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”.
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 @[email protected] 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.
Rich enough people don’t need to worry because they get dropped off and picked up by their driver.
Swiss person here. Our country isn’t known for its poverty, and our head of state takes the train, just like everyone else.
Yeah the selling of private planes as a means of transportation has been insane I can’t imagine if we had come up with the idea of selling private Train travel.
They have their driver drop them off?
There’s probably a small underground parking lot.
Ya, that was my initial thought. Still curious though. How does the king of Australia go to Tay-Tay’s concert if he wants to?
The King of Australia doesn’t give two shits about Australia. If he wants to go to Tay-Tay’s concert he goes to Wembley Stadium.
Via helicopter. I think you aussies call it a whirly cunt.
She flys him in on her jet obviously.
There’s no underground parking lot but for large gigs that grassy park area is used for car parking.
Our trains are (relatively) nice places. And they’re full of normal, nice people.
Yeah Uber is pretty common. People get dropped off.