I dunno. That one looks a little phallic, could still be a little gay. Why not do 22+2 just to be completely safe? This isn’t something you want to mess around with.
“+”? What are they doing, crossing dicks?
Anos is close enough to anus, clearly this candle is a secret invite to a 23 person gay orgy, the +1 is the lucky birthday boy.
The US equivalent is 67
til “years” in Portuguese is spelled like “anus” in Spanish
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
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They didn’t though. Anos = years. Ânus = anus.
Can confirm, I was gay that year.
Is it because of Jeff Gordon? Is that why 24 is gay?
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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.
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.
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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
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.
It’s probably more of a joke.
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)
Brazil is a weird place.
Carnival makes up for it. There’s more beauty to it than it seems at first glance.
Some introverts might think: “It’s just an even larger assembly of people”, but people are allowed to be weird and graceful.
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The linguist in me now feels the same way about Brazilian profanity that the engineer in me feels about fighter jets
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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, mano. Deixe essa porra pros Bolsonaristas.
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 🙄
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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
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as a Brazillian, I have never seen the correlation of the number 24 with “gayness”
É literalmente uma idiotice que tem aqui em Salvador (Não sei se surgiu aqui), vinte e quatro / vim de quatro
It’s literally an idiocy that has here in Salvador (I don’t know if it came from here), twenty-four / I came from four
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”
Why is 24 gay? 🤨
And isn’t “anos” actually “anus?” Años is “years old.” If it’s different in Portugese, that is one hell of a coincidence. lol
Anos in portuguese means years, while ânus means anus. Portuguese doesn’t have a tilde over the n, only vowels can have accents in portuguese.
And 24 has a gay connotation due a false homonym in a Brazilian illegal betting game named “bicho” (animal), the number 24 belongs to a “veado” (deer), which sounds like “viado”.
The word “viado” is a gay slur originating from the word “transviado” (literally means straying from a path), and the original word isn’t as popular, though.
24 is “vinte e quatro” and it sounds similar to “vim de quatro” which can be interpreted as “I came on all 4s”
That sounds hot.
Straight men have a 23+1 hr schedule every day. The extra hour is for secret gay time.
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.
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That’s a lot of candle for something that’s going to burn for less than a minute.
That’s what she said?
Now over to Colin Poppshed at the Gay Desk
That’s pretty gay
Yeah sounds pretty gay (derogatory) to care that much about being seen as gay (celebratory)
I’m just jealous 23+1 year old men get their birthday celebrated there.
