CaptDingleheimer comments

I've noticed that our Boston-area Japanese supermarkets have had a much smaller selection of rice from Japan in the past year. We're rice snobs so that's what we eat, and my Akitan wife has had to go without her cherished Akita Komachi rice since 2 harvests ago.

Oh no. I have 4 of those things. Where am I gonna get parts? And one of ‘em is due for a tuneup.

Yep. The Yanks are obnoxious tourists for sure.

I'm going to France in a few weeks. A 'seasoned' France traveler told me not to give myself away as just another annoying American tourist by wearing a baseball cap. Apparently that's a stereotype they like to get their noses in a snit about.

I said "Thanks for telling me, I'm gonna wear a baseball cap everyday there now".

It also made me consider going to Walmart to buy some of those shirts that say "LAND OF THE FREE" with American flags and bald eagles or Harleys on it. "GOD, GUNS, AND FAMILY" might work well, too.

Yeah, thanks for the airfares, dudes.

Only in Japan.... would a man actually comply when a shopping mall rent-a-cop demands he show him the contents of his phone.

I used to watch that 'Whale Wars' reality show that followed Watson and his marauding gang of hippies on their boat as they harassed Japanese whaling vessels in Antarctic waters.

I started out kind of on the side of Watson, but the hippies were so annoying that I soon found myself hoping the Japanese would harpoon a whale right off Watson's bow and flay the sumbitch on the deck right in from of them.

God forbid a bunch of 48-year old salarymen think she isn't single and ready to mingle...

These days they can often ID someone from video. Are they using facial recognition? Just curious.

I'm not sure I would cal AI a "craze" at this point.

To everyone saying "but she was born a woman!"

Says who? Him? His coach? Why are we just supposed to take someone's word for that and run with it?

I wonder if that will make any noticeable difference to the viewing numbers.

It certainly won't be just my family.

I just cancelled my Peacock account (NBC-owned, streaming the Games). Their advertisers paid a lot of money, but they won't be reaching my eyes.

NBC provides 40% of the IOC's income. Time to boycott their advertisers.

It's a good idea to keep a finger on the pulse, like a census does. But there should be no consequence to the companies.

The IOC allowed a man to compete in women's boxing and he broke his opponent's nose and ended the match in under a minute. My family won't be watching another minute of the Games.

My boss here in the US thought he was being all generous by allowing me 1 week, paid. After that, back to the coal fields.

I'm going to Paris is a couple months for a few days. I'm really looking forward to seeing all the sights. I'm not really looking forward to seeing all the dirtbags who live in Paris.

According to ChatGPT:

A pile of 1.6 million tons of uncooked Japanese rice, if formed into a conical shape, would have a base radius of approximately 154 meters and a height of approximately 89 meters.

That's still a helluva lotta rice!

Just what we need, some cheap Chinese battery catching on fire in the luggage hold of an airplane with a few hundred souls aboard, somewhere out over the ocean.

The entire Japanese Olympic delegation should be required to complete a full-day seminar on 'good sportsmanship' before they even get on the plane, and sign a pledge after. This has been a chronic problem for decades. It's gotten beyond ridiculous.

She was doing the full-on primal scream on the side of the mats after, top of her lungs. The coach looked pretty embarrassed as he tried his best to muffle her screams into his shoulder, and he damn well should be; not for her performance in the match, but for her performance after.

This lack of sportsmanship and grace has been a problem for Japanese teams for years. Laying down and pounding on the ground crying in the middle of a snowboard halfpipe, sitting in the middle of the ice and crying, instead of gracefully exiting, delaying the next athlete... maybe that's all a way to show the Japanese fans back home that you feel dishonored and shamed and sorry to THEM, but to the rest of the world, you look like a spoiled child and a total jackass.

$10 bucks says that 3 dozen loads of concrete will be mysteriously poured on that site overnight in the coming days.

Massachusetts, where I live, was supposed to get this summer's Olympics, or at least be the American submission to the contest for hosting. We all went nuts and made them withdraw our name from the hat. Nobody wants that crap around here.

Doing my part to help by marrying a Japanese girl and taking her back to the States with me to live.

White American here, quite obviously not Japanese. Not a resident either, so no gaijin card.

But we go to Japan at least once a year to visit my wife's family. I'm not a tourist; I'm even on the family koseki at the city hall (got married there). I ain't paying extra. When I get my bill at that restaurant, it's not going to work out for that manager the way he thought it was going to work out.

The most important question remains unanswered:

How many times did it get him laid?

They probably thought it was a Confederate general's daughter or something.

Years ago, I was drinking buddies with a Russian kid job (his first out of college) was boosting cars in Sendai and driving them down to the pier at 2:00 in the morning, to be loaded onto Russian ships.

Nice kid. The balls on him, too.

Good job, guys. It'll probably be right back where it was in two weeks.

I've just been buying it up. I have to, or rather get to, bring my family to Japan for 2 weeks every year, so this exchange rate has been very helpful. I've got enough Japanese cash for 5 trips to Japan in my safe at home now. Still, for the past couple years we've been using credit cards while there because of the exchange rate.

I really feel bad for the Americans who earn their pay in yen as I once did, many of them underpaid in Japan as it is, hoping to save for their eventual return back home. It's also prevented Japanese family members from visiting us in recent years.

Was he drunk half the time?

If I was the husband, the coroner would need to bring two body bags, and I'd be living out my days in an orange jumpsuit.

To Roger's point: When my mom came to visit me in Japan, she came down to breakfast from her hotel room and said that she had wanted to see what the Japanese news looked like but she'd only been able to find channels with children's shows. She said on one channel there were adults talking, but there were stuffed kitties and bunnies around the set. I quickly realized that what she'd seen WAS "the news".