To take pride in my stinky farts?

[kellwells]

Ok, so I apologize for the TMI, but I have ALWAYS been a super smelly farter. It runs in my family. My mum has the stinkiest farts ever and so do me and my sister. I know it isn't an intolerance, and I do all the things that have been suggested to minimize it, but it's just the way I'm made.

When I was younger I was embarrassed by it, but then I decided that if I can't help it then I shouldn't be ashamed. So now I take pride in the fact that I can stink DH out of a room even though he's a big burly bloke and I'm little petite me. Even when he loads up on Guinness and pub food he can't compete with my stink. The best part is that mine are almost always silent so I will slip them out without him noticing and then laugh like crazy when it hits him.

So, I have to ask, is anyone else like this??

I work with men almost exclusively. I thought their childish attitude to flatulence was confined to our company. This thread tells a different story. I wish they'd grow up. Peasants .

See. There we go again, "family that get on and isn't delightfully po-faced..." - what's the implication? That because we don't love farting and sniggering at our clever, quirky bums we are somehow dysfunctional? We all get along brilliantly thanks and aren't remotely po-faced.

What a weirdly divisive subject. Funny.

Happygirlnow - honestly, don't you enjoy farting? I don't fart loudly in front of folk that aren't my close family though will silently. You can't just keep it all in.

Bambambini - I do quite enjoy it when I'm alone and not inflicting it on anyone else. Something quite satisfying about them...

But I will NEVER find it funny to make other people suffer them and woe betide anyone who expects me to breathe their stink in!

As an aside, how often do some of you fart anyway?? Maybe you need to rethink your diets?

Farts can definitely be funny. Especially accidental farts such as when my very buttoned up boss bent over to pick something up in a meeting.

But competitive farting between couples really isn't my thing, having said that neither is mortification over accidentally letting one rip. Sometimes they slip out, no biggie.

You've ruined my eye make-up. I'm literally crying with laughter at this thread!!

Not at all po faced here, we have plenty of fun and get on brilliantly. Just manage to do so without rolling around in mirth at farts.

Every time we have ever flown, dp has told me that farts do not smell in the air and given me some suitably scientific sounding explanation as to why.

Then we went on a city break with a gorgeous, feminine, delicate but as it transpired, windy friend of mine. He had to concede he was wrong.
We all still shudder at the memory of the fart on the plane. It was utterly horrific.

Ground staff brace themselves for when the plane door opens. The aircraft stinks.

@Coincidence -
Apparently when flight staff walk down the aisle whilst farting, they call it "crop-dusting"

Yes, apparently you fart more whilst flying.

I am airport ground staff and I am frequently at the top of the steps when the aircraft doors are opened. Not once have I detected any bad smells. So there.

Farts are natural. Farts are fine. Farts can on occasion be funny. Special occasion. They're nothing to 've proud of and they're unfortunate side effects of natural in the same way that sometimes you have a dodgy stomach and it's ok but you still don't boast about it.

People are still normal aren't they?

I hate the concept of farting in front of a partner being an indicator of how you are comfortable with them. I was comfortable enough with my DH to give birth twice with him there, to tell him about my mental health and other things I have Never really discussed with anyone, I just don't like farts! Especially stinky ones. I stopped finding them funny at about 8 years old and used to get so annoyed at the boys constantly ponging out the classroom! Unless you have been hacked by a 10 year old boy, YABU

NurseRoscoe, I could not have stated it better! My dh was present for the birth (and conception ) of our daughter. He was with me after I had major surgery. I have changed his bandages when a diabetic sore on his foot became very infected. Sharing flatulance with your partner is not a sign of comfort or closeness with each other, it is simply coarse behaviour.

I am airport ground staff and I am frequently at the top of the steps when the aircraft doors are opened. Not once have I detected any bad smells. So there.

Well you must get very well behaved bottoms coming off your aircraft. My lot are flight deck crew, cabin crew, and ground staff, and they would disagree with you. So there.

I actually find people who think that farts are 'hilarious', as nothing but big bores! Honestly, grow up. It is boring.

I agree. Six year old humour at best.
Yawn.

Weebirdie. Shall we agree to disagree ?

Weebirdie. I have sent you a private message.

Toilet humour is so very

Yes, apparently you fart more whilst flying.

I always get really bloated and uncomfortable on flights - think the air expands inside you!

I am way too mature to find any of this the least bit funny, as are my (thirty something educated) friends.

But . . . te he he.
No way have a group of us been reading and cackling over this thread . . . no way at all

I must admit I never fart unless I'm on the loo. Never, ever. I'm not holding them in, I just don't need to. Dh can confirm this, as can all my friends. It's not like I sneak off to do it or anything, it just doesn't happen.

I'm blessed with a non-farty bottom

Maybe that's why I don't find them hilarious. I think most people only laugh to cover their embarrassment (at least initially) and then they get in the habit. Children, of course, are absolutely thrilled with farting. In school it's the height of amusement. I thought people just grew out of that because none of the adults I mix with find them as entertaining as some of the people on this thread.

Still, as the saying goes, there's nowt so strange as folk.

I would prefer never to do them in public. Sometimes it is unavoidable as you are not in a position to leave, or you have no warning. You hope that the bum clenching will make them at least silent, and that it will be one of the less stinky ones. It is not nice to have to do this.

At least at home, I'm not faced with having to control them. I can relax about it. I don't think it is funny but I would be upset to feel I had a partner who couldn't let me relax at home. It's not a conscious choice to be the frequent farter that I am. As far as I know I don't have any particular issues. It is just something that frequently occurs. Always has.

I really don't think that some people understand, if it's easy for them to control, or if they have a lot of warning, or if it is infrequent. I think you really shoul have more sympathy. Sometimes laughter is a defence mechanism. Perhaps there is some truth in the - if you didn't laugh, you'd cry saying.

I do remember years ago as students, someone getting really enraged about the casualness of everyone about it. She was disgusted.She just didn't understand as she never did them. Until one day. Oh how we laughed when one slipped out without any warning. The look on her face was priceless. I think she was a bit more understanding after that.