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

submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 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] 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

They're confused by cricket?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

We’ll yeah, but that’s a separate thing

[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Is it the airport that's missing?

[–] [email protected] 23 points 7 months ago

Yeah where's Taylor supposed to park?

[+] [email protected] -16 points 7 months ago (3 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago

…What country do you think Melbourne is in?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 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 7 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 7 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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Wait wait, Cricket is a game?

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Well, what happens in Parliament is definitely not cricket.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months 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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Cassy Jones from the 80s-tastic Ninja Turtles movie said it best: "You have to know what a crumpet is to understand cricket".

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

hey man if you had an eternal dark sky keeping you all nice and cozy then found out there was an entire universe of stars and planets and biology and shit out there you'd be a bit perturbed too.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

is it really much improved though? well hopefully it gave a chuckle.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

Honestly? Yes, it's a much funnier joke than the ones I was seeing on Facebook. Those were all like "oh, crickets? Must be really noisy!" and other jokes pretending to think people were talking about insects. There were so many of them and they were all inane. This one about Parliament gave me a much better chuckle.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 7 months 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] 3 points 7 months ago

What is about names and pictures of dead people ? Are these tabou in their cultures ?
Also what is the differences btw Aboriginal and Torres ?

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

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

[–] [email protected] 12 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 12 points 7 months 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] 10 points 7 months 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] 5 points 7 months ago

Also very true of course.

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