Which holiday are the lights for?

Summer Solstice

This is really cool!

How do the neighbours feel?

Flag day

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Wow!

neat

That's great. I'm glad that people don't have the option to make a dick out of lights.

Totally forgot there's a war on Christmas. You're so brave.

Great domain name choice 🤌

Sounds good, let's get that tradition rolling!

Yeah, that was totally my point. 🙄

I say happy holidays, because not everyone celebrate Christmas, or Kwanzaa, or Chanukah.

Pretty sure the cards I sent out this year said "seasons greetings".

I don't care about Christmas as a religious holiday; I'm not xtian and the christos took all the trappings of the holiday from various pagan celebrations anyway.

On the other hand, what other seasonal holiday do people put up lights for in the winter? Not Thanksgiving, or Kwanzaa AFAIK, or Chanukah, or the winter solstice, or ... anything really. They're just Christmas lights.

There's a place for generality, and there's a place for specificity. You wouldn't call the menorah or the kinara a "holiday candlestick", after all. So why "holiday tree" or "holiday lights" when those are the trappings of a particular holiday?

I say Happy Holiday because most people only celebrate one.

We don't celebrate Christmas but we still put lights up for the holidays because it's fun

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Oh shit, I better take down the blow up dragon with a Santa hat on it. Wouldn’t want people to assume I actually go to church because I put up Christmas TM decorations and am being disrespectful to those who celebrate other holidays…

Lights are there to bring a smallest ounce of joy to anyone who is capable of seeing shiny things and go, oh that’s nice.

I'll tell my Hindu neighbor that he can't put up Christmas lights anymore.

Christmas is a secular holiday, however much the goofy christians want it to be otherwise.

Sure. And if you decided that you wanted to put out a yule log because that's fun, would you call it a "holiday log"?

I've never seen one half of a username be so accurate. This is.. tiring to read.

Reddit hug of death

Fun fact, "holiday" is a religious term. It's literally just a lazy way of saying "holy day".

When they turn the lights back on Deee-lights! is about to become Deee-znutz!

Not sure if you get the reference or not, but:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deee-Lite

I'm in Portland and waana see.... Where is it?

Language evolves. In the UK holiday means vacation, in the US it means time off. Or do you think that Labor Day, a national holiday, is a religious day?

Is this on peacock lane?

As we celebrate yule, we call it a yule log. I wouldn't say someone is wrong for calling it a holiday log, though that would be a lot more confusing than holiday lights

I PM'd you the address. You can find it online but I don't want to post it publicly without u/humanclock's permission.

Better, now that they know I'm doing it again this year...they were worried I wasn't (at least the ones I talked to)

Thanks!

Ty I'm gunna go soon