I've Got A Feeling - About Loose Leaf Darjeeling

Less Of A Feeling -
 - More of an "Aha! Now I've got plenty" appreciation of the situation.
     I don't expect you to follow my every slightest activity on social media with the intensity, dedication and commitment of a psychopathic serial stalker*, however I did post that I was venturing into Oldham town centre to trot along to Sainsbury's and appropriate a stack of that tea mentioned in the title.

Success!

     That should keep the teapot topped up for some time to come.  It did empty the shelf of all the Darjeeling so the stackers will probably be cursing the weirdo who snaffles far too many packets at one go.
     Since I was in Sodom-on-the-Irwell, I popped into The Works and got a couple of books going cheap:

In juxtaposition

     Predictably, the Philpott work came out last year to coincide with the centenary of the First Unpleasantness's beginning.  What a wild and unguessable coincidence!

"Juxtaposition"
I did trail the coat about this earlier in the week, and am finally getting round to defining it.  As you surely know, it means to be "in close proximity to".  Where does it come from?  This time the blame lies with both the Romans and the French, kind of a two-for-one if you like.  It emerged in the mid seventeeth century, pairing the Latin "Juxta", meaning "side by side", and the French "position", meaning - you're ahead of me here, aren't you? - "Position".  Voila and sic.

The Most Dangerous Job In The World?
Certainly within the entertainment industry, right up there level-pegging with being a member of one of John Carpenter's documentary crews, is being a production team member on a Toho Studio's documentary shoot.
     It's such a dangerous job that their more recent disaster relief work coverage at Fukushima and in the Tsunami aftermath was described by one cinematographer as " - a bit of a holiday, really".

This is your idea of a vacation?

     Since the final extirpation of the kaiju at the end of the Nineties, Toho have been covering events in the field of natural disasters or emergencies, rather than risking death by explosion, crushing or atomic halitosis.

A shot from the Second Unit helicopter as the Principal Unit prepares to deploy

     Now that the threat of Tokyo being ravaged yet again by The Big Fella has receded, the Toho crew's automatic inclusion as reservists in the Japan Self Defence Force may be permitted to lapse as they are no longer expected to die in the line of documentary duty. There are mixed feelings about this.  "We got a snazzy uniform out of it," explained one member, not wishing to be named.  "However, if you did get killed, you might be put down as "died on active service" and it affected your pension."
     With tensions running high between China and Japan, the Toho Studio crews might yet be covering conflict between these two regional superpowers.  This would be the acid test for the Japanese Self Defence Force - 

     
      - rather unkindly and inaccurately described by the Beeb as "Never having fired a shot in anger".  Not at human opponents, no!
     - and it's always unwise to assume Godzilla has definitely been seen off for good ...

What's In A Name?
I caught a sidebar item on the Beeb's website yesterday, about a chap who bought a tank from a specialist military vendor, and then had to buy a house in order to have room to park it.  I saved a screenshot for your delectation:

The left hand side, thanks.  Don't be distracted - wow, I wonder who the artist is on that Batman -

     They call it a Scorpion, and it is, although the technical description is "Combat Vehicle Reconnaissance, Tracked".  Meaning that it's lightweight and very high speed for a tank - 50 mph or faster on level good going in the desert.  It mounts a 76mm gun, not 75mm as in the item - Bad Auntie! Naughty Auntie!  No biscuit for you! - because it will fight for information and intelligence if it has to, but it's vulnerable out in the open - sorry, quoting from "The Thing", although technically correct.
     Anyway, Auntie, here is a "canon" -

Not very effective against armour plate -
 - but looks as if can damage a big dinner

     - whereas I think you meant this -

Art!  You bampot, where's my Tazer ...

Time.  There's Never Enough Of It
OR
Just What Is The "Blinovitch Limitation Effect"?
Dear me yes, I've got enough stuff here for another three blog posts, I'm already over the word limit and haven't got anywhere near the 60 minutes limit.  Wouldn't it be great if I could go back in time and add this stuff in?

"Whoa!  Not so fast, Conrad!"

     Apparently not.  The Blinovitch Limitation Effect comes into play if you try this.  To be non-technical about it, you only ever get one bite at the cherry.  When Adric dies, he dies, and the Doctor can't go back in time to reverse the fatal event.  If he did, and comes into physical contact with himself, then you get a microtonne explosion that - do I need to draw a picture?

Apparently I do

     This, I presume, is why in last week's "Before The Flood" the Doctor takes care to hide from his future self and cannot intervene to prevent events taking their historical course;  when O'Donnell dies, she dies, and that's that.
     Of course, I may be overthinking this ...

That silent sneer - alright, I AM overthinking this.

* although that would be appreciated.