white lights are simple, yet elegant

colored lights are trashy as fuck

AND GO

12/1/2010 10:11:04 PM

thats racialist

12/1/2010 10:12:05 PM

I like them both.

White lights look good if you have a really fancy house on the outside...

Colored lights look good if you have a regular looking house on the outside...

I like both on trees it just depends on the theme you do.

12/1/2010 10:12:52 PM

I prefer coloreds myself.

12/1/2010 10:12:54 PM

I concur.

12/1/2010 10:13:10 PM

If you think colored lights are trashy than your obviously a yuppie. Congratulations.



Bought time to send out the "no colored lights" fliers for this year.

12/1/2010 10:16:20 PM

both

12/1/2010 10:17:19 PM

It depends on the house type, the amount of lights, and how well they are placed. Its harder to screw up with white lights, but personally I'm a fan of the more colorful option.

12/1/2010 10:19:34 PM

Outside on the house, I prefer white... on the tree, though, I can go either way (I would always do both so I could chose based on occasion/mood)

12/1/2010 10:19:41 PM

I call them "African-American lights".

12/1/2010 10:20:07 PM

i love all holiday lights

what are you talking about

12/1/2010 10:23:50 PM

white >>>> red = green

>>>>>>>>>>>>>

fucking blue? purple? orange?

12/1/2010 10:25:18 PM

Lol @ this thread. I use both

12/1/2010 10:26:55 PM

i only do white, because i dig the more colonial/victorian-style christmas vibe

other than our white-lit tree, we only do single white candles in each window

no giant blow-ups out front or lights on the house

as i told nothing22 the other night, i only go for 3 types of christmas music as well

1) classical-




2) victorian (though i know it was written earlier... but i associate it with dickens) -



3) drunken early-mid 20th century-



post 60s jazz is okay

but anything past mid 60s pop is RIGHT OUT

NOPE

NOPE

[Edited on December 1, 2010 at 10:29 PM. Reason : +]

12/1/2010 10:28:11 PM

marko keeps it classy itt

12/1/2010 10:29:50 PM

it sucks we lost to Maryland because i had a good suggestion for marko's VT drawring

12/1/2010 10:31:02 PM

Was it a wolf punching a turkey?

12/1/2010 10:31:41 PM

damn how'd you know

12/1/2010 10:32:48 PM

i like white lights, generally.

BUT i like colored lights if they are the large bulb old school kind (the fire hazard kind i suppose)


the one thing i don't really like are icicle lights. they annoy me for some unknown reason.

12/1/2010 10:36:36 PM

well, at some point, giant colored lights will be every bit as nostalgic as bing crosby

cause it'll be 2021 and the 1970s will be as cool and classic as mad men is now

btw for dweedle, i've just finished a santa wuf cartoon, and i plan on doing one for the bowl game

but good gravy, i'm glad to be done with this season

12/1/2010 10:39:40 PM

these are the kind of colored lights i like.

12/1/2010 10:55:44 PM

I do like the colored ones that bubble

12/1/2010 10:56:39 PM

White lights are not Christmasy at all.

12/1/2010 10:56:53 PM

12/1/2010 10:57:56 PM

you know what i HATE?

blue (or any colored) icicle lights. cannot. stand.

12/1/2010 10:59:16 PM

colored... Christmas is supposed to be a bit tacky... you have a tree, inside your house, with shit hanging off of it

12/1/2010 11:00:40 PM

12/1/2010 11:01:51 PM

Quote :

"colored... Christmas is supposed to be a bit tacky... you have a tree, inside your house, with shit hanging off of it"

this

12/1/2010 11:02:35 PM

Colored all the way. White is so sterile.

12/1/2010 11:03:07 PM

This thread motivated me to crank up the Ultimate Ernie Christmas Playlist for the first time this year

Apologies in advance to marko

12/1/2010 11:06:35 PM

Quote :

"If you think colored lights are trashy than your obviously a yuppie. Congratulations. "

this

Quote :

"colored... Christmas is supposed to be a bit tacky... you have a tree, inside your house, with shit hanging off of it"

and this

It's cool if you like the look of all white lights - but don't act you are somehow above everyone else by class'in up the tree in your living room.

Having said that - I alternate strands of red, green, and white on my tree (it was a compromise with the wife who wanted all white)

12/1/2010 11:10:14 PM

I'm not a fucking yuppie

12/1/2010 11:12:33 PM

i think trashiness comes from HOW you hang your lights outside

i hate some half-ass light jobs

like having one random section that blinks

or not wrapping them well around the bushes/trees

no matter what you choose, colored or white, you gotta show effort. i hate when people throw a strand across a tree branch and think their work is done.

[Edited on December 1, 2010 at 11:14 PM. Reason : .]

12/1/2010 11:13:54 PM

Quote :

"i hate when people throw a strand across a tree branch and think their work is done."

Thats all i ever do. no work involved!

12/1/2010 11:41:09 PM

wtf why did i just get a drop down add clicking on this thread

12/1/2010 11:42:16 PM

we talking about christmas lights? white lights are for plain people

12/1/2010 11:54:46 PM

12/2/2010 12:02:28 AM

i like the big old fashioned colored lights

white lights are so boring

12/2/2010 12:23:35 AM

^^ LOL

Quote :

"these are the kind of colored lights i like. "

Yes!

12/2/2010 12:31:25 AM

^those were the old fashioned ones i was talking about

12/2/2010 12:32:24 AM

i don't care what color they are as long as y'all burn the ever living shit out of them

preferably the old ass inefficient ones

not that energy saving LED shit

12/2/2010 12:33:00 AM

Quote :

"i think trashiness comes from HOW you hang your lights outside i hate some half-ass light jobs like having one random section that blinks "

this on a large mansion is always the win!!!

I especially love our blue tree outside it's my favorite.

also gotta have those plastic santa/snowmen/soldiers

12/2/2010 1:34:45 AM

I have yet to see colored icicles...

12/2/2010 1:46:46 AM

I think white looks better.

Colored look kind of trashy on a tree to me. Outside colored lights can look good but it's better when the color is planned out instead of just random colors on a strand of lights.

I don't really hate on people who do it, I just think a tree looks better with mostly white lights and red decorations, with a bit of gold or silver.

12/2/2010 1:55:33 AM

Colored on the tree.

Whites outside.







Like a true clansman.

12/2/2010 7:08:04 AM

Quote :

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LOL!!!

12/2/2010 7:57:43 AM

On the tree we have a few strands that are just red, green, and white.

Outside anything goes. I started putting them up this week. We have a prefab spiral tree that is all white and I covered the bushes next to it in white icicle lights (which looks really good, covers the bushes well). The dogwood by the street has multi-colored LED lights in it. I still have a few strands of multi-colored C9 bulbs to put up, probably on the porch.

12/2/2010 8:20:35 AM

On the tree? Has to be colored. C7 Twinkle bulbs preferred.



[Edited on December 2, 2010 at 8:27 AM. Reason : .]

12/2/2010 8:23:12 AM

C7 on a tree is pretty baller, might have to change it up this year...

12/2/2010 8:29:10 AM

White lights definitely look classier and just better overall. If you're trying to decorate and impress, white lights are better. I personally prefer white lights.

Colored lights are fun and can be done tastefully. But they can also be overdone...and I think this happens a lot. But they're also more "fun." However, the really big colored lights are just ridiculous and should be banned completely.

12/2/2010 8:32:57 AM