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Is "don't look now, but this is a death cave" a cultural dog whistle of some kind or just a random childish phrase?
by plusminusplus 4y ago
Is "don't look now, but this is a death cave" a cultural dog whistle of some kind or just a random childish phrase?
- brutusborn 4y agoI’m Australian and I’m pretty sure it’s just children trying to be “spooky”. I doubt they were trying to vandalise Aboriginal art, since it seems they only covered finger flutes which are hard to distinguish as art.
- josephcsible 4y agoThis makes me think they knew exactly what they were doing: > The vandals forced their way past barbed wire and dug under a steel gate to get into the Koonalda Caves If they just wanted to carve something spooky into a rock, there were plenty of way easier places to do so.
- krsdcbl 4y agoI guess this specific cave being so off limits might have fueled the idea of picking exactly that one, they might very well have been oblivious to the damage they were doing.
- ethanbond 4y agoYeah barbed wire in a remote area is a clarion call to a group of bored boys!
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- brutusborn 4y agoThat makes me think the opposite, I broke into multiple caves as a (stupid) teenager and had no intention of doing anything destructive (besides underage drinking).
- noobermin 4y agoBeyond dog whistle, what does it even mean in this context?
- brutusborn 4y agoI suspect it’s meant to be a “don’t look behind you”, but done by foolish children so they managed to screw it up.
- cjbgkagh 4y agoIt’s a weird Australian idiom; “don’t look now, but there is a spider crawling up your leg”, I think from the ‘made you look’ game. Australia is full of weird idioms one of my favorite “yeah, nah” and “nah, yeah”
- musk_micropenis 4y ago[dead]
- asddubs 4y agoi think it comes from talking about someone whom you don't want to notice you. "don't look now, but my ex just entered the restaurant"
- angry_octet 4y agoJust garden variety idiocy.
- sshine 4y agoI'm sure the vandalism will show up on tiktok.