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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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[–] drolex@sopuli.xyz 36 points 8 months ago (6 children)

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

[–] Detheroth@lemmynsfw.com 19 points 8 months 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!

[–] ShittyBeatlesFCPres@lemmy.world 7 points 8 months 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?

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