Path: Xl.tags.giganews.com!local-2.nntp.ord.giganews.com!news.giganews.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 04 Apr 2024 20:31:10 +0000 From: BTR1701 Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv Subject: Re: Jimmy Kimmel Calls USA "Filthy And Disgusting" After Traveling to Japan: "We Are Like Hogs Compared to the Japanese" References: User-Agent: MT-NewsWatcher/3.5.3b3 (Intel Mac OS X) Date: Thu, 04 Apr 2024 13:38:37 -0700 Message-ID: Lines: 56 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com X-Trace: sv3-TGwTJwQaMvqT8XvLwIm3Z97AWVYDguVgtcR8yj6Q1JPip5rItBYRqprf2ApVXsPGV6ZSOizh82kIssl!dRzu4YvBNt2RNzAcwJTNRgwVBq66jxuePN9k038XPuUhjLy9kv4d1EVK12eV96yzwrRP+pVZKkZA!tmM= X-Complaints-To: abuse@giganews.com X-DMCA-Notifications: http://www.giganews.com/info/dmca.html X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 Bytes: 3819 In article , shawn wrote: > On Thu, 04 Apr 2024 13:02:19 -0700, BTR1701 wrote: > > >In article , > > Ubiquitous wrote: > > > >> Late-night host Jimmy Kimmel said he's looking at America in a new light > >> after a recent visit to Japan. > >> > >> The 56-year-old said his trip abroad made him realize that the U.S. is > >> unsanitary compared to the land of the rising sun. > >> > >> "After traveling to Japan, I realize that this place, this USA we're > >> always > >> chanting about, is a filthy and disgusting country," he said during his > >> monologue on Monday night's episode of "Jimmy Kimmel Live." > > > >I agree with him. My trip to Tokyo was an eye-opener. I've never seen a > >city so clean and beautiful with pleasant, polite, happy people > >everywhere you go. Its only drawback was that-- of all the places I've > >been around the world-- it's one of the harder cities to get around and > >function in if you don't speak the language. I thought at the time that > >if I spoke and read Japanese, I'd consider living in Tokyo for good if I > >could. > > But my understanding is you would have a difficult time living there > because you aren't Japanese. Things like buying a home would be very > difficult for you. So it really sounds like a great place to visit as > a foreigner but not so to permanently live as a foreigner. As for the > cleanliness isn't Singapore another place that's kept exceptionally > clean but hot and humid. I forgot to mention, the per capita percentage of attractive women in Japan was *much* higher than in the U.S. There were beautiful women seemingly everywhere. Sure, you can find some smokeshows in L.A., but there are a lot more of the green-haired, nose-ringed tofu monsters waddling around than the BAYWATCH supermodels. > >Coming back to the shit-pile Los Angeles has become in just the last 10 > >short years was very disheartening. > > Of course LA is going to be disheartening just from all the homeless > on the streets. > > >It's no surprise it would be especially noticeable to Kimmel, whose > >show's home is in an old Masonic temple right across Hollywood Blvd from > >the Chinese Theater and the Hollywood-and-Highland Complex, where > >fentanyl addicts stagger around like WALKING DEAD extras, crime is out > >of control, vagrants tents and trash mountains abound, and dead bodies > >lying on the sidewalk are a routine occurrence. > > > >Coming back to that from Japan would be quite a contrast indeed.