BBC’s Pidgin English website has translated the ‘Tinder poo’ story – and it’s amazing
THE BBC's new website for readers of a unique African dialect were treated to a hilariously fresh take on a viral Tinder nightmare story — in which a woman tried to "troway di poo-poo".
BBC News Pidgin, which launched two weeks ago, brilliantly rendered a story about a woman who became trapped while trying to retrieve her own faeces during a first date from hell.
Its headline read: "Woman wan troway poo-poo, come trap for window".
Social media was set ablaze when the translated story appeared yesterday — and reignited the world's morbid fascination with the original horror tale.
Fire crews were last month called to rescue an unnamed woman in Bristol who got trapped in a wall cavity.
She panicked during the date at Liam Smyth's flat when she went to the loo and was unable to flush her excretions — so fished it out and tried to lob it out of his window.
But the poo became trapped in a narrow gap between the inner and outer window panes.
She leapt head-first to try to fish it out but she got stuck and needed rescuing.
Stunned student Liam set up a, and has now received over £2,600 in donations after setting a modest £200 target.
"I am truly humbled. I never expected this campaign to get this big", he said.
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So big was the campaign that it merited a translation into Pidgin, spoken by communities in Nigeria, Ghana, Cameroon and Equatorial Guinea.
Part of the story reads: "The woman wey dey learn gymnastics, just start to waka with Bristol student, Liam Smith, for di first time, when she take fear troway di poo-poo comot for window.
"Instead make di thing land for garden, di poo-poo come jam between two windows wey no dey open wide."
The new site was launched in August by the BBC World Service as part of a £289million taxpayer-funded expansion — which will also see its broadcasts available in heavily isolated North Korea.
Bilkisu Labaran, editorial lead of the new BBC Pidgin service, said: "It's a challenging, exciting experiment. We want to be pioneers in what written Pidgin can be.
"There is no harmonisation - but that's the opportunity to have the conversation. We expect debate with our readers on what Pidgin should be. It's like entering an unknown world."
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