in thinking farting is actually not that funny?

[SlightlyJaded]

DH and I both in mid-late 30s and have been together over 15 years.

And yet DH still cracks up each and every time he passes wind - the stinkier the fart, the more hilarious it (apparently) is, and honestly appears to expect me to find it equally amusing.

Most of the time, I just accept that men have a genetic defect that makes them believe farting is funny, but just lately - perhaps because DC's are at an age where I feel establishing good manners is really important (3 & 5), it has been really annoying me. I have asked DH to grow up and stop making such a 'meal' of breaking wind, but my obvious irritation seems to make it even 'funnier'. I know it doesn't matter in the grand scheme of things, and in most respects DH is polite and demonstrating reasonable manner but fucking hell, is passing wind really funny to anyone over the age of 10???

YANBU. my DH in our early days together actually said he thinks they are "endearing" and show intimacy between people. I have yet to come around to his way of thinking and continue to be (continually) disgusted.

Any smell is caused by minute particles attaching to receptors in your nose.

YABU.

It is funny.

SlightlyJaded - poo is made of lots of different things. Mainly water.

What you are smelling is gas generated by the bacteria in it. The bacteria are nowhere near your nose.

I think this is usually a power thing. it's like the way foxes and cats pee to mark their territory.

I bet he doesn't fart and laugh in front of his boss.

I had never farted in front of my DH before i got pregnant which was around 3 1/2 years into the relationship. Once DD was conceived my insides took on a life of their own and i couldn't help it. DH thought it cute as i would always say "oh Pardon me" and that made it ok. He is very middleclass and doesn't find farting particulary funny. None of our friends do either I just thought. When i was growing up the word fart was a rude word so we had a childish completely different word we used (can't possible tell you as so embarrassing) and our DD has a cute word that she came up with and that is what we use.
I don't mind them if done by accident its the OTT displays of forcing them out that i am repelled by. It's a natural thing but then so is sneezing or hiccupping and we don't roll around laughing at that.
OP - i'm afraid your DH is just in the habit now but your DC's are not so train them and hopefully with all 3 of you disgusted at Daddy may make him realise it's just him who is weird! You could buy a truely disgusting can of air freshener to spray over him when he does - that should cure him!

Yes agree with Serendippy, age decides.

I think it´s pathetic & a bit sad that an adult would laugh every time they fart.

YABU Farts are hilarious.

DH also find his farts hilarious. I dont mind them if it's just because they sound funny but when he intentionally does it to wind me up then I get annoyed.

He actually got up off the sofa yesterday (I was still sitting) dropped his shorts and boxers, pulled his cheeks apart and farted next to my face. I was on the phone ignoring him so was a bit shocked to say the least... he got a dead arm and slept on the sofe for that one...

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"but when he intentionally does it to wind me up then I get annoyed.

He actually got up off the sofa yesterday (I was still sitting) dropped his shorts and boxers, pulled his cheeks apart and farted next to my face."

I can´t believe grown men do this.

Farting near someone´s face-yuk.

I find that gross & tbh really disrespectful.

I couldn´t be with a man who thought so little of me.

we're newly married, so it's okay for DH to think farts are funny.
(he especially congratulates me on a good one)

and his dad died 2 years ago, and he had a huge thing about farts beign funny, so DH thinks of his dad every time someone farts.

"we're newly married, so it's okay for DH to think farts are funny"

"He actually got up off the sofa yesterday (I was still sitting) dropped his shorts and boxers, pulled his cheeks apart and farted next to my face"

like I said - this is not a humour thing. it's a power thing.

to the extent that humour is involved it's Krokodil humour: the laughter of the strong mocking the weak.

I am obviously very immature then as I can't help but giggle at farts

I thought only children routine found farts funny, & that adults either don´t find them funny at all or are selective.

Aged about 8, I gained possession of my first shorter OED and found the most hilarious thing ever being the definition of FART as a small explosion between the legs.

I have not particularly found farts funny since that age.

My father used to routinely walk into the centre of the drawing room, fart loudly and walk off without acknowledging anything odd at all. I never found that funny at all. SH, you are right - he never did it in front of important visitors so I am guessing it was not a biological necessity. He still does it when he remembers.

YABU.

HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!

Just not funny.

diddl - meant it hasn't annoyed me yet!

"a small explosion between the legs."

Now that´s funny

YANBU

But personally speaking I laugh helplessly every time DH farts (which is often). Perhaps that's why he married me.

I bought a fart machine for ds last Christmas as a stocking filler. Cost £4, which I thought was a waste of money really at the time. For the last month or so it's been at the bottom of my handbag (god knows how it got there) and keeps going off at random moments. I laugh each and every time I hear it - it's a sort of conditioned reflex for me. I just can't help it. In that sense it's actually earned its keep I suppose.

Some farts are well odd....like the ones you do that have a delayed sound? You'll fart, there's not much noise then you feel the air travel up the back of your crack and release with a little fart noise. Sometimes it does this out the front too! So weird.