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On 4/6/24 1:42 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. 


You mispelled "clean."


Littering gets you a
> 5-year prison sentence.