Christmas? Lights in the Birmingham Jewellery Quarter.

**geti-titanium** · 27-11-2009, 07:03 AM

The lights are up in the Quarter. They’ve gone for a jewellery theme again this year (same boring ones as last year). Clever little animated dots of light that seem to give no indication that they are meant to represent Christmas at all.

Is this a clever marketing ploy giving subliminal messages to visitors to push them to spend more or have they completely missed the point of Christmas?

What do you think? Do you prefer Christmas lights that look Christmassy and tacky or arty #arty designer type?

**mizgeorge** · 27-11-2009, 08:05 AM

Tacky for me every time

**Petal** · 27-11-2009, 08:39 AM

Originally Posted by mizgeorge

Tacky for me every time

Yup, me too!

I always feel sad taking down my Xmas lights at home.

**Di Sandland** · 27-11-2009, 08:49 AM

The tackier the better for me - Christmas and style is a contradiction of terms

**agent_44** · 27-11-2009, 09:06 AM

Tack Christmas decorations stress me out, but then I think deep down, I am a little bit poncey. Well, maybe not that deep down even. We had Nicholas Cage turn on our Xmas lights last night but I don't know what they look like. I wanted to go down and then have a look at the Christmas Market which opened last night but had forgotten and promised a friend I would go and do some work on their PC, d'oh!