Canvey Island school bans triangle shaped flapjacks - Polidicks

[QUOTE]A school's decision to ban triangular flapjacks after a pupil was hurt has been labelled "half-baked" by the Health and Safety Executive. It follows an incident at Castle View School in Canvey Island, Essex, when a boy was hit in the face by a flapjack. Catering staff at the school have been told only to serve square or rectangular flapjacks. The school said the "isolated accident" had led to a review of "the texture and shape of the flapjacks" provided. A spokesman for the Health and Safety Executive said: "We often come across half-baked decisions taken in the name of health and safety, but this one takes the biscuit. "The real issue isn't what shape the flapjacks are, but the fact that pupils are throwing them at each other - and that's a matter of discipline, and has got nothing to do with health and safety as we know it. [/QUOTE] [url]http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-essex-21923218[/url]

What utter fucking bullshit, lol. [quote]"The real issue isn't what shape the flapjacks are, but the fact that pupils are throwing them at each other - and that's a matter of discipline, and has got nothing to do with health and safety as we know it. [/quote] Nailed it.

[url=http://www.hse.gov.uk/myth/myth-busting/categories.htm]The HSE has a myth busting section[/url] where they debunk bullshit "health and safety" claims, it can be rather funny to read. Things like a woman in a hospital wanting to buy earl grey, the place not having it, and it refusing to give her a cup of hot water when she said she'd pay the same price as tea (she had teabags on her) claiming "health and safety", when she turned around and pointed out they sell tea, coffee and hot chocolate.

[QUOTE]A spokesman for the Health and Safety Executive said: "We often come across [I]half-baked [/I]decisions taken in the name of health and safety, but this one [I]takes the biscuit[/I].[/QUOTE] I love when serious people add some humour in their statements.

[QUOTE=Terminutter;45346539][url=http://www.hse.gov.uk/myth/myth-busting/categories.htm]The HSE has a myth busting section[/url] where they debunk bullshit "health and safety" claims, it can be rather funny to read. Things like a woman in a hospital wanting to buy earl grey, the place not having it, and it refusing to give her a cup of hot water when she said she'd pay the same price as tea (she had teabags on her) claiming "health and safety", when she turned around and pointed out they sell tea, coffee and hot chocolate.[/QUOTE] [quote]Issue A custard pie fight at a local event has been cancelled because the event organisers could not get insurance on the basis that the activity is too dangerous.[/quote] hahaha

there was another story i remember a long time ago, some kid got suspended because he had a jam tart, they thought it looked like a gun [img]http://images.thehollywoodgossip.com/iu/t_full/v1364529192/attachment/pop-tart-gun.jpg[/img]

Eh, this is a pretty old article (It was also featured on Russel Howard's good news on BBC3, which has been repeated probably over 100 times) still gold though.

[QUOTE=Ripmax;45346445][url]http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-essex-21923218[/url][/QUOTE] Call that a sensationalist headline? [url]http://facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=1256394[/url]

Triangular flapjack hurt a student. Okay, so the points must have had something to do with that. How come, then, are you banning Triangular ones (Which have 3 points) and not [b]SQUARE AND RECTANGULAR ONES WHICH HAVE FOUR[/b] And furthermore, why not just serve [b]ROUND ONES YOU IDIOTS[/b] Do people have common sense anymore. It's not like god damn pancakes are dangerous to begin with but god damn, even the reasoning behind this makes no sense

its kind of like sitting down on a chair in class, getting up, picking up the chair, lunging it into the face of the teacher. ban chairs.

[QUOTE=NA_PREDATOR;45346557]there was another story i remember a long time ago, some kid got suspended because he had a jam tart, they thought it looked like a gun [img]http://images.thehollywoodgossip.com/iu/t_full/v1364529192/attachment/pop-tart-gun.jpg[/img][/QUOTE] that sir is a pop-tart assault riffle with a high capacity magazine, that kid deserved it [sp]ya we're really bad about this lately[/sp]

Next they're going to ban utensils because the forks are too pointy and the knives too sharp (despite never being able to cut anything with them), so students will need to eat with their hands. Then they ban that because it's unsanitary, so they just have to eat the food off their plate with only their mouths. Of course, that gets banned because it's too messy so they just ban having any food at all on campus. Then they get in legal trouble for not feeding the kids. I swear, schools are such pussies about things anymore.

[QUOTE=Eva-1337;45348263]Next they're going to ban utensils because the forks are too pointy and the knives too sharp (despite never being able to cut anything with them), so students will need to eat with their hands. Then they ban that because it's unsanitary, so they just have to eat the food off their plate with only their mouths. Of course, that gets banned because it's too messy so they just ban having any food at all on campus. Then they get in legal trouble for not feeding the kids. I swear, schools are such pussies about things anymore.[/QUOTE] muh zero tolerance Nothing is true, all stupidity is permitted

i was wondering how the shit a pancake could hurt someone when thrown. after looking it up, why is that called a flapjack, it doesn't even look flappy

[QUOTE=Sableye;45347201]that sir is a pop-tart assault riffle with a high capacity magazine, that kid deserved it [sp]ya we're really bad about this lately[/sp][/QUOTE] I thought the pop-tart one was in the UK

[QUOTE=Ninja Gnome;45348774]i was wondering how the shit a pancake could hurt someone when thrown. after looking it up, why is that called a flapjack, it doesn't even look flappy[/QUOTE] -snip- just looked it up as well. What the hell, UK, [I]that's[/I] what you guys call a flapjack?

[QUOTE=Terminutter;45346539][url=http://www.hse.gov.uk/myth/myth-busting/categories.htm]The HSE has a myth busting section[/url] where they debunk bullshit "health and safety" claims, it can be rather funny to read. Things like a woman in a hospital wanting to buy earl grey, the place not having it, and it refusing to give her a cup of hot water when she said she'd pay the same price as tea (she had teabags on her) claiming "health and safety", when she turned around and pointed out they sell tea, coffee and hot chocolate.[/QUOTE] Education health and safety is a hit and mostly hit again on laughter. [editline]10th July 2014[/editline] [QUOTE=NA_PREDATOR;45346557]there was another story i remember a long time ago, some kid got suspended because he had a jam tart, they thought it looked like a gun [img]http://images.thehollywoodgossip.com/iu/t_full/v1364529192/attachment/pop-tart-gun.jpg[/img][/QUOTE] Jam? Oh thank god, it didn't go off!

[QUOTE=TheTalon;45346892] How come, then, are you banning Triangular ones (Which have 3 points) and not [b]SQUARE AND RECTANGULAR ONES WHICH HAVE FOUR[/b] And furthermore, why not just serve [b]ROUND ONES YOU IDIOTS[/b][/QUOTE] Round flapjacks have infinite corners. The obvious solution is to serve mobius strip-shaped flapjacks to minimize the amount of injury-causing sides, edges, and corners.

[QUOTE=Zeke129;45349598]Round flapjacks have infinite corners. The obvious solution is to serve mobius strip-shaped flapjacks to minimize the amount of injury-causing sides, edges, and corners.[/QUOTE] But it could hurt somebody's brain if they try to figure out if it has one side or two