What the fuck is up with the candles?

[Slargos]

Every goddamned movie or tv-show that wants to depict a precious moment of relaxation (especially first-time romantic lovey dovey non-Seedy sex) has a vastly over-inflated candle budget.

Obviously, some of it must translate to the real world because IKEA sells candles for unimaginable sums every year. However, that could simply be an effect of people wanting to imagine themselves as the kinds of people who light up entire rooms with hundreds of candles and so the fraud continues.

What - the - fuck - gives?

Do YOU use candles?

Why do you use candles?

What is the fucking deal here?

What's candles got that can't be supplied by nice, clean LED lighting?

THIS IS DRIVING ME NUTS.

[Josquius]

Candles make the air smell nice.
I don't make a habit of using them, they're very much a girly thing, but have in the past.

I'm far more annoyed at how seemless sex in the movies is. Never any false starts or moments of 'is it in yet?' or bits of conversation.

[Brazen]

They're used in films because because the light is very flattering.

I don't use them. The flat across the road burned down from someone forgetting a candle.

I just don't get how much they cost. The average posh scented candle seems to go for £50. And these ones, well...
http://www.jomalone.co.uk/products/3561/For-The-Home/Luxury-Candles/index.tmpl

Plus scented ones give me a headache and make me sneeze.

At least the IKEA ones only cost £1.99 for a pack of 30.

[Norgy]

What's candles got that can't be supplied by nice, clean LED lighting?

THIS IS DRIVING ME NUTS.

Ambience, apparently.

I suggest a candlelit vigil to protest it.

[Slargos]

What's candles got that can't be supplied by nice, clean LED lighting?

THIS IS DRIVING ME NUTS.

Ambience, apparently.

I suggest a candlelit vigil to protest it.

I'm more into torch-lit "vigils" myself. 

[Brazen]

When Dad decorated his girlfriend's living room, she burns so many candles* there was a thick, greasy layer of smoke to clean off the ceiling, like a couple of 40-a-day smokers had lived there for years.

* Obviously not for when they're having sex, because they don't do that. Oh no. No, no, no.

[CountDeMoney]

Do YOU use candles?

From time to time.

Why do you use candles?

Ambient lighting and scent.

What is the fucking deal here?

It's easier than a tossing another Jew on the pyre.

[Eddie Teach]

Do YOU use candles?

On rare occasions.

Why do you use candles?

The power's out. 

[CountDeMoney]

Why do you use candles?

The power's out. 

lol

[Ed Anger]

I'd take Slargos to Yankee Candle.

[Slargos]

I'd take Slargos to Yankee Candle.

Is their secret ingredient by any chance Jew? 

[CountDeMoney]

I'd take Slargos to Yankee Candle.

I was there just yesterday, buying new air fresheners for the Jeep.  Mountain Trail.  Very Jeepish.

[Ed Anger]

I assume there was a lot of mall ass there. 

[jimmy olsen]

I'd take Slargos to Yankee Candle.

I was there just yesterday, buying new air fresheners for the Jeep.  Mountain Trail.  Very Jeepish.

LOL, since when do you drive a jeep?

[garbon]

Illuminations, which unfortunately seems to have all but died out as a chain, has way better smelling candles that Yankee Candle.