Esquire magazine has ventured to reckon up how many centimetres of black caviar, fois gras and chopped Louis Vuitton handbags it is going to make if the Olympic road Adler-Krasnaya Polyana (nearby Sochi, 227 billion roubles for 48 kilometres or 140 million dollars for 1 kilometre or $140,000 for 1 meter) has been built of these very materials.
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Oysters – 6.37 centimetres
In computing the thickness of the layer was used a standard price for oysters in Moscow (120 roubles/4 USD a piece)
Black caviar – 1.1 centimetres
In computing the thickness of the layer was used a standard producer’s price for a can (30 grammes) of black caviar (1290 roubles/43 USD)
Chopped Louis Vuitton handbags – 9 centimetres
In computing the thickness of the layer was used a standard price for a Louis Vuitton Knightsbridge handbad (1090 euros a piece)
Fois gras – 21.9 centimetres
In computing the thickness of the layer was used a standard price set by French supermarket Carrefour (69 euros for a kilo)
US dollars – 0.028 centimetres
In computing the thickness of the layer were used 100 hundred dollars bills (thickness of each bill is 0,014 centimetres)
Fur coats – 4.7 centimetres
In computing the thickness of the layer was used a standard price for a 90 centimetres long fur coat in Moscow (150 000 roubles/5 000 USD)
Truffles – 6 centimetres
In computing the thickness of the layer was used a standard price for a kilo of black truffles (1300 USD)
Hennessy cognac – 13.85 cemtimetres
In computing the thickness of the layer was used a standard price for a one litre bottle of Hennessy V.S.O.P. cognac (3400 roubles/113 USD)
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i don’t understand the point…
I don’t get the point either! Road out of caviar and chopped bags!?
WTF!?
Yes, it’s hard to make sense here, but the point is that the road costs way too much – 227 billion roubles (that’s $140,000 per meter).
Consequently, if we could take this money and spend it on caviar/louis vuitton bags, then we would make a road of exact length (48 km)
out of these very materials, and it would be 1.1 cm high for caviar, 9 cm high for bags, etc.
This is done to show the magnitude of corruption when Russians build olympic objects.
thanks, now i got it )))
Such a waste of money!!! Sure the road will cost only a fraction of the whole sum and the rest of money will go to somebody’s pocket. Sad.
$140M/km of road; in northern BC we only allow $20M/km to rebuild an existing road from 2 lanes to 4 INCLUDING bridge rebuilding. In southern Ont, $150k/lane/km, double when going through raw land.
227 billion rouble for 48 kilometer? Hmmmm….one for the president, one for the minister, one for the mayor, one for Ivan, one for Dasha….oh no, we don’t have any money left, sorry no road building!
i must be tired. at first look, i thought the cognac was robitussin cough syrup. that REALLY threw me. damn!
Road is 30 cm thick concrete, so cost is 30 times less than caviar. Obviously a bargain.
This posting makes as much sense as Mel Gibson after a bottle of Jack and some Zanex
Don’t forget the amount of fine herb it took to think of this story idea,hehe.
$100can an Oz or 5 bucks a Bat,lol.
Keep up the good job,I love English-Russia.com.Peace
Who did not get the point of this post should admit that he/she have no idea about sence of humor at all
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Actually this road not so easy to build.
Builders have to build 35km of bridges, 26km of tunnels and railroad. (the thing will be in mountains, remember?)
In computing this doesn´t make sense
that was very interesting, now I am very very intelligent, not !
Caviar? Rich people eat the fish eggs? They are worse than the uneducated poor!
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