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Poll Question: Which do you prefer on your Christmas Tree?
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    Posted: December 20 2004 at 13:26

Interestingly, both me and my partner like flashing coloured lights on the tree - but according to a survey I heard on the radio this morning, white lights are a girly thing, while blokes like coloured lights.

Let's explode the myth - I'm interested in what both you and your partner like!

(but let's keep the subject on Christmas tree lights, eh? )
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I am a bloke and i prefer White lights, i find that coloured lights are "too in your face" and white ones are alot more elegant. (as you have said).
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I fit right in with the survey. My wife likes all white. I like colored. I do not like flashing lights on a tree.
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Plain white is sooooooo much more dignified and subtle.

Also, the coloured ones make me feel ill after a glass or 9 too many of port.....

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How can I resist a poll on Christmas tree lights for my first post?  Hey, as long as there is good music under the tree, the lights can be any thing - but I like the white ones (I'm girly, so it fits the theory)

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I like those flashy lights. Also I want them as blinding as the lighting effect Dream Theater used when I went to the Yes 35th Anniversery concert w/ Dream Theater. If my lights burn the eyes out of your head, then my lights are working the way I want them. (Cue evil music) Mwahahahah!!! (<Evil Laughter)
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Elegant static white lights anything else is just tacky

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I have never had a Christmas Tree.....too lazy.
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I have no need for a Christmas tree, I just leave my curtains open.
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Lights off for me, too many wrinkles!Confused
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Originally posted by gdub411 gdub411 wrote:

I have never had a Christmas Tree.....too lazy.

But the fairy gets to go on top!

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I like the neo-static white lights on the tree indoors but the 1970s classic twinkly flashing colours on trees outside.

I like the way the Greeks use fairy lights outside at Christmas: palm trees with strands of white lights around the trunk and along the fronds, and *loads* of twinkly lights in the streets and on houses.

I was visiting someone last weekend and he showed me a street near his house where all the residents of the street compete to outdo each other with OTT external Christmas lights and decorations. It was fantastic! I think the street must have been using the entire output of a 600 megaWatt power station. Great fun.

 
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I like the big bright different colored lights.. I need to have blue lights... just loved them as kid... I use the big ones that are static and the miniature ones that blink... Its a very colorful tree...

And Reed.... the angel goes on top  ( I have this great picture of Greg that fits nicely there)

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He was no angel!

 
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Originally posted by Fitzcarraldo Fitzcarraldo wrote:

He was no angel!

Maybe not to you... but he sure was to me!!  Fallen angel... but angel just the same.  Most angelic voice I ever heard....
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White lights on a fine healthy REAL tree. Discreet trails of silver and purple tinsel.
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Light String

Epilepsy here i come !!!!!!!!!
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Epilepsy should always be a goal when you're putting up lights
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Somebody punched out my lights !!!!!!!!!! 
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Originally posted by Dead Jester Dead Jester wrote:

Somebody punched out my lights !!!!!!!!!! 

Thats what happens when your lights are static....
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