Essex School Bans Flapjacks...

Mint Sauce

Well, makes them square shaped instead of triangler, after a child got injured from a sharp edge on one during a food fight.

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.

"We're happy to make clear that flapjacks of all shapes and sizes continue to have our full backing."

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.

"Anything that is thrown is likely to cause injury if it hits somebody, especially in the face or the eye," said Mr Hurst, former president of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health.

"It does seem a little over the top to ban triangular flapjacks," he said.

Essex County Council said it did not give schools guidance on the shapes of foodstuffs.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-essex-21923218

Thiss has to be one of the crazier nanny state changes inforced on us.

:eek:

But surely a four sided flapjack would be more dangerous, due to its extra side/edge.

:pac:

Prodigious

Make circular ones.

/Thread.

Chuck Stone

Health and safety gone mad.

Grayson

irish-stew wrote: »

Thiss has to be one of the crazier nanny state changes inforced on us.

The state are fine with it. It's a nanny school.

Celly Smunt

irish-stew wrote: »

Thiss has to be one of the crazier nanny state changes inforced on us.

:eek:

this was in Essex....

Miss Lockhart

Chuck Stone wrote: »

Health and safety gone mad.

It's a refreshing change from that other lunatic PC though.

Cee-Jay-Cee

Can I say fucktards?

3ndahalfof6

flapjassels for the win.

irish son

Won't someone please think of the children.

Mardy Bum

I hate the term nanny state.

kneemos

What are flapjacks?

Talk To Frank

flippin' hell.

phasers

Should they not make them roundy if theyre worried about sharp edges?

the_pits

Paper next .........No more nasty paper cuts ...

Grayson

phasers wrote: »

Should they not make them roundy if theyre worried about sharp edges?

And call them balljacks.

armchair fusilier

Why don't they just ban food fights instead?

Bipolar Joe

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."

No one outside of AH would have ever said that sentence. Own up, which one of you was it?

Praetorian Saighdiuir

Yuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuup!

Outlaw triangle shaped snacks!

Sure carpenter's rulers, steel rulers and double pointed compasses are graaaaaaaaand.

WesternZulu

irish-stew wrote: »

Thiss has to be one of the crazier nanny state changes inforced on us.

:eek:

:pac:

Pretty sure that laws in the UK don't affect us :rolleyes:

theteal

One of the many reason I'm proud of my new home county. . .it is a county, isn't it













stupid orange skinned, ridiculous side-parted, scarily white-toothed morons!

kingcobra

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.

:pac:



Ahhhh you beat me to it Bipolar Joe :pac:

I am pie

The "nanny state", in this case the HSE did not tell them to do it, they sort of mocked the decision. The council didn't tell the to do it. The school decided to ban triangular flapjacks on their own. No nanny, no state, no local govt.


Rabble rabble nanny state rabble pc world gone mad rabble rabble blah.

Aineoil

The shape of the flapjacks is not relevant I think? What about the behaviour of the students? The behaviour of the pupils should be in question here - not the shape of biscuits? .....Just a thought......

Steve O

kneemos wrote: »

What are flapjacks?

A vaginal exercise.

Love2love

I thought flapjacks were pancakes.

Mint Sauce

WesternZulu wrote: »

Pretty sure that laws in the UK don't affect us :rolleyes:

It was actually a policy change, not a law change.

Without going to far off topic, UK Law can affect us, as historically, Irish Law is based on UK Law. In edition, decisions made in UK courts can form a precedent for decision making here, which in turn, can influence future changes in the law.

So yes, laws in the UK, can affect us.

Super-Rush

The English have turned into some shower of pussy whipped bitches.

Pumpkinseeds

I've been to Canvey Island, my mother in law lives there. It's a sh*thole of a town. The seaside town they forgot to close down. I say sh*thole, as many people take their dogs to crap on the seafront. Death by flapjack would be better than a long life in Canvey:P Its Essex after all,innit mate.

Methememb

Methememb wrote: »

Make circular ones.

/Thread.

And turn them into frisbies? Imagine the velocity they would hit you with :eek:

King of Kings

i blame the PC brigade and multiculturalism

none of this would have happened under Churchill.

Owenw

Grayson wrote: »

And call them balljacks.

Or nunchucks, if it was a convent school :P

humbert

I wonder what the eat with.

My name is URL

irish-stew wrote: »

But surely a four sided flapjack would be more dangerous, due to its extra side/edge.

But the corners wouldn't as acute as a triangle flapjack's..

You have to look at it from a depressed, lonely primary school maths teacher's perspective.

wendell borton

I immediately thought of ralph wiggum after reading that.

Madam_X

wendell borton wrote: »

I immediately thought of ralph wiggum after reading that.

"Ok kids, take out your circles of paper and safety pencils."

(Well that bit didn't feature Ralph Wiggum but I know what ya mean).


It is like one of those Daily Mail "Derpa derp gone maaaaaad!" (usually untrue) articles though. One incident with a sharp-cornered flapjack = ban all sharp-cornered flapjacks? Gotta be more to it. It's too stupid to be that simplistic. And surely square/rectangular flapjacks have sharp corners. Actually, given all the puns, maybe it's a wind-up?

Antar Bolaeisk

My name is URL wrote: »

But the corners wouldn't as acute as a triangle flapjack's..

You have to look at it from a depressed, lonely primary school maths teacher's perspective.

Ah, but if you slice it diagonally you end up with two!

Antar Bolaeisk

Antar Bolaeisk wrote: »

Ah, but if you slice it diagonally you end up with two!

Now you're just being obtuse.

My name is URL

Antar Bolaeisk wrote: »

Ah, but if you slice it diagonally you end up with two!

Thankfully Home Economics isn't on the primary syllabus. We'd all be doomed if it was.

Steve O

Madam_X wrote: »

Gotta be more to it.

You're probably right, but unfortunately some people are ****ing idiots so it wouldn't surprise me if it was true.

1ZRed

Got injured by a backed square of oatmeal to the face?

This lad would die in a good old fashioned rock fight

Dwork

Chuck Stone wrote: »

Health and safety gone madder.

It started out mad. It's getting worse. It is now rolling around in the freezer eating its own shyte. When I was at school we spent our breaks killing each other at rugby or football, throwing darts at each other, battering the knuckles off each other with black-board dusters and fighting. We occasionally stopped to eat. The level of cissie-ness amongst kids has gone off the scale.

Royal Legend

Dwork wrote: »

It started out mad. It's getting worse. It is now rolling around in the freezer eating its own shyte. When I was at school we spent our breaks killing each other at rugby or football, throwing darts at each other, battering the knuckles off each other with black-board dusters and fighting. We occasionally stopped to eat. The level of cissie-ness amongst kids has gone off the scale.

Spent hours at school seeing who would wilt first, throwing darts at each others legs. Wimps and flapjacks

Mint Sauce

Dwork wrote: »

It started out mad. It's getting worse. It is now rolling around in the freezer eating its own shyte. When I was at school we spent our breaks killing each other at rugby or football, throwing darts at each other, battering the knuckles off each other with black-board dusters and fighting. We occasionally stopped to eat. The level of cissie-ness amongst kids has gone off the scale.

We played football and bulldog on a tarmac covered playground, although the later was eventually banned. A blow to the head, that was usally just dealt with by the playground supervisor, if you were walking around, you were fine. As for the black board dusters, they were chucked across the room, sometimes by the teachers.

:eek: