David Brent comments

I couldn't care less about the Olympics, but do we still get the four-day weekend this year?

It may be diluted in the vast oceans around the globe all right, but how many years do you think it will take? Until then, the contaminated water will remain undiluted off the coast of Fukushima for many years to come.

You have a very poor understanding of ocean currents and convection.

Only people illiterate in science can object to this release of hazard-free water.

Oh, and China kicking up a stink?! Seriously?! We all know how lovely and clean the rivers and seas of China are!

Proper corporate governance and independent auditing simply does not exist in Japanese companies. This is why I would never invest in one. The balance sheet and P&L cannot be trusted.

As long as it has been checked and verified by the relevant non-Japanese authorities, what's the issue?

No doubt they will elect a fresh-faced, dynamic, full-of-new-ideas....70 year-old man.

He stuffed fried chicken into his ex-girlfriend's mailbox. What have you ever done?

Also, exactly what is the nurse adding to this procedure? Just putting his hands on the patient out of some sense that he should be doing something?

Yeah, don't they usually give shots lower down in more fleshy parts. That's up near the bone!

Most Japanese doctors are quacks, so this photo is not even surprising after living here so many years.

Tenet.

I know many places making more in a day thanks to the government handout than they ever made from sales back in the day. They’re loving it!

Here's someone who needs a good shoeing.

am against the kind of guns and automatic machine guns that you can buy easily in America.

Ah, the classic sign of someone who knows nothing about guns and existing gun laws. Do please tell me in which state I can buy an “automatic machine gun”.

5034 cases. The total amount of product seized may amount to about an eighth then...!

His books are so boring. I really don’t get the hype.

They’ll want more money than that for it.

Both the medical emergency declaration and the red alert level are largely symbolic moves

Remove the word “largely”. Then we’ll have a more truthful sentence.

I would happily spend my money at more independent, small coffee shops as opposed to large chains; but so many of them allow smoking, which is disgusting and a threat to my health. Thank goodness for Starbucks and places like them, if only for nice air while enjoying my coffee.

In Japan, being a policeman is synonymous with being a salaryman. You just get more money and better job security.

Nothing wrong with them doing it within their own territorial waters.

She's brighten up the place, wouldn't she?

you will see some of these gun crimes go down.

Yes, but not for a, ahem, certain demographic they won't.

Delta is the best of the US airlines. It is silly blocking off the middle seats. It has zero effect on the chance of catching/not catching Covid on the flight.

Yeah? Against karate?

It's California, so there probably wasn't a good guy with a gun nearby to be able to take out the shooter quickly. If this were Texas, it might have been over more quickly. Everybody needs a good guy with a gun quickly in situations like this.

Now white British people are a minority in London and becoming a minority in many other British towns and cities. This has happened in just one lifetime. Could you imagine that happening in Japan?

No, I can't imagine that, because Japan has sensible immigration policies.

I've got a mate whose family hails from Pakistan. He does the best Ali G impression. It's nothing racist though.

Under "weaknesses", you've just put "trying to get away with murder".

Are all the posts today gonna be about the COVID resurgence, ‘cause I’m getting a bit....

If I had my way, the place would be full of 'em.