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Redbubble
Tag archive for ‘смешно’
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NSFW in Russian-speaking offices
Some creative photography used in a park in Karaganda via NewEurasia. It’s pretty clever and also funny, but definitely not to be opened with Russian speaking colleagues looking over your shoulder. So when you’re alone, click here! Even though jokes aren’t funny when you have to explain them, I will say that the word in […]
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Work That Cough
While the number of people wearing masks in Astana out of fear of the swine flu has gone down considerably (see here and here for Chris Merriman’s pics of maskopolooza), I still see the occasional mask. And you never know when the next scare will come along. That’s why a Kazakh fashion studio in Semipalatinsk […]
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The President is Now a Water
First it was vodka. Then it was the political party Nurotan. Then it was half the buildings and complexes in Astana, adding a Nur to their name. Now it’s table water. I was surprised to see Nureke water in my local store the other day. Nureke is a diminutive form of names that begin with […]
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Useful Russian for English Football Fans
Something a dear friend send me that’s going around the Russian Internets 20 phrases in Russian That Will be of Use to English Football Fans during the Champion League Finals in Moscow. It appears to have originated with Prosports a popular Russian sports journal, but I can’t find it linked there. It’s very funny and […]
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Kazakh Humour
As Kazakhstan Neweurasia points out in an article on humor in Kazakhstan, one popular and rather clever area of humor is finding pseudo-Kazakh roots in foreign words. I suppose one reason I love these jokes so much is that it acts as a welcome antidote to bad history that relies on linguistic coincidences. One joke […]
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Older Post: Foreign Lovers
As work is piling up on me a bit, I thought I would post some things I wrote a while back. This one is dated only by it’s reference to an article on Neweurasia which is now ancient, but I think the topic—the foreign fiancee or spouse—is still relevant and interesting. I highly recommend Aiman’s […]
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On the lighter side
I finally saw the Borat movie–a pirate edition was handed to me in a smoky cafe, in plain white paper, the discs enscribed “We <3 Kazakhstan” like it was samizdat in Soviet times. So no money from the Kazakhstan economy went to Mr. Cohen from me, unlike some other non-patriots who pushed Borat to number […]
