This is queue for starbucks in kazakstan.
Kazakhstan
>>52312915
Why are you so slow at making coffee in Kazakhstan?
Beautiful
>>52313011
go be not give fuck somewhere else
>>52312915
i drank "coffee" at starbucks once
that shit sucks and it costs too much
i don't know why people like it desu
>>52312915
Why are they doing that? Are they stupid or what? Why is the sign is written in russian?
>>52313129
Its written in cyrillic not russian
>>52313111
SHUT IT DOWN
>>52313129
>Russian
Ээээ блэт тyoх дьигиин дэээ
>>52313167
What about cкидки then?
>>52312915
it must be the opening day with some free stuff.
>>52313255
No, it must be savage turkiks.
>>52313129
most kazakhs pretend they to use kazakh as their main language when really they all use russian
>>52312915
>koton
>LC waikiki
Good goys
>>52313202
First its written in kazak and then russian
If we wont write it in russian russians will chimp out and cry about oppression
>>52313285
this joke is plane wrong
>>52313314
W8, are you real mambet? I mean not a russian from the north? Wow, do you guys have internet? Do you speak engkish? Do you poo in a loo?
>>52313304
Go away,chinkshit
ah fuck, shitty generic american shit has even reached Kazakhstan. this is not good
I unironically enjoy the taste of Starbucks.
>>52313111
its truly awful. shit coffee tbqh -- quite tasty I suppose but weak AF
>>52313561
if you use american "coffee" as the standard, starbucks is bretty gud
but if you consider real coffee and not that washed up shit, then starbucks is pure shit and way overpriced
I never understood the mentality of people to queue anywhere for longer than 5 minutes.
>>52313613
Starbucks is cheap here
Non american coffee shops opened by kazaks are very expensive
>>52313664
>Enter a queue
>Unsure about time it will take
>5 minutes comes
>Already invested 5 mins
>May as well stay a few minutes more
>>52313704
i don't know about kazakhstan, but here real coffee is like 3 times cheaper than starbucks
A пoмнитe кaк минcкиe кoлхoзники нa oткpытии Бypгep кингa нaливaли ceбe гaзиpoвкy в пятилитpoвыe бyтылки?
>>52313812
Taк нeгpы дeлaют
Cлeдoвaтeльнo бyльбaши бeлыe нeгpы
>>52313727
Nah fuck it, if its not gunna happen in 5min, find something else to do with my life.
We get these faggots that queue in front of Apple stores for a phone overnight, its literally the daftest shit I've ever seen. Maybe if you're a starving nigger and need bread to feed your family maybe
>>52312915
That looks 100% like the malls in Israel
Wait until you get your first Mcdonalds btw shit's whack
>>52313812
Для лyлзoв в 95% cлyчaeв
starbucks is shit mate, ask your government to bring in some local turkish shops they make better coffee
>>52313910
this desu
>>52313910
But people here mostly drink tea with milk
We are in top 10 tea consumption countries
Another victory of America
>>52313971
>tea with milk
>>52313613
well sadly very few Americans have coffee farms on their premises; we lack the convenience of the brazilian lifestyle
>>52313910
>turkish shops
You guys make a mean cup of Greek coffee? #Yunanistan #FerSure
>>52314063
>cнaчaлa нaпитьcя хaлявнoй гaзиpoвки дo oтвaлy
>пoтoм paзлить вo вce бyтылки
>пoтoм paзлить в 5 литpoвыe бyтылки
>Mинcк
Star"bucks" where you order "black" coffee.
They probably thought it was an interracial breeding ground and they sent their wives and daughters. Hence the queue.
>>52312915
is starbucks a proud thing to kazakh? that looks similar with when china and vietnam open first mcdonald shop in their countries
>>52314244
it's usual for communism
Lol. Starbucks is a new thing in here too, but No one likes it because the coffee is too much American (only water)
Except for hipsters, they like that shit
>>52313492
"The Russian heads fell beneath the swords of the Tatars as grass beneath the scythe." -- Novgorodian Chronicles, 1238 a.d.
We miss the Mongols. We need to talk to them.
We go to the steppes, but they don't seem to be home.
We need them, because they were the only nuclear power before the twentieth century. They were not human, as we, after 1945, are not human--much though we try to be, cowards that we are.
The Mongols are our only ancestors. What little we know about them is charged with a terrible and beautiful alienness.
They poured molten silver in the eyes and ears of traitors--a visual joke.
They could be compassionate: when Genghiz Khan captured Jamukha, his closest friend, he did Jamukha the honor of killing him by rolling him up in a carpet and crushing him with boulders, so that the blood would remain in the body.
They had their own sense of righteousness: when the small Slavic town of Kozelsk, near Kaluga, resisted them for months, they dubbed it "the wicked town." So upset were they with the scandalous behavior of Kozelsk that they not only killed all the inhabitants (which went without saying), but drowned the child-prince, Vladimir, in human blood. That'll teach'em to be wicked!
Only water could stop them. Only two of their campaigns failed: the attacks on Java and Japan. The Mongols were inland creatures--centaurs, four-legged archers; they had to rely on mere humans to transport them across the sea. Like witches, they lost something of their power when crossing water. The Japanese were saved twice: once by a lucky typhoon, the kamikaze or holy wind invoked by suicide bombers in the last stages of WW II, and once by the confusion among the Mongols as they tried to disembark: the Samurai attacked and destroyed the invaders before they could mount their ponies.
>>52314081
you import shit from all over china and its cheap.
you don't have real coffee because you don't want too
>>52313111
For the same reason people drink coke, eat at the mc donalds and buy apple shit, PROPAGANDA.
>>52314081
>you will never braziliian
>you will never grow coffe in the land of a billionaire who dont even know about that land
>>52314382
Once on the pony, bow in play, the Mongols were invulnerable; they danced just at the edge of bow-range, dispatching humans until it was time to go among the dead and collect one's arrows, burn the villages and move on to the next days work of planet-cleansing.
When the Russians first encountered the Mongols, it happened the way the Tasmanian Devil appears in a Looney Toons cartoon: first all the animals in the forest come rushing past, fleeing together, lion and rabbit and squirrel no longer afraid of each other, sharing the far greater terror of what's behind them. Then the Devil himself appears.
It was their old enemies the Polovtsi, who warned the thirteenth-century Russian princes of the Mongols. The Polovtsi came to beg the Russians' help against this new terror from the East. The Polovtsi explained things simply: "They have taken our country; tomorrow they will take yours." The Southern Russian princes, for once, behaved sensibly--at first. They acknowledged their common peril and formed an alliance among themselves and with the hated Polovtsi against the Mongols.
The Mongols appeared, quiet and uncanny, to make the Russians another offer. Their ambassadors said "We have come against our slaves and grooms, the accursed Polovtsi. [The Mongols always thought in horsey terms. "slave" equals "groom."] We have no quarrel with you; be at peace with us." Rarely did the Mongols give anyone a chance like that. And, just like the last of the reckless Russian princes, Nicholas II when the Germans warned him not to destroy his people on behalf of the French, the Russian princes chose not to listen. A foolhardy chivalry ruled them from the moment they took the non-career-enhancing step of murdering the Mongol envoys.
>>52314382
mongols were steppeniggers desu
all they could do was butcher
fuckers couldn't keep the empire together for a mere 100 years
even niggers managed to do that
>>52314419
don't you go giraffas?
>>52313887
>>52314174
Этo пpocтo кaмeннaя гopкa
>>52314462
But they still could have won, if they hadn't been ruled by the same suicidal chivalrous recklessness. For once, all the princes of Southern Russia were united. They made a huge and formidable army, which advanced into the steppes in 1224 to find the Tatar horde. Encountering the Mongols on the Kalka, near the sea of Azov, the princes' cavalry charged without even informing the Kievans who made the bulk of the army. They were destroyed; then the Mongols went about methodically destroying the disorganized Kievan forces. At least 10,000 Kievans died, and the Southern Russian forces were broken. The surviving princelings reverted to form, making private deals with the Mongols--but the Mongols, faced with such "wickedness," were not in a generous mood any longer. Mstislaf, Prince of Kiev, was holed up in a fortified camp on the Kalka. The Mongols offered him his, his sons' and his retainers' lives if they surrendered. They did; the Mongols massacred the garrison and then crushed the Prince and his two sons-in-law under planks. In the Slavic view, this was a refinement of cruel treachery; but the Mongols thought in their own, very alien and idiosyncratic ways. To them, this might have been an honorable death, which kept the blood in the body--and to them, the blood was the life.
The Southern Russian princes had come close to organized resistance; the Northern princes, terrified, could not unite and were wiped out one by one. After a ten-year quiet which was almost as terrifying as the first onslaught (the Mongols had gone home to attend the coronation of Ogodai as Genghiz's successor), they returned, annihilating the Bulgars, another former enemy of Russia, then turned on the Northern princes.
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>>52314526
Never tried it and desu i don't care anymore, since i paid 12 bucks for a cold ham sandwich at subway i just give up in all big named food company.
>>52314571
The next century was smoke, blood, disaster. The only stories the Russians could use to console themselves were of the sort conquered people always tell: grand defiance, magnificent gestures which have no hope of altering the fact of defeat. The Princes of Ryazan, marching out to meet certain death, were offered a deal by the Mongols: "If you want peace, give us a tenth of your wealth." The folk tales have the princes saying in grand disdain, "When we are dead, you may have the whole." The Mongols' reply, not recorded, would have been something on the order of, "OK; thanks!"
When Fyodor of Ryazan had died in due course, his wife, Euphrasia, followed the practice of virtuous wives, choosing to leap from the terem (harem) rather than face the fate worse than death. There's no proof she did so; these stories are the only way the defeated humans could go on living under alien rule.
The Russians gleaned from the great disaster only the bitter consolation prizes of defeated peoples, above all the right to explain what went wrong, whatever went wrong, as legacy of "the Mongol yoke." It's easy for Westerners to mock this sort of grand version of "I had a bad childhood," but it's even harder to imagine Voltaire and Hume springing up on soil that had felt the Mongol ponies' hooves. They were good enough reason to explain many things, above all disappearances and vanishings..
The Mongols specialized in vanishing and making vanish. They didn't build cities, they erased them. Karakorum, the Mongols' one attempt to build a capital city, is a rectangle of mud walls now. The Mongols' greatest memorials are negative: huge blank spots on the map. Eastern Iran, once a populous, irrigated land, is a blank now, courtesy of the Mongol cleaners. They erased the cities and, far more devastatingly, the irrigation systems. Humans breed like cockroaches, and will always repopulate plundered cities--but if you smash their water supply, they can't come back.
>>52314481
pray to your gods that Brazil was not in Eurasia
with bless of Tengri we could destroy ur stupid aztecs/aztecs n shiet less than a 1 season
we could rape ur womans and make ur childrens slaves
>>52314663
Stupid cunt
Aztec is mexica
Huehuestan was amazinion bare naked man eating snakes and fucking each other in da poo poo
>>52314634
fucking kek, cops and their donuts
>>52314663
brazil didn't have aztecs n shiet
my ancestors have been in brazil for a little over than a 100 years so its not like i care
you steppeniggers would never get across the alps with your shitty horse-wives
>>52314662
But the one quality which sets them apart from every other tribe is their utter, superhuman immunity to the God-virus. The Mongol attitude to religion was wholly alien. They found the religions of the conquered humans handy, to keep the livestock under control, but could see no difference between the various superstitions and were equally sardonic about all of them. They cared no more about the beliefs of their subjects than a farmer cares what his dairy cattle think about reincarnation. It's true that Genghiz disliked Muslims perhaps more than subjects of other cults, but only because the Khan's armies encountered more opposition from the Muslims, while the Christians, far weaker in Central Asia, were mostly preachers--entertainers on dull nights after a day of erasing villages.
No human tribe has ever managed to keep from catching the God virus-but then, the Mongols were not human. All the survivors agreed on that. An Armenian priest describes them:
"They were terrible to look at and indescribable, with large heads like a Buffalo, narrow eyes like a baby bird, a snub nose like a cat, big snouts like a dog, narrow waists like an ant, and short legs like a hog. They are as strong as lions but as shrill-voiced as hawks....They bear huge litters like snakes and eat like wolves. Death does not appear among them, for they live 300 years. They do not eat bread at all."
A science-fiction writer wisely said, "The thing about aliens is--they're ALIEN." You can't understand them. You never will. That's true of the Mongols: they were so unlike the people who "eat bread" that chroniclers can only describe them by resorting to a whole zoo of analogies, like the Armenian does: they were like ants, lions, snakes, birds, dogs...everything but human. The Mongols referred to themselves as a "swarm of birds"; they flew, while the humans trudged. The humans said the same: "The Mongols appear where least expected," coming and going like a wry, lethal God.
>>52314740
I dont give a shit qotaqbas
anyway we could destroy both
even our chineese and korean slaves could did that without our army
>>52314635
>since i paid 12 bucks for a cold ham sandwich at subway
what? 12 bucks? you meant 12 us dollars? that's fucking expensive for a cold ham sandwich
>>52314797
try getting an army of horsefuckers across a 2000km wide jungle to hunt stupid natives living in mud huts
you couldn't do it
>>52314634
Why do they love fast food chains/well-known franchises in Finland so much?
>>52314840
But i could fuck ur negress mom in her throat
The shit thing that most people forget when talking about Starbucks is that you're paying for the ambient and not the coffee itself. The coffee is cheap and not that good and gets even more soft with the icing and milk. The grain they sell is good tho.
Also, the water purifier isn't always truth.
>t. ex Starbucks worker
>>52313613
argh you've just reminded me of when I ordered a """"latte"""" in America. The thing was made with 'half and half' (aka half cream.) Absolutely disgusting. I did manage to get some decent coffee out there from Italian places though.
>>52314787
The Khans claimed to be the descendants of a she-wolf. They tinkered with humans; they played. When Ogotai, son of Genghiz Khan, captured North China, his lieutenants suggested that the human population be erased, because all these walls--the houses and palaces and cities which were no more to the Mongols than termite mounds--spoiled what could have been good pasture. The Khan considered it, but decided as a matter of policy that those bipeds could be useful. And it would have been a lot of work to erase them, because there were at least twenty million people in North China. He let them live. That's why China is not pasture today.
In Iran, the Mongols chose to erase the human population: that's why much of Iran is desert today.
And that's why we need to talk to the Khans now: because they are the only people before the invention of nuclear weapons to have treated the world as a garden to be pruned as they chose. We need to compare notes with Genghiz and Kublai Khan, with Subotai and Ogodai. But it's difficult, because the Mongols are coming into fashion and becoming extinct.
The two processes are linked: extinction first, then fashionability.
The missionaries are in charge of the actual extinction. As the eXile's inimitable War Nerd recently pointed out, the missionaries are the military wing of Christianity, the real stormtroubadors. They are busily infecting the Mongols now. Mongolia is converting to Christianity faster than any other country in the world. Some reports say the whole population will be Christian in ten years. Plump white folks from Nebraska and Texas are fanning out over the steppes in expensive new Toyota Landcruisers, visiting the most remote herders' tents to breathe the God-virus on them. And these Mongols, the shy remnant, lack the Khans' immunity to the God-virus; they're succumbing to it instantly.
>>52314891
>you're paying for the ambient
what, you guys pay extra so you can pretend to be americans for 30 minutes while enjoying your shitty coffee? that sounds retarded
>>52314891
suddenly i remember this
Starbucks Busted for Brewing with 'Toilet' Water in Hong Kong
http://newsfeed.time.com/2013/05/31/starbucks-busted-for-brewing-with-toilet-water-in-hong-kong/
>Ramstore
Fucking Turks
>>52314855
Thats iceland
>>52312915
it's just coffee
fucking hipsters
>>52314999
For the herders, the switch from Buddha and the shamans to Jesus is simple: Jesus brings stuff every time his followers come by, while Buddha never brought anything. The old Buddhist monks just sat in their lamaseries, chanting; the Christian missionaries, these inexplicable white people in vehicles worth more than most Mongolian towns, drop off blankets and pots every time they come by. And the shamans' drums don't work as well as the drugs the plump visitors bring.
So the Mongols are finished. Already they've descended to human; soon they'll be churchgoing stooges--less than human. Ten years from now they'll all be in cheap suits, singing Come to Jesus in the key of C and studying accounting at Oral Roberts U.. Then the Khans will really be gone.
The most grotesque aspect of the whole thing is that Hollywood is going Buddhist/shamanistic as quickly as the Gobi is going Christian, so that in a decade the Dalai Lama may build a new, Lhasa-style palace overlooking the HOLLYWOOD sign while Pat Robertson powers his wheelchair up the ramp of a brand-new Jesusarium & Bible College built on the ruins of Genghiz's capital.
Somehow, though, it's not a fair exchange. Hollywood Mongols just wouldn't be very good. Hollywood has never done the Mongols very well. John Wayne actually played Genghiz in a movie called The Conqueror, but I've heard it was one of the worst movies ever. Didn't see it myself; I don't go in for camp, especially about serious matters.
But it's foolish, I guess, whining about the extinction of the Mongols, when all the warrior peoples are being phased out, along with the big cats and other remaining predators. In the cubicle world, no predators are allowed--not without ties'n'smiles. Dress code.
>>52315014
Hey, that shit isn't that expensive imho. 4 dollars for a venti ain't that expensive. It is when you can get good coffee on-the-go for the same price but drinking your coffee and eating your biscuit standing isn't for everybody and Starbucks offers a space where you can deploy your gadgets, listen to music and chat. It's not that I'm justifying them but being American isn't the main interest of the Chilean (The July 4th celebration offers by Walmart were taken as a joke in here).
>>52315027
Dude, it's Hong Kong (Still part of China), everything can happen in those places. Let's talk about places with decent morals and hygiene.
>>52315214
The modern Mongol, dim and affable--nobody except the missionaries really wants THAT Mongol. What the rest of us dream of is the Khan's horde: the black arrow that swept across Eurasia like a hundred-mile wide cropduster, leaving utter silence in its wake. Every boy who came on the Mongols in the "M" volume of the encyclopedia slobbered over those black arrows on the map, placed the flat of his hand over them and moved it forward following the path of the Horde, making little hissing noises as he imagined the progress of Death incarnate.
For centuries the wilder Europeans have been making the black pilgrimage to Central Asia, trying to find THOSE Mongols. They never find anything but the shy, polite herders--Julia Roberts' gracious hosts.
Last year I saw a five-hour documentary by some German woman who followed a group of yak-herders around the steppes. The Mongols were very quiet: the only sound for most of the five hours was the yak-bells clanging. The herders smiled embarrassedly, aware that they were somehow unsatisfactory. There was a festival with wrestling, and long shots of people crunching in frozen mud--but the Mongols we all want to see were not in evidence.
And they're not to be found. The Western Khanates were absorbed by the Islam they had done so much to destroy, and subsided into feebleness, so that their Russian vassals began pushing south and east, taking back what had been lost and more. The herders, and their decadent little rulers, were all there was to be found. No one to hold to account; no one who even remembered the days before these beings who had been something more, less, other than human became mere people.
>>52315334
You're a phenomenal writer
>>52315405
Have ye ever tasted yak milk?
>>52315514
No, how is it?
>>52313069
>>52312915
Fucking sheeps
Test
We don't have starbucks in Ukraine at all. And I always think why.
>>52315805
Dont think my friend
>>52313887
>damage control
>>52312915
>Stradivarius
Didn't he died a century ago?
>>52316048
He DID die
>>52313536
you being sincere m8?
>LC WAIKIKI
>>52312915
>kangaroo mascot
Fact: Australians are the most powerful race in the world.
>KOTON
>>52316297
That's a Turkish company.
>>52312915
Reminds me of the *$ queue at the airport
>>52312915
>koton
>migros
i like
