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‘D’ P farting while he’s prepping food

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Easipeelerie · 26/12/2024 20:00

He’s in the kitchen chopping meat and just let out 2 enormous farts (and quite deliberately, not like there was nothing he do about it)- doesn’t care and doesn’t think it’s a big deal. He’s in the kitchen prepping food,
Am I being unreasonable to not want to eat with him now. I find when he does this sort of thing that it’s so disrespectful and just unpleasant.

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BettyBardMacDonald · 26/12/2024 23:24

Endofyear · 26/12/2024 22:53

It's just farting, it's not like it's going to do any harm to your food 😂 this wouldn't bother me. DH occasionally lets off a really wiffy one in his sleep which creeps out from under the duvet and this makes me irrationally annoyed even though he's obviously not doing it on purpose!

I could never be sexually attracted to someone who does this.

MerrilyOnhigh · 26/12/2024 23:13

BettyBardMacDonald · 26/12/2024 21:52

It's called "outdoors."

Honestly I am 61 and have never heard any of my lovers do that, in 40-plus years. Nor they, me. Never in my family growing up, either. My parents weren't that type.

Is it really so difficult to be couth?

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Loving the image of you and a succession of lovers dutifully charging outdoors to fart, irrespective of the weather.

MerrilyOnhigh · 26/12/2024 23:12

Easipeelerie · 26/12/2024 20:05

Never in the kitchen prepping food. Whether or not it harms the food, I just find it offensive.

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I bet you do fart in reality. If you were in the middle of something that would spoil if you abandoned it, I suspect the reality is that you would let a fart go without really noticing.

Iamacatslave · 26/12/2024 22:57

Blame it on the sprouts.

Endofyear · 26/12/2024 22:53

It's just farting, it's not like it's going to do any harm to your food 😂 this wouldn't bother me. DH occasionally lets off a really wiffy one in his sleep which creeps out from under the duvet and this makes me irrationally annoyed even though he's obviously not doing it on purpose!

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Easipeelerie · 26/12/2024 22:38

TitaniasAss · 26/12/2024 21:23

Maybe you should get a special farting booth OP? A place where one can go and let rip without judgement. 🤣

You’ve hit the nail on the head. That is what’s required.

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bagpuss90 · 26/12/2024 22:37

Don’t think anyone ever got sick from someone else’s fart

Mrsttcno1 · 26/12/2024 22:31

SwordToFlamethrower · 26/12/2024 22:23

I'm reading the comments out to my husband in a Jane Austin voice and we are both dying of hysterics!!

"Absolutely dizGAHSTINng!"

Literally 😂😂

God if I sent my husband outside every time he needed to fart the poor sod would have to set himself up a little living area in the shed

MissMoan · 26/12/2024 22:30

@Easipeelerie I wouldn't like it, there's a time and a place, and in the kitchen while prepping food is not it 😂

Illegally18 · 26/12/2024 22:23

daisychain01 · 26/12/2024 20:10

It's significantly more ewww starting a thread about it than it is letting one out.

I disagree.

SwordToFlamethrower · 26/12/2024 22:23

I'm reading the comments out to my husband in a Jane Austin voice and we are both dying of hysterics!!

"Absolutely dizGAHSTINng!"

SwordToFlamethrower · 26/12/2024 22:19

Non issue, relax!

Mrsttcno1 · 26/12/2024 22:14

Eee God I read threads like this and wonder how some people get through the day😂 unless he’s bent over and farted straight into your meat I don’t know what the fuss is about.

dragonfliesandbees · 26/12/2024 22:05

grizzlygrump · 26/12/2024 21:26

I’m guessing you go for a poo with the door open and let it mellow if it’s yellow, too.

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That's quite a leap you've taken there. I hope you didn't hurt yourself! 😂

BettyBardMacDonald · 26/12/2024 21:52

TitaniasAss · 26/12/2024 21:23

Maybe you should get a special farting booth OP? A place where one can go and let rip without judgement. 🤣

It's called "outdoors."

Honestly I am 61 and have never heard any of my lovers do that, in 40-plus years. Nor they, me. Never in my family growing up, either. My parents weren't that type.

Is it really so difficult to be couth?

ThriveIn2025 · 26/12/2024 21:38

Ciderisrosier · 26/12/2024 20:42

Thanks I’m so glad you got sorted. Unfortunately nobody repaired the tears at the time so it’s a bit trickier as nothing is in one piece. Thankfully DH makes a lot of allowances and doesn’t care about farts 😊

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That’s awful 😢 I was taken into surgery immediately after the birth which wasn’t ideal but did fix most of the damage. I’m so sorry you didn’t get good post birth care.

TwoLeftSocksWithHoles · 26/12/2024 21:30

Easipeelerie · 26/12/2024 20:05

Never in the kitchen prepping food. Whether or not it harms the food, I just find it offensive.

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Me neither, well actually I suppose I do, but I stand on a kitchen stool and orientate my rear to the cooker hood, which I have set on 'maximum extract'.

But I assumed everyone did that, it's just polite and what my Mum taught me.

😇

PickAChew · 26/12/2024 21:28

I've got a whole oompah band down there, today, and it doesn't seem to have affected anyone's enjoyment of the food I've prepared.

grizzlygrump · 26/12/2024 21:26

dragonfliesandbees · 26/12/2024 21:11

I don't think anyone has said anything about enjoyment or entertainment. But most people can surely accept farts and burps as normal bodily functions that shouldn't require you to self isolate within your own home.

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I’m guessing you go for a poo with the door open and let it mellow if it’s yellow, too.

Sidebeforeself · 26/12/2024 21:26

How do you know a fart is deliberate in those circumstances?When i was going through the menopause I simply couldn’t control them

TitaniasAss · 26/12/2024 21:23

Maybe you should get a special farting booth OP? A place where one can go and let rip without judgement. 🤣

Createausername1970 · 26/12/2024 21:21

arcticpandas · 26/12/2024 20:15

In our house we have a rule: no farting in the same room as someone else. When I go to bed I can hear DH letting all hell loose. But to be fair I do my fair bit under the covers so when he comes to bed later on and lifts the covers it's not roses he smell..

Are you me?

MartinCrieffsLemon · 26/12/2024 21:21

bugalugs45 · 26/12/2024 20:11

After yesterdays mammoth dinners with stuffing and vegetables I would assume most households are more windy than usual

Oh exactly

If we had to leave the room to fart yesterday we'd have all spent the day in separate rooms, alone. Rather than playing games, watching TV and talking...

Ariel896 · 26/12/2024 21:18

This thread is hilarious! Thank you OP

dragonfliesandbees · 26/12/2024 21:11

grizzlygrump · 26/12/2024 20:53

Oh absolutely! If drinking fizzy pop means you need to burp loudly and uncontrollably then you can go enjoy them in your own room thank you very much.

Its not entertainment I personally enjoy but I’m happy for those of you who have found compatible partners and that you’re all enjoying a good old Boxing Day of farts! Have a nice time!

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I don't think anyone has said anything about enjoyment or entertainment. But most people can surely accept farts and burps as normal bodily functions that shouldn't require you to self isolate within your own home.