He's at the chocolate teapot end of the competency scale.
He cannot conceive of a tempest outside a teapot.
Referring to Wendell Phillips, the reformer and abolitionist:
Outside of the chair, the teapot is the most ubiquitous and important design element in the domestic environment and almost everyone who has tackled the world of design has ended up designing one.
I was so astonished that I could think of nothing to say, but wondered irrelevantly if I was to be caught with a teapot in my hand on every dramatic occasion.
I like to personalise my dressing room, have a cover for the bed and, if it is a long run, a few cushions and a teapot - a little pot for one.
Normally I will have five or six cups of tea a day, and if I can have them poured from a teapot, then all the better. I think tea tastes so much nicer from a pot.
Now, there is no harm in a teapot, even if it contains tea, if it is let alone.