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To take pride in my stinky farts?

252 replies

kellwells · 14/05/2015 16:11

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??

OP posts:
Orangeanddemons · 14/05/2015 16:43

I hate smelly farts. They drive me mad. Go in the loo and fart if they are going to smell that much. I think it's bloody antisocial to make othereople smell them

Tuesdaysgone · 14/05/2015 16:43

Thanks for sharing. Now go get a life.

TaliZorahVasNormandy · 14/05/2015 16:43

I have IBS too so its perfect for rancid stinks. I normally have horrific gut pain with the smelly ones, so I'd rather not have them.

SevTSnape · 14/05/2015 16:43

OP - DP & I are in our late mid 20's and still find farts hilarious. We will apologise to each other if we realise we've made a particularly smelly one, but we still giggle over them. Farts are funny, they just are. And I think what's so funny about them is how "taboo" they are. Just like we find sex jokes and "that's what she said" jokes funny - they're quite taboo around "adults", but they're perfectly natural functions.

fourchetteoff · 14/05/2015 16:43

I find my DCs farts hilarious. And strangely, my Dsis and I find each others farty bums very funny.

But I go really po-faced at DH farting. I really would be pissed off if he found this funny.

ouryve · 14/05/2015 16:44

I tend to prize volume more than stink. Wooden seats are the best.

kewtogetin · 14/05/2015 16:45

So you think it's funny to make other people smell your shot vapour? Wow, what a catch.
Farts are farts, no problem with that but the fact you revel in it and are positively gleeful is just plain nasty.....

Feminine · 14/05/2015 16:45

really stinky ones, indicate something isn't quite right though.
So, op l'd change my diet If l were you ;)

NKfell · 14/05/2015 16:47

Happygirl I have visions of your husband panicking going "it was the chair, it was the chair!"

farewellfigure · 14/05/2015 16:50

'get a life'
'plain nasty'
'antisocial'

Really? Oh dear I think I have the sense of humour of a child. Mind you I can go the other way when DH does a particularly repulsive one. His smell like toxic waste. It can't be normal. Mine smell of, well, nothing really.

bensam · 14/05/2015 16:51

I'm in the minority here that thinks it's funny Grin Blush

niceandwarm · 14/05/2015 16:52

This is a horrible thread

WhiffleSqueak · 14/05/2015 16:52

when my nana and great aunt fart, they always blame their mother. it's just a cute little joke they share.

of course their dear ma is long dead, but every now and then one or other of them will hiss mother! in cinema queues, supermarkets, bus stops...

FoulsomeAndMaggotwise · 14/05/2015 16:54

Ugh, YABU!

DH and I go to the toilet if we need to fart. It's shit in air form.

OfaFrenchMind · 14/05/2015 16:54

Farts are funny :)
I still laugh like a 4yo when my BIL lets one rip. Only rule is not at the diner table.

Fairylea · 14/05/2015 16:57

I absolutely hate partners farting in front of me and I make every effort not to do it in front of them. Most of the time it's possible to leave the room isn't it? Unless you have bowel problems of course. I just think it's utterly grim.

Feminine · 14/05/2015 16:58

I'm wondering what reaction op was hoping for?

Grin
Weebirdie · 14/05/2015 16:58

It's shit in air form.

Grin Grin

noddyholder · 14/05/2015 17:01

I can't believe people go to the loo to fart!

Ozne · 14/05/2015 17:03

Mucho lol at whiffle' great aunt and nan. Hilarious. I may steal that one.

iklboo · 14/05/2015 17:06

DS did one in our bed this morning that made the springs go boiiiiiiiong.

farewellfigure · 14/05/2015 17:13

The thread that divided MN Grin

leedy · 14/05/2015 17:16

Who goes to the toilet to fart?

I'm not entirely sure about the hilarity of really stinky ones, but I think pretending that you don't fart at all is bizarre.

Though clearly I actually don't fart. Like the queen.

Weebirdie · 14/05/2015 17:18

I once did one that was so loud and long it woke my husband up and being the military man he was he sat up in bed an shot at it with his outstretched thumbs and forefingers.

He obviously thought we were under attack.

ScrambedEggAndToast · 14/05/2015 17:24

I can never decide what I like better, a loud n proud or a silent but violent deadly I can do some real stinkers Grin

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