What's the point in having streetlights?

Erica<3 wrote: »

SO maybe someday when you're walking home, in the dark, a car won't hit you because they'll be able to see because of the street lights.... How did that not occur to you?

I don't walk home in the dark. Imagine that. :eek:

I don't mind so much big built-up areas like the city, I'm talking about small areas, where there's no need for the lights. Where nobody ever really uses them. They are just on. For no reason, for the ghosts in the air. That's what I find eerie.

topper75 wrote: »

Fine if the world is all about you. Or indeed humans. Which it is not.

The proliferation of these light in country villages upsets the rhythms of nature. If you still want to be selfish about it, recognise that ultimately we are part of that biology too. Day and night have been there since the start. It works fine. Are we to inconvenience everything else to convenience townies of a nervous disposition?

I couldn't agree more. In case for some god forsaken reason one of the townies wanted to go out in the dark of night and their night vision was so bad and their concept of getting around with limited sight was so terrible that they needed the entire place lit up so they don't trip over themselves. I could easily walk around blind without tripping over myself. They never do anyway, you never see people walking around after it's gotten really dark.

All you need is a small little bit of light. You have the lights of houses that are on. You have the moonlight. The dark is helpful for biology, including your own biology as it increases the release of melatonin, syncs your circadian rhythm and helps you sleep. And then people wonder why they don't sleep well and have no energy.... I mean could you think of a more ridiculous and absurd thing as having lights blasting away outside all night? It's a bit like how Mrs. Doyle used to wait up in Father Ted with tea in the middle of the night in case they got up and wanted some.

I find it pathetic that so many people are trying to have a laugh about this and they want the lights on outside all night long for no reason. What sort of namby-pamby scaredy cats are these townies ascared of the dark....

The cardboard box "joke" doesn't even make sense. First of all, just saying someone lives in a cardboard box out of nowhere and for no reason does not have all the components of a joke. I know the image might seem funny to you, but there has to be a bit more to a joke than that. It's not just automatically funny to say it, otherwise why not just say it all day long about everyone that says anything that has anything to do with housing?

Secondly, let's hold off for a second from becoming delerious from the absolute hilarity of the idea of someone living in a cardboard box. Suppose I did live in a cardboard box. If it wasn't big enough for a curtain, then I wouldn't be able to fit in it myself. If I were very, very small and it really was that small, couldn't I just put the curtain outside the box? I mean I've heard of people not being able to think outside the box but this is just ridiculous...