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?

I was not allowed to say fart growing up. My mam said fart was a swear word and I never heard any other kids using it where I was (north east, poor working class area). It was always pump, so it really surprises me that people think pump is so awful! I don't mind trump or parp as they make me think of brass bands and trombones

I say fart these days but it does take me by surprise when I hear kids say it, as I'm not used to it. I also ask DH if he's dropped one/ let one go sometimes, but it's usually 'for fucks sake, you dirty filthy stinking bastard, get a spray now'. But he really stinks and I do like to overreact.

It's 'stinky trumpet' here for 3yo DC. I have no problem with fart but saying stinky trumpet makes them laugh!
I'm afraid I am giving to have to steal "jobbie sneeze" though.

It used to be 'rumble' when I was growing up.

Which was fine, until Ant 'n' Dec brought out 'Let's get ready to rumble'. Given that our mother was the main culprit behind the noxious smells in our house, and that she always made a pre-fart grimace, she quickly tired of her children bellowing the lines at her...

As for the question of why the topic of farts ever comes up- well, you should try living with the males in my household. Especially on nights when broccoli has been served at dinner...

YABU.

I would like my children to enjoy the English language in all its corporeal, vulgar glory.

So fine with fart . Less enamoured with the prissy alternatives.

'windy pops/pump/trump' - do you people have any idea how awful these words sound esp. 'pump'. I bet those people also tell their girls that they have a 'front bottom'. Ridiculous.

Fart is fart fgs and is in no way a 'rude word'.

I don't think it's the worst word in the world but I hate hearing my DDs use it. I make them say 'pump' too

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

We're the neo Victorians. All those streets in English towns called Grape Lane, originally and for centuries they were known as Gropecunt Lane and were the centre of a town's red light district.

I would have fitted in nicely in such earthy days.

We spend a reasonable amount of time laughing, choking and running screaming from the room in our household because of farts.

My parents insited we called it a 'Blow off' which I hated. So now I'm a grown up I fart not blow off and so do my kids.

One of my elderly clients farts when she stands up. "Ada Birkenshaw is in the room again!" she says. Poor Ada, whoever she is.

My uncle says "come in dungannon, i know your knock"

Surprised no one has yet suggested 'guff' as a reasonable alternative.

This may be the greatest collection of fart euphemisms/stories I have ever read: storify.com/mooseallain/wind-words

We call a spade a spade here. And a fart a fart.

We have to say fart because food is categorised as "fart fodder" or "non fart fodder". If Ds is seeing the gf, fart fodder is out. As in no beans.

I quite like "guff" but I don't think it's notably politer or less polite than "fart".

I just died laughing at work at this thread.

I held it together until the eye-burner comment and then broke down in giggles. Crikey.

'Guff' isn't bad. It's nicely onomatopoeic.

My bum has never made a 'fluff' sound.

I duly edumacated my chillibains with the greatest fartist of them all le Petomane

He was the most sensational flatulist, really put the trumpet into trump, his buttocks worked like hairy bagpipes under the arm of a battle frenzied Scottish pipper.

One does find those that demand the use of silly prissy words tend to be a little anally retentive?

Yeah, "fluff" is waaaaay too "Tee hee, I don't fart, I emit little clouds of lilac perfume and poo unicorns with lickle pink bows on them!".

"come in dungannon, i know your knock"

I am now crying with laughter at my desk when I'm supposed to be writing C++.

"Ada Birkenshaw is in the room again!"

Genius

The Dungannon one is hilarious!

Sounds like a line from Macbeth.

My favourite one from that link I posted upthread: "My dad makes the sound of an arrow being shot, a twanging noise, then farts, then hums the opening fanfare to Robin Hood."

farting is vulgar so why not have a vulgur word to describe it. Why shouldn't language be vulgar sometimes?