Date: Fri, 5 Apr 2024 13:07:05 -0400 Mime-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Subject: Re: Jimmy Kimmel Calls USA "Filthy And Disgusting" After Traveling to Japan: "We Are Like Hogs Compared to the Japanese" Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv References: <20240404212152.0000495f@example.com> <17c3434f46feeca3$51971$3384359$c2d58868@news.newsdemon.com> <20240405113252.000069c0@example.com> Content-Language: en-US From: moviePig In-Reply-To: <20240405113252.000069c0@example.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 121 Path: ...!news-out.netnews.com|netnews.com!postmaster.netnews.com!weretis.net!feeder6.news.weretis.net!panix!usenet.blueworldhosting.com!diablo1.usenet.blueworldhosting.com!feeder.usenetexpress.com!tr2.iad1.usenetexpress.com!news.newsdemon.com!not-for-mail Nntp-Posting-Date: Fri, 05 Apr 2024 17:07:05 +0000 X-Received-Bytes: 6817 Organization: NewsDemon - www.newsdemon.com X-Complaints-To: abuse@newsdemon.com Message-Id: <17c3714536172472$2$111488$4ed50460@news.newsdemon.com> Bytes: 7255 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.