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How does one fart?

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withmycoffee · 24/01/2021 21:49

Reading a post today about someone's DP farting whist she ate and another about adult DSS comic farting I started wondering, what is fart etiquette in your relationship/family/home?
Do people fart openly? Leave the room? Leave the bed before releasing? Say 'excuse me'? Laugh each time? What is typical fart behaviour?

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UsernameNotSaved · 24/01/2021 22:25

Fart as and when needed, except if people are eating. That’s just rude. If it’s massive then laugh and apologise, farts are natural and funny 😁

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Sheleg · 24/01/2021 22:32

DH and I fart long, loud and proud. Baby DD is shaping up to follow in our stinking footsteps.

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Backtoschool101 · 24/01/2021 22:54

I leave the room. I think its rude. Plus if it smells its not fair to Others! Its a normal bodily function but unless can't even helped should be done in private. But thats how I was brought up. Do is loud and proud and it doesn't bother me too much.

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QueenPawPaws · 24/01/2021 23:00

Never ever in front of anyone for me

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Dailyhandtowelwash · 24/01/2021 23:02

Over a decade together and DH has never farted in front of me. I’ve been pregnant too much to say quite the same but pretty minimal.

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Chloemol · 24/01/2021 23:09

Never in front of anyone, just rude

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AutoIncorrect · 24/01/2021 23:10

We just fart at random as needed. Makes us laugh.

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noblegreenk · 24/01/2021 23:13

We all just do it in our house. We'd draw the line at farting at the dinner table like a previous poster said, but home should be the one place where you all love each other enough to put up with each others stink.

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saffire · 24/01/2021 23:14

I only do it in front of my dd or df. Only if I absolutely can't avoid it in front of my partner! 7 years and I still find it difficult. Mine are bad though! I have IBD, so that's my excuse.

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DramaAlpaca · 24/01/2021 23:15

We all blame the dog.

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whoamongstus · 24/01/2021 23:15

Just whenever it happens here. We laugh if they're especially funny sounding 🤷‍♀️

If someone had a dodgy stomach and knew it was going to be grim they'd go into another room out of kindness, but just...airy ones? Who gives a shit, it's normal!

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Jetatyeovilaerodrome · 24/01/2021 23:16

Do people really not fart in front of their own husbands? Why not? Confused

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rowmaccerd · 24/01/2021 23:16

I can't imagine having to hide facts in my own home,neither would I want anyone else in the family to feel like they had to.

Do you people really get out of bed at 3am when you need to trump so you acan go to another room?

The idea that people do that blows my mind

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SalemsPot22 · 24/01/2021 23:16

We save them all up for bedtime and then try and out do eachother in bed.

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Northernsoullover · 24/01/2021 23:17

Never fart in front of my OH and vice versa. I didn't even in front of the children but now they are teens and they don't hold back so I gave up holding back.
I just don't think its very alluring in a romantic relationship. We are all different.

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meltedgalaxy · 24/01/2021 23:17

We just do it when we need to

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Hawkmoth · 24/01/2021 23:17

DH has no sense of smell. I do what i need to. I am ruined for any other man as I KNOW I stink.

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NiceGerbil · 24/01/2021 23:17

Funny here.

Also I wouldn't expect anyone to leave the room to fart. What if they'd had something that makes them windy? It would be annoying up and down up and down.

I read once that your body learns when you feel comfy and relaxed to fart and when not, which explains why I don't need to fart much at the office but when I lie down in bed at night all hell breaks loose Grin

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Pebbledashery · 24/01/2021 23:19

Shamelessly place marking for the laughs because I'm 9 years old 😂

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ekidmxcl · 24/01/2021 23:21

Me, dh, 2 teens. All fart and laugh.

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Northernsoullover · 24/01/2021 23:21

I don't find them funny either. Not run of the mill parping anyway! A mis timed one or one someone tries to sneak out but fails can be bloody hilarious (sat in a beer garden with my friend and she tried to sneak one out but was sat on a plastic chair, yes THAT was bloody hilarious) but I couldn't find someone farting day in day out amusing.. surely the novelty would be long gone?

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Chlordiazepoxide · 24/01/2021 23:22

Don't mind dh doing it but I try not too. Not sure why just think it's pretty rank

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Pebbledashery · 24/01/2021 23:24

@Northernsoullover crying 😂😂😂😂

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indemMUND · 24/01/2021 23:24

Single parent. DD (9) farts when she needs to but she does get that it's inappropriate to do so when in company (ie school). She thinks I'm incapable of it. Same with pooping. Long gone are the days of dealing with a toddler in close vicinity when you've got to go. Apparently I'm her safe place to let rip. No performance farting though!

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Workyticket · 24/01/2021 23:25

We're shameless at home. We had a big Sunday dinner with piles of veg so it's currently competitive!

When ds comes to sit on my knee sometimes it's for a cuddle, sometimes it's because he saved a good pump Blush

I've got friends I've had for 20 years that I've not farted in front of though and would be so embarrassed if i farted noticeably at work so I do have standards

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