Path: ...!feeds.phibee-telecom.net!weretis.net!feeder6.news.weretis.net!usenet.blueworldhosting.com!diablo1.usenet.blueworldhosting.com!feeder.usenetexpress.com!tr2.iad1.usenetexpress.com!69.80.99.27.MISMATCH!local-2.nntp.ord.giganews.com!news.giganews.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 06 Apr 2024 18:34:10 +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: <20240404212152.0000495f@example.com> <17c3434f46feeca3$51971$3384359$c2d58868@news.newsdemon.com> <20240405113252.000069c0@example.com> <17c3714536172472$2$111488$4ed50460@news.newsdemon.com> <20240405185122.0000266a@example.com> <17c3b8985ee0397b$2654$3081049$52d51861@news.newsdemon.com> User-Agent: MT-NewsWatcher/3.5.3b3 (Intel Mac OS X) Date: Sat, 06 Apr 2024 11:42:30 -0700 Message-ID: Lines: 146 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com X-Trace: sv3-md0Xbrh1oy3TZywwa8HfpZGyxTaPYZmx3dSYXn8/nehCRYe+vmylNXjB170qB7Y5NGG4LL1Zhg71DHC!0+MybleJO2fS2D+Vmjv4KD50Fmz2PimSTD41jXHjQhcrMMN6PkyakgavuTdu9uG8WlwgvOXiXL9C!xSFTKSMZw25Oi2wbSU+FMMw= 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: 9423 In article <17c3b8985ee0397b$2654$3081049$52d51861@news.newsdemon.com>, moviePig wrote: > On 4/5/2024 6:51 PM, Rhino wrote: > > On Fri, 5 Apr 2024 13:07:05 -0400 > > moviePig wrote: > > > >> On 4/5/2024 11:32 AM, Rhino wrote: > >>> On Thu, 4 Apr 2024 23:04:49 -0400 > >>> moviePig wrote: > >>> > >>>> On 4/4/2024 9:21 PM, Rhino 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. > >>>>>> > >>>>> One of my friends and his wife taught English in Japan for a > >>>>> couple of years back in the early 80s. He assured me that it's > >>>>> really easy and logical to get around in Japan via public > >>>>> transit, especially rail. I don't think he had any Japanese when > >>>>> he got there, although they certainly learned some during their > >>>>> two years there. Even years later, he could recite all the stops > >>>>> between Tokyo and the city where they worked, which was two or > >>>>> three hours away from Tokyo. > >>>>>> Coming back to the shit-pile Los Angeles has become in just the > >>>>>> last 10 short years was very disheartening. > >>>>>> > >>>>>> 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. > >>>>>> > >>>>>>> Kimmel went on to describe how he used to believe that while the > >>>>>>> U.S. had "areas for improvement," it was mostly ahead in terms > >>>>>>> of cleanliness compared to most of the rest of the world. > >>>>>>> > >>>>>>> "I go to Europe, and there are dirt holes where plumbing is > >>>>>>> supposed to be. I hold my breath, and I go, 'I'm glad I'm not > >>>>>>> one of these people,' and then I go back home," he continued. > >>>>>>> Kimmel went on to praise the cleanliness of the bathrooms in > >>>>>>> Japan. > >>>>>>> > >>>>>>> "The bathrooms in Tokyo and Kyoto are cleaner than our operating > >>>>>>> rooms here. Everywhere you go the bathrooms are clean, they > >>>>>>> don't smell bad, they have those toilets that wash you from the > >>>>>>> inside out," he marveled. Kimmel also joked that even truck stop > >>>>>>> restrooms were "cleaner than Jennifer Garner's teeth -- the > >>>>>>> cleanest. Beautiful." > >>>>>>> > >>>>>>> "And it's not just the bathrooms," the host added. "People carry > >>>>>>> their own trash. There are no garbage cans," Kimmel said, > >>>>>>> mentioning the 1995 terrorist incident when a man put poisonous > >>>>>>> sarin gas in trash cans. > >>>>>> > >>>>>> Yes! I noticed that. I had to carry around an empty Coke can for > >>>>>> several hours because there was nowhere on the street to put it. > >>>>>> > >>>>>>> This resulted in the country removing public trash receptacles > >>>>>>> and Japanese citizens adapting to dispose of their own garbage. > >>>>>>> > >>>>>>> "They're like OK, no more trash cans, everybody clean up after > >>>>>>> yourselves. And guess what -- they clean up after themselves! > >>>>>>> They bring their garbage to their houses," he added. > >>>>>>> > >>>>>>> "It's like the whole country is Disneyland, and we're living at > >>>>>>> Six Flags," Kimmel said. "I've been home 36 hours, I have never > >>>>>>> felt dirtier. We are like hogs compared to the Japanese. I can't > >>>>>>> imagine what they must think of us. 'Oh, the garbage people. > >>>>>>> Yes, the Americans. Garbage.'" > >>>>>>> > >>>>>>> [NYC was much cleaner before several Demcorats were running it, > >>>>>>> Jimmy-Boy.] > >>>>> > >>>>> There may be an easy solution to littering. Many years ago, when I > >>>>> was just a pup, I remember an episode of Wonderful World of Disney > >>>>> where they talked about the state of littering in some historic > >>>>> places and/or national parks, perhaps Mt. Rushmore or Yellowstone. > >>>>> They had a little jingle going as they showed these scenes and I > >>>>> still remember a snippet of it to this day: "Litterbug, litterbug, > >>>>> don't you care? Making a mess everywhere!" I don't think I've > >>>>> littered since I saw that, although there were probably a couple > >>>>> of other moments along the way that reinforced that. I just hold > >>>>> on to any litter I generate - or put it in my pocket - until I > >>>>> get to a garbage can. I barely even think about it: it's just > >>>>> programmed into my brain. > >>>>> > >>>>> I suppose you could characterize that as brain-washing and I > >>>>> suppose it's true but it worked and I can't find anything evil in > >>>>> it, unlike the sort of brain-washing/indoctrination so many > >>>>> schools do today. > >>>>> > >>>>> Why don't we do more of this? The world wouldn't suddenly be clean > >>>>> and tidy overnight but it would probably clean up gradually if we > >>>>> were all persuaded to litter less. > >>>> > >>>> People litter because other people litter ...preventable only by > >>>> police. > >>>> > >>> Nonsense. I just told you how I was persuaded not to litter. No > >>> police involvement at all. > >> > >> Now you just need a reason to believe you're not the Western > >> exception. > >> > > And you need a reason to believe the police will actually enforce > > littering bylaws when they don't even respond to much more serious > > crimes. Just a few weeks ago, Toronto police officers were telling > > people to leave their doors unlocked and to leave their car keys near > > the door so that car thieves could more easily steal their cars without > > having to threaten family members for them! Does that sound like a > > police force that will charge people for LITTERING? I don't know what > > planet you "progressives" are living on but I wish you'd stay on THEIR > > Usenet and stay the hell off ours! > > When you come up for air, notice that -- barring insurrection -- a > police force will do as it's instructed. If a community wants it badly > enough, littering (in a defined area) can be brought to a sudden halt. Which is one of the reasons Japan is so cleaned. Littering gets you a 5-year prison sentence.