ruminations on decorations

So.  About these holiday decorations of which you Normals are so fond...What is UP with the gigantic inflatable things?  hmm?  Why are the traditional fairy lights no longer enough for you people?  I do love the lights and greenery. A house with the icicle lights and some pine roping makes me happy.  Leafless trees with white lights?  Love 'em.  Heck, I even like the colorful lights.  Not so much with the chaser lights, but still.  A lighted Nativity, while not my particular idiom, is totally within the realm of good taste.  I will EVEN deign to allow one, at most TWO of those odd stick reindeer (esp if they have the good graces to be funny, like Amy's).  But those inflatable things?  I do. not. get. it.  They are large, ugly, in no way Magical Wonderland-y.  They are, at best, tacky.  At worst, Terrifying Christmastide Horrorshow.   On the way back from Stacey's party, I saw a lawn that had a Santa and a Snowman, both had one arm up, ostensibly to wave.  But Santa had fallen over, so appeared to be reaching for his Medicalert, while Frosty raised his fist in trimuph over the prone fatman.  I've noticed a trend toward animation this year, with kinda creepy carousels-in-a-jar and snow globes in which the "snow" inevitably sticks to the sides of the globe in a Christmas miracle of static.  It's distressingly common to see a house with a small front yard with 3 or 4 of these things crammed onto it.  It looks less like a gingerbread cottage and more like a...I don't know, a place that sells tacky-ass inflatable Christmas crap.  How is this good?  How is this pretty?  People:  Stop It.  Stop it now. 

I admit, I am kind of thinking about an FSM in lights...