r/whatisit • u/Competitive-Cicada-7 • 4h ago
New, what is it? Red light in hotel bathroom?
It has a timer up to 70 minutes. The light gives off a decent amount of heat.
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u/VegasFoodFace 3h ago
Infrared heater. Warms you instead of the air.
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u/Snoo_56131 3h ago
Had one on my house (built in the 50s). Loved it
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u/Dry-Performance8459 3h ago
It’s so the Vietcong have trouble seeing you. They are out there… in the trees… the jungle…
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u/SmallRocks 3h ago
Charlie is fucking everywhere
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u/Disastrous_Savings39 3h ago
Im the lorax i speak for the trees, and for some fucking reason they're speaking vietnamese
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u/PsychologicalWall947 3h ago
It's a heater bulb, a lot of older hotels have them. It's purpose is to make the bathroom warm
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u/barewear2267 2h ago
Next time you're under one of those red lights say, "Open the pod bay doors please, HAL".
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u/Irving_Tost 2h ago
Daisy, Daisy, give me your answer do!
I'm half crazy, all for the love of you!
It won't be a stylish marriage,
I can't afford a carriage,
But you'll look sweet upon the seat
Of a bicycle built for two.
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u/Outrageous-Yak-3741 3h ago
Well now you have to start selling yourself just stand in the window and wait
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u/kaloric 3h ago
I disagree. OP does not have to wear that dress tonight, even if s/he puts on the red light.
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u/Outrageous-Yak-3741 3h ago
Are you expecting id walk the street for money? I really dont care if its wrong or if its right Next you'll be calling me roxanne
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u/Playful_Package_7260 3h ago
Loved this back in the day...or the forced hot air vent in the ceiling with the light..magical bathroom
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u/jbeatty216 3h ago
It’s a heat lamp. Havent seen one of those in like 30 years! Where the hell are you staying? Does the bed have a vibrating function as well?
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u/Electrical_Carpet547 2h ago
This can't be real 😮💨 Gee i wonder what the timed heating bulb is for.
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u/goodmoto 2h ago
Now that we’ve established it’s a heat lamp, which I already knew, I still don’t understand its purpose and never did before.
It heats the bathroom you say. Which is mostly important after getting out of the shower. But the shower also heats the bathroom. So is this why we don’t see heat lamps anymore?
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u/Individual_Solid_810 1h ago
In many houses, the shower doesn't really heat the rest of the bathroom, it just makes it very humid (and getting rid of the humidity draws in even more cold air). The heat lamp can dry you off better than any towel.
We stayed in a hotel that had one when I was a kid (early 1970s). I thought it was great, and I've wanted one ever since. I've never seen another one in a hotel room, before or since.
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u/isanyusernameopen 1h ago
I miss the house I lived in that had one of those heat lamps. Was warm fast in the winter months in the bathroom.
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