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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
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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.

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.]