Gonzo approves.

That's pretty cool actually.

Deserves the Hero tag IMHO.

Seen through Yves St. Laurent Glasses?

/unimpressed

Well, I'm glad he didn't do anything DUMB with that 30K.

As opposed to Fitzgerald's Irish-themed casino in Reno, which looks like it was designed by the Lucky Charms leprechaun on DMT.

That's bullshiat, subby.

TFA says it was £30,000. You suck.

"Las Vegas on acid" is redundant.

meh...

I can think of better ways to spend that kind of cash.

spend it on cups and cakes.

Are his neighbors even able to turn anything on?? It looks like that could drain the power for the entire grid!

kagemaru026 2008-12-03 01:06:55 PM
That's bullshiat, subby.

TFA says it was £30,000. You suck.
converted to dollars at todays rate =44,182.81

It is impressive what bad taste can accomplish with some serious cash in hand.

/'nuff said

I don't think he's committed any sin except going to so much expense to create something ugly instead of illuminating:



That took 14 years, eh? It looks it. I wonder what he would have come up with if he had all that money at one time to spend? When you accumulate things over years, you fall in love with items and make them fit. But if he'd spent all that money at once.... I don't know.

He's 24 years old & has 30,000 pounds to spend on X-Mas lights?
I'm doing it wrong.

Came in for the HST reference, left happy.

ow! my eyes!

the picture alone is blinding.

The average annual energy bill in the UK is less than 700 pounds?
Cheap!

metroatlrecruiter: Came in for the HST reference, left happy.

That makes two of us.

/RIP HST

We can't stop here, this is bat country!

'tis the season to be an attention whore.

stodluke: meth...

I can think of better ways to spend that kind of cash.

spend it on cups and cakes.

ftfy

mike4688: He's 24 years old & has 30,000 pounds to spend on X-Mas lights?
I'm doing it wrong.

you forgot the conversion...

in US years, he's 35.

Coming up next, a report on all the people having seizures looking at the f*cking thing.

Looks like its missing the stupid inflatable Santa on a Harley, jumping inflated penguins and snowmen to deliver the gifts of the Magi to the creche. Why do farks like this decorate their homes to look like Area 51? Not being grinchy, really, just against bad taste.

Good thing all the proceeds are going to... uhm, whom?

loki see loki do: The average annual energy bill in the UK is less than 700 pounds?
Cheap

Actually it said his avg yearly bill was 700 pounds, twice as much as his neighbors. That would be about what $450 or so a year for the average brit? I spend that in a month in Texas. Bummer.

mike4688: He's 24 years old & has 30,000 pounds to spend on X-Mas lights?
I'm doing it wrong.

Kill your parents for the inheritance. It his mother died 2 years ago.

TFA: While many households are feeling the pinch,

I farking hate this line... they might as well have said 'While many African children are starving'

I realise that the world's economy is a wee bit shaky right now, but there have been "many households feeling the pinch" since there were households around to farking feel it.

This tabloid creation, the 'credit crunch', is little more than scaremongering and is actually detrimental to the economy - making a bad situation ultra mega super cataclysmic.

Isay good farking luck to the dude and to his neighbours who feel the need to put up competing displays (as long as they don't put it on plastic)

/endthreadjackrant

Mmm, yes, can we all just take a moment and recognize that this was one of them limejuicers and not an American? Just to forestall the standard snarking about trailers and colored necks from the self-loathing AmeriKKKans?

This redneck's trailer is... oh wait. Thanks Piper

jakrabit: mike4688: He's 24 years old & has 30,000 pounds to spend on X-Mas lights?
I'm doing it wrong.

you forgot the conversion...

in US years, he's 35.

+1

LV on acid...funny story...

Man spends $50,000 making his house look like Las Vegas on acid crap

FTFY

I'm voting for: 'tis the season to be an attention whore! Thanks to drxym.

FTA Alex uses the display to raise money for charity. Donations from visitors have put more than £2,000 into the coffers of a local hospice which looked after his mother before she died two years ago.

Wouldn't he have been more help if he just donated half the money he spent on this instead of collecting 1/15th of what he spent?

Savage Bastard!

mike4688: He's 24 years old & has 30,000 pounds to spend on X-Mas lights?
I'm doing it wrong.

This.

Considering TFA is about something visual, is it too much to ask for a link to a larger picture, much less more than a single thumbnail picture?

If I lived anywhere near this guy I'd try and get him to let Tyrone Slothrop stay overnight and bang somebody.

Last year his electricity bill was £700

something tells me he's not using LEDs

/im getting a real kick out of it... because the guy lives about a mile away and yes i have seen this hideous chav-house (*as my stepson calls it), its one of these xmas-must-do-laughs he really enjoys.

Heh heh...

Slightly better picture on the BBC Wiltshire site.

Slackness: /im getting a real kick out of it... because the guy lives about a mile away and yes i have seen this hideous chav-house (*as my stepson calls it), its one of these xmas-must-do-laughs he really enjoys.

Is it worth the drive down from Chippenham?