I Hate LED Lights

The town next to ours did this too. Those harsh white lights look awful. They have all the charm of fluorescent tubes. I can't believe the people who make those things don't know better than to color them to give them a warm glow.

Sorry. I don't know how "colored lights" became "looted lights."

LEDs look a lot different. The colors are generated in an extremely narrow color spectrum, R,G and/or B, and the result is glaring. Great if you want a laser-like effect, otherwise not very pleasant.

The point of lighting Christmas trees is from the pagan festivals of light at the darkest time of year. Humans were making light (using bonfires and torches at the beginning of time; then using wax candles, then using electric light) to chase away and triumph over the darkness.

Using LED lights makes the whole thing pointless. The light isn't triumphant over darkness. The light has become part of the darkness.

The purple-grey tint of "white" LEDs is really irritating. It can look somewhat decent in the right context, but fails as a replacement for clear white (or those older amber-white) Christmas lights.

Fuck the new normal of insisting Christmas decorations must be energy efficient at the cost of a pleasing, warm aesthetic. Let's just jump back a hundred years and have candles on our trees!

You pay taxes? Those LED lights save money hunny.

Can you still buy the old-fashioned kind?

OP @ r2, it wasn't cattle clysmic.

R7, My taxes don't pay for Christmas lights because I don't live in the village (which has its own tax structure).

And believe me, if it's one thing my village has, it's money. A recent sale in my village, for $25M, was a house that was on the register of historic homes. It was promptly torn down, and a glass building is going up in its place. Those are the people who pay village taxes and I don't think they're too worried about saving money on village Christmas lights. In fact, I'm sure they have no idea what goes on in the village past Labor Day.

R10-now I'm more interested in your town than the LED lights (awful btw.)

Greenwich? Grosse Pointe? Rye?

I can't tell the difference. So sue me.

SO the blue-purple headlights are LED?

the LED lights are duller

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R15 What's this to do with LED lights.?

ha, sorry, I thought I was making a new thread.

So that's what those blue lights all over London are, LEDs? I thought they were just icy blue lights and had no idea that they were supposed to be white.

I hate them too. The red is more of a bright pink and looks tacky and SO NOT Christmas-y to me. That color alone ruins the entire strand of the colored lights,and the white ones are cold and yes, sinister looking. I love an old fashioned looking tree with those big, old colored lights and cranberries and popcorn strung around it. I also like the all white lights, when they aren't LED.

Datalounge, where people come to hate, or at least trivialize the act of hating.

[quote]I avoid the town after sundown

I'm sure the town is pleased to no end.

[quote]those big, old colored

Birdie is please, ain't Birdie please... You know what Birdie is Mr Gildersleeve, that's right Birdie is please you like big old coloreds.

Your town bought cheap lights. And did not work with a designer.

There are quality led lights with a good color temperature. Also color LED lights can be fine.

And the energy savings are fantastic and honourable.

by the way, even though I claim LED lights can, if effort and expense is put into it, be fine, I also love incandescent lights and have a large stockpile of incandescent bulbs, which no longer exist in much of Europe.

For example, I have fabulous garlands like you would see on a popular summer terrace or garden party with clear large incandescent bulbs. Its lovely but you need a lot of juice to run them, which I do for special parties in summer.

The only way you can get such bulbs now is to claim you are an art gallery, or an amusement company, or for theatre marques, etc.

There is still an old fluorescent bulb factory in deep switzerland. They can't sell their fabulous bulbs retail, though they do ship their edison bulbs around the world.

Florescent, r24, or incandescent?

We have plenty of incandescent Christmas lights here. Garlands, icicles, nets, single strand, C9, C7, mini lights, rice lights, fairy lights.

yes - late here. I mean incandescent... its near lucerne

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The biggest globes are to die for.

They make e14 coloured flames - the old timey type used in garlands in the states. 6 bucks a bulb.

Same thing where I live. Driving through the streets with those LED light trees is like driving through a weird halloween/christmas scene.

The warmer LED lights are fine.

My town routinely allows the cutting down of woods, the bulldozing of farms and the destruction of ocean beaches in order to build some of the biggest part-time homes on the planet. We probably use more water in summer than anywhere else in the US due to our swimming pools alone, not counting the fact that miles of sod are irrigated here every day, even during hurricanes.

But we're going to save the planet by replacing perfectly good Christmas lights with hideous LEDs. Yeah, that's the priority.

We have plastic versions of those in the U.S., R30, though you can still find some glass incandescent versions. The actual vintage ones are on sale on eBay constantly but are expensive, and I know from experience that they can be dangerous nowadays. The construction of these was never very good.

Only one of the 14 sets I had from the 1970s still works.

I actually enjoy the violet overlay of the white LED lamps, but agree that it isn't very festive or inviting. Neither are blue lights, if you want to get picky about it. To my eyes, the white LEDs look like the twilight through a snowy pine forest, like I recall from many trips as a child to spend holidays in the Sierras, so to me it's mysterious, but not off-putting.

All of my Christmas lights have color filters of different shapes over the lamps themselves, I don't see much difference between them and incandescent lights. Much like I've grown used to the CFLs we have here that are encased in traditional flood lamp enclosures. I still insist on incandescent bulbs for many applications, that's not going away. And my older female relatives have me on-call to hunt down pink light bulbs for them :)

Hello, Jarvis? It's Auntie Sue. Could you be a dear and hunt me down a pink light bulb for my boudoir?

I agree about the LEDs. The colors are too intense and lurid, and the whites are ghastly and give everything an evil look. I miss the old-school gently twinkling lights.

I don't notice the difference.

When I renovated my bathroom, I put in fixtures for incandescent, compact florescent, polarized, and a 4-watt night light. When the incandescents burn out, I’ve been replacing them with LED bulbs, but I don’t like the momentary time it takes for the LED lights to illuminate.

R37 Hi, 2015 Bump Bitch.