Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: shawn 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, 04 Apr 2024 16:05:02 -0400 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 81 Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Thu, 04 Apr 2024 20:05:05 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="93490d162f150c72fa0b4a87ce883052"; logging-data="910754"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18q2f4xMBZK7wlf7KH7LErYOOYowaYXZn8=" User-Agent: ForteAgent/8.00.32.1272 Cancel-Lock: sha1:n0+TMivOHSgNT8f/ODiA3oRTan8= Bytes: 5162 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. >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. > >> 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.]