Fulminating!

Which Is To Say, Exploding
This one will take a bit of - okay, a lot of - extrapolation and joining the dots.
     For starters, you are probably unaware that one of the primary explosives used in military and industrial applications is Mercury Fulminate.  Art?

     The molecule in question.  This stuff is used because it is dangerously unstable and, as mercury fulminate, you can use it to detonate other explosive material requiring literally a kick start.
     "What -" you begin, "Can the fearful old duffer be on about now?"
     Well, we have just determined that Mercury is used in explosive compounds that explode.  Art?
     When there is a detonation, there is also a flash (see above).  At this point I would like to load up the relevant outside information from a useful third party, because today we are going to analyse the lyrics to the theme song from "Flash", as written by one Freddie Mercury.  

Someone is angry!

"Flash! Ah-ah"

    Calling someone "Flash" is the signature of a cruel and sadistic parent.  There is no wriggle room on this.  I can't fault Freddie on this, it's what he had to work with.

Saviour of the universe

     Note the correct spelling of "Saviour".  Aaaaand this where we run into problems.  As Douglas Adams has pointed out to far greater effect, the universe is an unbelievably immense place, and Flash is going to have to be both immortal and present in infinite numbers to save it.  Face it, this is Freddie doing Poetic Licence, because Flash is only saving one solar system in one galaxy, not the entire Universe.
     I'm glad we got that sorted out.

The Universe: a pretty big save, if you ask us

Flash! Ah-ah

     Look, you're going to give the boy a complex if you keep harping on about his parent's poor choices! 

He'll save everyone of us

     Another big ask!  All nine billion human beings on the planet?  Freddie, Freddie, you can only use so much Poetic Licence in a single song.  I'd go for a "He'll save approximately 66% of us".

Flash! Ah-ah

     CEASE!  DESIST!

He's a miracle

     What! How on Earth is a mere human mortal a miracle?  Freddie - throw away the Big Book Of Poetic Licence NOW!

Flash! Ah-ah

     Hello?  Child Services?  I want you to go back in time and arrest a couple of deadbeat parents.  Is that okay?  It is?  Splendid, thanks a lot!

 

     I think that's enough Flashing for one day.  Can't have your brains glazing over!

     Motley, bring me a rugby ball and we can pretend to play South Canadian ballfoot.  Slowly, mind.  I am elderly and unfit.  Mister Hand - stop interfering!
Deutschland De-Mechanised Your Humble Scribe remembers waaaaay back when he was buying copies of "The Terminator", where the cover art was frequently the best bit of the comic, and there was  mention of "Hansen's De-Mechanised" as a military formation, implying that it had been deliberately stripped of it's heavier weapons and vehicles, as they could not be trusted - Skynet is watching.

Thus

      Which has only a tenuous connection with what comes next, sparked and in part, part of Jim Holland's "Nazi War Machines Secrets Uncovered".  Art?
     Ol' Jim pointed out that the panzer's propaganda image was almost as important as how it performed on the battlefield, because the much-vaunted Panzer divisions were always a small proportion of the Teuton army.  In fact the Wehrmacht was a primarily horse-drawn army, it's just that propaganda films ignored this and concentrated on TANK.  The statistic is that the Wehrmacht used 2.5 million horses in the Second Unpleasantness, which is - gasp! obviously! - a million more than in the First Unpleasantness.  Food (or fodder) for thought, hmmm?  He inspected a "panje" wagon that was standard issue for the Teutons, and remarked that it looked like something from Waterloo.  Art?


More water-logged than Waterloo

     This is one of the consequences of the Teutons having a very small number of automobiles on the roads in the pre-war period, thanks to a very small automotive industry; there simply wasn't the industrial capacity to create sufficient motor transport.  So - the Teutons resorted to horses, hand-pulled carts and nicking lorries from other countries; another metric is that they invaded the Sinister Union with 2,000 different types of motor vehicles, which is neither big nor clever.
     Also -

Scads of these

     These were simply pulled by a couple of soldiers, and of course you won't see many if any on the propaganda films featuring wall-to-wall tanks, as picturing a couple of sweaty footsloggers towing a cart by main force kind of undercut's the Goebbels We Are The Mighty image.
     I think that's enough so far - I can see signs of brain-glazing! Mister Hand!  Keep your treacherous fingers to yourself! - as I intend to continue at a later date.

CONRAD IS ANGRY!  VERY VERY ANGRY!
I know what you're thinking - "What's new?" or "How do we tell the difference?"
     Bah!  I have been looking forward to the upcoming "Judge Dredd: Mega City One" television series, which was supposed to get released in 2020.  Things, however, have been worryingly quiet on this front, and I was checking out a Youtube channel yesterday that cast some doubt on it appearing in 2020, or indeed at all.  Art?

<Quivers unseemingly in eager anticipation>

     They state that Rebellion Studios, who are slated to make the series, are actually a games studio rather a media studio, and that - providing the will to make JDMC1 is still there - it will take a lot longer than 2020 to get this series off the ground.
     Conrad - still angry and now crossing his fingers.

Someone else looks a bit ticked-off, too

Finally -
I'mdesperatelytypingthisatworkinmylunchtimeandhaveonlyminutesleft -
     Enough of that illegible scrawl!  We need to pick a short subject and crack on with it <thinks>

Thus