Political correctness.  It’s a bit like Marmite – you either love it or you hate it.

It seems being all P.C. has meant the world is completely unrecognisable from its former self, and in some instances, has gone completely mad!  You can’t do this… you can’t do that… it’s not right to say that… and work place health and safety now has a much longer checklist than ever before…

It was demonstrated just how far Political Correctness had gone when Fox’s biscuits launched a spoof marketing campaign for it’s new Rocky bar in 2009.  The hoax involved sending out a ‘Workplace Biscuit Risk Assessment Test’ (created by the less than real British Biscuit Advisory Board!) which was issued to nearly 6000 council workers in the UK.  Amazingly, there were over 400 people who, not only didn’t question why they were being asked about the “dangers” of biscuits in the workplace, but actually filled in the survey online.

Even though this shows that the P.C. thing may well have gone a bit too far, after the campaign the RSPA (Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents) revealed statistics that ironically showed around 400 people a year in Britain end up in A&E from biscuit related incidents!  These include falling over while reaching for a biscuit and slipping on a chocolate biscuit on the stairs.

Whilst we’re sure this has left you quaking in your boots about that packet of biscuits in the staff room, you’ll be pleased to know that the RSPA said: “You have very little to fear from biscuits as a general rule.”  Phew!