I hate fluorescent lights

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I am sitting at work under a ceiling full of oppressive fluorescent lights. (The flimsy covers were removed a long time ago for reasons I no longer remember.) I find them draining, psychologically and maybe even physically. I would never choose to stay in an environment like this, if it weren't my job. It's not just aesthetic, it's something about the light itself and its physical impact (even if it's not physically harmful, strictly speaking).

― RS LaRue (rockist_scientist), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 01:16 (twenty years ago)

Granted, these lights are particularly raw and unpleasant. I do sort of like the pinkish ones in the street lamps, but that's because they are out in the open and the light behaves differently. (The ones in here don't bother me nearly as much during the day when sunlight comes through the rather large windows here.)

Sorry, I don't have a question. Maybe next time.

― RS LaRue (rockist_scientist), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 01:18 (twenty years ago)

I hate overhead lights period. It almost borders into a phobia as one someone switches them on in my place I nearly go into a panic attack. I think I'm going to duct tape over every switch to an overhead light in my place.

― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 01:21 (twenty years ago)

I have fluorescent lights that run along the underside of the shelves above my desk and I never have them on or else I get horrible migraines. Worse migraines than my coworkers give me.

― Carl Winslow is WHAT!?!? (deangulberry), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 01:21 (twenty years ago)

i hate all strip lights, bare lighting, ofice lights etc. fckng hate them. in every room/house i ever lived in i have replaced each and every bulb/strip light.bit of every day electric lighting with candles fairy lights soft bulbs and the like. i think certain light can be draining yes. definitely.

on the light front also, today i came back to manchester from london and the sight of the fairy lights in the trees outside the station made me feel all funny.

i want the whole world covered in fairy lights!

― piscesboy, Tuesday, 4 January 2005 01:22 (twenty years ago)

i think you mean what I call xmas lights and I agree. those and candles are my primary form of illumination. People keep saying me I'm going to go blind but so far so good!

― Miss Misery (thatgirl), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 01:28 (twenty years ago)

this office, which is supposed to be 'architectually designed' (so you might expect inset halogen lighting), has 24 blazing fluros in a 8m x 6m space. my colleagues seem immune to the fast-frequency flickering glare. worse, actually, they scramble to replace any light that's looking like it's giving up the ghost. the lighting is a visual equivalent of the over-roasted coffee that the office woman dishes out far too often and far too liberally.

this lighting and the bottomless coffee make evil fun in my optic nerve, for which only blue fairy/xmas lights are the antidote.

― kossori (not entirely unhappy), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 02:40 (twenty years ago)

My office is eight feet by ten feet and is equipped with enough overhead fluorescent lights to man a prison break. I get headaches and can't focus. I finally brought up a lamp with shade and a sixty watt bulb. Even still, the guys I share my office with won't use the lamp. When I do get it turned on, people stop by in the hallway and ask, "What, you like sitting in the dark? Are you a bat?" As if they use fluorescent lights in their living rooms.

I used to work in a Kinko's. I pity anyone who has to work underneath those lights, with those loud machines running, inhaling the toner everytime a cartridge is changed. Oh, the nasty flashbacks...

I found a nice church once that I gave some thought to having our wedding in. However, I couldn't think seriously about it since it had FLUORESCENT LIGHTS in the fixtures instead of regular 'uns. I know, it's nice that the church was so economic and thrifty, but I couldn't go through with it.

Methodists.

― Pleasant Plains ///, Tuesday, 4 January 2005 03:13 (twenty years ago)

"What, you like sitting in the dark? Are you a bat?"

PAHAHAHAH

― Carl Winslow is WHAT!?!? (deangulberry), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 03:23 (twenty years ago)

It was probably the fault of the church's Pastor Parish Relations Committee.

― RS LaRue (rockist_scientist), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 03:39 (twenty years ago)

Flourescent lighting has it's good points. I'll think of one in a minute. The lights that really do me in, though, are the outdoor lights that philistines use to illuminate their yards by night. The 500 watt ones that shine right in your eyes as you drive by. Like a simple lamp post or two won't do for them.

Oh yeah, It's kinda fun to smash flourescents in a dumpster. Not too environmentally friendly, but still a good time.

― jim wentworth (wench), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 04:49 (twenty years ago)

i actually really like fluorescent lighting. the more sterile and oppressive, the better.

― fauxhemian (fauxhemian), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 05:10 (twenty years ago)

[i]Flourescent lighting has it's good points. [/i]

can't beat it when searching for stuff to be cleared from pores, or when sizing up a date: like if the date's still fittish after a detour through mcdonald's-strength lighting, then you may feel assured that you won't regret hooking up the next day. but i am shallow like that.

under this lighting, some of the pores of one of my colleagues appear indistinguishable from his nostrils.

― kossori (not entirely unhappy), Tuesday, 4 January 2005 05:13 (twenty years ago)

fifteen years pass...

A nightmare to change. At my previous place, I gave up and switched over to a lamp in the kitchen. I just tried to replace my first pair in over a decade; couldn't get them to stop flickering, eventually broke off the thingy at end of one of them and the other crashed to the floor. Will try again tomorrow.

― clemenza, Tuesday, 17 November 2020 01:34 (five years ago)

probably should change the 'ballast', too. they are truly a pain in the ass. especially now that LEDs come in higher lumens, are cheap, and widely available.

― the unappreciated charisma of cows (Aimless), Tuesday, 17 November 2020 01:49 (five years ago)

I had to look up ballast, which sums up my technical prowess well, but good point--I'm going to go to a local light place first and look into getting the whole unit replaced.

― clemenza, Tuesday, 17 November 2020 04:10 (five years ago)

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