" Here's a classic muddle-headed idea ... in this case, it's an RSPB idea. They think that getting kids interested in " wildlife" at an early age will lead to them staying interested for the rest of their lives. Er ... I don't think so. Here's what kids tend to do with just about everything their parents/elders try to get them to do ... they despise and reject them, both at the time and for the rest of their lives. Oh yes. On the other hand, if you tell them NOT to do things, to keep away from the countryside, to keep away from ponds and fields and woods and mountains, not to pick up beetles and caterpillars ....that's just exactly what they will go and do later on . What the RSPB should really do is ... they should ban all young people from bird reserves, or "wildlife encounters" or whatever they'll be calling them after the latest "step change." Sales of optical aids, bird books, butterfly nets etc should be denied for all minors, full stop. Start today. Special TV programmes should be made showing the sheer tedium and stultifying boredom involved in the pursuit of birds, otters, weevils ... and throughout the programme we would watch "nature lovers" getting gored by bulls, garotted with barbed wire, electrocuted on electric fences, swept to their deaths in flash floods and pecked to pieces by huge swarms of marauding red kites. All the presenters would be total nerds, geeks and crap-headed turds , pressing flowers and creeping around churchyards photographing slime moulds and being battered to death by the vicar. That will make kids absolutely rabid to get into all of these situations for the rest of their lives. Come on you lot ... catch yer'sel on, as they say in Ulster. That's that sorted. Take that, all you vems " Visitor Experience Managers " Oh ...they really exist .... in the heart and soul of the RSPB. Crumbs And now, by public demand, another quick fix of "Jazz Club" ... and a special appearance by Donald Strong ! Lucky you !!! Nice ...........
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