Date: Sat, 6 Apr 2024 10:54:07 -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> <17c3714536172472$2$111488$4ed50460@news.newsdemon.com> <20240405185122.0000266a@example.com> Content-Language: en-US From: moviePig In-Reply-To: <20240405185122.0000266a@example.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 145 Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder6.news.weretis.net!newsfeed.hasname.com!usenet.blueworldhosting.com!diablo1.usenet.blueworldhosting.com!feeder.usenetexpress.com!tr2.iad1.usenetexpress.com!news.newsdemon.com!not-for-mail Nntp-Posting-Date: Sat, 06 Apr 2024 14:54:07 +0000 X-Received-Bytes: 8282 Organization: NewsDemon - www.newsdemon.com X-Complaints-To: abuse@newsdemon.com Message-Id: <17c3b8985ee0397b$2654$3081049$52d51861@news.newsdemon.com> Bytes: 8683 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. What's a bit idealistic is the idea of neatness becoming a contagious way of life ...flying in the face of entropy and human behavior.