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The detail is "where do they park?" The answer is they don't. (aussie.zone)

submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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] -16 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Bold take when your entire country is the size of my fucking downtown.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago

…What country do you think Melbourne is in?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Australia is the size of the contiguous 48 US states bruv. Driving from Melborne to Darwin is like Florida to Maine.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Yeah, fuck me but people really can't comprehend this planet in size or scope or the concept of sonder at all. As if no other country can be big.

That being said.... Australia might be the size of continental US but show me a population density map... From Darwin to Adelaide you might as well be the last human alive for all the civilization you will see. So your travel distance between your 3 main coastal cities ends up making the island feel a lot smaller, if that's what an uninformed individual thinks of when thinking of Australia.

I dunno he had a dumb take but your country is small in arable land

[–] [email protected] 14 points 8 months ago

Australia is the 6th largest country in the world. Melbourne has over 5 million people living in it. It’s likely your downtown is smaller than their downtown.

Do some search next time.