Has anyone heard about triangle flapjacks being dangerous weapons?

Elegran I suspect you're right. The call is probably routed via Vanuatu or somewhere equally exotic and far flung. I know that lots of the sex lines are. Don't ask – it's a long story.

I believe that when you press the number button for more info, you are then phoning them and are charged, at extortionate rates, which they get the benefit of. I'm not sure how they do that, or even if it is true, because I always put the phone down on them too.

I had an 'urgent' text at 4.15am. As I hadn't silenced the phone, it woke me up. Not pleased!

"This is an urgent message…" No it isn't!

We get calls about our payment protection insurance. We don't have payment protection insurance. Definitely speculative.

Has anyone noticed that the first part of such calls is often a recording nowadays? I presume you're meant to press some number on the phone to get to a real person, but I'venever listened for long enough to find out.

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.

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.

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.

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.

I rest my case m'lud!

Galen

Might have been.

We're you there?

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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?

absent

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

Framk

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!

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

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

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]