AIBU to think children using the word fart is vulgar?

[Fizzielove]

DH and I have had a long standing disagreement regarding the DC using the word fart - I won't allow it and he has pointed out to the DC's that it is not a 'bad word but just one that I don't like them using.

AIBU? or is he?

It

"Quick, open the window! I've farted and it's an eye-burner"

"Ada Birkenshaw is in the room again!"

Laughed so hard at these that I may have let one or two slip!

As an aside - do those who deny the glory of the fart also have those little toilet roll covers atop the cistern? Bet they do!

It also causes a bit of cognitive dissonance if, for example, someone drops a fluff that could melt a fisherman's welly.

So some households insist on navel rather than bellybutton?

I can't believe the pp who thinks "fluffing" is actually less vulgar than farting. LMAO, look up the meaning in the urban dictionary and you'll change your mind pretty sharpish!

This again? We only did this thread about a fortnight ago.

OP, you are unreasonable and somewhat uptight

Likewise 'boff'

"Oh no, Bertie Botts. Call of Duty has a whole new meaning."

It occurs to me that "Bertie Botts" could actually be a whole new wonderful twee euphemism for the trump/pump/bottom/fluff/pardon type people to use.

lol this thread is making laugh so much

wtf calling farts fluff
your making my mind boggle

we say trump and botty here

I actually have a theory that people who don't like the word 'fart' are giving into their Abigail's Party/lower-mc hangups. Posh people's kids say it. I mean, proper posh people. So maybe not the Queen herself, but I bet she never ticked Harry off about it. And so, in my ever-increasing drive towards aspirational social mobility, I do not mind at all if my son says it. I may not always be able to top up the gas card in winter, but fuck it, we talk posh.

YABU. Farts in this house (and the DC find the word hilarious) unless it's the baby then it's trump. Not sure why.

It's not an outrageously rude or offensive word, it's just a vulgar word associated with certain types of people - & IME it's the upper classes ( I can imagine the queen mother used it to annoy the queen ) or the lower classes - that's just my experience.

We use fart but only since having DC, I hate the word but very much the norm it seems. It's even in my DSs book about the body and how it works. Don't think the alternatives are much better, but I tell the DC not to say it in front of their grandparents as they don't like the word at all.

'The word fart is vulgar and banned from my house'.

I genuinely wonder some times if this site has just become a parody of itself.

what other word are they supposed to used instead of 'fart'?!

Yes indeedy giant. I'm still not sure to this day why boff was better than fart.

Mind you even boff was only considered ok in crazy devil may care times. 'Passed wind' or 'have terrible flatulence' were the standard. These words/phrases I now dislike along with belch.

I was mostly likely that child screaming 'rude' words at the top of a mountain!!

It was good enough for Queen Elizabeth I so it's fine for my kids

"John Aubrey, the diarist, tells a story about the Earl of Oxford. When the Earl made a low obeisance to the Queen, he happened to let go a fart, at which he was so ashamed that he left the country for 7 years. At his return the Queen welcomed him and said, "My lord, I had forgot the fart"!"

X posts with Cruikshank - yes I agree.

My Nanna regarded "body" as A rude word apparently
Lord knows what she would have made of my Ada Birkenshaw lady

Here i sit broken hearted,
Paid a penny and only farted!

The Victorians were very prudish, but they still used 'fart'
As for Shakespeare and Chaucer, Well if its good enough for some of our most illustrious play-writes, it's good enough for me

This thread is killing me. I was recently in the unenviable position of having to bring my three year old to a meeting (childminder had medical emergency with one of her children, DH away and there was no one else I could ask at short notice).

He was in fact very good, playing quietly in a corner, but then I had to take him to the loo during a break. As he's highly verbal, and likes nothing more than a big discussion of what he has just 'produced', I warned him before we left the toilets that he was to keep it to himself for once.

He strolled back into the room, beamed around and said 'My mummy says I'm not to tell you about the big poo and wee I just did, because she says that only people's mummies and daddies want to hear about that kind of thing.'

Cruikshank .

My Nanna regarded "body" as A rude word apparently

That's taking it to a whole other level of ladylike delicacy!

Socalled sometimes you just need to share! I'm sure the other meeting attendees were delighted he'd had such a successful visit to the toilet/loo/WC/room that should never be mentioned!