Keep up, grandad.
The best way to show off your common, pikey credentials at Christmas nowadays is with electric lights. The more the better.
Tinsel is more for the dumb office bints to put in their hair and drape lamely over light fittings 'to brighten the place up a bit'
( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Thu 6 Nov 2014, 9:51, 3 replies, latest was 10 years ago)

Icicles or GTF

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Thu 6 Nov 2014, 9:57, Reply)

The shopping centre here has lights that I think are supposed to emulate dripping icicles.
They're absolutely ghastly.
( Kroney, Thu 6 Nov 2014, 10:03, Reply)

what about animatronic reindeer on the front lawn?
they shit class
(old man river possible lesbian, Thu 6 Nov 2014, 10:04, Reply)

I like an oversized inflatable snowman in the front garden and a Father Christmas hanging from one of the bedroom windows

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Thu 6 Nov 2014, 10:07, Reply)

YES!!

(old man river possible lesbian, Thu 6 Nov 2014, 10:08, Reply)

I flew into Boston one December and I swear down you could actually see the tacky illuminated garden displays from the plane
It was like flying into fucking Blackpool
(old man river possible lesbian, Thu 6 Nov 2014, 10:09, Reply)

I am sure it gave you More than a feeling of Blackpool

(Bonzodog29 is an unemployed sponge of the worst kind, Thu 6 Nov 2014, 10:10, Reply)

I'm doing that raised eyebrow look of disapproval that mothers do when you use swears at the dinner table

(old man river possible lesbian, Thu 6 Nov 2014, 10:11, Reply)

And now I am erect
What are you going to do about that eh
(Bonzodog29 is an unemployed sponge of the worst kind, Thu 6 Nov 2014, 10:15, Reply)

I'm going to suck it dry like mothers do at the dinner table

(old man river possible lesbian, Thu 6 Nov 2014, 10:20, Reply)

So Christmas trees should be gaudy and tacky,
but lawn displays should be elegant and refined.

I see.
( Kroney, Thu 6 Nov 2014, 10:18, Reply)

lawn displays shouldn't exist at all

(old man river possible lesbian, Thu 6 Nov 2014, 10:20, Reply)

apart from those adorable and not at all racist little porcelain negro boys
which are also depressingly common in Boston
(old man river possible lesbian, Thu 6 Nov 2014, 10:32, Reply)

dreary bourgeous joysponge^

( Kroney, Thu 6 Nov 2014, 11:10, Reply)

c'est bien terrible ton écriture

(old man river possible lesbian, Thu 6 Nov 2014, 11:18, Reply)

It is good terrible for your writing?

( Kroney, Thu 6 Nov 2014, 11:21, Reply)

your writing is well rubbish
One would expect a Frenchman, particularly a dreary bourgeois Frenchman, to be able to spell "bourgeois".
(old man river possible lesbian, Thu 6 Nov 2014, 11:31, Reply)

votre écriture est terrible

( Kroney, Thu 6 Nov 2014, 11:33, Reply)

why would a Frenchman be using Google translate?
c'est vachement bizarre, ça
(old man river possible lesbian, Thu 6 Nov 2014, 11:41, Reply)

I'd love a bit of that, IDC, that sort of thing makes me happy

( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Thu 6 Nov 2014, 11:11, Reply)

I can just see your front garden covered in Christmas themed boggly-eyed Pug ornaments.

( Kroney, Thu 6 Nov 2014, 11:13, Reply)

YES!!

(old man river possible lesbian, Thu 6 Nov 2014, 11:17, Reply)

We did this one christmas and it was really awesome
www.flickr.com/photos/mr90nz0/4226837992/
www.flickr.com/photos/mr90nz0/4226068513/
www.flickr.com/photos/mr90nz0/4226833952/

The pictures don't quite do it justice
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Thu 6 Nov 2014, 11:36, Reply)

Only if you have it rigged to a sound system
with distant HO HO HO's
(Bonzodog29 is an unemployed sponge of the worst kind, Thu 6 Nov 2014, 10:07, Reply)

I have the sound of sleigh bells on a constant loop from 1st December through to Twelfth Night

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Thu 6 Nov 2014, 10:10, Reply)

last year I bought that Christmas by Low on vinyl
No Xmas hollipops is complete without it!!!
(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Thu 6 Nov 2014, 10:22, Reply)

I imagine it has limited appeal.

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Thu 6 Nov 2014, 10:51, Reply)

Twelfth Night Easter
(Reverend Fister "a disciplined fuckwit", Thu 6 Nov 2014, 10:24, Reply)