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Loud Long Fart

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WhatTheHelll · 09/07/2025 17:14

Aibu to be livid over this encounter?

I was shopping today and as I passed a man he let out a very loud and very long fart right as I was level with him in the aisle. There’s no way it was accidental as it sounded very forced.

Makes me think that some men just hate women and do things like this to make them feel uncomfortable.

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Rosscameasdoody · 09/07/2025 20:27

As you get older the ability to control farts diminishes. And if he has a bowel condition like IBS or Crohns then that’s even more reason for lack of control. Wind your neck in OP. Sometimes farts happen. You’ll be old yourself one day and then you’ll realise how it feels when younger people are determined to be offended no matter what.

LSTMS30555 · 09/07/2025 20:27

Maybe he’d just been pegged/backskuttled? 🫨🙄

TroysMammy · 09/07/2025 20:26

I just asked my partner if he was in a supermarket today and if he let out such a fart. He said he was in the Co-op but swore he didn't. He said he saves them up for when he shops in Lidl 😂

DrowningInSyrup · 09/07/2025 20:25

amusedbush · 09/07/2025 17:34

It wasn't necessarily a targeted attack.

My mum once totally forgot her surroundings and let out a fart in the chilled aisle in Aldi. Although she at least had the grace to mumble "excuse me" before slinking away with her trolley 😂

Was a man stood near her? Does she hate men? 🤣

Didshejustsaythatoutloud · 09/07/2025 20:24

lemoncake29 · 09/07/2025 17:51

I’m laughing out loud at ‘targeted attack’ 😂😂😂

Me too 😂

SabreIsMyFave · 09/07/2025 20:23

Is it just me or does the word FART get funnier the more you see it/hear it? 😆

Also, a 20 SECOND FART?! Really..........?

Was it this man by any chance @WhatTheHelll (Sound up.) 😂

www.facebook.com/themorningrumble/videos/listener-steve-shares-his-33-second-long-fart-with-us-/660474015865362/

DinosaurusFemina · 09/07/2025 20:18

He’d have got a round of applause from me!

GallifreyGirl · 09/07/2025 20:18

I laughed so much at a fart being an attack on women I nearly let out a loud long fart myself 😂

TequilaNights · 09/07/2025 20:18

I would have laughed!

Sometimes when the wind blows its going to blow the barn doors open 😂😂

luckylavender · 09/07/2025 20:17

wendywoopywoo222 · 09/07/2025 17:37

Hopefully you will never develop Chron’s disease or similar and find out what it’s like to not be able to help it.

This

Fartly · 09/07/2025 20:13

Toetouchingtitties · 09/07/2025 17:44

Did he look like he snapped then farted?

Dying laughing

ZamaZama · 09/07/2025 20:13

I’ve had men belch in my face before as they walk past, smirks and body language confirming that it was very much deliberate. So, while it’s impossible to say in this case, I can well believe it happens.

CallingDistance · 09/07/2025 20:12

SharpLily · 09/07/2025 20:09

Apparently not, according to far too many posters on Mumsnet. The land of the miracuously non-farting women.

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I dont fart nor does my crush

midlifeattheoasis · 09/07/2025 20:12

You sound quite mad OP. Do you really think men go about their day either holding in farts or farting to order as soon as they see a woman?

MolkosTeenageAngst · 09/07/2025 20:10

I was once sat on a train and a man stood up in the aisle and farted right when his bottom was in line with my face. I can’t believe he didn’t do it on purpose.

SnailPatronus · 09/07/2025 20:10

wendywoopywoo222 · 09/07/2025 17:37

Hopefully you will never develop Chron’s disease or similar and find out what it’s like to not be able to help it.

I was going to say this. I have Crohn’s and literally cannot stop a fart coming out. Sometimes I fight to hold it in but it’s so painful!

SharpLily · 09/07/2025 20:09

LBFseBrom · 09/07/2025 19:37

I fail to see what it has to do with disliking women. Women fart too you know.

Apparently not, according to far too many posters on Mumsnet. The land of the miracuously non-farting women.

tommyhoundmum · 09/07/2025 20:09

rwalker · 09/07/2025 17:40

Having worked in retail years ago I can confirm some men and brace yourself OP women just openly fart and don’t give a fuck

Where'ere ye be, let your wind go free.

ForestFox44 · 09/07/2025 20:08

It would have cracked me up tbh

Mintyt · 09/07/2025 20:05

Now I have not read the thread, but as a very un windy person I was very shocked to squat down in Dunlem and passed wind. I came up slowly and carried on. I was mortifies but just apologised and laughed

Pinepeak2434 · 09/07/2025 20:00

I once witnessed a man in Sainsbury’s plonk himself down on a crate of Heinz baked beans and proceed to vigorously scrub his backside across the tins like a desperate dog on carpet. To make matters worse he absolutely reeked, so I’m sure he’d shat himself too. I just walked past him and told him he was disgusting.

cocoonscriticupgrading · 09/07/2025 19:57

CalliopeAthena · 09/07/2025 19:22

Really - i'm not pearl clutching, but how is farting funny? Its expelling shit particles. Thats really not funny in any situation?

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I don't know how and where you fart and blimey how strong your farts are to make your shit particles penetrate through your knickers and outer clothing and escape! 😂

katseyes7 · 09/07/2025 19:56

At least he didn't try to light it....

katseyes7 · 09/07/2025 19:55

Years ago l worked with a lass who, at work (office) would fart with no embarrassment or concern whatsoever for her surroundings or anyone within earshot. They were rarely smelly, but usually fairly noisy.
Until she came back from holiday with her boyfriend.
They'd been looking in a shop window, and he remarked casually "It's a good thing you fart in your sleep, or l reckon you'd explode."
Apparently she restrained herself when she was with him, and held it in.
Until bedtime.
He still married her, though....

Sunshineismyfavourite · 09/07/2025 19:54

Would you have been so outraged if it had been a woman? How do you really know it was forced? The man could have a medical condition - poor guy!

My rather lovely late MIL who lived to be well into her 90s suffered with bad wind in her later years and would often fart with every step she took. Possibly could have lasted around 20 seconds. I can assure you, she didn't do it to make anyone feel uncomfortable - we were just glad she was deaf and never knew how audible it was! Bloody loved her 😍