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No Kinder surprise for Skybird?

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Kinder surprise egg facing ban in Germany: reports
BERLIN (AFP) - Despite being a massive hit with children and adults alike, German lawmakers want to ban Kinder surprise eggs on safety grounds, press reports said on Thursday.
Millions of the chocolate eggs with a toy inside are sold every year in Europe's biggest economy, but according to a parliamentary health commission it is dangerous to combine food and toys in one product, the Bild daily said.
"Children cannot tell the difference between a toy and food," the Welt newspaper cited Miriam Gruss from the commission as saying.
A spokeswoman for Ferrero, the Italian confectionery firm that has made the eggs since 1974, said a ban would be unjustified as the figures or toys are enclosed in a yellow plastic capsule.
"There is absolutely no evidence that there is an increased danger from the combination of food and toys," Ferrero spokeswoman Elise Glaab told Die Welt.
Ferrero brings out 20 new sets of figures every year for the eggs, as well as 150 new kits for toys that have to be put together with the help of a tiny instructions sheet, the paper said.
The commission is also looking at forcing youngsters to wear cycle helmets and making schoolbooks lighter so children don't injure themselves or tire themselves out carrying them around all day, the paper added.

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/afp/2008080...t-86d1698.html

:huh: :roll: :rotfl:

OH MY GOD IT'S SPREADING!!! SHUT THE WINDOWS, PULL DOWN THE BLINDS AND HAMMER CROOKED PIECES OF WOOD OVER THE DOORS!!

:nope:

It really is enough to make you burst into tears. Who decided kids can't tell the difference between chocolate and plastic? Some half-assed local government bloater with a cheap suit and bad haircut. That's who.

^rant over^

^breathe deep and relax^

:huh: WOW kind of dum if you ask me.:rotfl: Why ban the candy,Just ban the toy in the candy.;)

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Originally Posted by Task Force

:huh: WOW kind of dum if you ask me.:rotfl: Why ban the candy,Just ban the toy in the candy.;)

You shouldn't have even have to do that. Just ban eejits from becoming politicians. 'What's that Skippy? World government has collapsed? Never mind.'

The part about lighter school books is a good way to turn little boys into little girls fast.:-?

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The commission is also looking at forcing youngsters to wear cycle helmets and making schoolbooks lighter so children don't injure themselves or tire themselves out carrying them around all day, the paper added.

Are Health and safety reasons. :hmm:

We are secretly sending Kali-fornia politicans overthere to spread the love around.

Eeeek! These things are cult over here! You can see adults spending ten minutes standing at thr table with the eggs, shaking them to their ear and try to find the one with the right surprise just for them. After they shook half a hundred eggs, they buy one, then. :rock:

Adult behave more idiotic at these opportunities than any child would ever do, so I assume the EU officials were about launching an anti-idiot-campaing, but then disliked the idea of shooing themselves in it's execution, so they focussed on the chocolate egg issue instead.

lighter schoolbooks? How about teaching those kids to pack their stuff the night before going to school? It's not the weight of the books per se, but that they carry all of them around even when they don't need them. While I certainly agree that the spine will get much more strained when you have to carry much books in a backpack, especially at a younger age, to make the books lighter is certainly not the right way.

Forcing the kids to wear cycle helmets? How about making the parents do their job?

In this country the school books must have concret pages because they way a ton.:rotfl: and there only

this thick.:rotfl: