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On 4/5/2024 11:32 AM, Rhino wrote:
> On Thu, 4 Apr 2024 23:04:49 -0400
> moviePig <never@nothere.com> wrote:
> 
>> 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.
>>
> 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.