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On 4/4/2024 9:21 PM, Rhino wrote:
> On Thu, 04 Apr 2024 13:02:19 -0700
> BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:
> 
>> In article <uumno6$p8sf$2@dont-email.me>,
>>   Ubiquitous <weberm@polaris.net> 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.