I’m off to the Melbourne Royal Show today. What started 175 years as a way for rural folk to gather and show off what they produced to city folk has grown into an unhinged extravaganza that’s parts theme park, petting zoo, food fair, agricultural trade expo, music festival, craft show and market for products usually only found on infomercials. Despite it being kind of expensive and sometimes tacky I love it because it’s such a feverdream of an event.

I’ll be posting the weird and wonderful things I find in this thread. To start with, here’s some well behaved cows

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Pick your capitalist dystopia in the showbags tent: university as merch empire or intro to police brutality for children

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This kid seems very chill despite all the kids everywhere
This is nugget. I’m delighted such a creature exists

Many of these dogs have much more elaborate beauty routines than I do

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@joannaholman in 2019 I met the actual doge dog!
@chrischinchilla what an honour!
@joannaholman it even had a stunt double that arrived on site first 😂