Scummy Yummy

Conrad Feels Righteous!
In which case the rest of you ought to retire to the bunkers and only emerge when the blood has settled, although certain members ought to plan to spend eternity down there.
     For Lo!  Am I not talking about viral videos that have been created with tender loving lying, all the better to accumulate views and therefore £££?  Well, yes I am.  For we are back to Prof. Ann Reardon, a lady who manfully struggles to critique the flood of Youtube tat out there that pretends to be real.  

      This is "Dave", who has what must surely be one of the worst possible jobs in the world, which is tasting the ghastly guff she cooks up a la internet recipes.  Here he is tucking into the wreckage that purported to be a flan, according to So Yummy.  His quote is revelatory: "I didn't order the baby spew -"
     Well now, Ann goes on to debunk a video of So Yummy creating a cake where the external decoration and colouring is done via melting candy, or candy melts.

     This is the fake video playing, where the creators claim to have melted candy, then used it to make 'candles'.  Ann had a lot of trouble copying this in real-time (hint: because it's all lies)*.

     Here we see the cake as it is intended to be after prep.  O so pretty!  Look at all the melted stuffs!

 

Ann watches the LIES in action

     It's not especially clear in this still, but look slightly below and to starboard of the burning sesame seed - you can see where coloured wax has been dripped onto the candle from above.  This is what rolls down the candle and makes the pretty patterns, NOT the candy melts.

Burn, baby, burn!
(Or try to)

 

     Ann could not manage to make the sesame seeds light up; as soon as she took her heat source away, they went out.  Repeatedly.  Obviously she has not soaked them in paraffin, like SY.

Resorting to a candle-wick

 

     Even when she substituted a candle-wick, the candy melt only softened; because of it's inherent chemical nature it did not melt and in fact could not.
     SO YUMMY LIES!
     Hey, motley, shall we throw hot wax at each other?

Meanwhile, Back At The Mansion -
Unfortunately I cannot load up photographs at work, which is where I am typing this, otherwise you'd be able to see the snowscape present in Babylon-Lite (Royton if we're being formal).
     I did wonder, as I trudged up the snowy path the my bus stop outside the Pleasant Inn (where I hope to be doing Pub Quiz tonight), whether the 409 bus would turn up.

During the summer
(both days of it)

     It did.  Of course, it was almost ten minutes late, but we passengers ought to be pathetically grateful that it turned up at all.  I shall provide photographs of the scene outside The Mansion and the view from my bus stop tomorrow, just to evidence how a few millimetres of icy slush partially paralyse public transport.
     Bah!

K-Pop Glop
I have been a little more organised with my notes from yesteryon, because I wrote them down.  Yes, writing, that's how much of a dinosaur I am.
     Anyway, of "Lee-Mun Se" there was nary a trace on Spotify, but there is always room for error with names that involve hyphens. 
     Then we come to Yoo Jae-Ha, and this chap is the "Slushy Balladeer" I pondered on yesteryon.  Song titles in English, sings in Korean DAMN IT MAN CAN'T YOU BE CONSISTENT! with lots of orchestra and Big String Synth.  Probably popular with tweenage girls and their mothers.  Art!

Cripes

     Oh I say!  The poor bloke was killed in a car crash back in 1987.  Well, I have no shame so I'm not taking anything back.
     Next is Lee Sora, which sounds like a kind of margarine.  Quite emotive and heavily piano-based.  "Wounded and Arty" sums them up.  Art!

Scrubs up well, doesn't she?

     Finally, for the night, we had Tae Jin-Ah.  Titles in English, sings in Korean.  Rather a Forties feel to him, and although he starts his record as a bit of a crooner, by the end of the tracks I'd listened to, he's really getting intense and losing the crooner touch.  I like him!

     By that time I'd had quite enough of K-Pop and Googled for Korean Rock.  We may come back to this.

Well, That Was An Effort
Conrad is aware that he's been throwing a lot of Fortunino Matania's art at you, which in terms of Major Unpleasantnesses, is limited to the First.  There is another painter of military scenes, David Cuneo, whom I wanted to bring to the fore, and especially his painting of Perfidious Albion triumphant at Beda Fomm.  However, could I find it?  I could not!  It's taken about five minutes of my lunch and typing time to locate it, so here you go:

The daub in question

      This is one of the major turning points of the Second Unpleasantness, unbeknownst as it was at the time.  You see here a British 2 pounder anti-tank gun, at the time one of the best there was; they haven't quite run out of ammo, since you can see some shells in their ready-use locker, but they were pretty close to it.  To deploy flat and thus make a harder target, the gun crew could take the wheels off, which they have done in this case. In the middle distance you can see the shambles that the British had reduced the Italian 10th Army to, after a day of completely unco-ordinated attacks that had been defeated in detail, and a long column of prisoners waiting to be taken into custody.
     We may come back to this, it has legs.


Beda Fomm on a stamp

Finally -
"Where," I mused, " - does the word 'orchestra' come from?" for I am curious about the origins of words and phrases. 
     The answer is rather simple: Greek.  There is a word of theirs from the Classical era, "orchestra", which referred to that area in front of the stage.  This was reserved for the chorus members, which reservation now extends to great big ensembles of musicians.

Penguin Café Orchestra

*  LIES, I TELL YOU, LIES!