Why do rich people like white Christmas lights?

[Fritzo]

Originally posted by: forrestroche

Originally posted by: Fritzo
Must be why your parents kept calling you elegant while you were growing up.

You really should have pushed "cancel" instead of "reply to topic."

I just like making fun of know it alls. I did a search on your postings and noticed that you've either corrected or told someone that they're wrong in nearly every post you've made here. Nice work!

 

[getbush]

forrest roche lost his novelty in the 80's

 

[Auryg]

Originally posted by: jlbenedict
Is this turning into one of those e-penis threads?

Sure.

My parent's house is worth about one mil and they only have lights on two trees.

One is old ceramic colored lights on some kind of evergreen tree, and the other is white lights on a deciduous (sp).

The ceramic lights are old-skool though, and they look good. Most other houses on the street go with mainly white.

 

[mercanucaribe]

Originally posted by: getbush

Originally posted by: forrestroche

Originally posted by: Chaotic42
As a little kid, I had 26 acres of land, about 22 of which were forest. We moved to a suburb with like .75 acres. I hated it. I hope I never buy a house in a suburb like that. What a boring place to be a little kid.

Today they will fit almost a hundred homes on that chunk of land and give it a name like, "Willow Brook Gardens."

In an urban setting you can easily get more than 5000 units on 26 acres. It's all relative, different strokes for different folks. With 300,000,000 in this country, we can't all live in a beautiful and unique snowflake of a home.
Goddamn you come off as a pretentious twat in this thread.

Most of the unwashed masses don't live with their heads' up the collective ass of contemporary architects. There's no reason. A vaulted ceiling is just a desirable feature on a universal level.

Suburban is not urban. Suburban development usually means wasting huge amounts of land, and not only that, but clearing all the trees from that land, turning forest into lawn-prairie. Most of the new houses built in Texas suburbs have .25-.5 acres, so you'd probably end up with 100 houses on that land at most.

 

[Fritzo]

Originally posted by: Auryg

Originally posted by: jlbenedict
Is this turning into one of those e-penis threads?

Sure.

My parent's house is worth about one mil and they only have lights on two trees.

One is old ceramic colored lights on some kind of evergreen tree, and the other is white lights on a deciduous (sp).

The ceramic lights are old-skool though, and they look good. Most other houses on the street go with mainly white.

I'm using those old C9 lights on my trees too. They're "crystalized" though, so they give off a prism when lit. I have a gold/red/white theme with them. Neighbors seem to like it.

 

[getbush]

Originally posted by: mercanucaribe
Suburban is not urban. Suburban development usually means wasting huge amounts of land, and not only that, but clearing all the trees from that land, turning forest into lawn-prairie. Most of the new houses built in Texas suburbs have .25-.5 acres, so you'd probably end up with 100 houses on that land at most.

I never said suburban is urban. One person sad damn you used to get 1 house on 26 acres. ANother said ya now it's 100. I was just giving perspective. Your post didn't tell me anything I don't know. My whole point was that there is a wide variety of living arrangements and land usage. I'm not sure what your point is. Suburbs are inefficient? They're less efficient than urban settings. But so what, for now.

 

[Auryg]

Originally posted by: Fritzo

Originally posted by: Auryg

Originally posted by: jlbenedict
Is this turning into one of those e-penis threads?

Sure.

My parent's house is worth about one mil and they only have lights on two trees.

One is old ceramic colored lights on some kind of evergreen tree, and the other is white lights on a deciduous (sp).

The ceramic lights are old-skool though, and they look good. Most other houses on the street go with mainly white.

I'm using those old C9 lights on my trees too. They're "crystalized" though, so they give off a prism when lit. I have a gold/red/white theme with them. Neighbors seem to like it.

That sounds cool. It's a shame they suck so much power though; it'd be awesome to have more of them (trips our breakers when we do).

 

[Fritzo]

Originally posted by: Auryg

Originally posted by: Fritzo

Originally posted by: Auryg

Originally posted by: jlbenedict
Is this turning into one of those e-penis threads?

Sure.

My parent's house is worth about one mil and they only have lights on two trees.

One is old ceramic colored lights on some kind of evergreen tree, and the other is white lights on a deciduous (sp).

The ceramic lights are old-skool though, and they look good. Most other houses on the street go with mainly white.

I'm using those old C9 lights on my trees too. They're "crystalized" though, so they give off a prism when lit. I have a gold/red/white theme with them. Neighbors seem to like it.

That sounds cool. It's a shame they suck so much power though; it'd be awesome to have more of them (trips our breakers when we do).

There's only 35 lights per string, and we have 4 strings on a line. Seems to work OK. I am thinking of stocking up on LED lights after Christmas though...those things are way cool.

 

[nageov3t]

oh dear...

http://www.uglychristmaslights.com/2006_collection/velvet_rope.html

 

[Turin39789]

Originally posted by: mercanucaribe

Originally posted by: tbike06

Originally posted by: mercanucaribe
Every house in my brother's neighborhood ($400-500k houses) has all white Christmas lights. I guess it's seen as classier, to the point where no one at all has colored lights. What compels these people to be so bland and whitebread that even their Christmas lights lack color?

Edit: I realize 400-500k is not a lot in most parts of the country, but this is in a Houston suburb, and one of the most expensive subdivisions in this area. It's expensive enough for Slim Thug to have a house there.

What are you smoking?

Most highly populated parts of the country. See the replies saying that 400-500k houses = middle class.

Sorry, >35k = middle class

 

[daniel1113]

Originally posted by: Turin39789

Originally posted by: mercanucaribe

Originally posted by: tbike06

Originally posted by: mercanucaribe
Every house in my brother's neighborhood ($400-500k houses) has all white Christmas lights. I guess it's seen as classier, to the point where no one at all has colored lights. What compels these people to be so bland and whitebread that even their Christmas lights lack color?

Edit: I realize 400-500k is not a lot in most parts of the country, but this is in a Houston suburb, and one of the most expensive subdivisions in this area. It's expensive enough for Slim Thug to have a house there.

What are you smoking?

Most highly populated parts of the country. See the replies saying that 400-500k houses = middle class.

Sorry, >35k = middle class

Maybe salary, but not home value.

 

[BMdoobieW]

Originally posted by: nkgreen
Who the fvck is Slim Thug?

QFT

 

[Fayd]

white lights arent expressive enough.


here's my block

http://www.manwhoring.com/lineage/fayd/pics/xmasstreet.jpg

 

[DainBramaged]

So many white superiority/colored inferiority jokes, so little time.

 

[Fayd]

Originally posted by: DainBramaged
So many white superiority/colored inferiority jokes, so little time.

correct joke would be "aryan lights. they're the superior light".

 

[BoldAsLove]

white power! duh

 

[mugs]

Originally posted by: Chaotic42

Originally posted by: forrestroche

Originally posted by: mercanucaribe
The new subdivisions here don't have trees. They clearcut the lush pine forest to build the houses, then plant little saplings in the yards.

Isn't uncontrolled development wonderful?

As a little kid, I had 26 acres of land, about 22 of which were forest. We moved to a suburb with like .75 acres. I hated it. I hope I never buy a house in a suburb like that. What a boring place to be a little kid.

It's not boring if you look around and see that there are other kids nearby. Kids + kids > kids + trees.

 

[mugs]

Originally posted by: forrestroche

Originally posted by: fanerman91
What's a vaulted ceiling?

Its a favored architectural feature of the cookie-cutter mansion. It is a ceiling, usually in the living room, that reaches to the roof joists. It is associated with middle and higher end suburban development homes because the ceiling requires the sacrifice of second story footage. It lost it's novelty somewhere back in the early eighties and now is viewed with disdain (or humor) within serious architectural circles.

Err... wouldn't any cookie cutter mansion be viewed with disdain within "serious" architectural circles?

 

[mugs]

Originally posted by: forrestroche

Originally posted by: biggestmuff
Why do poor people have bad taste?

You don't see rich people decorating their entire property with all red or all blue lights.

You do sometimes. They are called nouveau rich. They live in cookie cutter mansions, drive Navigators or Hummers, and spend more on one surround sound speaker than they will on museum tickets in their entire lifetimes.

I'm catching up on this thread from the bottom up, so I'm seeing your posts in reverse order. It has become apparant to me that you are a young person whose parents have a lot of money. You should introduce yourself to RyanSengara and Qosis and join their club of spoiled rich kids. Surely a wealthy adult would not be as classless as you.

 

[uberman]

Originally posted by: forrestroche

Originally posted by: uberman
I like blinking multi-colored lights and black velvet paintings.

And Schlitz.

Of course, Schlitz ... the beer that made Milwaukee famous... my personal favorite.

 

[Vic]

Uhhh... I don't get the class warfare argument here. Christmas lights are very cheap.

 

[mercanucaribe]

Originally posted by: mugs

Originally posted by: Chaotic42

Originally posted by: forrestroche

Originally posted by: mercanucaribe
The new subdivisions here don't have trees. They clearcut the lush pine forest to build the houses, then plant little saplings in the yards.

Isn't uncontrolled development wonderful?

As a little kid, I had 26 acres of land, about 22 of which were forest. We moved to a suburb with like .75 acres. I hated it. I hope I never buy a house in a suburb like that. What a boring place to be a little kid.

It's not boring if you look around and see that there are other kids nearby. Kids + kids > kids + trees.

There aren't any kids around an upper class neighborhood. They are all at their clubs and activities and classes.

 

[mercanucaribe]

Originally posted by: Turin39789

Originally posted by: mercanucaribe

Originally posted by: tbike06

Originally posted by: mercanucaribe
Every house in my brother's neighborhood ($400-500k houses) has all white Christmas lights. I guess it's seen as classier, to the point where no one at all has colored lights. What compels these people to be so bland and whitebread that even their Christmas lights lack color?

Edit: I realize 400-500k is not a lot in most parts of the country, but this is in a Houston suburb, and one of the most expensive subdivisions in this area. It's expensive enough for Slim Thug to have a house there.

What are you smoking?

Most highly populated parts of the country. See the replies saying that 400-500k houses = middle class.

Sorry, >35k = middle class

Middle class doesn't even mean anything in this country. People in the top 10% earning segment of the population will claim they are middle class, and so will people in the bottom 10%.

 

[mugs]

Originally posted by: mercanucaribe

Originally posted by: mugs

Originally posted by: Chaotic42

Originally posted by: forrestroche

Originally posted by: mercanucaribe
The new subdivisions here don't have trees. They clearcut the lush pine forest to build the houses, then plant little saplings in the yards.

Isn't uncontrolled development wonderful?

As a little kid, I had 26 acres of land, about 22 of which were forest. We moved to a suburb with like .75 acres. I hated it. I hope I never buy a house in a suburb like that. What a boring place to be a little kid.

It's not boring if you look around and see that there are other kids nearby. Kids + kids > kids + trees.

There aren't any kids around an upper class neighborhood. They are all at their clubs and activities and classes.

He said suburbs, not upper class neighborhood.

 

[KarmaPolice]

I live in a pretty well off neighborhood...our house is part of the old part of it so we dont have that huge of a house but on the otherside they are all 500k+. They tell us that we are not to have any color lights in a yard lol. of course..we dont listen..but still...