I just think the novelty of these type of displays was up in the 90s, It’s time for an upgrayedd. I propose leprechauns flying up and down the river wearing water jet packs, shooting people with their Chicago-style hot dog cannons would be more with the times. What’s your idea?

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    Pretty sure you can eat Fluorescein with no ill effects other than turning your piss dayglo. It’s very widely used as a ‘non-toxic’ tracer dye so I’d imagine studies have been done.

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      Have they done studies on this scale? Probably. But still a valid question. If nothing else it kind of desensitizes us to pouring green sludge into rivers. Fuck do I know, I’d be freaked out if I was a fish. I’d also eat a incandescent neon green fish, but that’s on the fish.

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          Doing something isn’t the same as studying it, though. If I were to eat a few litres of ice-cream that’s not a study on the effects of excessive ice-cream consumption, that’s just someone eating an unhealthy amount of ice-cream. People do stupid things all the time with the excuse that that’s how it’s always been done.

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              Effects includea nausea, loss of motor control, and vomiting. And singing. But mainly vomiting.

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        I’d be freaked out if I was a fish

        Honestly this is the thing I’m most worried about. I have little doubt that it’s been studied to be non-toxic. I said as much in my first comment. I’m more worried about more-difficult-to-study effects like on the behaviour of the fish.

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          I mean there’s too few of them left to make a good sample size anyway so fuck it let’s dye the river like it’s potato famine o clock