Oct 17 2009

Anti-Bling?

Category: Kazakh Driving,KazakhstanChrisM @ 11:34 pm

OK, so this one is out of order compared to the other Lucky21842 videos I’ve been catching up on, but I wanted to embed it now in case I forgot and closed the tabs down in Firefox on Monday when we return home. So, if you haven’t already seen them, there are a lot of YouTube videos that feature elite vehicles and excessive car accessories, parading up and down (and occasionally crashing) Almaty (& a couple of Astana) streets. The video below is a sort of antidote to such clips.

If you click the video, you’ll be taken to the proper page for it, where you can check out his other videos and see the comments left by other YouTube videos. I can understand where 777kuku777 (and indeed Jason/Lucky himself) is coming from when 777kuku777 says

Wahaha, you are so right about the Almaty cars, personally I don’t see the point of those videos. If it’s your car, then do whatever you want with it, make a video for you tube and what-not, otherwise, waste of time. P.S. Dude you being a gangsta is priceless though! Oh and next time for your version of almaty cars use some local songs would be even? funnier:)

However, if I was aware of the sort of media attention that Kazakhstan attracted in some of the tabloids abroad, and I felt proud of Almaty/Astana/Kazakhstan as well, I would want to make sure that people understood that cars were not pulled by donkeys, and that in all likelihood, there were more über-expensive dream machines parading around Almaty (at least) than in the European/American city of your average YouTube viewer…

Yes, I could have just left this as a comment on the video, BUT… 1) I’m currently signed into GMail. Which is tied into my old banned YouTube account. I’d have had to sign out, delete all Google related cookies, sign into YouTube, leave a comment, then re-sign into Gmail (I haven’t yet set up a separate FireFox profile on Ira’s Mum’s PC). Unless you have a banned YouTube account, you have no excuse – go check all the videos out, leave comments, and if you like Lucky’s output as much as me (you there, stop sniggering at the back), consider subscribing …. oh and 2) I ramble too much. Youtube comments are restricted to around 1000/1500 characters? I normally exceed that length. It is a miracle of modern science/txt speak & deliberate lazy spelling that I ever manage to convey anything in a single tweet!

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4 Responses to “Anti-Bling?”

  1. lucky21842 says:

    never did ask you what got your youtube acct. banned? or are are you not at liberty to say ?

  2. ChrisM says:

    Check out Anna’s first video for summary. I posted short clips (mostly 10 seconds to 2 minutes) off BBC programs, and a couple BBC World News reports that featured Kazakhstan. After three or four vids were removed, they banned the account completely. Lost all my personal videos etc., with no way of recovering them into new account, other than re-uploading them all. They are all up now, just not made public. I’ll post them on the blog and make them public in batches.

  3. zach says:

    Hey Chris,
    Have you considered using another browser along side firefox? Personally I find Chrome to be light weight enough to run alongside for just that reason.

  4. ChrisM says:

    I have chrome and IE8 installed, and TBH I also have a profile in FF set aside for alt. webmail etc. accounts, it is just I often don’t get round to using them 🙂
    Chrome is OK, but I think I borked it up a little last time by trying an alpha build that allowed interesting extensions. That was a while ago mind you, perhaps stability has improved?