When Jimbo was in Bali attending the ICAAP, he attended a symposium which caters for those who are working with patients who are MSMs (men-who-have-sex-with-men). The hall was packed and many had to sit on the floor or stand at the back. The organisers underestimated the number of people who would be interested to attend the symposium.
One of the speaker on the panel that day was a young activist from our neighbouring country up North. He was very passionate about the work that he does and was very enthusiastic in sharing about his work.
Unfortunately, his less than good command of the English language failed him miserably. We could hardly understand what he was trying to say. At one point he said something like this:
“I am working in an NGO and we cater to some marginalized people, SUCK ASS the gay people, lesbian people, transgenders people….”
Jimbo, who was seated, was stunned! He turned to the guy who was seated next to him and asked:
“Did you hear what I heard?”
“What?”, came the reply (he wasn’t paying attention)
Then the speaker went on again:
“Our work include doing some work SUCK ASS, publicity, advocacy, distributing condoms in places, SUCK ASS bars, saunas….”
“There!”, Jimbo exclaimed.
“Did he just say ‘suck ass’”, Jimbo added.
“Yeah, I believe he did!”, replied the equally stunned man!
LOL!
See, that’s why we need to teach people to speak proper English, so that they won’t make a boo-boo in meetings SUCK ASS (such as) this one. LOL!
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Poor speaker got a stiff tongue or something?
LOL!!!!