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Jimmy Kimmel on Japan Cleanness

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  • taiwan_girlT Offline
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    (First I have to admit, I do not really know who he is and have never watch him. However this article I came across and while he was joking in the way he talked about the cleanness of Japan, I had to agree. Amazing how clean it is, even in downtown Tokyo, a city with 20+MM people. And this is true even though there are no trash cans around)

    https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/jimmy-kimmel-calls-usa-filthy-163123493.html

    The late-night host said that he didn’t encounter a single dirty bathroom during his time in the country.

    “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,” Kimmel said. He then said the truck stop bathrooms were “cleaner than Jennifer Garner’s teeth — the cleanest.”

    Kimmel was also in awe of the cultural norm in Japan where people carry their own trash. Public trash cans were largely removed from the country following a 1995 sarin gas attack, where terrorists utilized the bins in the Tokyo subway system.

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      Agreed.

      By the way, the word you’re looking for is ‘cleanliness’ (pronounced CLEN-li-ness with ‘clen’ rhyming with glen).

      A rather irregular form of noun.

      They’ll end up, after a lot of drama, with the same formula they use every time they have a trifecta: take away health care and food assistance from low income families and use the money to fund tax cuts for their donors.

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        Well, Buc-ees are pretty clean too.

        “I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.” ~Winston S. Churchill

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        • jon-nycJ jon-nyc

          Agreed.

          By the way, the word you’re looking for is ‘cleanliness’ (pronounced CLEN-li-ness with ‘clen’ rhyming with glen).

          A rather irregular form of noun.

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          @jon-nyc Thanks Jon!!

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          • George KG Offline
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            Culture...

            "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

            The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.

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              My parents came back from a visit to India recently - and they keep complaining about the opposite problem.

              There's garbage everywhere. Consumer-packaged goods - think plastic wrappers - weren't very widely used even about 25 years ago. Now they're everywhere and there's no culture of garbage collection. It's an absolute mess.

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                India was a mess when I was there in 2006. Especially the cities, but even the villages.

                They’ll end up, after a lot of drama, with the same formula they use every time they have a trifecta: take away health care and food assistance from low income families and use the money to fund tax cuts for their donors.

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