ready to wear again tomorrow

Now I know you're a leg-puller, and I ain't falling for that one.

I should think you've some exciting reason for hiding your identity - such as, there's a reward out for your arrest - 'Wanted, dead or alive'.

Or else you did the same thing as them 2 chaps in the paper a bit back, who robbed somewhere, but instead of wearing balaclavas, they disguised themselves by colouring their faces in with black marker pen that wouldn't wash off.

diamondgeezer wrote:
I've seen some that have charity collection boxes outside. 'We're not showing off, we're doing it for charidee'

Leccy bill large, intelligence low.
Gilly wrote:
If I lived next door I'd have to rip them down. Some people shouldn't be allowed access to electricity.

"Some peo­ple shouldn’t be allowed access to electricity."

Can I stick that in my sig please?

dubmeup wrote:
Please do.

Driving to work this morning I saw a 6 foot plastic snowman being erected (fnarr) in a front garden.

If I had a gun I would have shot at it.

I love the time of year but I dislike all the showyness.

You should always carry a pea-shooter with blow darts, just to be on the safe side, Hugo.

I put lights up every Christmas


I really like Christmas

Send the 6ft plastic snowman to me ....I'll give him a good home

All my kids have loved all the lights etc that you see this time of year, even after going through all the conspiracy stuff with them(well except my youngest,though i did tell him there isn't a dodgy bloke with a bread that sneaks into your bedroom ever, let alone xmas, but fuck two years on and this lil guy still wants the magic, keep thinking innocent here, not dodgey people...so i just gave up and said it's up to you, if you beleive he's real then maybe) I just like happy and if a few peeps with crazy lights around the place makes their day then wtf.

Well I LOVE Santa and still believe in him ......read a book called Liverpool Miss and you'll see how the 'magic' of Christmas is real

dawnbreak wrote:
My eldest 20 year old daughter loves the magic of xmas, and i went on a bit of a rampage to prove it's orgins weren't great. Like water off a ducks back, and i love the fact that even at 20 she's still is a lil kid.