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”.
My people can’t understand that a car is not required to live.
I’d argue that for most of the US it is necessary to have a car. We just have adequate public transport. I’d much prefer that we did, but currently we do not. I suspect one could take an aerial photo of many arenas/stadiums located in densely populated cities in the US and they do not have much parking either.
We just have adequate public transport. I’d much prefer that we did, but currently we do not.
What
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.
Swiss person here. Our country isn’t known for its poverty, and our head of state takes the train, just like everyone else.
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.
