That does sound a bit 'Daily Mail Reader'
They're not ugly, you can have them in any shape you like including those candle shaped ones and ye olde bulb shape.
I don't know what bad light is, something to do with cricket. If you mean colour, then CFLs are available in various hues, usually depiceted with a colour temperature ranging from 2700K (yellowish light) to 6000K (quite blue).
THere is about 5mg of mercury in a CFL, which although is toxic, is such a tiny amount as to be harmless. If you drop it, by the time you've got your dustpan and brush, the mercury will have dissipated anyway. Also, the burning of enough coal to keep your incandescent bulb lit for the same lifetime will release about 10 times as much mercury into the atmosphere.

Finally, how long have you worked with or shopped under the glow of fluorescent tubes/strip lighting? It's the same thing just a different shape.

/rant
( sandettie light vessel automatic New Twitter - @bollocksreally, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 12:20, 2 replies)

Actually no, you have to ventilate the room for half an hour before entering and cleaning, you are not allowed to use a brush or dustpan, but a piece of cardboard that you have to get rid of the same way as the pieces, in a special container. And you can't throw the bulbs in with your regular garbage. Again you have to get rid of them in a special container at the recycling place. I am sorry, but something like that doesn't get in my bedroom.

And they are ugly, yes they are. :-)
(Robotnik, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 13:10, closed)

I have a special container for broken ones!
It's the same place I put my cardboard. It's the fecking bin.
(Potty Jag har smör i min rumpspringa, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 13:43, closed)

Well, then you are doing it wrong. :-)
(Robotnik, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 14:39, closed)

^This^

( Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Wed 10 Nov 2010, 14:02, closed)