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Shared on Facebook with the caption "Doing absolutely no favours to their international reputation, Americans have swarmed social media posts of Taylor Swift’s Melbourne concerts confused by a very obvious detail. Can you spot it?"

It's an article from the Murdoch right-wing paper "The Australian", so I won't link the original source.

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Aerial photo of the Melbourne Cricket Ground, surrounded to its North and East by tree-filled parks, to the West by a warm-up pitch, and to the South by a train line with two pedestrian overpasses over it. Underneath this photo is the article title "The MCG show detail that has American Swifties baffled" and byline "by Sam McPhee".

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[–] [email protected] 95 points 1 year ago (1 children)

good news is that it looks like there's a neighborhood in the top left that could be demolished to make room for parking and additional lanes

[–] [email protected] 51 points 1 year ago

I mean just look at all that disgusting green around it 🤢

[–] [email protected] 69 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I went to the Melbourne Cricket Grounds once during the Boxing Day Test Match. Public transportation was a breeze and a stroll through the surrounding parks was lovely.

I got a Team Australia sombrero in the stadium as a silly souvenir and a stunningly beautiful Australian woman said, “I like your Mexico hat!” 10/10 experience. Would take public transport to MCG again.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago

Melbourne public transportation is great.

They do a huge amount of free trams to the F1 as well when that's on.

Transport here does have it's... Interesting moments too. I used to ride a line often frequented by an older Indian woman... Who would get on the team and start screaming at anyone on their cellphone because it was rude. Fun times.

[–] [email protected] 65 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I figured there'd be a parking garage or something just off shot connected to those bridges. Nope.

Also unrelated I went to the stadium's website and was immediately hit with this:

This place is pretty cool.

[–] [email protected] 47 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Acknowledgements of Country are pretty standard these days. Even quite conservative institutions do them regularly.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm trying to imagine a large American company doing this... Would be pretty radical in comparison

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I mean they're still not giving it back, right? It's an important gesture, but it also doesn't really change anything.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

Actually, it upsets some people who think it's woke to acknowledge inconvenient truths so it's worth it for that side of things too!

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

Also very true of course.

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[–] [email protected] 56 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Wow, they are dumb. Obviously the stadium just goes to every ticket-holder’s address, picks them up and drops them off after the event.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

I want to get delivered to the stadium via drone

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yeah sure, it's nice, but not every country can afford a mass ride-in-a-kangaroo-pouch transit system.

[–] Detheroth 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Government has started subsidising our Rooways ever since the alert on Dropbears was reduced (their population has been decimated by bushfires and land clearing).

I'm shocked other countries don't do it, it's a cheap and effective method of transport, and the fuckers are everywhere!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

When I visited Australia, my only complaint was that at the beach, someone told us not to step on blue snails because they’ll kill you. Like, come on. I’m not somebody who steps on snails of any color on purpose. How am I supposed to avoid the murder snails?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (3 children)

The US absolutely can afford it, reduce military spending by 10% That is about 80 billion usd, with 80 billion usd they sure as hell can afford to build some public transport

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Sorry but you have clearly never imported and raised giant kangaroos for mass transit. $80 billion is nothing to them. Nothing.

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Wait wait, Cricket is a game?

I always assumed it was part of Parliament....

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

For the longest time I thought it was a fictional sport like quidditch but then read the hitchhikers guide to the galaxy

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I'm genuinely not sure if this is a serious question or if it's a much-improved version of the really lame jokes that I saw from Americans all over Facebook pretending to have no idea what cricket is.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Is it the airport that's missing?

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago

Yeah where's Taylor supposed to park?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (7 children)

Ok. I get the public transportation thing, but, like, how do the rich/wealthy get to concerts and sporting events? Do they ride the rails with the plebes? If they do, I don't believe it.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 year ago

They say that a developed country is not a place where the poor have cars, it's where the rich use public transport.

And in Australia, when it comes to sporting events at least, that's the case. Not the uber wealthy perhaps. I'm guessing @[email protected] is correct on that front. But those making 6 or low 7 figures are very likely to take public transport to the sporting ground. It's kind of just the done thing.

The irony being—and maybe Melbourne doesn't do this, but my city of Brisbane does—public transport to these events is free. Just wave your ticket and get on any bus or train for a few hours before or after the event.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago

Rich enough people don’t need to worry because they get dropped off and picked up by their driver.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Swiss person here. Our country isn't known for its poverty, and our head of state takes the train, just like everyone else.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

They have their driver drop them off?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

There's probably a small underground parking lot.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Ya, that was my initial thought. Still curious though. How does the king of Australia go to Tay-Tay's concert if he wants to?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The King of Australia doesn't give two shits about Australia. If he wants to go to Tay-Tay's concert he goes to Wembley Stadium.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Yarra Park is used as parking

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

Yarra Park, Harry

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I watched an interesting video explaining how to transport 96k people for the show.

https://youtu.be/1X42qWBNTLo

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Delete the ? and everything after it to remove tracking info.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Be careful telling people to do that, because it'll break everything if they try to do it with a regular non-shortened URL!

But yes, 100% always delete the 'si' part.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They're confused by cricket?

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