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AIBU?

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To still find farting hilarious?

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Runny · 25/08/2016 22:04

I've changed my diet recently, and Ive been really windy as a result. Lots of long, loud farts. I did one earlier that sounded a bit like a kazoo...

Anyway is it immature that I'm in my 30's and still find it hysterically funny when someone lets rip? I find even it funnier when people use really twee words like 'trump' and 'pump' instead of fart.

I work at a school and last year a little reception class boy walked in, sat on the carpet and announced in front of everyone 'I just farted'. The teacher, completley straight faced told him off for being rude, but I had to gag myself so I didn't howl with laughter.

There's nothing funnier, is there?

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Haggisfish · 26/08/2016 00:19

Ah the truly divisive topic. Never an in between ground if 'sometimes funny, sometimes not'! Yanbu-farts are hilarious and definitely parp in front of dh and vice versa!

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Runny · 26/08/2016 00:26

41 years without farting in front of someone you share a home and bed with?! Just how? If you can't relax in front of your other half then there's something wrong somehwere.

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BeJayKayven · 26/08/2016 00:28

Yabu - unless you are 13?

EnthusiasmDisturbed · 26/08/2016 00:31

yanbu they are very funny

I also find people tripping up funny not when they hurt themselves though

DianaMitford · 26/08/2016 00:35

YADBU

Finding farts funny should end when you're about three.

I was married for eight years and never in that time did I or my ex DH fart in front of each other. It's revolting.

lordStrange · 26/08/2016 00:36

They really aren't all that funny. I feign amusement for my children but actually I find farts really boring and unfunny.

kiwimumof2boys · 26/08/2016 01:34

My DH who is 40 and has a senior responsible job has 'catagories' for his farts. I am 38 and also hold a senior job cackle a lot over farts.
Does anyone here work with/friends with a 'crop duster?' when someone quietly lets one rip then walks away so they're not associated with the smell. Had a colleague who could not sit still, we were talking one day and the topic of crop dusting came up, I said maybe thats what people think he was doing. He now sits at his desk, and if I see him get up walking about, he's like 'just a bit of crop dusting.'
It is funny when someone thinks they're doing a silent and it comes out loudly. My friend has done that and was mortified!
Do I find the sound and/or smell of your - or anyone elses' - bowel gases escaping from their anus?
Sorry that made me laugh! Yes i am immature.

MissElizaBennettsBookmark · 26/08/2016 10:07

Plastic chair in beer garden

candykane25 · 26/08/2016 10:09

You windypops you. I am 42, have a musical bottom and it is hilarious. DD did a very protracted and noisy one yesterday that I was so shocked by (such a little bottom for such a loud noise!) that I dissolved into giggles.

MrsMook · 26/08/2016 10:20

Crop dusting! Brilliant!
Being a teacher with IBS, there's been many a moment when I've had a 5 second warning so have strategically placed myself near the silly boys who will then blame eachother while I pragmatically open the windows. Sometimes they've rumbled me and I'll confess then. Fortunately I now know what foods are best to avoid.

The silent but deadly phase when I was on laxatives following DC2s destruction of my pelvic floor was less amusing. I didn't know I'd done them until the toxic brew spread.

Flatulence is a fact of life and sometimes it will happen to create comic moments. It's all in the timing.

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Runny · 26/08/2016 10:36

crop dusting hahaha that's brilliant!!

How can people not fart in front of long term partners? What do you do? Go to the loo when you feel one brewing? What happens if your in bed and just dropping off and you need to parp? Get up and leave the room? How odd.

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candykane25 · 26/08/2016 11:12

If you parp under the covers it makes it all warm and cosy.

JudgeLionelNutmeg · 26/08/2016 12:28

YANBU - farts are hilarious.

And you weird fuckers who refuse to pass wind in front of your long term partners; what happens if you're in the car together and one of you needs to fart? Do you stop the car and get out or hold that fart in and give yourself a nasty case of trapped wind? Unclench! (literally)

Ifeelyourpain2 · 26/08/2016 12:46

You would have loved the gym this morning, there was a guy next to me doing ab work and everytime he lifted his legs up to touch his toes, he let one rip!

He continued to do this for a whole 20 repetitions of the exercise . What amazed me is that he didn't bat an eyelid!

I couldn't help but feel he must have felt much more comfortable when he had finished....

Evilstepmum01 · 26/08/2016 12:52

YANBU-I come from a long line of farters. Indeed, my dad used to fart tunes. My mum walks in my house, giggles and farts! She went to doctor to ask if there was a problem with her bowel as she farts constantly-apparently she has a healthy bowel!

'Wherever you be, let your wind blow free'!

We all find them funny, the smell is just normal, as they say shit happens!

As for nae farting in front of DH? How bizarre! We do it in unison in the morning!!

RebeccaWithTheGoodHair · 26/08/2016 12:58

YADNBU - DD and I were making each other laugh with fart impressions yesterday, 'twas brilliant. Even more so b/c of DH's standing there tutting about our immaturity.

CoconutAmericano · 26/08/2016 13:10

my daughter (7) does machine gun farts as did I at her age and my mother before me. Alas ours are a tad looser these days ahem

hellsbellsmelons · 26/08/2016 13:13

YADNBU - OH and me both still find them hilarious.
And we are both nearing 50!
So there

NuckyT · 26/08/2016 13:38

When my sweet, rosy-cheeked, pigtailed 3 year old DD farts like a 50 year old truck driver, I think there's nothing funnier.

KayTee87 · 26/08/2016 13:41

My almost 4 week old baby was lying on my tummy sleeping peacefully yesterday when he screwed up his face and did a massive, loud fart. That was hilarious

GoblinLittleOwl · 26/08/2016 13:51

Vulgar, vulgar, vulgar.

candykane25 · 26/08/2016 15:22

coco those machine gun farts actually hurt. I do them sometimes with no warning and they make me go ow!

WaitrosePigeon · 26/08/2016 15:23

I find farting very funny. Am aware I need to grow up.

BolshierAryaStark · 26/08/2016 16:02

Yes of course farts are funny, best ones wre when you're trying to sneak one out but your arse decides to trumpet it to all & sundry.
DS has a plastic booster chair for at the table, my god can he thunder them out sat on that.

SpookyPotato · 26/08/2016 16:45

Farts are hilarious. We rarely fart in front of each other as I do think it's a bit gross to do it intentionally all the time, but when one sneaks out and it sounds like a broken double bass, it's so funny. I like the inappropriateness of sneaky, accidental ones

Someone loudly farted in a very silent exam once, I was nearly choking with trying to contain my laughter.

My newborn doing a trucker fart made me laugh so much that I was in so much pain from my c-section wound!

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