Oh yes, my sexuality is protected 🫦
That’s a lot of candle for something that’s going to burn for less than a minute.
That’s what she said?
TIL my birthday is gay
Every birthday can be gay if you’re gay enough
Straight men have a 23+1 hr schedule every day. The extra hour is for secret gay time.
Me: There’s no way that’s true
Me, after web searching: Huh…
Context: They have a betting game called “Jogo do bicho” (Animal game, direct translation). Number 24 corresponds to deer, which is “veado” in portuguese - which is very similar to"viado", which is a slur for gay people persons.
I still doubt these candles are popular though.
Number 24 corresponds to deer, which is “veado” in portuguese - which is very similar to"viado", which is a slur for gay people persons.
The slur isn’t just similar to the name of the critter — it is the name of the critter. You also see people using “gazela” (gazelle), “Bambi” (that Disney critter), “biba saltitante” (jumping… “biba”, dunno what was supposed to be) as slurs for gay people, always under the “flamboyantly jumping” stereotype.
The reason it gets spelled with an “i” is that slurs and swearing often get misspelled in Portuguese. It’s the same deal with boceta→buceta (pussy), caralho→caraio→carai (dick), foder→fuder→fudê (to fuck).
It’s only the same if you ignore Portuguese pronunciation, though, this is still some rightwing snowflake shit. Veado and viado will only sound the same if you speak some ignorant, backwater version of Brazilian Portuguese, so I’m not sure what you’re talking about.
Viado e veado não soam igual, mano, esse é coisa de homens frágeis, eu não sei de que você tá falando. Deixe essa porra pros Bolsonaristas. Nem os tugas falam assim.
Viado es veado. Fuck this
Even if it sounded different it wouldn’t make a difference, because language is flexible and undefined, or are we going to take classes on how to talk “e” or “i” as well? I’m certain we need more of those 🙄
Thanks for the explanation mate, that makes a lot more sense.
I’m portuguese and I always thought that veado was the word, just that “e” was “stressed” to sound like “i”. I didn’t know until today that there were actually two words
Some prescriptivists would argue “viado” isn’t an actual word, and that even the slur should be spelled “veado”. But just like “buceta” the misspelling has become way more popular than the original word.
They’re popular enough for them to have been mass-produced, as opposed to, say, just writing the text on the cake with frosting.
Kind of funny someone is so self conscious about looking “weak” or whatever has a birthday cake with candles
Yes. He is a respected male now. He is 23+1, watch out! No one will mess with him as he sexuality is assured (sorry if I’m being too intense about this, I’m brazilian. I’ve noticed it doesn’t make sense to people of other countries in the other commentary)
It’s a very popular joke. I have no idea how many people take it seriously, since those would probably not say they do.
I imagine most people that buy a candle like that do it for somebody else’s birthday to imply the other person is gay.
That’s not the reason though. 24 (vinte e quatro) is the gay number because it sounds like “vim de quatro” which means something like “I came on all 4s”
True
If they are worried about seeming gay, why are they decorating their cake with 23+1 sparkly magic Spanish anuses? Seems preeeetty gay…
For those confused, in Portuguese (which they speak in Brazil), “ano” is year. But in Spanish “año” is year, and “ano” is anus. Also the blue seems speckled or glittery (unclear in the picture) and it says in the corner that it has a magic wick.
Seems like a joke.
(in Portuguese) what kind of cake do you want for your birthday?
IDGAF just don’t write “24” on it
ok… Happy birthday, enjoy your 23+1 anuses, you [insert homophobic slur here]
Doesn’t that say magico, not mango?
You’re right. I didnt zoom in enough apparently. I’ve corrected my mistake. Says “com pavio magico”, meaning “with magic wick”. Not helping the case honestly.
Can confirm, I was gay that year.
Don’t put the word anus after it then!
I was going to say, if Portuguese is like Spanish, it’s “anus” without the tilde over the n, right?
Portuguese doesn’t really have a tilde, but that’s what the h following an n (or an L) is there to indicate
I don’t know if it’s the same in Portuguese, but in Spanish, “anos” (without the ñ) means anuses. So… 23 + 1 anuses. Sounds pretty gay.
Years = anos; anus = ânus. They’re spelled different. Depending on dialect they may or may not sound the same.
I am ashamed to be a member of a race that cannot have a floor 13 in a building in some countries, or a floor 4 (or floor with the number 4) in others just because of an outdated superstition.
But this somehow feels even dumber.
Is it because of Jeff Gordon? Is that why 24 is gay?
No, it’s because of an old betting game called “jogo do bicho” (critters’ game):
Check #24. “Veado” (deer), often misspelled “viado”, is used as a slur for gay people.
That’s quite the leap. Must be a very well-known game, with a board that never changes.
It’s an incredibly culturally impactful game, including in slang: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jogo_do_bicho#Cultural_impact
Oh. Thanks. I never knew any of this. Also, TIL that the last name of one of my favorite authors, Paulo Coelho, means “rabbit.”
I have Salvadorian in-laws that play a similar looking game called “loteria” which is similar to bingo and played at family gatherings. I assume most Central/South American countries have a similar game.
It’s more like a lottery than a board game. But a really popular one, regardless of the prohibition against gambling, and the numbers / critters association never changes.
There are other popular expressions from the same game. Like “deu zebra” (the result was zebra) for something extremely unlikely to happen. (Note how there’s no zebra in the sheet.)
A friend of mine one introduced his girlfriend to a Colombian friend. He was quite surprised.
He name was Marieke, he heard maricon (pronounced quite similar) that’s a Latin slur for gay too.
Thanks for filling in the etymology!
At best, it sounds vaguely like marica, which is another common slur, but just like my reply ti some dumbass claiming veado and viado are the same in Portuguese, you would have to have some sort of developmental disorder to think Marieke and marica sound the same, or completely ignore Spanish orthography.
Oh deer
I looked it up, and allegedly it comes from a well known gambling game about animals, in which 24 is a deer, and “deer” sounds similar to a slur.
Until I’m corrected I’m gonna assume this is why
Is gay porn considered horror for heteros?
But they’re happy with an anos on their cake.
til “years” in Portuguese is spelled like “anus” in Spanish
I’m just jealous 23+1 year old men get their birthday celebrated there.
