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Blue toilet water.

OK, perhaps I am not irritated, I am just disoriented. It just seems so...wrong.
And it kind of grosses me off and I can't look at it.

Artificially tinted blue toilet water, that is...

Blue lagoon in the toilets?

Totally agree. What is the point? And what about other colours, like hot-pink, or lime green, or perhaps tangerine.

Yes. Water is not blue, the sky is blue.

Duh.

I know there is apparently toilet cleaner/deodorizer in the additive: but obviously a lot of blue coloring serving no purpose but to gross me out.

Unless NTs think water is blue?

F*** yes, I want hot pink toilet water.

Anyway, I think the blue is there so you can, like, see the clean and be reassured that your toilet is in fact clean. In case a mere clean-looking toilet isn't clean enough for you. Or something. <__<

Water is typically drawn and described as being blue.

You can get other colours.

When my wee boy was about 4 years old he was fascinated by coloured water in the toilets, which is usually blue. For his granny's birthday present he decided to give her various colours of toilet water tint. I remember red, green and orange! His granny was very surprised by her present.

I guess I don't get why water = blue, except when water is reflecting the sky: which is often blue?

Water is colorless.

It can appear to be blue sometimes. That and advertisements for water and such always show water drawn as blue. I think it's easier to draw something as blue rather than clear...

Also, toilet water is most frequently blue instead of, say, orange or green because blue looks more "clean" and water-related than orange or green. As for why people color their toilet water, just because it looks neat. I'm pretty sure sometimes it's also from cleaners.

When I was younger, maybe 9 or 10, I attempted to clean the bathroom, but I didn't know that the blue stuff was from cleaner so I put some blue food color in the toilet.

I actually think it is kinda cool when it turns progressively from blue to green. You know what I mean.

LOL. Did it stain the bowl blue? XD

It did for awhile. But it went nicely with the spider that my mom hair-sprayed to the tub around that same time.

blu·ing also blue·ing (blōō'ĭng)
n.
Any of various coloring agents (such as indigo) used to counteract the yellowing of laundered clothing or blonde or silver hair.

this is why the water is blue, they use bluing to brighten/whiten the bowl instead of chlorine bleach which eats away at the rubber stoppers.

LMAO, gross. XD

I get it. But I think that's gross/something my brother would find amusing . Blue toilet water doesn't bug me b/c than I know the toilet's clean. Just get rid of it by flushing it. I have more issues with moldy food & dirty looking toothbrushes. Maybe NT people just when with blue as the supposed "color of water" rather than clear b/c when the oceans clean & you look at the water it looks some shade of blue b/c of the sky from a distance. Though to me the ocean can look clear, any shade of blue or green & even orange or brown etc. depending on how "clean it is" (its not though) & the distance you are looking at it from/what colors from the sky it is refracting. That reminds me, I hate the sun.