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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.
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
The linguist in me now feels the same way about Brazilian profanity that the engineer in me feels about fighter jets
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 🙄
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.
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
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.
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 probably more of a joke.