Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: super70s 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" Date: Thu, 4 Apr 2024 22:18:21 -0500 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 89 Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Fri, 05 Apr 2024 03:18:23 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="4a675180e66312ef6940b1c6c11201c0"; logging-data="1214805"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19FAR3l3pMQa8sIreBgL64Vwk06cpB0yPo=" User-Agent: Unison/2.2 Cancel-Lock: sha1:wrjKa8TMRfWd6NIHXUcSVzCx6ow= Bytes: 5466 On 2024-04-05 00:03:47 +0000, FPP said: > On 4/4/24 4:02 PM, 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. >> >> 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.] > > Japan's taxes vs US are generally considered to be pretty high. In part > this is because of the Japan tax brackets are quite different to what > we're used to here > > To put this into context, the US top federal tax rate in 2021 is 37%, > compared to Japan's 45%. > > So you'd be OK with higher taxes to fix our problems at home, right? > Because that's how things work. Tokyo has 14 million people, I doubt "everywhere you go" is so clean it would pass a Drill Sergeant's inspection (google "Tokyo slums" if you don't believe me). Kimmel's rant fits in well with our homegrown rightwingers' racist dog whistle about "dirty Blue-run cities" though.