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Date: Sat, 6 Apr 2024 18:01:38 -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: <uumno6$p8sf$2@dont-email.me> <atropos-917BED.13014404042024@news.giganews.com> <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> <17c3b8985ee0397b$2654$3081049$52d51861@news.newsdemon.com> <atropos-0CFA97.11423006042024@kd014101080069.ppp-bb.dion.ne.jp> Content-Language: en-US From: moviePig <never@nothere.com> In-Reply-To: <atropos-0CFA97.11423006042024@kd014101080069.ppp-bb.dion.ne.jp> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 153 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 22:01:38 +0000 X-Received-Bytes: 9039 X-Complaints-To: abuse@newsdemon.com Organization: NewsDemon - www.newsdemon.com Message-Id: <17c3cfecb0eb14d7$4836$1768716$4ad50060@news.newsdemon.com> Bytes: 9440 On 4/6/2024 2:42 PM, BTR1701 wrote: > In article <17c3b8985ee0397b$2654$3081049$52d51861@news.newsdemon.com>, > moviePig <never@nothere.com> wrote: > >> On 4/5/2024 6:51 PM, Rhino wrote: >>> On Fri, 5 Apr 2024 13:07:05 -0400 >>> moviePig <never@nothere.com> wrote: >>> >>>> On 4/5/2024 11:32 AM, Rhino wrote: >>>>> On Thu, 4 Apr 2024 23:04:49 -0400 >>>>> moviePig <never@nothere.com> wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> On 4/4/2024 9:21 PM, Rhino wrote: >>>>>>> On Thu, 04 Apr 2024 13:02:19 -0700 >>>>>>> BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote: >>>>>>> >>>>>>>> In article <uumno6$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. >>>> >>> 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. > > Which is one of the reasons Japan is so cleaned. Littering gets you a > 5-year prison sentence. Which maybe it should. And I'll acknowledge that, living under that sort of stricture could elicit some sort of neatness instinct. But I wouldn't confuse that with consciousness-raising.