Let one rip

[Marie0]

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!'

My capacity to fart could make me an Olympic hopeful if there was a category for it blush

Sadly, they aren't forward-thinking enough to have introduced this exact discipline yet, but it would doubtless give you extra purchase in the long jump, high jump or pole vault!

Just a word of warning, though: if you opt for the relay instead, do make compassion your watchword and insist on going first, so that your team-mates aren't forced to suffer being downwind of you as you race away, leaving a cloud behind you. In fact, once you and your powerful exploits have become familiar to your team, you may even find that the one who takes the baton from you and goes second finds a sudden hitherto-unrecognised ability to redouble efforts and hit a new record time!

@MyNameIsNotSteven 😆😆

That did make me snigger, the logistics of ‘just go to the bathroom’.
I imagine a tweed wearing woman racing up the stairs, closing the bathroom door, ripping one out and then walking downstairs smoothing her skirt and adjusting pearls.

Same as philomena. Never farted much until I had dc2. I fart quite a lot now. It’s a numbers game, I try, but dh has heard me.
I once farted horrifically in the car, dh was blaming the dog, but I ownrc up to it. He kept saying ‘But you could have got away with it’

Only on mumsnet are there one of two attitudes to farting: pearl clutching and finding it hilarious!
The general consensus when discussing this amongst my friends is if you need to fart, fart it's no big deal, when you've been with someone for years it's just one of those things that happens and rarely even gets mentioned by the other partner when it does.
This sneaking off to the bathroom behaviour is bizarre! But equally I wouldn't dream of giving DH a Dutch oven popping spots however now THAT I can get on board with!

We trump all the time in our house! Let it out!
I would only do it in front of my husband, kids, mum and best friends though. Kids call them 'bum pops'.

My mum 'pumps' quite often but not in front of my dad if she can help it. My dad never does it until no one is in the room but Jesus they are long and loud!

Just one question to all of the people who, upon feeling the tremors of impending bowel turbulence, feel the need to swiftly excuse themselves and repair to the bathroom in order to set the captive parp free out of sight of partner/kids/family/visitors/colleagues etc:

You do realise that there's every chance they can still hear you, anyway, don't you? Or do you all live in enormous 9-storey houses with a lead-walled bathroom in the attic conversion? Or do you have to clear your throat and announce to all occupants that they must observe a certain minimum distance of clearance away from the bathroom?

Surely, if you feel the need to stand up, hit the side of a wine glass with a spoon and declare: "The upper two floors will be designated a strict no-go zone for the next twenty-five minutes to allow me to disappear for a completely private, unobserved bottom burp!", then you're calling far more attention to it than ever you would if you'd just discreetly lifted a cheek and slowly dispatched it on its merry way among the existing hubbub in the living room, no?!

I only fart in the presence of close friends and family.

As well as pets, neighbours, the postman, debt collectors and more.

Puddlejumps "it must have been the doorbell" . Love that! Exactly the sort of thing my own late DM would have come out with.

I only fart in the presence of close friends and family.

As well as pets, neighbours, the postman, debt collectors and more.

As a strict rule, I would NEVER cut the cheese in front of the vast, vast majority of people. Only the relatively few people in the world whom I actually meet in person....

It makes no sense (I am sure science will back this up) to go to the most echoey room in the house to let one off. I'm sure it's like adding a microphone to one's arse and an amplifier.
Why is the bathroom so special, what magic qualities does this room possess ? It's just a room in a house with tiles.
I will add that I maintain decorum at all times regarding letting one go. No one has heard me fart EVER even myself

My nan used to sing us a little rhyme when we were kids
“Wherever you may be, let your wind go free, Church or chapel, let it rattle” lol
My mum was appalled at wind breaking, even now she thinks the word “fart” is practically swearing and prefers everyone to say “pump” 😂
My DH thought pump was ridiculous and so with our kids everyone calls it a fart and we all just laugh (even nana) ... life is too short.

My aunt who used to claim she could not physically break wind (or even burp) now trumps regularly as any other old lady does.

😂 I don't fart infront of anyone. I got comfortable with my ex after four years and when I was pregnant, i started to let my guard down and break wind infront of him. Needless to say, he eventually left me for someone else . Hope she doesn't start farting Aswel. Maybe he should go out with a cyborg :)