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”.
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.
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.
Yeah sure, it’s nice, but not every country can afford a mass ride-in-a-kangaroo-pouch transit system.
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.
Acknowledgements of Country are pretty standard these days. Even quite conservative institutions do them regularly.
I’m trying to imagine a large American company doing this… Would be pretty radical in comparison
I mean they’re still not giving it back, right? It’s an important gesture, but it also doesn’t really change anything.
My people can’t understand that a car is not required to live.
Reminds me of that TNG episode where one planet has gotten the other planet addicted to a drug only they have, so they can have the addict planet make everything for them while they sit on their asses and do nothing except sell them that drug.
Just replace the drug in that episode with oil and honestly it’s pretty accurate for our world now.
When you scratch at the surface a little, the course of Capitalism always bends towards rent-seeking behaviors. It’s enraging how not only are we trapped in this running-to-stand-still circus, but that every single aspect of our lives is getting monetized such that it’s nearly impossible to just not play the game.
The British Empire has entered the chat
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
I mean just look at all that disgusting green around it 🤢
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.
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 @ryven@lemmy.dbzer0.com 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.
Bold take when your entire country is the size of my fucking downtown.
…What country do you think Melbourne is in?
Australia is the size of the contiguous 48 US states bruv. Driving from Melborne to Darwin is like Florida to Maine.
