perfidy

This is just sad, and I'm sorry to do this, but from Ananova comes this reason why bureaucracy is not efficent as government.

German penises 'too small for EU condoms' Germany has demanded a rethink on EU guidelines on condom size after finding its average penis did not measure up.

Doctors around Essen were ordered by the government's health department to check out the average size suggested by Brussels.

They reported the EU has overestimated the size of the average penis by almost 20% and insist other countries will discover the same.

Urologist Gunther Hagler, head of the team compiling the research, said: "By checking hundreds of patients we found German penises were too small for standard EU condoms.

(I like the bit about insisting "other countries will discover the same." Even though it's a fair point, it comes off a little bit sheepish.)

Why is the EU in the business of setting condom size-standards?