Typhoon In A Teaspoon

Like A Storm In A Teacup -
 - except more so.  If you are familiar with the blog by now - and being so is the only thing that will keep your descendants out of the uranium mines - then you are aware that Conrad is not a sporty creature, at all.  He does look at the Have Your Say comments on the Beeb's website when one of the major football teams has won or lost, because the sheer poisonous invective there is hilarious to read.  I know, I know, I'm a terrible person.
     

Look at the evil glint in those horrid little eyes!

     Anyway, my eyes were snared on the BBC website by noticing that there were Comments - many comments - on an article about the Australian cricket team involved in cheating, by tampering with the ball.
     Here an aside.  Cricket is a game involving hitting a ball with a bat, preventing said ball from hitting a set of wickets.  There are two teams, one side batting and the other side fielding.  That's the game in a nutshell, you could write volumes about it's rules and eccentricities, and it is supposed to be played above all FAIRLY.  Hence that shocked expression "It's not cricket!" meaning something is against a strict moral code.  Art?

Wicketkeeper, wickets and batsman*

     The actual article is immensely long and detailed, underlying a sense of horror that this appalling act could be imagined, let alone carried out, and I say that without irony.  Because by the time I perused some of the comments, there were over 800, and many only just stopped short of calling for the death penalty for the guilty parties.
     So, it's not only football fans who get intense about their sport!
     Okay, we have now touched on both Current Affairs and Sport, two things that BOOJUM! isn't supposed to approach, so let us throw the motley into a pool of syrup as a distraction and carry on!

            A Typhoon.                              A teaspoon.

A Tempest In A Tub
To steal a line from "The Hobbit", Conrad is always politely interested in the dainties of a well-filled larder, and Wonder Wifey is aware of this.  On her excursions yesterday, she came across these provisions.  Art?

33p per tub

      You can't tell from the image here, but this one's hotness rating is down as 2 chillies, although there were several others with 4 chillies.  There's quite a bit to them, which, if Art can put down his plate of coal, we can illustrate -

     There's the Noodles themselves, a packet of sauce, dried vegetables, seasoning and garlic-infused oil.  The whole thing when cooked would feed two humans, or one Conrad.
     It was also very spicy, about on the borderline of what I'd feel comfortable in eating, so heaven only knows how hot the one rated at 4 chillies is!
     There you go, a little glimpse into domestic matters at The Mansion.

"The Punisher" (on Netflix)
Rather than the comics version.  In case you were unaware, Frank Castle a.k.a. The Punisher, is a man on a mission, namely to kill criminals.  None of that softy detaining, imprisonment and eventual release the way Batman or Supes goes about things.  No, Frank intends to see that his opposition get to learn Lesson One - I Will Kill You Dead.**
     The thing is - Art?

Frank, Frank, the human tank

     - it would be more appropriate to call this series "The Punished", because Frank takes a terrific amount of punishment himself.  He's beaten, stabbed, shot and blown up, and struck by an arrow on one occasion.  The end of Episode 12 of Series Two has more gore than in the whole of "The Wild Bunch", which is saying something.

Finally -
This is going to sound ironic, and it will make more sense only when I post the links on Facebook and Twitter, but some people have altogether too much time on their hands.  Art?



     You could only do this with a dog, because a cat would never sit still long enough to apply the artwork, and I doubt you'd escape unscathed were you to try.  Given that cats are always licking themselves clean, even if you were able to apply paint, it would have to be rated non-toxic for cats.  Frankly, more effort than a single photo is worth.

                                          98.7% of all cats agree



*  No jokes here about Bruce Wayne
**  There is no Lesson Two