DH kicking off as I want to uninvite DMIL/DSIL from Christmas Day

I can’t stop thinking about the comparison of Christmas and a funeral 😂😂😂😂

I’ve never know anyone be able to conjure up farts on demand. They’ve always been completely involuntary for me. How clever you are. What a talent 👏🏼

There has been no mention by op of them competing that I can see. You've let your imagination run away with you.

Op did you actually just say to them directly you don't appreciate it because the dc will follow the example?

But truthfully, if I look at your posts in quick succession I think this thread is really about DH.

That's involuntary. OP's in-laws were deliberately competing to see how disgusting one another could be.

The fact is that even if they manage to control their sphincters at Christmas and behave like civilized adults, deep down they are nasty people. I wouldn't want to be around them.

That's involuntary. OP's in-laws were deliberately competing to see how disgusting one another could be.

The fact is that even if they manage to control their sphincters at Christmas and behave like civilized adults, deep down they are nasty people. I wouldn't want to be around them.

One of my relatives has Trimethylaminuria.

What do you suggest we do with him? Exclude him from Christmas?

Did you feed them stuff they are intolerant to?

I’m like that if I eat any dairy products. Easy solution is that people don’t feed me dairy.

I don't actually think it happened at Christmas though did it?

I thought op was wanting not to invite them for Christmas, which was why that was mentioned.

They may yet employ their formal event level of sphincter control for Christmas, we don't know.

I wasn’t saying they were the same - I was offering scenarios where you’d more than likely not openly break wind as you’re aware it’s not a particularly pleasant thing to do. Here’s another way of explaining it. Breathing is a normal bodily function which you wouldn’t restrict (obviously) in ANY situation. Farting is also a bodily function but many people DO restrict this in some situations as they would feel
it impolite to openly fart in such a situation, So I’m suggesting people ARE aware of this norm and can hold it in in situations such as funerals as it would be disrespectful. So why not hold it in at someone else’s home at Christmas. Because of lack of either care (doesn’t bother anyone) or lack of respect (I know it’s impolite but I’m doing it anyway). Or the third less common scenario you have literally zero control over your sphincter. muscles. My lovely great grandma would fart every time she walked which she couldn’t help by 90 but she was also exceptionally well mannered so would actually be saying excuse me afterwards. Even in her own home. AND she was Northern 😱😱

I wasn’t saying they were the same - I was offering scenarios where you’d more than likely not openly break wind as you’re aware it’s not a particularly pleasant thing to do. Here’s another way of explaining it. Breathing is a normal bodily function which you wouldn’t restrict (obviously) in ANY situation. Farting is also a bodily function but many people DO restrict this in some situations as they would feel
it impolite to openly fart in such a situation, So I’m suggesting people ARE aware of this norm and can hold it in in situations such as funerals as it would be disrespectful. So why not hold it in at someone else’s home at Christmas. Because of lack of either care (doesn’t bother anyone) or lack of respect (I know it’s impolite but I’m doing it anyway). Or the third less common scenario you have literally zero control over your sphincter. muscles. My lovely great grandma would fart every time she walked which she couldn’t help by 90 but she was also exceptionally well mannered so would actually be saying excuse me afterwards. Even in her own home. AND she was Northern 😱😱

I can’t stop thinking about the comparison of Christmas and a funeral 😂😂😂😂

None of the activities you mention involve forcing the putrid emanations of one’s bowels onto others. There is no comparison to laughing or eat crisps.

I’ve tried re. him cooking believe me, he just laughs it off as some absurd suggestion. He grew up with a father who wouldn’t lift a finger in the kitchen either so that’s who I blame.

To answer your question politely:

It’d be socially unacceptable to do lots of things in those situations. Laugh out loud. Start talking loudly. Answer your phone. Eat crisps.

It doesn’t mean those things can’t be done in front of your own family at home.

I’d hate for Christmas at my house to be likened to a job interview or a funeral.

If I had to, of course. As I said, I would try to let it out as quietly as possible. If I was interviewing someone for a job and they got up, left the room, stood outside for a matter of seconds to fart, and then came back in, I would find it very strange indeed. Far more do than if they let out a little parp during the discussions. If most people had the luxury of being able to hold their wind in indefinitely while they finish what could be a lengthy interview, for a funeral service, or even long enough to leave a room at home and go to the lavatory, ridiculous threads like this wouldn’t exist.

She'd let it out silently - lest it forced its way at volume.

So you’d fart in a job interview?

So you’d fart in a job interview?

I would fart in all of those situations if I had to, but would try to let it out quietly particularly during the Remembrance Day silence. In all of those instances, there is an expectation that people will be quiet if they are not actively participating at the time. Like just about everyone I know, I would not be able to hold a fart is and I think it would look extremely strange if I got up mid interview, left the room, farted, and csme back in. None of the situations you’ve given are remotely similar to a close relative farting after a big meal at their child’s home.

I was thinking about the people who are saying it’s not impolite to openly break wind (and laugh at it).

Would you do it in the following situations?

At a job interview
A funeral
During the two minute silence on Remembrance Day.
At your child’s school nativity.

If you think (for example) noooo farting during a job interview wouldt be good…then you must know it’s not okay or socially acceptable you’re just pretending you don’t.

I was thinking about the people who are saying it’s not impolite to openly break wind (and laugh at it).

Would you do it in the following situations?

At a job interview
A funeral
During the two minute silence on Remembrance Day.
At your child’s school nativity.

If you think (for example) noooo farting during a job interview wouldt be good…then you must know it’s not okay or socially acceptable you’re just pretending you don’t.