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I was on my break and flicked through a copy of the Daily Mail someone had left on the table and I found something on Bono being a bit of a hypocite. I was very excited so I could use my new 'Hippycrite' which I thought of shortly after. Anyway, it spoke about how Bono and his earth loving ways should be taken with a pinch of salt as U2 (or as Bono would probably prefer to think - 'Bono and Friends') rack up the carbon emissions when travelling around the world with about 120 tonnes of stage equipment and using super-fancy private jets.
But I couldn't find it on the Daily Mail website.
However! I did stumble across this little article by Laura Clark. It is about, as you would probably have guessed, academics claiming that TV shows that are aimed at children that show dinosaurs and humans living side by side play into the hands of creationists.
I can see where they are coming from, but I would like to think children would accept such programmes as fantasy. I never really thought the Power Rangers were real, or that any train i might ride would start to talk, like Thomas. It seems we must guard children against everything nowadays. Another example from the 19th June, also courtesy of the Mail and Clarke, reported that one school makes children wear goggles when using Blu Tack.
It seems that in a perfect world, humans will not experience pain until their late teens. Our Boxers and Rugby players should be fun to watch in about 20 years time.
