Ghozer Posted March 25, 2013 Share Posted March 25, 2013 Seriously, I have to ask.... What is this country coming to?? http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-essex-21923218 My favourite quote from the page... Health and safety advisor Ray Hurst said he could not understand why triangular flapjacks had been banned, but not those cut into squares or rectangles. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nikki-red Posted March 25, 2013 Share Posted March 25, 2013 I just saw this on the news, had to double check it wasnt April 1st! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
llamatron Posted March 25, 2013 Share Posted March 25, 2013 I just saw this on the news, had to double check it wasnt April 1st! Me too, I did enjoy watching a bbc reporter using two flapjacks as props:D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghozer Posted March 25, 2013 Author Share Posted March 25, 2013 I guess we should be glad that this is what makes the news, and that there's no murders or bad crime going on (other than that of the gov'mnt) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smithy266 Posted March 25, 2013 Share Posted March 25, 2013 I once threw a triangular shaped ham sandwich at my mother because she had put mustard in. After that, triangle sandwiches had mustard, oblong ones didn't. She was therefore safe from flying sandwiches. Mind you, I was only about 5 at the time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
magick777 Posted March 25, 2013 Share Posted March 25, 2013 Madness! Whoever decided this wants sacking. I speak as a Health and Safety Advisor too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andygardener Posted March 25, 2013 Share Posted March 25, 2013 It's very easy to mock but for those of us who lived through the "flapjack wars" of the 1980s in which over 150 people were killed, many of them seriously, this is no laughing matter. Banning triangular flapjacks is a start but a square or even rectangular flapjack can easily be converted with a few simple tools available in any school or prison workshop into two improvised scalene triangular "shanks". Only a total ban will prevent a return to the bad old days when patisserie fiends, high on glucose spread fear throughout the land and flapjack crime was so common police declared no go zones for miles around bakeries. Think of the children! :mad: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris_Sleeps Posted March 25, 2013 Share Posted March 25, 2013 They've scone mad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Halibut Posted March 25, 2013 Share Posted March 25, 2013 Oaterly ridiculous. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SiSiSi Posted March 25, 2013 Share Posted March 25, 2013 It's just another example of the 'no win no fee' culture of today. This 'rule' has obviously been brought in because someone's little angel has been sightly hurt. And some people wonder why schools are closed when it snows? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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