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• Happy Ramadan, whether you fast or not

  Happy Ramadan or Ramazan or whatever you call it. Whether you fast or not, a funny Ramadan commercial video.

  8/11/10 • (Comments Off on Happy Ramadan, whether you fast or not)

• Octopus Is Economic Threat

  According to The Daily Telegraph and Kazakhstan’s Liter, the Kazakhstan Association of Bookmakers blames Paul the Octopus for a bad take from this year’s World Cup. Out of 10 billion tenge (almost $67 million) put down on World Cup matches in Kazakhstan, bookmakers only made 150 million tenge profit ($1 million), or 1.5%. They had […]

  7/21/10 • (Comments Off on Octopus Is Economic Threat)

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  I Know Kazakhs Like Meat But This is Ridiculous

  Another translation fail! Safe handling for meat instructions on my razor blades. It’s a real problem because 1) meat doesn’t keep a sharp edge very well and 2) I don’t have time to thaw my razor blades every morning and then cook them before using.

  6/15/10 • (2)

• Government Should Control Use of Kazakh

  Stop insulting Kenyans says Irak Yelekeyev, a member of the lower house of Kazakhstan’s Parliament. He noticed that his tea from Kenya said, in Russian, “Black Tea from Kenya” but in Kazakh it said Kara Kenya Chayi or Tea from Black Kenya! According to sources who were there, Yelekeyev went on to say that this […]

  5/04/10 • (2)

• Driving Rules for Kazakhstan

  I was inspired by this post on driving rules in China to make up a list of driving rules in Kazakhstan: Ignore lanes. The lines wear off every year anyway because of all the salt and sand they put on the roads to melt the snow and ice. Instead, drive in the middle of your […]

  4/28/10 • (4)

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  Pirates in Kazakhstan

  Who says it’s just the Chinese that are into copyright violation and trying to trick customers? These boxers are made right here in the Republic of Kazakhstan and they aren’t too badly made. They are definitely competitive. But just to make sure, the marketers hoped you might think they were made by Calvin Klein. Of […]

  4/25/10 • (Comments Off on Pirates in Kazakhstan)

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  Kazakhstan Hosting Alien Embassy! Not!

  Is Kazakhstan building an embassy for aliens? If they do, will there be separate sections for the greys, the reptilians, the greens and the bugs? Why would they bother since everyone knows that there is already a UFO base in the Caspian Sea?

  4/11/10 • (4)

• Please, Sir Can I Have Some More Horse Fat?

  Chris Merriman prompted to me to write a quick note on Dom Joly’s take on horsemeat. A while ago, I was at a formal celebration and they served beshbarmak made of horse meat, but not just horse meat: the big fatty chunks of horse meat. In fact there was very little actual meat on the […]

  4/10/10 • (Comments Off on Please, Sir Can I Have Some More Horse Fat?)

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  Bankhi Kaida?

  After my most recent adventure with new Kazakh tenge notes, I wondered what had happened about those misspelled bills. As you will recall, when they introduced the new currency x years ago, the first bills were released with a spelling error. In Kazakh the word for bank is bank but these bills had bankhi written […]

  4/03/10 • (Comments Off on Bankhi Kaida?)

• April Fools

  My earlier post, Capital Moving, was an April Fool’s joke. If my dictionary is to be believed, the name of the MP I “quoted” means “No one”. I also tried to write his voice in bad Russlish translation. The gazeta.kz story id was 00000. And of course the last quote was completely out of tone with the rest of his speech and hopefully reminiscent of The Onion or some such satirical source.

  From the comment count, my fooling rate was 50/50 or one of each. So not too bad.

  4/02/10 • (4)

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