The dangerous triangle

At the GNU Public Dictatorship we are nothing if not interested in people's reactions, which is why you were under surveillance while reading the title of this post and this sentence.  Once you got to this sentence we turned off the surveillance as we were really only interested in what you thought about the title, and it was starting to get too expensive.  Those who read this post when it was first posted might have been under surveillance through the first paragraph, but this is no longer the case.

Anyway, the reasons we wanted to know your reactions was to find out how widespread fear of triangles is, and what people associate with triangles.  Many of you, especially those in the United Kingdom, were thinking about flapjacks, and how they are so dangerous when shaped like triangles that they are being banned at at least one school in Essex.  Flapjacks aren't being banned, mind you, but those shaped like triangles are strictly forbidden.  One hopes that they have also restricted access to knives and other implements that could aid students in reshaping their square or rectangular flapjacks into evil triangles, but we have not been able to contact the school for an answer just yet.

Many of the rest of you were wondering whether the dangerous triangle was isosceles or equilateral, or acute or obtuse, and whether the reason it was dangerous had anything to do with brads.  To be fair, brads do make extremely dangerous triangles, but we have not felt the need (yet) to ban triangles entirely.  Here's to hoping we don't have to!