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Starting a meme thread. I make these for my group chat at TSU. The forum doesn't take pictures so I'll describe them. Translations in brackets for diaspora.

1. [image: Google Maps, the Talas valley, completely empty.] Top: "Google: Irad does not exist." Bottom: [image: the bread queue outside a bakery in the Old City.] "The kezek: exists." [kezek = the queue]

2. [image: an Akyel staring straight into the camera.] "When someone at the Hippodrome says Chongtor is faster."

2 is going straight to my group chat lol

2 is not a joke. 2 is a documentary.

Could someone explain the first one fully? My Iradi is good but jokes run faster than I do.

Google says we don't exist, but the bread queue definitely exists. That's it. Diaspora translation fee: one feedback form, unfilled.

Understood. Very funny. I've sent it to the Association's group. Two people asked me what Google is.

New ones.

3. [image: Toktogul dam.] "Me and my roommate: neither of us can turn on the water alone." (if you know, you know)

4. [image: a website's country dropdown. Iceland, India, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Ireland.] "Ireland is RIGHT THERE."

Number 3 is very good. In Bishkek we make the same joke, but from the other end of the dam.

A Nurzhan classic, at least ten years old: [image: Refinery No. 1 at night, lit up like a stadium.] "Nurzhan: we power the whole country." [image: one candle on a kitchen table.] "Nurzhan in January:"

That one has been on the fridge in our shift room since 2013. Nobody is allowed to take it down.

These pictures could be misunderstood by foreign audiences. Have you considered memes about our achievements? For example, the reopening of the Kök-Bel road.

5. [image: a road.] "The Kök-Bel road, reopened after four days."

That's the meme. Happy?

Yes. Thank you. Have a nice day.

The first meme in the history of Irad approved by the DPI. It should go in a museum. A small one.

Simpsons week special. 6. [image: Lisa at her desk.] Top: "better than the song". Bottom: "better than the songs". Middle: [image: a padlock.]

WE ARE NOT IN THIS MEME. WE ARE NOT RULING ON THIS MEME.

the one going round tsu this week: [image: attelkom HQ on communications square] "mobile data" / [image: a grandma holding a folded paper note] "also mobile data". we passed notes on paper on the square. the memes came after, when the data came back

That one's mine. First meme I've made that was also the news.

7. [image: a used car listing.] "FOR SALE: one country. 4.6 million people (6 million really). Comes with horses. Previous owner also tried to sell it in 2007." Stamped across it: IRAD SATYLBAYT.

This is going on the Toronto group with a translation. It's the first meme my mother has ever forwarded.

My first Iradi meme, be gentle: [image: me at my desk in Ohio] "me after 18 months of Iradi words" / [image: a horse looking confused]

The horse is correct. 7 out of 10.