I don't understand why a whole school needs to go into Nutella/peanut butter lockdown if a single kid has nut allergies. There are plenty of nuts in stuff like muesli bars, and like every food product in existence "may contain traces of nuts." So banning these delicious spreads does not provide a nut-free environment at all.
In the end the kid with the allergy will be actively avoiding any nut-based products, and unless some other kid flings their pb&j sandwich at them, then they wouldn't mind either way if the other kids have nut-based spread, right?
Although it is unfortunate to have any allergy, it doesn't make it fair to make the whole school suffer from a lack of a low GI spread made with real hazelnuts! Two wrongs don't make a right.
On an unrelated note, have you ever had the pleasure of someone volunteering your charity on behalf of you?
Let's just say someone (let's call them person A), asked me for a stapler. Person B asks Person A for the stapler, thinking that Person A owns it. Person A is like "YEAH SURE" as if they are the most charitable chums on this planet. And before I know it my stapler is half way across the fucking room and I'm like "does anyone remember that someone owns that stapler?"
Similarly let's say Person C wants to walk somewhere, and Person D has been invited to follow.
Person C: "Is Jeff coming too?"
Person D: "Yeah he'll come~"
Jeff: "..."
This concept has been aptly summarised in Monica's tumblr (cool pictures yeah?) -> http://poke-monica.tumblr.com/post/7153826279/when-i-have-food. Have a visit!
Woo also today was USYD Scholarship Info night. Got a nice booklet with lots of information (and a caption, quote: "Conservatorium student ___, whose scholarship enabled him to buy a new flute. He hopes to pursue an orchestral career." WOOP DE DOO. You know that flute cost him a motherloading $25,000?!")
I couldn't stop laughing when I saw this dude in the front row (he was USYD staff) playing something that looked like Pocket God on his iPhone halfway through a talk. I hope nobody noticed me laugh.
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