Has anyone heard about triangle flapjacks being dangerous weapons?

You could drown someone in a vat of jelly......

It is a ridiculous situation... am not sure of all details but did the parent of the 'nearly lost my eye to a triangular flying flapjack' child threaten legal action? Heads sometimes respond with a bit a of a knee jerk to things like that!

If my parents found out I was involved in a food fight i think parents would have been angry with me for being silly & not angry with school.

I believe members of a certain elite club at an elite university see food throwing as an essential entertainment... maybe the kids were trying to show they could manage life at university??

^Anything can be dangerous in the hands of an idiot.

Frank^

It's in the hands not in the vat and you really can't grasp enough jelly to be dangerous.

Ahh! but hands could be squashing you down into the vat!! Agree throwing jelly would be far less dangerous than triangular flapjacks!

Not if you then tripped on the jelly and cut your head open on the flapjack....

Does anyone else feel like they are in an episode of Fawlty Towers????

but the question still remains...just how far will these ridiculous elfen safety banning issues (even if not brought on by the H&S Board) go? It's interesting to hear what GN's perceive to be the ordinary 'cut 'n' thrust of life' type stuff to the (real) potentially dangerous (apart from the bleedin' obvious - like guns and knives). If the dinner ladies that made the original triangle flapjacks rebelled and made a platter of star shaped ones, would they be sacked? the whole issue unearths a can of worms. Anyone for jelly?{smile]

Goose I don't think you are allowed to serve canned worms for school lunch.

Why not? We had them! *They called it sphaggetti but we knew different.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-e

If this had been in the papers next Monday we'd have though it was an April fool joke!

I cannot believe there is a headteacher, or members of staff, who have time to review the shape and texture o flapjacks!

absent

Jelly can be dangerous if somebody throws it at somebody's eye.

Framk

Only if they connect though Frank
I like the comment that anything can be dangerous in the hands of an idiot -does that include words?

Could we have a jelly-throwing contest? Any volunteers to be the target?

We had a green jelly party once, in about 1967.... Made in a baby bath. Veil best drawn over what happened to it.............

George,Duke of Clarence, brother to Rich3rd (oh I like that!) opted to drown himself in a butt of malmsey. This putting everyone, including himself, out of their misery. No reason to ban butts though. Probably he could have chosen jelly if he'd had the imagination.

I thought he was drowned - i.e.murdered? What a way to go!
Which alcoholic beverage would you choose?

That was the method of execution he chose. Me, I'd choose vintage champagne!

It was a metaphor. The Duke of Clarence wasn't literally held upside down in a barrel of wine – he was a drunkard and the booze killed him.

We're you there?

Might have been.

Galen

I rest my case m'lud!

This is really all quite funny, but on the serious side of all this is the fact that Solicitors are now allowed to advertise their services, and we can all see in the news about people claiming for all sorts of incidents, or accidents, which once upon a time we would have taken for granted and just carried on with life; now someone somewhere is making a few pounds for a service provided in pursuing a claim (sometimes for something I would consider quite trivial) and winning.

PRINTMISS You've come up with another side of the story I hadn't thought of. To me, there's something rather worrying about the whole 'damage claim' thing. Like the elfen safety stories, perhaps not all of the rumours are true (like the one I heard about someone being sued by the victim of a heart attack because one of their ribs were cracked whilst undergoing resuscitation?) but it's another worrying feature within this whole 'personal injury claim' maze.

PRINTMISS not just advertising on television or newspapers either. We get around three calls a week from firms offering to help us sue someone because of our car accident. We didn't have an accident but we did make an insurance claim. Where do they get the information from? It isn't just speculative.

Lilygran It's pretty speculative chez nous. We get umpteen calls about our car accident – we don't have a car – and other types of accidents although neither of us has had an accident involving medical treatment for at least eight years, maybe longer, and we lived in a different part of the country then. When I reply that no one in this house has had any such accident, I am almost always asked am I sure and can the caller speak to the other people who live in the house. Clearly, the caller thinks that I have had an accident that it has resulted in memory loss.