Your Japanese word of the week is...

"dame" だめ , which means "bad" or "wrong". You can also use it as an emphatic "NO!" and, as is such the way with these words, can be used in a rather angry manner if need be.

dame!

Uggs. You might know these. Apparently these are sheepskin boots from Australia worn for warmth long before they became fashionable. I have never liked them. Maybe it's the lack of any discernable ankle or how the rounded toe makes the foot look like a styling reject from a cartoon shoe. I particularly don't like how the lack of support means that anyone who wears them eventually wears them to the point of collapsing on their instep.

Worse than all of that, however, is that lately I've been seeing guys wear them...... it just looks completely wrong.....

Dame!!

A Taiwanese man arriving at Narita Airport from Hong Kong. He collapses. Authorities thought he was suffering from a strange strain of flu.

Turns out he swallowed 90 packets of drugs in an attempt to smuggle them into the country.

The drugs poisoned him.... I laughed =P....

DAME!!!

The Cove. It's no secret that Japan is often known for its controversial whale hunts but worse than that is a lesser known dolphin hunt that happens annually in a cove in Wakayama prefecture.

What basically happens is as the dolphins migrate, the fishermen herd them into the cove where the dolphins get slaughtered. No, seriously..... reports of up to 2,500 dolphins get murdered in this one hunt alone.

When reports of this broke out a few years ago, former National Geographic photographer Louis Psihoyos took it upon himself to set up a secret film crew (including a diver for images from in the water) to catch this atrocious event from start to finish.

I should say that I personally have no issues with whale hunts for cultural reasons. There are lots of things that I eat that other cultures don't (I eat beef; Indians don't) and vice versa. I can appreciate that whale hunts are an important part of certain heritages and that's fine.

I do, however, have a problem with herding and massacring some 2,000 dolphins so they can be served up on a plate.......

That's just wrong......