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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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KateShugakIsALegend · 09/07/2025 18:25

Read

Bridget Christie: A book for her

"Bridget Christie is a stand-up comedian, idiot and feminist. On the 30th of April 2012, a man farted in the Women’s Studies Section of a bookshop and it changed her life forever."

AramintaBottersnike · 09/07/2025 18:23

ErlingHaalandsManBun · 09/07/2025 17:58

See this is why we need the react laughing emoji back. 😂

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I could've used that emoji a dozen times in the last hour alone! There are some bonkers threads on here at the moment Grin

TheGigoloAunt · 09/07/2025 18:20

Is it a coincidence that an advert for "Top Trumps" appeared in the midst of all this fart-related reminiscing??? 😀

Loud Long Fart
SaxaSoLo · 09/07/2025 18:20

Not embroidering the OPs tale however I have known men do this. General clues are stopping near you, standing closer than is normal, angling arse or waiting until you are level then making eye contact and/or smirking at you as you pass to get/gauge reaction. So, can be a ‘thing’ not main character syndrome or unfortunate medical circumstances. @WhatTheHelll I get you.

BippidyBoppety · 09/07/2025 18:19

There was a post on here some years ago that I've never forgotten, about a man in a supermarket who walked towards the woman posting the anecdote; she had a toddler in a pushchair, the man angled himself in a way that his arse was inches from the toddlers face and farted. And walked away smirking.

I haven't made this up (maybe the original poster did, I've no idea). But it's stuck in my head ....

NotSayingImBatman · 09/07/2025 18:18

I worked in a supermarket for five years in my younger days. You’d be surprised how many men have the irresistible urge to fart in the face of a supermarket employee crouched stocking lower shelves. They did it to male employees, too. Presumably it was funny to do it to people who couldn’t call them smelly bastards to their faces, rather than specifically doing it to women.

SharpLily · 09/07/2025 18:09

Ah yes, Mumsnet, where farts are the work of the devil and should be the cause of a divorce rather than a perfectly natural bodily function. Where these delicate laydees always but always leave the room to perform their gas expulsion in private rather than inflict it upon anyone else. Apparently they always know it's coming.

I think we've found out why it took so long to say the word 'periods' on TV and why sanpro ads always used to be so twee. Some people are horrified by the fact that some aspects of human life aren't always pretty.

Catladywithoutacat · 09/07/2025 18:08

This happened to me a few months back, two men and one woman. I stared and said I heard that whilst laughing the guy ran off. Might be a thing

MorningLarkEchoes · 09/07/2025 18:07

I think there are far more important things to worry about at the moment than some random person farting next to you in the supermarket. It could have been accidental or yes it could have been deliberate. If it was deliberate all you could have done is to have ignored it and not given him the reaction he was hoping for.

Whatwaswrongwiththatusername · 09/07/2025 18:07

BogRollBOGOF · 09/07/2025 17:47

For a really long, loud fart, it's most likely that it was an unfortunate sphincter fail after trying to supress it.

An unfortunate sphincter fail that could’ve possibly needed your BOGOF bog rolls!!

Vinvertebrate · 09/07/2025 18:06

WhatTheHelll · 09/07/2025 17:33

You can tell it’s forced when it goes on for about 20 seconds at full volume when he’s right beside me in the aisle of a shop.

I would have given him a standing ovation after 20 seconds. My PB is a measly 5.

Moveoverdarlin · 09/07/2025 18:06

20 seconds?? Don’t be ridiculous.

Runmybathforme · 09/07/2025 18:06

Perhaps the chap has a colostomy, in which case he’d have absolutely no control over his farting. Anyway, I ‘d have been in hysterics. Laughing, not clutching my pearls.

Whatwaswrongwiththatusername · 09/07/2025 18:04

PolyVagalNerve · 09/07/2025 17:40

Hang on … 20 seconds you say ??
like 1… elephant .. 2 .. elephant all the way up to 20 ??
that’s gotta a work record !!

Well, tbf, op had to stand there for the entirety so that she could accurately time the fart. She couldn’t possibly have walked away because how else could she accurately complain about.
and as for 1 elephant…2 elephants…etc…”truuuuuuuuuummmmpppp” 😂

Sportsdaywinner · 09/07/2025 18:03

Toetouchingtitties · 09/07/2025 17:44

Did he look like he snapped then farted?

😂😂😂

ThatLemonFox · 09/07/2025 18:03

As the Beautiful South once sang... You know your problem, you keep it all in

Toottooot · 09/07/2025 18:01

Better oot than in.
Also I’d seriously advise you log with 101 - report report report. 🙄

Whatwaswrongwiththatusername · 09/07/2025 18:01

PolyVagalNerve · 09/07/2025 17:38

I vote he had a whoopee cushion
or a very loooong rectum ?

A very long runway…😆😆

allthemiddlechildrenoftheworld · 09/07/2025 18:00

@WhatTheHelll some men are just disgusting!!!

VWT5 · 09/07/2025 18:00

Not always deliberate….
I was shocked (and maybe slightly proud) to do an uncontrolled 20 second one, at Premier Inn Gatwick North, all the way in the lift from lower ground to the 10th floor - completely uncontrolled.

Similarly in the forward WC on a TUI aircraft - only to find the Captain beaming broadly at me as he waited to go in after me…

(heading off to name-change now)

Whatwaswrongwiththatusername · 09/07/2025 18:00

WhatTheHelll · 09/07/2025 17:33

You can tell it’s forced when it goes on for about 20 seconds at full volume when he’s right beside me in the aisle of a shop.

Is this what the yoofs refer to as “main character syndrome” these days? If so I fully get what they mean, just from this comment alone 😂

Blanknotebook · 09/07/2025 18:00

You should have just farted back at him!

ShoeeMcfee · 09/07/2025 17:59

Eeeew my ex used to do this. He was so surprised when I got rid of him. And yes, men do do this as an insult towards women.

ErlingHaalandsManBun · 09/07/2025 17:58

AramintaBottersnike · 09/07/2025 17:43

You've reminded me of the time I was in the checkout queue at Waitrose with DD, who was around 3. There was an older lady in front of us who was about to pay and she let out a short, but noisy, one. DD turned to me and, at the top of her voice said "mummy, that lady just farted!" Blush
Maybe the lady just hated children Grin

See this is why we need the react laughing emoji back. 😂