1. "In China platzt ein Sack Reis." oder "In China fällt ein Sack Reis um." There's a lot of rice in China. Sometimes this saying is with bicycles. We think every Chinese has a bicyle. And there are lots of them. Something very common happens. Nothing of interest. I'm not interested in what you say. 2. "Sind wir denn schon im medialen Sommerloch?" das Sommerloch = the summer gap Nothing new in the news. In summer usually nothing worth reporting happens. Sometimes the newspapers are printing anything they can get to fill their pages.