Toilet lights?

mumhaabu

I was in Dublin over the weekend (All-Irl Semi's) and I have noticed that every male toilets has a blacklight as the lighting rather than normal lighting. It seems to be the norm in the pubs in the City centre and restaurants too. Why don't they replace them with fluorescent lights as the energy used by them would probably be less than the blacklights.

Can anyone shed any light on this? Or is something done especially on match day to confuse us Culchies? seeing your pee come out in green luminescent is weired enough, before you have a few points on you.

Anyone shed light on it! (no pun intended!)

Pompey Magnus

It prevents drug addicts from finding their veins so they can't shoot up in the toilets. Or so I have heard.

Fad

Charco wrote: »

It prevents drug addicts from finding their veins so they can't shoot up in the toilets. Or so I have heard.

Tis true, theres a sign up in Pearse St Dart Station explaining it.

Mint Sauce

Charco wrote: »

It prevents drug addicts from finding their veins so they can't shoot up in the toilets. Or so I have heard.

the veins are alot harder to find under UV, although i've only ever seen them in public toilets, and the take aways, didn't see them in any pubs or restarants

dsmythy

Case closed!

SoWatchaWant

Bad news for me and me mates:rolleyes:

Firetrap

They've got them in the wimmins toilets as well. I don't normally think deeply about the veins in my wrists but I always try to spot them when I'm in one of those toilets

kmart6

Firetrap wrote: »

They've got them in the wimmins toilets as well. I don't normally think deeply about the veins in my wrists but I always try to spot them when I'm in one of those toilets

Tut tut!

barnacle

mumhaabu wrote: »

I was in Dublin over the weekend (All-Irl Semi's) and I have noticed that every male toilets has a blacklight as the lighting rather than normal lighting. It seems to be the norm in the pubs in the City centre and restaurants too. Why don't they replace them with fluorescent lights as the energy used by them would probably be less than the blacklights.

Can anyone shed any light on this? Or is something done especially on match day to confuse us Culchies? seeing your pee come out in green luminescent is weired enough, before you have a few points on you.

Anyone shed light on it! (no pun intended!)

Ahh.... them there bogger's dont have junkies.

rossie1977

barnacle wrote: »

Ahh.... them there bogger's dont have junkies.

never been to athlone or longford i see :pac:

tallaght01

Junkies usually don't have much in the way of visible veins anyway. They just know where to stick the needle.

Voodu Child

They can just draw on the vein in marker so they can still see it anway. Clever folk, these junkies..

Fyr.Fytr

Not that smart otherwise they wouldnt take smack in the first place


And spare me the "they wernt hugged as a child" "they didnt get nike runners for christmas" crap, lots and lots of people make good lives for themselfs against all the odds

tallaght01

Fyr.Fytr wrote: »

Not that smart otherwise they wouldnt take smack in the first place


And spare me the "they wernt hugged as a child" "they didnt get nike runners for christmas" crap, lots and lots of people make good lives for themselfs against all the odds

I dunno, I've found junkies to be pretty innovative at times.

It's off topic, but I think putting drug addiction down to stupidity is simplifying it a bit too much.

BaconZombie

They are also used to stop coke-heads due to the fact that it hard to see the line under the blacklight.