England becomes a little bit safer every day.
Staff at a luxury hotel chain are refusing to provide customers with the post-meal dental sticks - because they are ‘potentially dangerous’.
“Political correctness gone mad!” I hear you scream. Poppycock.
Did you know that since 1900 over 17000 people have died from toothpicks? In fact more people have been killed by toothpicks than by lightning. Not so funny now is it! Okay, so they died because they swallowed the tooth picks. This is, admittedly, fairly daft and worthy of a noteworthy rosette from the Darwin Awards.
But that’s the point. People are stupid. They need protecting from themselves. I already have a toothpick stuck between my right side canines and it is not impossible that I might just go, well, gulp.
So I can perfectly understand Macdonald Hotels wanting to protect the great unwashed from swallowing all their toothpicks. They kill people and are seriously expensive to replace.
Who’d want that responsibility?