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Share your dilemmas and get honest opinions from other Mumsnetters.

To ask my husband to stop farting?

187 replies

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. Shock

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.

OP posts:
AndyWarholsBanana · 21/01/2014 14:23

I slept with a bloke once who I'd been seeing for a few weeks and really liked. On every thrust, he did a massive loud noxious fart. In those days I used to enjoy a post-coital ciggie buy was genuinely worried that the room would go up. I didn't repeat the experience.

ISeeYouShiverWithAntici · 21/01/2014 14:26

"the gag-inducing stench of the dead weasel festering in my father's lower intenstines" ?

My sister is a mumsnetter. Got to be. Grin

ISeeYouShiverWithAntici · 21/01/2014 14:26

andy Grin now that really DID make me laugh. You poor sod.

Bettercallsaul1 · 21/01/2014 14:27

This thread is hilarious but obnoxious!

ISeeYouShiverWithAntici · 21/01/2014 14:28

And neil too. Grin those poor kids.

Did you happen to notice if they still had their eyebrows?

Freyathecatt · 21/01/2014 14:28

Recently instituted a fart jar in our house. If he lets off a ripper in my presence he has to pay the fart jar a shiny £1 (as do i if i reciprocate). I reckon we'll be able to go on a stonking holiday come year end.

ISeeYouShiverWithAntici · 21/01/2014 14:32

oh. Blush I thought the weasel thing was actually on that other thread.

Janorisa · 21/01/2014 14:35

I'm with you OP. DP doesn't chew his food and loves fruit and beer. His farts are horrendous and the smell hovers for ages. When we had a spare room I sometimes had to sleep in it.

RockPaperScissorsLizardSpock · 21/01/2014 14:38

Another sufferer here with a DP that has Satan's Arsehole Hmm

He's are not normal. The stench clings to material and strips wallpaper. ALL foods gives him gas.

It's normally a 20 second rule for everyone else but for him it's 20 minutes, crack a window and light a match.

I must admit, when he is as far away from me as possible in the house and they are very loud and long, I do giggle

Mishmashfamily · 21/01/2014 14:48

rock Grin

SecretNutellaFix · 21/01/2014 14:49

It's unacceptable if it's done on purpose to cause a reaction.

Genuine farts I have no problem with- normal bodily function.

neiljames77 · 21/01/2014 14:55

My kids used to use it as an excuse not to finish their dinner. I'd reassure them that the smell had gone away but they said, "we're not eating it now because it'll have fart-skin on it". Maybe I'm just a bad cook.

DoctorTwo · 21/01/2014 16:21

I used to know a bloke whose farts were so noisome you could taste them. He used to use it as a tactic to get to the bar on a busy Friday night. There was absolutely no way you could stay in the same room as one of his farts without retching.

ElenorRigby · 21/01/2014 16:36

DP's fart wreak and he actually farts on the kids. Sad

DD 6 got him back this morning though, she was snuggling with him, nonchalantly turned on her side and let rip. Grin

EirikurNoromaour · 21/01/2014 16:47

I hate disrespectful farters. Most of mine are in offensive so I let them out if I'm at home but over Xmas I had a dodgy tummy so I went to the loo every time I needed to fart. It's basic manners. Stink from someone's bowels is not something we should tolerate or get used to.
And a man who farted on a date with me or I'm bed (unless he was mortified and apologetic, thus indicating he knows it's unacceptable) would get nowhere with me.

Coumarin · 21/01/2014 16:51

The worst ones are from people who deliberately do it when they know they stink and then seem proud of it. I know someone who will waft it in your direction Confused whilst grinning and exclaiming loudly about how much it smells. This is a grown adult.
Just weird imo.

Re the OP, he needs to look at his diet.

Binkyridesagain · 21/01/2014 16:54

I have 2 puppies on my lap, sleeping, both of them are taking it in turns to fart, it stinks, I daren't move as this is the quietest they've been all day and I don't want to wake them. I think I'm going to pass out shortly due to lack of oxygen.

MarysDressSways · 21/01/2014 16:56

My husband NEVER farts.. imagine that. Not even when he's alone. I have never ever heard him fart in 15 years. I asked him about it a couple of years ago (took me that long to realise, thinking he'd been polite all that time), and he said, no I never fart! WHY?

I was amazed.. I only fart in private (or by accident!) but sometimes you neeeed to release! I'm surprised it's not uncomfortable for him, but apparently not.

Saying that, I'm glad he doesn't, because I my sense of smell is fairly sensitive and I'd HATE noxious fumes about the place, I'd be furious in your place OP. A colleague once let a particularly nasty one slip at work and I literally gagged at my desk, it was vile. So YANBU!

Oblomov · 21/01/2014 16:58

I see farting as normal. Natural.
Dh had diverticulitus, so his bowel is scuppered. I would never dream of making any comment about how often he farted.
I fart too. So do both boys.

Wandawingsthe2nd · 21/01/2014 17:01

^ oh god are you talking about me?

Wandawingsthe2nd · 21/01/2014 17:02

Sorry that was to Coumarin.

Coumarin · 21/01/2014 17:06

Binky Puppy farts are acceptable. Very Envy . Two puppies!

LilyTheSavage · 21/01/2014 17:07

A child in my class kept farting today. It was like walking into a cloud of green gas. When I hit the cloud I had to back-track. Revolting smell. Shock

Coumarin · 21/01/2014 17:07

Wanda Do yours also rattle the windows? And do you announce you're about to do it? If so then yes, maybe.

Coumarin · 21/01/2014 17:08