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AIBU?

To ask my husband to stop farting?

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WhatWouldCaitlinDo · 21/01/2014 11:38

Seriously, it's toxic. Yesterday, he was dressing DC, aged 18 months. He let a ripper go - the strong, silent type. The poor child burst into tears, pointed at her nose and flapped her arms around in total distress.

Can anyone recommend any remedies? A cork up his bottom? Nose pegs for all the famiyl? Cutting out meat, beans, dairy, alcohol, gluten and sugar, so he survives purely on fruit, vegetables and oxygen?!

Help help help.

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Mim78 · 21/01/2014 12:14

I agree - why can't they leave the room?

Some people seem to almost come into a room where family members are and fart - then leave!

My DH is terrible farter - I will tell him about the fast eating because he eats very fast.

And I agree with eurochick that these people seem to be able to hold it in other places such as work.

MarjorieChardem · 21/01/2014 12:16

LTB!! I have threatened my DH with sleeping in the shed due to toxic farts before now.

babacoon · 21/01/2014 12:18

why am I reading this during lunch??? [hmmm]

TimeToPassGo · 21/01/2014 12:20

I am sure someone on here once posted a link to charcoal pants. They were a real thing. Pants with a filter layer of charcoal in them to absorb the smell.

squoosh · 21/01/2014 12:23

Everyone has the odd the fart that slips out, no biggie, but if they really stink or if they're really frequent well then leave the bloody room.

I would not want to have sex with someone who was constantly farting in front of me.

QueenStromba · 21/01/2014 12:25

Try him gluten and dairy free for a couple of weeks to see if that helps. I used to fart like a trooper but rarely fart at all now that I've cut gluten out.

curlew · 21/01/2014 12:29

"Try him gluten and dairy free for a couple of weeks to see if that helps. I used to fart like a trooper but rarely fart at all now that I've cut gluten out."

You do realize that we're talking about an adult, not a child, don't you?

TheNumberfaker · 21/01/2014 12:44

I love my husband farts and all...

princessalbert · 21/01/2014 12:48

YANBU OP.

Farting in general is rank. It is polite to nip out of the room, if a person feels one brewing.

Ugh.

I hate it. Don't find it funny. Unfortunately we have three teenage DSs - they get short shrift if they do it in my presence though.

CrohnicallySick · 21/01/2014 13:03

I leave the room if they're really bad... but they follow me back in!

MrsOakenshield · 21/01/2014 13:12

how do you know if they're going to be stinkers in advance? genuinely interested as mine can vary. Also, our DD, who is 4, farts as much as theh rest of us and I don't make her leave the room! We all laugh at our stinky parps. (Obviously, if others are present we don't let rip.)

Katnisscupcake · 21/01/2014 13:13

Those who are saying that you can't hold it in, did your current DP/DH do it during your very early dates? I can't imagine they did so I assume they were holding it in then? Because I certainly wouldn't have had anymore dates with someone who did that on a regular basis!! Luckily DH's don't smell, but I still hate that he does it!!! For some reason it makes me really really cross!!

curlew · 21/01/2014 13:32

" Also, our DD, who is 4, farts as much as theh rest of us and I don't make her leave the room! "

Well, frankly, you should. She is heading for some very embarrassing experiences as she discovers that normal civilized behaviour is not to inflict your farts on others.

SlimJiminy · 21/01/2014 13:42

I fart in front of my closest friends and family and they do the same. No big deal really.

Feminine · 21/01/2014 13:43

No curlew you don't honestly think a 4 year old should leave the room?

WhatWouldCaitlinDo · 21/01/2014 13:56

I have asked him before to leave the room, but he never does. Well, he did once, then sulked, and did a really bad one when he came back in.

braces for chorus of "LTB"

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smashedhen · 21/01/2014 14:03

if we had to leave the room everytime one of us farted we'd have no family time together! I'm crying laughing at all the people who wouldn't go on a second date with someone who farts, or would send their toddlers out of the room for letting one go!

ISeeYouShiverWithAntici · 21/01/2014 14:05

What are you people eating who go round farting all day? I can go days without breaking wind.

(I know people do a silent small escape many times a day without even knowing it but I am talking rasping, wet, smelly things)

squoosh · 21/01/2014 14:07

'I'm crying laughing at all the people who wouldn't go on a second date with someone who farts'

If a guy farted on a first date I can assure you it would be the last date. Who the hell farts on a first date, when you're presumably trying to get into someone's pants???

ISeeYouShiverWithAntici · 21/01/2014 14:08

Yup.

You don't get into someone's pant by blowing a hole clean through yours.

FurryDogMother · 21/01/2014 14:16

I can't help it, if I smell someone else's really bad fart I heave until I throw up. That's what cured my DH of farting in front of me, and also a friend when I was sick on his shoes. I think it's incredibly inconsiderate - OK, there might be the occasional time when one just pops out unexpectedly, but most times you get some warning. When I was a kid my parents taught me to leave the room to fart (which could account for my total revulsion about farting now, of course), and I always have done. It's just good manners.

Bettercallsaul1 · 21/01/2014 14:18

I think your tolerance of this depends on how you were brought up - if it was acceptable when you were growing up, you tend to just continue.

I see the infliction of bad smells on others as totally inconsiderate, and the height of bad manners.

But more and more people seem to think it's acceptable - the wind of change, perhaps?

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neiljames77 · 21/01/2014 14:21

The only one I feel really guilty about was years ago in our local shopping centre. I'd had a large kebab with shish and loads of Strongbow the night previous. I was halfway up the escalator and I had stomach pains trying to hold it in. There was 3 lads behind me about 10 years old. There faces were arse height and about 2 foot away from me.
I had to let it go and because those poor kids will have got it totally undiluted, it would have hit them while it was still hot. One of them was retching uncontrollably while his mates launched into the most foul-mouthed verbal abuse I've ever heard. I wouldn't dream of speaking to an adult like that when I was that age. It's true you know. Kids really don't have any respect these days.

WhatWouldCaitlinDo · 21/01/2014 14:22

When DC is grown up and she discusses this topic with her friends

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/_chat/1973076-Smells-that-remind-you-of-childhood

she will say "the gag-inducing stench of the dead weasel festering in my father's lower intenstines".

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WhatWouldCaitlinDo · 21/01/2014 14:23

tries again

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/_chat/1973076-Smells-that-remind-you-of-childhood

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