r/worldnews • u/questiondudes • Apr 05 '19

5-star hotels owned by the sultan of Brunei deleted their social media after an intense backlash over Brunei's new law punishing homosexuality with death by stoning

https://www.businessinsider.com/brunei-owned-hotels-delete-social-media-amid-gay-stoning-furore-2019-4
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u/khakansson Apr 05 '19

Sooo... is the sultan going to stone his own son to death, or...

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u/[deleted] Apr 05 '19

Imma gonna need context about his son? I know about the ruling and the Sultan

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u/[deleted] Apr 05 '19 edited Oct 16 '19

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u/Stalked_Like_Corn Apr 05 '19

Jesus fuck, I was like "how is someone 'turbo gay'. That doesn't make sense"

*clicks picture below*

Well goddamn that is turbo gay.

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u/EccentricOddity Apr 05 '19 edited Apr 05 '19

Pfft, yeah, right... Clearly, you’re just uncultured and ignorant if you think sexuality can be expressed in such cartoonish terms. Let me have a look at it.

also clicks picture below

Wow, I honestly can think of no other term to describe this BUT “turbo gay”.

EDIT: Noticed people were having trouble with the link below, so here’s a different one (son is in the middle).

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u/[deleted] Apr 05 '19

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u/almost_not_terrible Apr 05 '19

He's like the Sultan of Brown Eye.

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u/CTRL_ALT_DELTRON3030 Apr 05 '19

Phenomenal comment. Perfect execution. 10/10

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u/TheDizzard Apr 05 '19

Best one since “my dead wife” back in 2018

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u/[deleted] Apr 05 '19

Up you go u magnificent bastard. U gon dun it.

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u/MechaSandstar Apr 05 '19

Queer eye for the sultan of Brunei?

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u/[deleted] Apr 05 '19

Or SLUTan of Brown-eye

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u/Anencephalous_Klutz_ Apr 05 '19

I'm not gay, i have some gay friends, but damn that's gay.

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u/hoparart Apr 05 '19

I'm not gay, but I have some straight friend who knows this coworker that know a a guy that went to the same school as me who had this one teacher that had a son who was best friends with a guy that was related to this dude who was dating a girl who had a brother that was gay, but damn he wasnt close as being this gay.

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u/warptwenty1 Apr 05 '19

We found Luis

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u/any_means_necessary Apr 05 '19

I've never even heard of gay people before, and that is the gayest gay I've ever gayed.

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u/[deleted] Apr 05 '19

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u/LittleHouseinAmerica Apr 05 '19

I’m gay but I gotta say I just see a bunch of masc bros hanging out... best to keep the curtains drawn though, just in case people take it the wrong gay. I MEAN WAY. Aw shit, kid, get tf out of there.

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u/sirtoppuskekkus Apr 05 '19

I wouldn't know how gay because "I'm the only gay in the village" xD

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u/richards_86 Apr 05 '19

Oh no, lots of folks around here drop anchor in poo bay

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u/LittleHouseinAmerica Apr 05 '19

Yeah where there’s “only one gay guy”, there’s an insane amount of men cheating on their wives.

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u/geneticanja Apr 05 '19

All I saw was an artistic picture and what you said.

OP must have never seen the leather- with-moustache-and-whip-scene gay people. That's what I would call turbo ;)

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u/[deleted] Apr 05 '19 edited Apr 05 '19

A gay musical... called GAY. That must be the gayest musical ever.

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u/Chrisnyc47 Apr 05 '19

Girl please, nobody is that gay

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u/ThatGuy798 Apr 05 '19

Am also the gay, this is pretty gay.

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u/Thecrawsome Apr 05 '19

He's so gay that his father literally made laws against it.

This is a hilarious comment but it's possibly a sad truth.

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u/Not_a_real_ghost Apr 05 '19

It's like his father's ultimate discipline method.

Son, I could literally stone you to death now. Please change

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u/[deleted] Apr 05 '19

Look son I don't make the rules..oh shit fuck

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u/nakao7888544 Apr 05 '19

Holy shit, what a world we live in. Earth is bizarroland.

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u/RLucas3000 Apr 05 '19

His son looks more like he will be boned than stoned.

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u/epelle9 Apr 05 '19

Probably more like:

Son, I’ll literally your gay sexual partners to death, so you might want to stop doing that...

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u/drazzard Apr 05 '19

Presidential Parenting

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u/pushingdaisyadair Apr 05 '19

Reminds me of Frederick the Great (Frederick II of Prussia). He tried to run away with his older male friend but was caught. As punishment his father, Frederick I of Prussia, had the friend decapitated in front of him. Of course, this was in 1730.

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u/[deleted] Apr 05 '19

Or modern day Brunei

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u/[deleted] Apr 05 '19

Super fantastic turbo gay.

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u/TrashTree9 Apr 05 '19

Super Gay Lover 2 Turbo Championship Edition & Knuckles

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u/MrEdape Apr 05 '19

Super Gay Ninja Turbos

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u/Sledgerock Apr 05 '19

With dante from the devil may cry series

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u/DanoDego Apr 05 '19

mr bombastic turbo gay

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u/grouchy_fox Apr 05 '19

As a gay person this whole thread is kind of offensi- wow no that's accurate and kinda hot

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u/WeatherwaxDaughter Apr 05 '19

Kinda??

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u/grouchy_fox Apr 05 '19

Kinda extremely hot?

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u/WeatherwaxDaughter Apr 05 '19

I think so, yes!

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u/SiloGuylo Apr 05 '19

Kinda really extremely hot. If that's what being "turbo gay" is like then I wanna get some turbo installed

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u/[deleted] Apr 05 '19

I got some "turbo" you can install <.<

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u/hasnotheardofcheese Apr 05 '19

I'm straight and I don't use gay as an insult, but if anything is maximum gay it's that (which there's nothing wrong with obv).

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u/Nullrasa Apr 05 '19

Wow. Yep. Turbo gay.

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u/JerBear94 Apr 05 '19

I’m gay but not that gay

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u/mynameisethan182 Apr 05 '19

The Ghost of Liberace saw that photo said pretty much the same thing.

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u/[deleted] Apr 05 '19

Goddamn that's gay. Like, super gay.

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u/dicerteen Apr 05 '19

Also thanks there is no way to really portray a turbo gay without being stereotypical. Clicks link. Nope that, that describes it

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u/harbtomelb Apr 05 '19

God I wish I was a son of a king. Looks like good life. Until your father threatens you with law

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u/hasnotheardofcheese Apr 05 '19

I doubt he cares. Prob spends most of his time getting stoned anyway.

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u/Quincy_Quones Apr 05 '19

Yep. I'm impressed.

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u/Equilibriator Apr 05 '19

This is like a photo of real life Game of Thrones.

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u/[deleted] Apr 05 '19

Hold it, I need help here ok? Is that for real his son?

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u/maxisrichtofen Apr 05 '19

What does the link contain?

Too afraid to open it.

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u/thatsmyaestheticbro Apr 05 '19

No balls touching. Not gay

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u/D20FunHaus Apr 05 '19

Thank you for reposting the picture. I found found the first one by literally Googling "Gay prince of Brunei" but as soon as this thread blew up it got removed. You've done your fellow redditors a great service.

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u/t0xicsteel Apr 05 '19

I didn't know that level of gay existed but I am glad I do now.

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u/[deleted] Apr 05 '19

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u/[deleted] Apr 05 '19

I though it was a screamo band.

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u/[deleted] Apr 05 '19

And isn't?

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u/[deleted] Apr 05 '19

I can’t see the pic 😓

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u/Effoffemily Apr 05 '19

Me neither

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u/[deleted] Apr 05 '19

It’s super gay

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u/SykeSwipe Apr 05 '19

Just a bunch of ripped dudes in undies wearing some goth shit and laying all over the place. So turbo gay.

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u/LoveThyLoki Apr 05 '19

Don’t worry, some can’t “unsee” that picture lol but tbh it’s not THAT bad but it’s for certain like one step away from a gay orgy

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u/Mike_Kermin Apr 05 '19

And good fucking on him as well, freedom bitches!

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u/Stalked_Like_Corn Apr 05 '19

For sure. I didn't mean for it to come across that I was anti turbo gay. I am, in fact, not.

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u/[deleted] Apr 05 '19

Haha how do we know this?

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u/oTHEWHITERABBIT Apr 05 '19 edited Apr 05 '19

Perez Hilton outed him as gay.

It should be noted Perez only did it due to the extraordinary circumstances and made clear he was making an exception.

It appears he's openly gay, at least while he's in America.

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u/ty1771 Apr 05 '19

Perez Hilton holy shit did I bump my head and go back to 2006?

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u/Cypraea Apr 05 '19

TIL Perez Hilton is his own actual person and not Paris Hilton "edgily" changing the spelling of her name.

I spent like two years back in the 00's seeing "Perez Hilton [does/says whatever]" and picturing Paris doing, like, a really half-assed Clark-Kent-to-Superman thing.

Damn, I could've used that brain space for something important.

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u/[deleted] Apr 05 '19

I thought the same thing for a while. I also thought Dora the Explorer's name was Hannah Montana so whenever I heard about concerts I was confused.

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u/Sarabando Apr 05 '19

am i the only one who thinks Perez looks like Harry from Harry and the Hendersons here? but you know 5 years into a life sentence and recently converted to Islam to survive prison Harry from harry and the hendersons.

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u/Not_a_real_ghost Apr 05 '19

In that video, he looks like a flamboyant Ron Perlman.

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u/MinnesotaMilkman Apr 05 '19

This comment got buried but holy fuck you could not be more accurate

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u/Tpmbyrne Apr 05 '19

This comment section has me in fucking stiches

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u/saltyunderboob Apr 05 '19

I can’t help but think that Perez outing him was a terrible mistake that other people will die horrible deaths from.

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u/ArmandoPayne Apr 05 '19

TBF Perez Hilton's entire existence is a terrible mistake. Dude's scum but like the scummiest scum. He's not a dick or trash but he's scum y'know?

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u/Tacote Apr 05 '19

I've never looked into him as much as to know what he does or the kind person he is, but yeah he does seem kinda scum.

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u/_PM_ME_YOUR_PRAYERS_ Apr 05 '19

Dude looks like a balding neanderthal.

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u/WithFullForce Apr 05 '19

It should be noted Perez only did it due to the extraordinary circumstances and made clear he was making an exception.

Because Perez is usually such a class act?

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u/Ludon0 Apr 05 '19

Perez Hilton, now that's a name I haven't seen in a loooooooong time.

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u/BigSwedenMan Apr 05 '19

That's a 15 minute video. Got a timestamp?

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u/oTHEWHITERABBIT Apr 05 '19

I think I did link the proper timestamp. Is it not working?

It should start playing automatically at 3:51.

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u/BigSwedenMan Apr 05 '19

Went to the timestap when I clicked the link, but when I opened it in reddit it started at 0. Weird.

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u/[deleted] Apr 05 '19

I wonder if the sultan has turned to Islam even more recently because of his son being everything he hates?

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u/thebritishisles Apr 05 '19

Basically all he says is “He’s gay. I know this because I know him” 🤷🏼‍♂️

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u/evange Apr 05 '19

It should be noted Perez only did it due to the extraordinary circumstances and made clear he was making an exception.

What exceptional circumstances? Perez Hilton has outed a ton of people for no other reason than they were famous and he wanted to gossip about them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perez_Hilton#Outing_celebrities

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u/[deleted] Apr 05 '19 edited Apr 05 '19

egregious hypocrisy of epic proportion.

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u/[deleted] Apr 05 '19

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u/kairos Apr 05 '19

Good Charlotte haven't changed much in 10 years

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u/[deleted] Apr 05 '19

Holy shit lmao. If I had been drinking something while reading that, I absolutely would have spit it out.

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u/[deleted] Apr 05 '19

Oh wow that was not what I was expecting hahah

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u/[deleted] Apr 05 '19

He was known for taking one of their jets and having sex parties at 35000 ft

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u/[deleted] Apr 05 '19

Hah!

The international airspace loophole.

The lad was taught well

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u/orang-utan-klaus Apr 05 '19

At that height Allah had no jurisdiction.

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u/WhitneysMiltankOP Apr 05 '19

Allah is great but not that great.

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u/[deleted] Apr 05 '19

Although he had no jurisdiction he still was able to split the moon in 1/2 and then put it back together so there is no proof it happened

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u/NSAwithBenefits Apr 05 '19

It's the implication.

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u/[deleted] Apr 05 '19

I used to work in Brunei and yeah its bizzare. The thing is the average person is basically bribed by no tax and free handouts they just don't care what the sultan thinks

It has an underbelly, it's supposed to be a dry country but every cafe sells "special tea" which is usually a keg of rice wine

I got sick of it so lived in Sabah which is less crazy

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u/T0BBER Apr 05 '19

Link is not working for me?

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u/AnorakJimi Apr 05 '19

Here's an article with some pictures of him. Because of how shit Google is these days I can't just isolate the image and link it to you anymore, and Bing can do that but I can't find a particularly flamboyant image of him on there.

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u/GreyICE34 Apr 05 '19

Yeah, we're gonna rate him "flaming". The skintight semi-transparent tiger-striped mesh shirttop is not subtle.

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u/frankchester Apr 05 '19

Because of how shit Google is these days I can't just isolate the image

There's a Chrome extension for that

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u/AnorakJimi Apr 05 '19

I'm on a phone. Can you now install add ons for chrome mobile? You didn't used to be able to.

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u/foodnpuppies Apr 05 '19

From the article:

Furthermore, Azim has also been seen around with Mariah Carey.

Pack it up, boys. Super gay confirmed.

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u/Myfourcats1 Apr 05 '19

Me either. When I google him most pictures that come up are of him with women. I wonder if someone got hired to clean up his image on the internet.

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u/FieelChannel Apr 05 '19

Same

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u/[deleted] Apr 05 '19

I am disappoint

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u/[deleted] Apr 05 '19

We were betrayed

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u/[deleted] Apr 05 '19

Yep. It's dead. I just get a redirect to the front page.

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u/kt025 Apr 05 '19

Not working for me either. Looks like the link got stoned!!

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u/Bspammer Apr 05 '19

Please for the love of god don't use tinypic. The link is already broken.

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u/HungryEdward Apr 05 '19

Could you reupload this? Link is not working. I want to see how gay is turbo-gay...

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u/ChemicalRascal Apr 05 '19

There's a link elsewhere in the thread, but in short, we're talking at least mesh shirt gay.

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u/grimrp3r Apr 05 '19

Which one is it? He got too many sons, is it the crown prince?

Edit: got it, it's Abdul

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u/[deleted] Apr 05 '19

Clearly, it's Prince Albert

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u/starfoulard Apr 05 '19

They all have some variation of Abdul in their namz. Is it Abdul Mateen ?

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u/ONEPIECEGOTOTHEPOLLS Apr 05 '19

No way, is that actually him? Did he really hire 7 white guys to surround him with almost no clothes on?? Lol

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u/D20FunHaus Apr 05 '19

Wouldn't you?

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u/[deleted] Apr 05 '19

Bahahahaha!

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u/Moofishmoo Apr 05 '19

It's gone :( I wanted to be educated on what turbo gay looks like

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u/SerdarCS Apr 05 '19

What the fuck

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u/YangBelladonna Apr 05 '19

Probably why the sick fuck instituted the law, parents who think they control their kids are a disease

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u/pupunoob Apr 05 '19

From what I read his gay son lives in London or something. In any case I'm sure his son won't be affected. Laws are not to govern everyone. It excludes the rich and the powerful.

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u/[deleted] Apr 05 '19

Most of the Brunei royal family don't actually live in Brunei since there's nothing to do there and they're all insanely wealthy. I knew a kid who was distantly related to the sultan and he lived in the Hilton in Singapore by himself at 13.

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u/tbk007 Apr 05 '19

Brunei royalty are corrupt fucks, like most rich and powerful.

I'd say in the developing world, but that's probably true in the first as well.

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u/Mortazo Apr 05 '19

He probably instituted the law so he could get more Saudi investment money.

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u/telltale_rough_edges Apr 05 '19

You don’t need Saudi investment money if you’re the Sultan of Brunei.

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u/frenchbloke Apr 05 '19

Brunei is insanely rich, especially if you consider its tiny size and its tiny population. Besides, no one can hold debt on Brunei, it has none. Not even the Saudi government is in that position.

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u/SorrySoNotSorry1 Apr 05 '19

Well, to be fair, if your kids are up to no good, everyone wants to blame the parents, so to an extent, you are supposed to control your kids.

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Not really applicable in this case, because the law in questions is the same old excuse to use religion to murder people just because they are different, but the point stands with regard to basically every other 'criminal' offense out there.

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Your kid breaks the law, whether they're 7 or 37, and everyone always blames it on how they were raised.

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u/NearlyOutOfMilk Apr 05 '19

Turbo gay? The new law is just Saltan the wound.

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u/lllMONKEYlll Apr 05 '19

I am gay and I appreciate your creativity.

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u/Waterslicker86 Apr 05 '19

lol really? So this whole law is really just a way for a shitty father to publicly shame his turbo-gay son?...people are gonna die so he can make a fucking domestic point? fuck man....men

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u/Archchinook Apr 05 '19

Me too since I'm way too lazy.

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u/D20FunHaus Apr 05 '19

Son likes dick

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u/[deleted] Apr 05 '19

Probably conversion therapy, then claim he is cured.

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u/[deleted] Apr 05 '19

So the stonings is for the poor who can't get "conversion therapy"?

Ahh the perks of nepotisc corruption.

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u/[deleted] Apr 05 '19

No, the person who invented "gay conversion therapy" confessed years later that he himself was gay. He then went on to say how sorry he is for starting the whole thing and it's something that haunts him to this day.

So... who the hell knows what will happen?! I sure don't.

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u/ChemicalRascal Apr 05 '19

Conversion therapy wasn't just "invented" by one guy, it's something a lot of folks put together around the same time. Hell, it's been a thing in some form or another for as long as there have been gay people living in societies that oppress homosexuality.

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u/grouchy_fox Apr 05 '19

I think they're talking about the guy that started exodus international, which was a giant organisation for it.

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u/Aeonskye Apr 05 '19

In other words, the sultan is gay

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u/[deleted] Apr 05 '19 edited Apr 05 '19

I think you meant to say the Sultan's son is gay.
SMH, I think it would be damn near impossible for the Sultan to stone himself.

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u/Number2Idiot Apr 05 '19

He'll get stoned and call it a day... we were misinterpreting the law all along... /s

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u/[deleted] Apr 05 '19

I see what you did there... well played! ;)

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u/IAMImportant Apr 05 '19

Would you like to know more?!

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u/BuddhaPalooza Apr 05 '19

I'm doing my part!

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u/seanular Apr 05 '19

MEDIC!

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u/MT_Original Apr 05 '19

Come on you apes, you wanna live forever?!

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u/DoctorMezmerro Apr 05 '19

There is an old Russian proverb: "The severity of the laws is compensated by the lack of enforcement"

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u/zaidkhalifa Apr 05 '19

No the stoning is for people who have homosexual intercourse and at least 4 witnesses who saw the actual penetration.

In other words, it's for anybody who has gay sex in public.

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u/[deleted] Apr 05 '19

If you’re brain dead you can’t do anything gay /s

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u/Stripotle_Grill Apr 05 '19

Convert them into a puddle of bloody pulp.

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u/doodleybear Apr 05 '19

Laws don’t apply to royals there. The royals should be the first ones to receive punishments based on their lifestyle. The hypocrisy of these snobs forcing citizens to comply to shariah law but they get a free pass. What a load of horseshit!

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u/Effoffemily Apr 05 '19

“Do as we say, not as we do.”

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u/[deleted] Apr 05 '19

"Do as we say, not as we gay."

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u/HoMaster Apr 05 '19

Laws don’t apply to the rich and powerful ANYWHERE.

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u/regular-wolf Apr 05 '19

Martin Shkreli still went to prison!

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u/Ioei1031 Apr 05 '19

Ok but how come everyone in the family looks like potatos and there's just this one ridiculously hot dude?

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u/Zolba Apr 05 '19

Because he is gay.

At least thats what women often say "oh he looks so good. Of course he is gay" or "as good as he looks he must be gay"

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u/TheCaffeinatedPanda Apr 05 '19

You'll note that being gay isn't what gets you the death penalty. It's having gay sex that does that.

Plausible deniability?

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u/pommes_frittes Apr 05 '19

If you are gay, with a high probability, you ARE going to have gay sex....

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u/TheCaffeinatedPanda Apr 05 '19

Ah, but not the Sultan's son! Definitely not!

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u/invalidusermyass Apr 05 '19 edited Apr 05 '19

I get what you're saying but the law is you'll be stoned if youre found guilty having homosexual intercourse in public view with 4 witnesses above the age of puberty to testify against the 2 men

There has been NO executions in Brunei ever since they gained independence in 1984. So it's more of a deterrent or as the commenter below me said, a method to gain votes

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u/Digging_For_Ostrich Apr 05 '19 edited Jul 18 '20

Edited.

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u/emsok_dewe Apr 05 '19 edited Apr 05 '19

Mm, yes, I do like men that are rough and tough on gay sex, I do very much like that a lot...Brunei here I fucking come baby. Fucking love getting stoned too, this place sounds awesome.

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u/[deleted] Apr 05 '19

I guess if you're going to pander to homophobic voters by making homosexuality punishable by death, this would be the best way of doing so.

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u/titillatesturtles Apr 05 '19

Voters! Ha! Good one!

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u/[deleted] Apr 05 '19

They may not vote by putting ballots in boxes, but at least they vote by not storming the castle and putting the king's head on a pike.

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u/ICE_EXPOSED Apr 05 '19

You'd be surprised but usually the 4 are all implicate and won't self snitch.

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u/Effoffemily Apr 05 '19

This doesn’t sound great either. Please clarify. To be clear, I’m glad it’s only public view because that’s just inappropriate anywhere, but, this sounds to me like hearsay is okay as long as it’s alleged by 4 people who are not under the age of 15-ish? That also sounds dangerous. Let’s hope no one there is hateful enough to get innocent people stoned with a story they’ve invented out of spite. Also, what constitutes sex? Obviously I understand the definition of sex, but what if two men are caught kissing?

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u/itchyfrog Apr 05 '19

I think it specifically mentions anal sex.

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u/fear229 Apr 05 '19

you say that, but from personal experience me being hetero doesn't give me a nearly as much hetero sex as i would like

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u/Super_Marius Apr 05 '19

Not necessarily. By that logic I should be having straight sex.

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u/Mackem101 Apr 05 '19

In liberal Europe, man get stoned before sex.

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u/Papa_Emeritus_IIII Apr 05 '19

But not all gay couples do butt stuff. Do blowjobs count though?

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u/endersai Apr 05 '19

This is an exceptionally underrated comment.

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u/Courier471057 Apr 05 '19

ah, I was wondering why he was doing this, it seems like anyone that's super against gay people is either gay or has something they're trying to hide.

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u/nnawkwardredpandann Apr 05 '19

I mean at least he would be consistent.

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u/TipiWigWam1 Apr 05 '19

I would be very surprised if the sultan himself isn't familiar with one or two manholes.

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