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To think it’s rude to comment when somebody farts?

91 replies

Angelsfart · 06/04/2022 19:53

Surely the polite thing is to ignore? I hate DH going on about it. I find it really embarrassing.

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Itsbackagain · 06/04/2022 20:15

Go to the bathroom to do it. Rude to break wind in front of anyone IMO.

DrManhattan · 06/04/2022 20:18

Why are you doing it in front of him. That's a bit rude. Go to the bathroom?

PinkSyCo · 06/04/2022 20:19

I don’t fart in front of him deliberately but he tends to follow me around so it’s hard to avoid him entirely.

Does he follow you around like a bad smell? Or is it difficult to distinguish whether the bad smell is coming from him or your farts?

XenoBitch · 06/04/2022 20:19

@Itsbackagain

Go to the bathroom to do it. Rude to break wind in front of anyone IMO.
Bit hard when in a shop.
Angelsfart · 06/04/2022 20:20

I was actually in the bathroom.

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Suzi888 · 06/04/2022 20:21

@Casmama

Ruder to fart than to comment on it I would have said
🤣
MarbleQueen · 06/04/2022 20:22

If your husband is following you like a toddler into the bathroom you’ve got bigger problems than farts.

Does he poke his fingers under the door like a toddler too?

Angelsfart · 06/04/2022 20:24

It is annoying, he just remembers he’s got something urgent to tell me. In fairness I was bathing DC so not on the toilet and I don’t fart a lot. It’s just embarrassing as on the odd occasion I do he has to comment on it.

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ClemDanFango · 06/04/2022 20:24

Is there a troll with a fart fetish doing the rounds? This is the 2nd or 3rd thread today with windy bottom content.

alexdgr8 · 06/04/2022 20:26

reminds me of when the queen mother was driving in procession with the king of tonga.
one of the horses let rip, and the startled qm politley said to king tonga, oh, i'm so sorry.
king tonga, replied, oh i thought it was one of the horses.

Angelsfart · 06/04/2022 20:29

@ClemDanFango

Is there a troll with a fart fetish doing the rounds? This is the 2nd or 3rd thread today with windy bottom content.
Just report it if you think I’m a troll (I’m not.)
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Tiredacheyandreadyforbed · 06/04/2022 20:32

I used to be so embarrassed of farting that I would hold them in all day.
An ex told me 3 years into the relationship I should just let them out, I said I don't fart. He says the second I fell asleep at night and my body relaxed, I would fart non stop and the stench 😂
After hearing that, I just let them out now, zero embarrassment. I mean, if I'm at work I try to make sure they're silent ones, but at home I don't hold back. The first thing me and my dp do when we wake up each morning is let out the big morning fart 🙈😂 maybe lots will find it disgusting but it's got to come out so why be ashamed 🤷

IReallyLikeCrows · 06/04/2022 20:35

Not mentioning farts is borderline odd. A friend's parents never mentioned a fart and her father was a total fart-oholic. Once, we were in Italy on a walk up a hill and he was farting with every other step and nothing, absolutely nothing was said. By this time in her life - we were both adults - she, like most people, found farts amusing at times and ignored repetitive farts, hilarious. We were walking behind him and so close to falling over and wetting ourselves that his farts were a fall risk to us.

Farts get mentioned. Not in every situation, but they're a bodily function that comes along with funny noises. What's not to giggle at!

babywalker56 · 06/04/2022 20:35

www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/teenager-says-ended-up-hospital-26614802.amp

Super random but I read this story about a 19 year old who had to get her appendix removed because she held in her farts around her boyfriend for two years😩😩

Spaghag · 06/04/2022 20:36

I've never ever understood what is remotely funny about a fart. I find most other things in life funny, just not bodily functions.

I'm not sure I think it's rude to comment, more ridiculously childish.

Those who think people can avoid farting in company have obviously never had a bowel disorder!

Georgeskitchen · 06/04/2022 20:40

@XenoBitch

My FB newsfeed had an article on it today about a woman who held her farts in around her new partner, and ended up in hospital!

I ignore them in polite company. But if you know your audience, a decent ripper can have people laughing for ages.

Just read this 🤣 surely they aren't together 24/7 I bet she has right old ripping session when she's on her own 😍😍
stormswiftlysweetafton · 06/04/2022 20:43

YANBU. Sometimes people can't help it, and I agree that it's rude to comment. Different if you're very close to the person and know it's a joking matter to them, but otherwise? Just keep quiet.

noirchatsdeux · 06/04/2022 20:47

@Spaghag Me neither. But I'm not British, so that may explain it.

My view is that if you know you need to, leave the room and do it. Doing it in front of other people deliberately is disgusting. Apologise if it's random.

XenoBitch · 06/04/2022 20:51

Just read this 🤣 surely they aren't together 24/7 I bet she has right old ripping session when she's on her own 😍😍

Or when they are in bed and she is dropping off to sleep.
I always tried to hold in farts around my ex. I remember being in that blissful awake/not awake phase of sleep, and I felt the ghost of a poo leave my bumhole. Heard my ex snigger. They know.. they always know.

I do not understand the few pp say to excuse yourself and fart in a bathroom. You don't need the loo. It is air!
Reminds of a time back in school. A lad in my class let rip, and the teacher got all up in his face, called him a "dirty boy" and told him to go and wash his hands. Why?
I still think about that 35 years later.

Topseyt · 06/04/2022 20:55

Farts are much better out than in and are hilarious.

Unclench and let rip.

ffscovid · 06/04/2022 21:01

The polite thing would be to excuse yourself before he needs to say anything. "Pardon Me" is the correct phrase.

Even better would be to nip to another room / the loo / garden if you need to trump.

fantasmasgoria1 · 06/04/2022 21:13

My Fiance farts quite loudly and laughs. I really don't care less because its a natural bodily function. I usually just say that was a beauty.

TedMullins · 06/04/2022 21:18

People really need to get over this silly embarrassment over farts. EVERYONE farts. I wouldn’t purposely do a loud or smelly one at work but like fuck am I holding them in in my own home.

QuizzlyBear · 06/04/2022 21:54

When Joe Biden farting in front of the Royals became front page news nationwide, I died a little bit inside. Apparently Camilla 'didn't stop talking about it for days' 🙄

So an elderly man passes wind (which every human does) audibly and becomes a laughing stock? Classy country we live in...

NotRainingToday · 06/04/2022 22:07

My mum still laughs about someone two rows in front in the cinema who lifted one cheek and let rip loudly.
This was in 1965 (not actually joking, it really was).
At least people on this thread laugh about new ones.....