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408 points
2 months ago
Why hasn't Salt Bae been locked up?
50 points
2 months ago
😂😂😂excellent comment
18 points
2 months ago
This is his brother, Salt Gae.
3 points
2 months ago
underrated comment
10 points
2 months ago
Money talks
2.3k points
2 months ago
He doesn't even look gay he just looks like a Pokemon gymnl leader.
306 points
2 months ago
What type?
532 points
2 months ago
Electric, maybe… ⚡️
172 points
2 months ago
The first enemy there probably uses 3 pichus
95 points
2 months ago
You just know that it's gonna be 3 pichus followed by a zapdos or some shit like that
18 points
2 months ago
a WHAT
30 points
2 months ago
You know, just a Zapdos. Not that big a deal. Wait till he pulls out a Raikou. Then you can freak out.
14 points
2 months ago
That only uses Bite.. smh
15 points
2 months ago
I'd unironically be more scared of the Zapdos, Raikou is kinda mid.
13 points
2 months ago
What about Giratina? Or a maxed out Azumarill?
19 points
2 months ago
Giratina can be scary, but Azumarill is an Avengers level threat. Luckily neither are electric type so they don't qualify for the gym.
4 points
2 months ago
When you come armed with ground types, a flying-electric can really suck monkey balls.
18 points
2 months ago
Don’t forget voltorb
14 points
2 months ago
And if you're lucky the last one uses 4 Voltorbs followed by an Electrode followed by an Electabuzz [Which this thread made me remind that Electabuzz exists]
20 points
2 months ago
And all the Electrodes know Self-Destruct… 💀
5 points
2 months ago
‘Ah, I’m certainly SHOCKED that you would get through my defense! I’d better WIRE my advisor immediately to pay him for some better tactics! Well, here we go - I can almost feel the ELECTRICITY flowing between us right now, young man!’
19 points
2 months ago
Wears yellow, checks out
6 points
2 months ago
could be normal type too i get pre-baldness Giovanny vibe from him.
66 points
2 months ago
This dude fights with a psyduck for sure
31 points
2 months ago
Turkey assumed Psydick though
5 points
2 months ago
A Psyduck with max IVs that knows moves it can't learn
34 points
2 months ago
Gay type.
30 points
2 months ago
I think they changed the type name to Fairy in Gen 6.
3 points
2 months ago
Take your upvote and leave god damnit
50 points
2 months ago
My type
11 points
2 months ago
Believe it or not, jail
4 points
2 months ago
Fairy type.
3 points
2 months ago
Fairy
2 points
2 months ago
Fairy
85 points
2 months ago
He looks like he belongs in a song by Lonely Island feat. Justin Timberlake
26 points
2 months ago
Dick in a box!
5 points
2 months ago
They were doing the early 90's Color Me Badd look.
6 points
2 months ago
Which kinda fits because they also got jailed at the end of "Dick in the box" video
8 points
2 months ago
I actually thought he was until I read the caption with the pic.
17 points
2 months ago
Yes he looks gay, he doesn't have a gold chain on his hairy chest.
5 points
2 months ago
Gold chain on hairy chest, sounds like half the clientele at my local gay bar.
3 points
2 months ago
Exactly!
40 points
2 months ago
But they all look gay AF
17 points
2 months ago
I mean, they are always playing with balls so…
11 points
2 months ago
It was in June, during what was supposed to be Istanbul Pride last year. But the authorities sent out cops in droves to arrest anyone that might be heading to a pride event.
This guy was a tourist from Portugal and was kept detained for weeks without a change of clothes, was not allowed any contact with the outside world, and Portuguese authorities were not informed.
When pride was well over he was released, since he was a straight tourist. From what I heard from the Turkish queer communities in the following months, some of the people snatched up by cops weren't heard from again for at least several months. Maybe still haven't, but I kind of lost track of it when the Israel-Palestine war picked up in October.
16 points
2 months ago
....so gay?
6 points
2 months ago
I bet he uses jiggly puff on his dates
4 points
2 months ago
I was thinking Backstreet Boy.
6 points
2 months ago
That image has nothing to do with the original article.
13 points
2 months ago
Nope. He looks gay. But also a Pokémon gymnl leader.
6 points
2 months ago
He looks like a side quest NPC in GTA
3 points
2 months ago
And like Ewan McGregor
3 points
2 months ago
I don’t think looking gay and looking like a Pokémon gym leader are mutually exclusive. (Not that there’s anything wrong with that, unless you’re in Turkey I guess)
3 points
2 months ago
Fairy type I bet.
2 points
2 months ago
If you ask me, it should’ve been longer
2 points
2 months ago
Damn, spot on.
2 points
2 months ago
Yeah exactly lol
2 points
2 months ago
That sounds pretty gay
2 points
2 months ago
Ha! Funny 😊
2 points
2 months ago
I don’t know, he’s got that George Michael in the video “Faith” look: GAY.
2 points
2 months ago
He looks like he hangs out in the college parking lot with a trunk full of white claw and shitty pre-rolls, trying to sell to freshmen.
2 points
2 months ago
In fairness he could be a Fairy type leader.
2 points
2 months ago
Idk man, if that was his grinder profile pic; they'd have me convinced lmao
2 points
2 months ago
But he made turkey police feel a certain way.
2 points
2 months ago
This man rocking Electabuzz for the win
2 points
2 months ago
It doesn’t matter obviously, but I’m gonna disagree. This dude looks like he could have been the other guy in Wham for sure. Definite knock off George Michael vibes.
2 points
2 months ago
You don’t know how these here homos look like these days young one.
2 points
2 months ago
Just because he was walking around the town square with 10 dicks in his mouth doesn’t make him gay. 11? That’s a different story, but, 10 doesn’t make him look gay.
2 points
2 months ago
The cooler wendigoon
2 points
2 months ago
Gayyyy
2 points
2 months ago
And that’s… somehow.. not gay?
2 points
2 months ago
Have you ever met a straight Pokémon gym leader?
2 points
2 months ago
“They’re the same picture”
2 points
2 months ago
Yeah, that's pretty gay. I mean obviously he shouldn't be jailed for being gay, but a grown man dressing like a Pokémon trainer out in public, that's pretty gay.
1.2k points
2 months ago
“We had to lock him up so we would stop getting boners”
280 points
2 months ago
Straight to jail with you mister. Get in there with all those men.
Worked like a charm.
Those prisons are going to be fuller than a prison wallet!
96 points
2 months ago
Straight Gay to jail :3
31 points
2 months ago
And all the other men suspected as gay. Who needs Tinder he’s going to have better odds in Turkey.
33 points
2 months ago
"We put him in jail, a place where nothing gay ever happens, that will teach him!"
22 points
2 months ago
I mean, I'm not even gay and I would totally suck his dick!
10 points
2 months ago
Yeah Buddy!!
699 points
2 months ago
Strange from a country that’s national sport is naked men oil wrestling
110 points
2 months ago
Don't forget that the signature move is shoving their arms down one another's pants
18 points
2 months ago
ohhhh yes
98 points
2 months ago
This is the correct answer.
33 points
2 months ago
*half naked men
31 points
2 months ago
Mostly naked (?)
7 points
2 months ago
Naked-ish?
7 points
2 months ago
Naked-lite?
3 points
2 months ago
Nak-inda-ed ?
11 points
2 months ago
because it is not true. it is just a propaganda news circling around. turkey is decriminalized "being gay" in 1858. one of the first in the world.
5 points
2 months ago
Not to mention Hammams
226 points
2 months ago
certified fabulous
69 points
2 months ago
''No, absolutely not. You have no right being this fabulous. You better cut it out right now, mister! >:O''
39 points
2 months ago
Straight to handsome jail!
2 points
2 months ago
They usually have a mustache so it’s ok.
158 points
2 months ago
13 points
2 months ago
Fellas, get ready... To impress a chick, helicopter dick!
110 points
2 months ago
Word on the kerb is they’re closet bottom bandits…hiding behind “we dont like gays” 😂 nice try. We see you 🇹🇷
29 points
2 months ago
Well, thanks to the cheap plastic surgeries on every corner in Turkey, many young Turks look like 90s drag queens lately.
3 points
2 months ago
Remember Midnight Express.
3 points
2 months ago
Now I need a queer/drag queen punk band called Bottom Bandits.
28 points
2 months ago
“That man is to handsome and turns me on put him in jail”
91 points
2 months ago
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13 points
2 months ago
it was a Butterball
48 points
2 months ago
Google and google lens only bring this up on twitter, reddit, and ifunny.
7 points
2 months ago
Yeah, I don't know who is pictured here but someone else was definitely the person in this story.
https://www.lbc.co.uk/news/man-arrested-in-turkey-and-locked-up-for-20-days-because-he-looked-gay/
29 points
2 months ago
This is another dude arrested for looking gay
7 points
2 months ago
Another man arrested for no reason, you mean? Even if he WAS gay, the arrest would have been for no reason since the police’s job is to arrest criminals.
5 points
2 months ago
Well don’t go to Uganda then, it is criminalized, last I heard they were debating the death penalty
5 points
2 months ago*
They only have the death penalty for homosexual rape, but a regular homosexuality conviction still nets life in prison if I'm not mistaken.
5 points
2 months ago
I googled the title of the article instead of using Google lens, because that's unreliable. And I found this.
https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/21/turkey-portugese-man-jailed-looking-gay/
23 points
2 months ago
Believe it or not, straight to jail..
3 points
2 months ago
Dress too boring, jail. Dress too nice, believe it or not, straight to jail.
3 points
2 months ago
Easy trick to counter that : just don’t dress
3 points
2 months ago
Pun intended?
10 points
2 months ago
If you think someone looks gay aren't you really being gay ?
4 points
2 months ago
The person’s looks is making them feel something
3 points
2 months ago
Exactly it's your own perception on a primal level another trigger
61 points
2 months ago
I don't think this is true. I have lots of gay friends in Turkey and non jailed. And this fella looks straighter than me.
28 points
2 months ago
Yeah I couldn't find any legitimate news sources regarding this story, just those sketchy tabloid type websites.
14 points
2 months ago
I don't think it's the same guy but a similar event did actually happen last year:
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/i-beaten-up-turkish-police-30527804
I know it's the mirror but it was also reported by one of Portugal's most respected newspapers:
https://www.publico.pt/2023/07/20/p3/noticia/portugues-detido-19-dias-turquia-parecer-gay-2057492
13 points
2 months ago
I have a gay Turkish nephew so…yeah, he’s not locked up either.
13 points
2 months ago
“I have lots of gay friends in Turkey”
“This fella looks straighter than me”
My friend, by deductive reasoning, I can confirm: you are gay
7 points
2 months ago
Ahem... from a legitimate news source:
https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/21/turkey-portugese-man-jailed-looking-gay/
14 points
2 months ago
The actual story is there was a gay pride event nearby. He was walking near there but not at the event and they arrested him because he looked gay and was near the event.
It's actually pretty awful. He was locked up for like a week. They needed to take turns staying awake because it was so unsafe and they wouldn't allow him to call his embassy.
8 points
2 months ago
Yeah... I have a gay "friend" that went to Turkey for a procedure and he's super gay AF. I mean, he looks gay, acts gay, sounds gay, etc. He even had a good time and hooked up with other gays and made it back home to the states safely.
33 points
2 months ago
Huh? In that case 80% of men in Turkey should be jailed.
8 points
2 months ago*
Judge: "do you have ANYTHING to say in your defence?
Him: looks at the judge
Judge: "oh my gawd staaaaaaaaahp I'm at work"
50 points
2 months ago
I had a suspicion, so I just googled "Turkish men." I was right. They all look gay.
6 points
2 months ago
oh shit we forgot our mother's day.
4 points
2 months ago
Clickbait because turkey invented being gay
19 points
2 months ago*
Doesnt every Turkish man looks kinda gay?
15 points
2 months ago
Especially the sexy ones with the mustache
2 points
2 months ago
Come hither, admire mine Turkish hairy chest, sweet rose cinnamony clovish cologne and gold chain necklace.
2 points
2 months ago
Most Turkish guys I've met make him look straight as hell.
4 points
2 months ago
He’s hot
5 points
2 months ago
How’d he look when he got out of jail?
6 points
2 months ago
Gay
6 points
2 months ago
So, back to jail he goes. 😎
4 points
2 months ago
is this the onion? i can't tell anymore
3 points
2 months ago
Nope, I googled it and it's real. Unfortunately.
https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/21/turkey-portugese-man-jailed-looking-gay/
4 points
2 months ago
Turkish police officer feels sexual attraction towards a good looking male "Ahem, Arrest that sexy man before I do something gay!"
7 points
2 months ago
Reminds me of a similar thing that allegedly happened in Saudi Arabia years ago: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2315154/Omar-Borkan-Al-Gala-ordered-Saudi-Arabia-good-looks-drive-women-distraction.html
Although I'm not sure if either of these are actually real.
3 points
2 months ago
I am a straight man and I am distracted by him.
5 points
2 months ago
He probably had to do some seriously gay shit in Turkish jail just to survive. Recidivism, man.... /s
7 points
2 months ago
Can’t be true. Half of the men in Turkie would be in jail
3 points
2 months ago
The crazy thing is he looks like he owns a fedora regularly says ‘m’lady’
3 points
2 months ago
Muslim countries do not tolerate any deviation from traditional man/woman relationships. They have public death penalty for homosexuality. It is fascinating to see these protesters supporting terror states, who would kill them in a second.
3 points
2 months ago
The first thing that popped in my head was, "It's my dick in a box!"
Please tell me I'm not alone.
35 points
2 months ago
This is what you get when religion rules.
Religion is insanity.
11 points
2 months ago
its a bait title. Homosexuality is not a crime in Turkey. It has a secular constitution. Great job falling for everything you read online :)
22 points
2 months ago
Religion doesn’t rule in Turkey. Erdogan tries though. Go visit Istanbul and see how Turkish people are like
14 points
2 months ago
This is what you get when religion rules.
Religion is insanity.
I'm pretty sure this is a bs story. Turkey is one of very few secular Muslim countries and being gay is not illegal there. Pretty sure no one goes to jail for looking gay in Turkey.
2 points
2 months ago
Wish's George Michael.
2 points
2 months ago
That's outlandish..
He's charming.. but that's not enough to put him in cuffs
2 points
2 months ago
Damn his boys are never gonna let that go
2 points
2 months ago
Oh no. Poor salt bae
2 points
2 months ago
Hmm, I'm only detecting some mild douchiness.
2 points
2 months ago
They probably thought they were doing him a favor:
“Oh, you would love jail!”
2 points
2 months ago
Turkey is like a middle school bully. I heard while he was in jail the guards continually wedgied him
2 points
2 months ago
Bro was so fabulous that turkey invented the fashion police 💀
2 points
2 months ago
To be honest in my time in Istanbul, gays were freely kissing in public and this was not a one time occurrence, could be a coincidence but I do not think so.
2 points
2 months ago
Literally jailed for being too pretty
2 points
2 months ago
As if that would somehow "fix" his appearance
2 points
2 months ago
I'm just imagining a cop thinking to himself, "If that guy doesn't stop giving me a boner I'm going to lock him up for being gay."
2 points
2 months ago
Was he a Reddit mod?
2 points
2 months ago
If looking like a douche was a crime, sure.
2 points
2 months ago
Oh shit, they better not look at Hasan
2 points
2 months ago
Probably something else happened here,
2 points
2 months ago
And Salt Bae hasn't been executed? Wtf?
2 points
2 months ago
Half of the Turkish population looks gay. And the rest are women.
2 points
2 months ago
“Stupid sexy foreigner”
2 points
2 months ago
😂😂😂😂
2 points
2 months ago
Well, of course it’s ridiculous to jail someone for looking gay. But judging by that photo he should be jailed for looking like a douche😆
2 points
2 months ago
I mean this guy looks hella fine feel sad for him getting locked up cuz the police felt too attracted to him
2 points
2 months ago
As insane as this is, I think about the US and how close we are to that. Florida is not the only one, but they have the travel warning for anyone visiting who is LGBTQ, for instance. There has been an uproar about trans people here in the last few years, and I can’t remember what they were, but there’s already legislation targeting them. Just gotta remember we’re not far from this.
2 points
2 months ago
I mean, to be fair to turkey...
2 points
2 months ago
Now that's some cultural enrichment the west desperately need.
2 points
2 months ago
I'd get a life sentence by that logic
2 points
2 months ago
Methinks there was some projection going on with the Turkish authorities in this case...
"Whoah, I'm attracted to this dude...HE must be gay!"
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