Month: May 2015

Interesting facts.

— In 2 years, China produced more cement than the USA in the entire 20th century. From January to December 2014, China’s cement industry produced 2 billion 476 million tons of cement. Over the past two years, 4 billion 890 million tons (4.9 gigatons). The USA in recent years produces about 80 million tons of cement per year (30 times less than China), Russia 65 million tons.

— The length of roads in China is 4 million kilometers. This is the largest road network in the world. The recent growth amounts to about 10 thousand km of expressways per year.

— 300 thousand bridges across the country, of which 1000 are longer than a kilometer. And by 2016, a bridge from Hong Kong to Macau will be built.

— Each year, the car fleet increases by 20 million vehicles, and in Beijing, you can only enter if the last digit of your vehicle registration number is allowed that day.

— Every year 100 airports are built.

— Huge viaducts, 150 km in length. Or consider a tunnel that is 28 km long.

— A train from Guangzhou to Guiyang passes 510 bridges and 236 tunnels at a speed of 250 km/h in one hour.

— In 30 years, the Chinese have increased the country’s residential area eightfold.

— In 10 years, China will have 220 cities with a population of more than 1 million people.

Speaking of healthy eating: from 1994 to 1999, my daily diet in the dorm consisted mainly of the following products: bread, fried potatoes with pork scratchings, pasta fried with pork scratchings, pork fat, alcohol (beer, wine, etc.), tea and coffee. And no problems at all with excess weight or health) remember, Andrey Koryavchenko, Svyatoslav Kulikov?

Bought carrots and apples at McDonald’s for 1000 rubles/kg.

Passed by a minor accident involving a coach and a car in a village near Solnechnogorsk. And it got me thinking.

So, if a driver with CASCO insurance gets slightly scratched by a coach full of weary miners, am I right to think that the drivers of both vehicles start collectively waiting for the traffic police to provide a report for insurance purposes, while the passengers get off the fully functional bus and either walk through the woods to the next mode of transport or wait inside? It seems to me that a driver with a scratch won’t get off easily.

“An affront to the sacred.” An “Immortal Regiment” advertisement posted at my daughter’s school. I simply cannot understand how people who died over 70 years ago in a war saved my life or anyone else’s, and even more so – our children’s lives. The key word here is “saved”. It seems to me that they saved the lives of many of their contemporaries, but certainly not those of 21st-century schoolchildren.

Headhunter is increasingly resembling a dating service.

Liza has a Russian exam tomorrow. Sharing knowledge.

It turns out, according to the rules of grammar, a dead man, a drowned man, a zombie, and a deceased are animate, but a corpse and a mummy are inanimate.

It is determined by the accusative case in the plural (see whom? what?), if it coincides with the genitive (no whom? what? dead men, deceased) – then it is animate. If it does not coincide with the genitive but does with the nominative plural (what? corpses, mummies) – then it is inanimate.

And the same goes for snowmen, dolls, matryoshkas, and marionettes. They are all animate (see whom? what? = no whom? what? dolls, matryoshkas, marionettes). Likewise, the king, the ace, the jack, and the trump are animate.

Live and learn.

Finally decided on a little rat. Ontario RAT-2.

Nine years after the movie’s release, I finally got around to watching it. Whew, the plot twists and dialogues!

“— My father used to say: ‘The first time you hear someone call you a ‘horse’, punch the offender in the nose. Hear it a second time — call the insolent one a freak. The third time you’re called a horse — go to the store and buy a saddle’.”

Watched the new masterpiece from the director, producer, and screenwriter of the films “Babe: Pig in the City,” “Babe: Pig in the City sequel,” and “Happy Feet.”

Must watch!

http://www.kinopoisk.ru/film/453406/