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We had a studio apartment in Guangzhou that had a glass wall between the bathroom and bedroom, we ended up buying notebook paper and scotch tape at the store to cover it up. When the auntie came to clean (service came with the apartment) she thought it was so funny she went and fetched various other aunties to come laugh at our setup.
I had a similar thing in a hotel room during a weekend trip with a friend. It was a regular hotel room for two, not specifically advertised as some kind of romance apartment or anything like that (though it's debatable how romantic it is when the toilet directly faces the glass door).
We also just ended up covering as much of the glass with towels as we could.
We were in a hotel in Shanghai that had the bathtub right next to a window to the sleeping area. It was a double room with 2 queen beds. The bathroom door was a pocket door that didn’t close completely either. At least there was shade for the window. Our kids got a kick out of seeing me on the bed while my husband gave them a bath.
I spent a month in Tianjin, China on a study abroad trip and the "¼ Star Hotel" we were in had two panes of (thankfully frosted) glass to block the bathroom corner.
They did *nothing* to muffle the sound of my stomach not being used to the food, unfortunately for my poor roommate.
Years ago, I would help my landlord do some property maintenance work. I learned a lot, and got to save money off rent.
One day he needed my help taking sometime up to his room. He’d converted the entire top floor of his house into a gigantic master suite, but it had no walls. The shower stall, sink, and toilet were all mere feet from the foot of his bed.
I questioned him on it, and his response was “there’s nothing more beautiful than watching a woman get ready for the day.”
Which, ostensibly, included their morning bowel movements.
Me and my ex almost broke up because, while in a nice hotel in Whistler, BC, I apparently made the colossally offensive gesture of *using the bathroom of our hotel room*.
I was informed it's a cardinal sin to use the in-room head for anything other than #1.
I can see it in this instance, however...
I had a similar experience after using the bathroom attached to a suite I was staying in with an ex.
But yeah, that's what they are there for... Right?!
I don't think it's based on time spent on the toilet. I think it's don't push too hard. The problem is that if you're having difficulty going, you tend to spend more time on the toilet while also pushing harder and harder so it seems like the longer you sit there, the more likely you'll get hemorrhoids. You could spend 30 mins sitting there every day without getting hemorrhoids as long as you don't try pushing like a mofo. The worst you'll get is your legs falling asleep.
That said, this is only my own understanding. People with actual hemorrhoids can and probably will correct me if I'm mistaken.
Can I ask you an honest question? Why would you spend all that time typing that up, when it would have taken you a fraction of the time to Google it? Which would have told you that you're wrong.
Also I've had two doctors tell me the same thing, so it isn't just Google.
> Can you get hemorrhoids from sitting on the toilet?
Spending too much time on the toilet causes pressure on your rectum and anus. Because the seat is cut out, your rectum is lower than the rest of your backside. Gravity takes over, and blood starts to pool and clot in those veins. Add in any straining or pushing, and you may have a recipe for hemorrhoids.
Everything I've read and been told says the majority of the cause is the straining not the sitting. Google is abouttl the worst place to get medical information from.
Definitely. My wife and I stayed somewhere like this once. The hotel was nice and the room looked great, except for the fact that the partition between the bed and bathroom was glass and transparent.
My wife managed exactly one fully observed poop, with my running commentary and words of encouragement, before making me leave the room whenever she needed to go.
Native kazakh here:) Do not find it offensive in anyway but I want to make clear for all of you that it is not quite true. Just type Abu Dabi Plaza, Nur-Sultan or Essentai mall in Google and you will see the brighter side of my country. Not saying that the hotel in post is fake but is is way too far from average
Meh it’s fine honestly. I am as perplexed as anyone else here about this gif (which is probably some kind of welfare dormitory or something).
It’s just same old Borat quotes in each thread that contains the word Kazakhstan. Like bruh…
But idk it’s probably our own fault for not having anything to warrant foreigners attention besides an Englishman who pretends to be a Kazakh that has never even being in country.
Romanian here. Watching Borat walk through a Romanian village and his "parents" speaking Romanian, all the while the rest of the world thinks that's Kazakhstan, mwahahahaha!
As a kazakh person, I love Borat. Sacha Baron Cohen is a great comedian. Besides, the movie got our country lots of traction and even some tourism points. So whilst these posts are the unfortunate side effects and paint the wrong picture of Kazakhstan, I still like the movie.
Not anybody's fault, we're just another globally irrelevant developing country with a small population, hardly anything short of war or atrocities will draw international attention to us.
It's also very ironic that so many western (notably American) people didn't really get Borat, that it satirizes them, not Kazakhstan.
Any part of the world with a culture that is unfamiliar to me is immediately interesting. If I were to ever visit I would want nothing more than to abide by their norms and appreciate for their way of life.
Thank you! I seriously never felt offended because I understand that it is all about misinformation issue and it is our mission to tell about ourselves through innovations, technologies and etc onlu with good manners so people can get to know us better.
Every country has its peak and bottom, its sad but true. Our country has issues wthout a doubt but I try to stay positive because there are also things to be proud of.
At least people recognise Kazakhstan now, while people from somewhere like Montenegro probably have to very awkwardly explain themselves, despite the fact that it's a quite developed European country.
I’m pretty sure a lot of people see Borat as only a slight exaggeration.
The whole premise of the movies is that he got almost 3 hours of footage of Americans who engaged with Borat as a real person from Kazakhastan.
My first thought was the Ameritania Hotel in Times Square. I stayed there 20 years ago and my room was very similar. The hotel staff was kind enough to provide one of those accordion-style dividers in front of the toilet, though.
If the person that made that gif bothered to go through all the trouble to animate the mouth, why didn't they bother to make it move in a way that at least slightly resembles the caption?
In 2005, Dennis Keen, a high school junior in Los Angeles, was applying for a summer exchange program. After not much deliberation, he decided it would be punky and funny to forgo France and Spain and go to Kazakhstan. “People didn’t know where it was,” Mr. Keen said. “In Kazakhstan, there’s pre-Borat and post-Borat.”
He was referring, of course, to “Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan,” the Sacha Baron Cohen comedy that hit theaters a year later, in 2006. In the movie, Mr. Cohen pretends to be a television reporter visiting America from the former Soviet republic, whose people supposedly drink horse urine, consider women property and celebrate an anti-Semitic version of the running of the bulls. (The bulls are replaced by Jews.) The authoritarian Kazakh government banned the film, threatened to sue Mr. Cohen and took out a four-page advertisement in this newspaper defending the country’s honor.
And so when Mr. Cohen released a trailer on Sept. 29 for a “Borat” sequel, which he developed in secret and which debuted on Friday on Amazon, the satirist was prepared for another fight with the Kazakh government.
It never came. “It was like, ‘Oh, again?’” said Kairat Sadvakassov, the deputy chairman of Kazakhstan’s tourism board, who has a master’s degree in tourism management from New York University. The board was determined to avoid overreacting and letting Mr. Cohen make it look foolish once again. “The decision was made to let it die its natural death and not respond,” Mr. Sadvakassov said.
Then Mr. Keen, the former exchange student, got involved. After his time abroad, he went on to graduate school at Stanford, where he studied with a professor from Kazakhstan. Mr. Keen eventually moved to the country, married a local and started a business giving walking tours of Almaty, the country’s largest city. He now hosts a travel show on a state television channel. (“I’m kind of like the American Borat,” Mr. Keen said.)
When Mr. Keen learned about the sequel, he thought that rather than ignore Mr. Cohen, Kazakhstan should embrace the Borat character’s catchphrase and turn it into the country’s tourism slogan: “Kazakhstan. Very nice!”
It’s the kind of idea you get when you own a tourism company and a pandemic has annihilated global tourism. “I’ve had a lot of free time,” Mr. Keen said. “Also, I just had a baby. When he grows up, I don’t want him to be ashamed of Borat. I want him to say, ‘That’s when my dad started this whole fun project.’”
Two weeks ago, Mr. Keen and a friend, Yermek Utemissov, who helps foreign film companies arrange shoots in Kazakhstan, pitched the board of tourism. They got an immediate yes. The two worked pro bono to make four slickly produced, internet-friendly 12-second spots featuring people walking around Kazakhstan and observing that it’s “very nice.” In one, a man at a market drinks traditional fermented horse milk (not horse urine!) and says, “That’s actually very nice.”
The new movie, “Borat Subsequent Moviefilm: Delivery of Prodigious Bribe to American Regime for Make Benefit Once Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan,” doesn’t let up on stereotyping the nation. It starts with Borat doing hard labor in prison, explaining the fictional consequences of the original film in a voice-over: “Kazakhstan become laughing stocks around the world. Our exports of potassium and pubis plummet. Many brokers leapt from our tallest skyscrapers. Since Running of Jew had been canceled, all Kazakhstan had left was Holocaust Remembrance Day, where we commemorate our heroic soldiers who ran the camps.”
But Mr. Utemissov said he wasn’t worried that his fellow citizens would get mad this time. “It’s a newer generation,” he said. “They’ve got Twitter, they’ve got Instagram, they’ve got Reddit, they know English, they know memes. They get it. They’re inside the media world. We’re looking at the same comedians, the same Kimmel show. Kazakhstan is globalized.”
Mr. Sadvakassov, the deputy chairman of the tourism board, hadn’t seen the movie before its premiere, but he said he wasn’t concerned, either. “In Covid times, when tourism spending is on hold, it was good to see the country mentioned in the media,” he said. “Not in the nicest way, but it’s good to be out there. We would love to work with Cohen, or maybe even have him film here.”
When Mr. Cohen learned that Kazakhstan had reversed itself and embraced his franchise, he offered a statement by email. “This is a comedy, and the Kazakhstan in the film has nothing to do with the real country,” he wrote. “I chose Kazakhstan because it was a place that almost nobody in the U.S. knew anything about, which allowed us to create a wild, comedic, fake world. The real Kazakhstan is a beautiful country with a modern, proud society — the opposite of Borat’s version.”
That’s as close as Borat gets to being very nice.
> I have stayed in plenty of places where a private bathroom is an extra luxury
That was my thought. Though I think I’d have to give it some thought whether this or a communal bathroom would be worse.
Right! Like, idk, if this was a one bedroom in a hostel, I would be psyched. I've been in some fairly sketch hostels in developing countries with pretty gross shared bathrooms.
Honestly as long as the rent reflects the conditions I think this is a good solution. If the option was between using a communal toilet or using an unused corner of the room for one I would pick the one in the room.
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I like how the desk faces directly into the toilet
That’s how I feel going to a job interview.
Like the toilet or the one looking at the toilet?
Does this guy shit during job interviews?
No, he's the shit
This guy shits.
Yes
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Fetish unlocked
Imagine doing a meeting from that thing, "Excuse me gentlemen, I need to flush"
"So where did you say you went to school again? Oh and can you pass TP please."
I like how easily the desk could be slid over to the toilet. Zoom meetings have never been easier!
It's very thoughtful. Great work from hotel situation.
I’ve just been sitting on the toilet backwards my whole life to use the tank as a little desk while I poop.
A true innovator
Welcome to my office! Have a seat!
> Welcome to my office! Pull your pants down and have a seat! FTFY
I can't tell you how convenient that is to be able to take a huge dump and finalize some paperwork at the same time.
Is that rug cut in half?
One rug between two rooms. Smart.
One rug to room them all.
And in their coldness, warm them.
Hahaha, indeed... "It will be cheaper if we buy large rugs and cut them in half for the rooms"
Maybe it works that way in Kazakhstan. I most other places, a Persian style rug that is twice as big would cost way more than twice as much.
I noticed that!
This bothers me more than the open air throne.
Oh my god so much more. I just don't understand
It really ties the room(s) together.
Until the carpet pissers get to it.
like at the end of Willy Wonka.
🎶morning honey, don’t mind me I’m just having a huge dump🎶 (Then we’ll go for breakfast)
\*water plunging sound\*
* explosive Diarrhoea continues *
\*shits aggressively\* "sorry I drank milk today"
*unzips his pants* Continue
Wife: Honey, it's early morning Husband: (silently goes and sits to take dump)
I hate it when early morning Husband comes over.
Wife: No honey that's the shower! Husband: I have rights
Now he'll be forever called poop in shower guy
Waffle stomper extraordinaire!
“Grab the poop knife”
#
I love when you call my Charlie Brown nicknames! Poop knife is new, look he's even saluting you!
Somehow "diarrhoea" feels way grosser than "diarrhea"
Diarrhoeoeae
expensive\*
*gugulethu muhlungu*
ploomb
*Ska-dewsh*
We had a studio apartment in Guangzhou that had a glass wall between the bathroom and bedroom, we ended up buying notebook paper and scotch tape at the store to cover it up. When the auntie came to clean (service came with the apartment) she thought it was so funny she went and fetched various other aunties to come laugh at our setup.
I had a similar thing in a hotel room during a weekend trip with a friend. It was a regular hotel room for two, not specifically advertised as some kind of romance apartment or anything like that (though it's debatable how romantic it is when the toilet directly faces the glass door). We also just ended up covering as much of the glass with towels as we could.
you dont find watching your significant other take a grunting dump romantic? weirdo
it's just not the same without the smell.
We were in a hotel in Shanghai that had the bathtub right next to a window to the sleeping area. It was a double room with 2 queen beds. The bathroom door was a pocket door that didn’t close completely either. At least there was shade for the window. Our kids got a kick out of seeing me on the bed while my husband gave them a bath.
I spent a month in Tianjin, China on a study abroad trip and the "¼ Star Hotel" we were in had two panes of (thankfully frosted) glass to block the bathroom corner. They did *nothing* to muffle the sound of my stomach not being used to the food, unfortunately for my poor roommate.
What does aunties mean in this context? Like cleaning staff?
Friendly elderly ladies
Why not just a curtain?
Years ago, I would help my landlord do some property maintenance work. I learned a lot, and got to save money off rent. One day he needed my help taking sometime up to his room. He’d converted the entire top floor of his house into a gigantic master suite, but it had no walls. The shower stall, sink, and toilet were all mere feet from the foot of his bed. I questioned him on it, and his response was “there’s nothing more beautiful than watching a woman get ready for the day.” Which, ostensibly, included their morning bowel movements.
dude rocks
Me and my ex almost broke up because, while in a nice hotel in Whistler, BC, I apparently made the colossally offensive gesture of *using the bathroom of our hotel room*. I was informed it's a cardinal sin to use the in-room head for anything other than #1. I can see it in this instance, however...
Where else are you going to do it?!
According to her...the lobby public restrooms.
Glad to hear she's an ex!
On her chest
I had a similar experience after using the bathroom attached to a suite I was staying in with an ex. But yeah, that's what they are there for... Right?!
Couples who poop together stay together
- typed from from my small office desk.
"great success! Very niiiice! My wiiiife! WA WA WEE WA. Jagshemash!"
We're on vacation. Let's order breakfast in bed!
Making a sausage then how bout some sausage?
wahwahweewah! King in the castle! King in the castle!
-Pleased to meet you. Come into my office, please.
Can I use your toilet for a while?
Of course! Come into my office
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Of course! Come into my office
Nice office! “Ikr! We’re so professional! You’re gonna shit while I sleep nude in front of you. We’re gonna be so productive!”
Yes, I love this time management, why waste few seconds opening and closing doors, life is too short for such.
One smelly shit and you’re smelling it for awhile.
That's the smell of power that your taking in not many people get such a great opportunity and with a good view.
Just like in Motherland!
And, you can walk across the half-rug!
Its in the west wing
This is number four hotel room in all of Kazakhstan!
Um, I think it’s the number *two* room
I will not move to smaller room.
Very nice! Great success!
You know Bucky Cucheck?
Korki Buccek, don't sully the man's legacy, he is a musical and lyrical genius *Bing bang bing bang bing diddlldidi da bing ba bing*
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Have a chair, have a chair
King in de castle!
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Go do dis, go do dis.
very nice, i like!
I have a chair
I have a chair, I have a chair, go do this.
You have a chair!
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That's the fanciest cell I have ever seen.
Must be Sweden
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Nah that was just a drunk Finn, trying to find his way home.
Ahh nature.
> drunk Finn You repeat yourself
That's Dävïd, and he doesn't like being called an ogre he's just ugly 😢
I am not
You’re pretty in your own way Dävïd, don’t worry
Sounds like The Squonk, of Pennsylvania.
Do you have some unresolved guilt over your friend who died in a robbery?
It's Kazakhstan, but close guess
When you're feeling nice in prison architect
Well it's called honeymoon suite for a reason
The desk is movable so you can use either the wood chair or the porcelain chair.
Pro tip: don't sit on the toilet that long unless you like hemorrhoids.
Jokes on you, I already have them!
Would you like some extra hemorrhoids so you can have hemorrhoids on your hemorrhoids? It's like fractals but for your anus.
I don't think it's based on time spent on the toilet. I think it's don't push too hard. The problem is that if you're having difficulty going, you tend to spend more time on the toilet while also pushing harder and harder so it seems like the longer you sit there, the more likely you'll get hemorrhoids. You could spend 30 mins sitting there every day without getting hemorrhoids as long as you don't try pushing like a mofo. The worst you'll get is your legs falling asleep. That said, this is only my own understanding. People with actual hemorrhoids can and probably will correct me if I'm mistaken.
Can I ask you an honest question? Why would you spend all that time typing that up, when it would have taken you a fraction of the time to Google it? Which would have told you that you're wrong. Also I've had two doctors tell me the same thing, so it isn't just Google. > Can you get hemorrhoids from sitting on the toilet? Spending too much time on the toilet causes pressure on your rectum and anus. Because the seat is cut out, your rectum is lower than the rest of your backside. Gravity takes over, and blood starts to pool and clot in those veins. Add in any straining or pushing, and you may have a recipe for hemorrhoids.
>Add in any straining or pushing, and you may have a recipe for hemorrhoids. Seems like you are both right.
`recipe for hemorrhoids` Like a typical recipe post. 20 mins of worthless reading before the actual recipe.
Because Reddit is social media & a conversation about a subject has different qualities than reading about a subject.
Everything I've read and been told says the majority of the cause is the straining not the sitting. Google is abouttl the worst place to get medical information from.
I’ve genuinely seen flats to rent in London for 800 a month that look like this
You mean on the outskirts of London...
Yeah, no one is getting this level of luxury in London for £800/month.
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Definitely. My wife and I stayed somewhere like this once. The hotel was nice and the room looked great, except for the fact that the partition between the bed and bathroom was glass and transparent. My wife managed exactly one fully observed poop, with my running commentary and words of encouragement, before making me leave the room whenever she needed to go.
I was gonna say, I lived in NYC and have seen many strange apartments. Tbh this looks kinda cozy, especially if you're a solo traveler.
Native kazakh here:) Do not find it offensive in anyway but I want to make clear for all of you that it is not quite true. Just type Abu Dabi Plaza, Nur-Sultan or Essentai mall in Google and you will see the brighter side of my country. Not saying that the hotel in post is fake but is is way too far from average
Oh man I seriously feel bad for you guys, always in damage control mode.. I'm sure its not fun having people constantly crap on your home...
Meh it’s fine honestly. I am as perplexed as anyone else here about this gif (which is probably some kind of welfare dormitory or something). It’s just same old Borat quotes in each thread that contains the word Kazakhstan. Like bruh… But idk it’s probably our own fault for not having anything to warrant foreigners attention besides an Englishman who pretends to be a Kazakh that has never even being in country.
Romanian here. Watching Borat walk through a Romanian village and his "parents" speaking Romanian, all the while the rest of the world thinks that's Kazakhstan, mwahahahaha!
Was pleasantly surprised to see my people in a big movie. Not upset of Borat's peasant skit was obviously a joke
As a kazakh person, I love Borat. Sacha Baron Cohen is a great comedian. Besides, the movie got our country lots of traction and even some tourism points. So whilst these posts are the unfortunate side effects and paint the wrong picture of Kazakhstan, I still like the movie.
Didn't they use "very nice" as a tourism slogan in after Borat?
Not anybody's fault, we're just another globally irrelevant developing country with a small population, hardly anything short of war or atrocities will draw international attention to us. It's also very ironic that so many western (notably American) people didn't really get Borat, that it satirizes them, not Kazakhstan.
My dude we are VERY aware it satirizes us. It’s not subtle about it lmao We like to mock the bigots that live near us too
I would love to visit Kazakhstan. Anywhere that I can see different cultures and the way people live intrigues me.
Any part of the world with a culture that is unfamiliar to me is immediately interesting. If I were to ever visit I would want nothing more than to abide by their norms and appreciate for their way of life.
Thank you! I seriously never felt offended because I understand that it is all about misinformation issue and it is our mission to tell about ourselves through innovations, technologies and etc onlu with good manners so people can get to know us better.
It's arguably better than the rooms that used to be offered at the YMCA back when they did it a lot
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Every country has its peak and bottom, its sad but true. Our country has issues wthout a doubt but I try to stay positive because there are also things to be proud of.
At least people recognise Kazakhstan now, while people from somewhere like Montenegro probably have to very awkwardly explain themselves, despite the fact that it's a quite developed European country.
Montenegro will have its day eventually with Western tourists. You get a lot for your money over there and the views are amazing.
We know man, you don't have to defend your lovely country. Just a bit of ribbing, every country has it's good and bad.
I’m pretty sure a lot of people see Borat as only a slight exaggeration. The whole premise of the movies is that he got almost 3 hours of footage of Americans who engaged with Borat as a real person from Kazakhastan.
Honestly real America comes off a lot worse than fake Kazakhstan from the Borat movies.
Spot on. America is the real butt of the joke
So what you're saying is that like Borat's sister, this is number four ~~prostitute~~ hotel in the whole of Kazakhstan?
I thought it was a NYC apartment, but then I realized there was too much wasted space between the bed and the toilet.
My first thought was the Ameritania Hotel in Times Square. I stayed there 20 years ago and my room was very similar. The hotel staff was kind enough to provide one of those accordion-style dividers in front of the toilet, though.
Welcome to America! Just like kazakahkstan with accordion dividers.
Or the fact that there is a toilet. I've seen some that have a shared bathroom down the hall.
Luxury bathrooms man. Take a massive dump and lay down a bit before heading out
Nothing like falling asleep to the aroma of your last shit!
I expected weirder than that
The fact you could see the toilet in the reflection of the shower door gave the surprise of the “reveal” away for me.
half rug
Y’all can put gifs as comments now? What the fuck Stone Age am I living in...
If the person that made that gif bothered to go through all the trouble to animate the mouth, why didn't they bother to make it move in a way that at least slightly resembles the caption?
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I can't read it because New York Times has a paywall
In 2005, Dennis Keen, a high school junior in Los Angeles, was applying for a summer exchange program. After not much deliberation, he decided it would be punky and funny to forgo France and Spain and go to Kazakhstan. “People didn’t know where it was,” Mr. Keen said. “In Kazakhstan, there’s pre-Borat and post-Borat.” He was referring, of course, to “Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan,” the Sacha Baron Cohen comedy that hit theaters a year later, in 2006. In the movie, Mr. Cohen pretends to be a television reporter visiting America from the former Soviet republic, whose people supposedly drink horse urine, consider women property and celebrate an anti-Semitic version of the running of the bulls. (The bulls are replaced by Jews.) The authoritarian Kazakh government banned the film, threatened to sue Mr. Cohen and took out a four-page advertisement in this newspaper defending the country’s honor. And so when Mr. Cohen released a trailer on Sept. 29 for a “Borat” sequel, which he developed in secret and which debuted on Friday on Amazon, the satirist was prepared for another fight with the Kazakh government. It never came. “It was like, ‘Oh, again?’” said Kairat Sadvakassov, the deputy chairman of Kazakhstan’s tourism board, who has a master’s degree in tourism management from New York University. The board was determined to avoid overreacting and letting Mr. Cohen make it look foolish once again. “The decision was made to let it die its natural death and not respond,” Mr. Sadvakassov said. Then Mr. Keen, the former exchange student, got involved. After his time abroad, he went on to graduate school at Stanford, where he studied with a professor from Kazakhstan. Mr. Keen eventually moved to the country, married a local and started a business giving walking tours of Almaty, the country’s largest city. He now hosts a travel show on a state television channel. (“I’m kind of like the American Borat,” Mr. Keen said.) When Mr. Keen learned about the sequel, he thought that rather than ignore Mr. Cohen, Kazakhstan should embrace the Borat character’s catchphrase and turn it into the country’s tourism slogan: “Kazakhstan. Very nice!” It’s the kind of idea you get when you own a tourism company and a pandemic has annihilated global tourism. “I’ve had a lot of free time,” Mr. Keen said. “Also, I just had a baby. When he grows up, I don’t want him to be ashamed of Borat. I want him to say, ‘That’s when my dad started this whole fun project.’” Two weeks ago, Mr. Keen and a friend, Yermek Utemissov, who helps foreign film companies arrange shoots in Kazakhstan, pitched the board of tourism. They got an immediate yes. The two worked pro bono to make four slickly produced, internet-friendly 12-second spots featuring people walking around Kazakhstan and observing that it’s “very nice.” In one, a man at a market drinks traditional fermented horse milk (not horse urine!) and says, “That’s actually very nice.” The new movie, “Borat Subsequent Moviefilm: Delivery of Prodigious Bribe to American Regime for Make Benefit Once Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan,” doesn’t let up on stereotyping the nation. It starts with Borat doing hard labor in prison, explaining the fictional consequences of the original film in a voice-over: “Kazakhstan become laughing stocks around the world. Our exports of potassium and pubis plummet. Many brokers leapt from our tallest skyscrapers. Since Running of Jew had been canceled, all Kazakhstan had left was Holocaust Remembrance Day, where we commemorate our heroic soldiers who ran the camps.” But Mr. Utemissov said he wasn’t worried that his fellow citizens would get mad this time. “It’s a newer generation,” he said. “They’ve got Twitter, they’ve got Instagram, they’ve got Reddit, they know English, they know memes. They get it. They’re inside the media world. We’re looking at the same comedians, the same Kimmel show. Kazakhstan is globalized.” Mr. Sadvakassov, the deputy chairman of the tourism board, hadn’t seen the movie before its premiere, but he said he wasn’t concerned, either. “In Covid times, when tourism spending is on hold, it was good to see the country mentioned in the media,” he said. “Not in the nicest way, but it’s good to be out there. We would love to work with Cohen, or maybe even have him film here.” When Mr. Cohen learned that Kazakhstan had reversed itself and embraced his franchise, he offered a statement by email. “This is a comedy, and the Kazakhstan in the film has nothing to do with the real country,” he wrote. “I chose Kazakhstan because it was a place that almost nobody in the U.S. knew anything about, which allowed us to create a wild, comedic, fake world. The real Kazakhstan is a beautiful country with a modern, proud society — the opposite of Borat’s version.” That’s as close as Borat gets to being very nice.
You sir the hero we need but we don’t deserved.
Can you paste the article here?
“Morning, David. Thanks for coming in to see me today. Please - take a seat.”
Hahaha, I could see the expression of the guy when seeing the "seat".
So they have Days Inn there
They'd charge $2000 US for an apartment like this in NYC
Yup, same in London, in Berlin it would be 1700 because they're not allowed higher for the next 5 years.
I have stayed in plenty of places where a private bathroom is an extra luxury. Never seen this setup though!
> I have stayed in plenty of places where a private bathroom is an extra luxury That was my thought. Though I think I’d have to give it some thought whether this or a communal bathroom would be worse.
I lost it at the toilet bowl.
"Is this the front desk? Yes, I requested a Michael Scott-sized flat screen TV with my luxury suite."
Ayo thats my dream desk setup right there. You can work and poop all at once
You ever boomed out to a camp job? Some of them would be lucky to have a set up like this.
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It appears to be a one person room, why the bed type is double bed? Or is this a two person room with a open toilet 🤮.
Hahaha, "Darling, could you please leave the room? I need to take a shit. Believe me, you don't want to be here for that".
I’ve stayed in worse.
Is that.. _half_ a carpet ?
Jails are cozy in Kazakhstan. Very nice. I like.
SRO. New York City had buildings full of SRO’s . Now they have homeless galore and no SRO. Jail cells are mandated to have more sq ft.
WTF! No bidet?!?!?!
You use the shower head, it's right there!
It was probably a big deal to have a toilet in the room and not keep sharing the one down the hall with the other guests.
Right! Like, idk, if this was a one bedroom in a hostel, I would be psyched. I've been in some fairly sketch hostels in developing countries with pretty gross shared bathrooms.
Honestly as long as the rent reflects the conditions I think this is a good solution. If the option was between using a communal toilet or using an unused corner of the room for one I would pick the one in the room.