another chapter in arrested development

Strange ... what one man takes seriously, another man finds ludicrous ... seriously.

Take the case of the triangular flapjack that has been banned at a Canvey Island school in Essex. The Health and Safety Executive was quoted as saying:

"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."

School children throwing things at each other is hardly headline news. Anyone who has been a child knows that idiocy goes with the territory. But the 'adult' ways of addressing the issue and the idea that anyone could take those ideas seriously ... well, sometimes it's enough to blow your mind.

Talk about "arrested development!"

It's like making war in order to assure peace and other egregiously well-intentioned bits of childishness.