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My MIL says she never broke wind in front of any member of her family - but she is 83 so is this a generational thing?

I quite often have a farting competition with my DH to the point where we 'strike a pose' whilst trumping.

It's great fun.

AIBU to think this keeping your farts to yourself is a thing of the past, or I am just full of hot air.

Sorry, need to go before I type anything else, I need to 'strike a pose!'

If I avoided foods that made me fart I'd be malnourished.

Common & disgusting. Not funny unless you are an 8 yr old boy.

I thought the dog had crapped on the floor in the early hours. It was DHs arse 🤢

To the pearl clutchers - can I just ask, what would you do on a long journey, sat in a car needing to fart? Would you actually hold it in and possibly cause yourself stomach pain??

Everybody farts though, I can understand not finding it particularly funny but I don’t get the effort to make sure your partner never ever even hears you do one for as long as you both live. Why? What does that achieve... do people think their partner will think less of them as a person if they know you do trumps?

I fell pregnant after 4 months after an epic contraception fail and 17 years of being told I couldn't have kids... After 9 months of seeing me puke my guts up and fart in unison due to having a very gassy tummy from all the acid churning I ha e up worrying about it... I do ban it at the dinner table though... I do have some standards

never done it and wouldn't out of choice.
if I'm i a car journey yes I'd hold it in until service station or something and if it was going to be impossible i guess I'd have all Windows open and the radio up really loud

My mum says she had to leave the room if she needed to fart when she was younger. Everyone farted when I was growing up though. It took a couple of years before DH and I farted in front of each other. I was poorly and was exhausted getting out of bed. Told him he had to lump it!

Happy to fart in front of DH but that’s it

There's 2 issues here. One is the farting. It is a natural bodily function and everyone does it. Hard not to in the company of a loved one (I admire those who don't - just wait until you get a bit older!!!). The second is the huge joke/making it into performance art thing which is grim. A poster upthread mentions this in the context of Eastenders which figures.

I get very gassy especially after certain foods. I’m quite good at keeping trumps quit but DP certainly knows and occasionally we have a little laugh about it.

He farts loudly and usually waits till he’s in another room or far enough away from me.

Mine actually don’t generally stink (must be to do with diet) whereas his do 🙈😂

We let our wind go free chez Lakie. I have the sense of humour of a six-year old and find it amusing.

My parents used to fart openly, so I guess it's what I'm used to.

I never saw the point in pretending you don't fart or going to the bathroom to fart.

DP and I fart freely - but the dog is the worst culprit in our house by far! He farted loudly the other night and it scared him so much me barked at it 😂

We are a very farty family, my 10 year old is the worst. It normally sounds like some wierd band practice in our household especially in the morning. A family that farts together, stays together 😂

Lucydon'tlockit - I would hold it in but it wouldn't give me a stomach ache. I'm obviously not a windy person.

This is another one of those "cool MN" things.

People who take some delight in deliberately shitting and farting in front of other people, like it makes them a better person or something.

Yes, they are natural bodily functions, but you don't need to make a song and dance about them like a 6 year old child. Just go to the toilet and fart without need to put on a public display for god's sake.

Everyone farts. True.

Only Mumsnetters (and, as pps have said, 8 year old boys) find it funny, do it in public, or feel the need to talk about it)

I was going to say, do you all shit in front of your partners and family as well. But I expect you're all so cool you'll say yes.

One of my ex-boyfriends (a gentleman older than me by almost 20 years) was positively puritanical when it came to farting. He claimed it was a generational thing, his attitude that is (my dear old Mum disagreed, being a proficient in the trouser trumpet department herself although only with a select audience; she never performed to strangers, God bless her. But I digress).
One night, whilst I was reading in bed and ex-BF gently snoring, he actually farted and I was stunned. Not by the fact that he'd broken wind, oh no- but the tone of the thing was so utterly apologetic, almost undecided- "Shall I emerge?? What as, a squeaker or full on foghorn blast? Um- maybe I'll just creep out..."- that I dropped my book through laughing and woke him up.

No. Don't do it.
Hate it when DH does it.
WHY would I want to inhale your bottom gas???

I do it in front of my immediate family, no one else.

My mother never passed gas as far as we knew. In fact, she had a hysterectomy and her doctor said she could eat solid food once she was able to pass gas. My brother and I teased her that she would be on a liquid diet for the rest of her life.

WHY would I want to inhale your bottom gas???

nypost.com/2017/10/27/sniffing-your-partners-farts-could-help-ward-off-disease/

Silvercatowner - wanking is a natural bodily function but best done alone.
Same as farting imo.

I don't do it infront of my fella. I suppose it was the way I was raised. My fella has no qualms about farting under cover and trying to stuff my head under there.... he hasn't succeeded yet.

Haha!

It’s a bit odd pretending you don’t fart. Actually I meant get start pretending I can’t hear, it could make my life easier.

We are very relaxed about farting but only with dh. My dd and her dh and kids fart at home if they need to but everyone knows it is antisocial in public.
For me the keyword is ‘relaxed’ if we are comfy at home and one of us farts we don’t mention it.