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”.
For the longest time I thought it was a fictional sport like quidditch but then read the hitchhikers guide to the galaxy
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.
Cassy Jones from the 80s-tastic Ninja Turtles movie said it best: “You have to know what a crumpet is to understand cricket”.