To ask loudly if someone needs the toilet!

[stayingaliveisawayoflife]

Am on the train and someone near me has done a silent and deadly. It is vile! Should I do what I do in my classroom and ask very loudly if someone needs to go to the toilet!

WTF would you do that to children let alone strangers. I have really bad stomach issues. Sometimes my arse could kill. It actually doesn't mean I need the toilet and someone drawing attention like that would be utterly fucking mortifying. Get a grip of yourself and stop embarrassing the children you teach.

Can no one see the op is light-hearted.

There's some uptight people on here

Just start coughing loudly and wafting your hand. Maybe mutter “Dear God!” To yourself in a choking voice.

It is rude to draw attention to it.

My dd has complex bowel issues & due to the removal of most of her intestine has incomplete digestion and constant diarrhoea. Previously she had stomas but not anymore.

Her wind smells badly & when she has used the toilet there is a very bad smell.

(FWIW she has to be attached to an iv drip to account for the lack of nutrition & resultant dehydration.)

It is a complex medical condition and a disability. She cannot help it and is intensely embarrassed by it. If her teacher said something like that in class I would have strong words. If someone said it on a train I would try to discretely explain that it couldn't be helped.

For us it is like someone ridiculing a disability. You wouldn't ridicule someone who had a missing limb, used a wheelchair or was deaf. Please don't ridicule people with bowel problems.

Why do some adults persist in the belief that fart = needs a poo?

It's not a drect correlation, surely?

Well it depends..... if you're a total dick then yeah go right ahead & do it.

You will mortify everyone on the carriage & no one will get up because they'll think everyone will think they're off to do a mammoth shit...

Surely it will pass in seconds

Don’t be so mean. I’m surprised you embarrass your class like that, no child is going to put their hand up and say ‘yes, I need a poo’

Why would you do that in your classroom? Are you a reception teacher? It sounds unkind in almost every setting. Although I would definitely say it to my DH and kids but other than that. I would pretend I hadn't noticed the rotten stench.

Should I do what I do in my classroom and ask very loudly if someone needs to go to the toilet!

Won't that just embarrass the poor kid and make them less likely to ask to go to the loo after you've drawn attention to it in front of the whole class?

You are a nasty rude teacher and need to respect other people more. You need to realise that what you think is funny can be bullying and harmful. Take a look at your actions and decide if you really want to be remember as the nasty hurtful teacher. And on a train with adults, don't be a bitch

"Can no one see the op is light-hearted."

I think consensus is growing that it's nit real (1 April) but it's far from lighthearted because it is cruel, to children and to peo Keep with certain - r ally quite common - medical conditions.

My fiance finds it weird that once when he kept farting I asked him if he needed the loo. Not because I'm treating him like a kid but because we've only got one toilet and eldest was taking ages!

He's says there's no correlation but having an 8 yo with IBS I'm just kind of used to the association if that makes sense?

I really hope you don’t say that to children in your class. My son has Crohn’s disease and would be really hurt by a comment like that.

Yes but you must stand at the front of the carriage first.
And put up your hand for silence (or do a double clap, if that's your school procedure).

Should I do what I do in my classroom and ask very loudly if someone needs to go to the toilet!

Do you seriously do that? Surely that is a) very cruel and b) massively counterproductive as no child is going to ask to go to the toilet after that

What a horrible teacher you must be.....

Can no one see the op is light-hearted YES because humiating children and strangers is just soooooooo hilarious! I mean we all must take such humilation in our daily lives cos its just light hearted banter.

I'm rolling on the floor pussing myself laughing at the thought of my disabled gut giving you a good laugh it really amuses me.

Ohhh no i find it deeply embarressing that something that alrrady makes me feel incredably unwell and has done since i was a child is so deeply funny to you that you think you can highlight it ajd draw attention to it because oh its so lighthearted

Can no one see the op is light-hearted

The business about the train maybe, though it's not funny at all, but is she joking about saying that to her class?

But farting doesn't mean you need to use the toilet? Its just a natural way of letting off some gas, its dangerous to keep it in.

If I heard someone saying that in public I would assume they were covering their own ass.

Ok ok folks.

1. I have Crohn's disease so know all about dealing with difficult and unruly bodily functions. I myself have had to go home and change after a horrible trip out with no access to public toilets.
2. it was a joke! I don't say that to my class and would never say it in public. I was just struggling to breathe in and that obviously affected my judgement and my ability to 'sense the room'!
3. I am a bloody good teacher who absolutely cares for my class and would never allow any of them to be humiliated by anyone including me.
4. I read the pig books by Emer Stamp which are full of farting so perhaps I am acclimatised to the jokes.

I think my posting days may be over!

It was a very early post so maybe worded oddly because you were knackered. Sorry to hear about the Crohns. I know it's grim.

I don't know the books you mention but I'll look them up

But farting doesn't mean you need to use the toilet? Its just a natural way of letting off some gas, its dangerous to keep it in.

Of course it does. Not always, but it can do.

The one who smellt it dealt it