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

[Angelsfart]

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

Some of these are brilliant 😂

When someone farts in public, its really funny but you shouldn't comment. If you are at home, it's all fair game in my opinion.

When I was heavily pregnant, I just couldn't hold them in, they would come without warning. My DP used to take the blame if out in public and its kind of stuck. I fart and he says 'ooh sorry about that!' It does make me laugh every time he says it.

I agree Op - it’s the way I was brought up. FIL (and increasingly DH) always make some stupid comment like “way-hey!” Or “ooh hello!” . It makes me cringe. But it’s the way they were brought up.

@LikeABreathRipplingBy

If you fart in our house, everybody yells "heard you!" at the top of their voice.

Ours is "I heard that!" closely followed with "It was the cat/door"

@Angelsfart

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

"tends to follow me around"

I would say it's rude to fart in front of people however sometimes you can't help it, and if it's your DH then that's quite normal I would say, I would comment on it though, the only time I wouldn't comment is if it was someone I didn't know or when my grandma does it by accident.

However, definitely don't hold them in, my sister is a GP and she said she gets a lot of women coming in with problems due to never farting!!

I remember one time at work. I got the terrible tummy rumble and thought oh god I've got to go to the toilet. I knew it was going to be a big one. Just as I was about to get up someone who was on the phone to a customer said something hilarious as she put the phone down and we both burst out laughing (I can't remember what).

Anyhoo, with all the laughing I completely lost control and it was a I have to go now moment. As I slowly got up from my desk another wave of laughter came over me and that was it.....out it came loud and proud. We then started laughing even more and I made a shhhs noise at my colleague.

Just as I was about to walk out of the office for the encore a little voice came from over the far side of the office: "If you think you got away with that you are very much mistaken!"

The whole office erupted. Farts are funny.

This happened about 10 years ago and its still spoken about 🤣

@QuizzlyBear

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...

I saw a documentary in which a Swedish (?) scientist was bemused by the English attitude to farting.

He, two other Swedes and three Englishmen spent the winter in a one-room hut in the Arctic, studying the weather or something. He was appalled that the Englishmen would fart unabashedly and theatrically, announcing the imminent fart, lifting a cheek, reviewing the delivery, speculating on the content, giving each other points for performance, duration and enviromental impact.

Whereas the Swedes would say, "Just popping out for a minute or two," and could be seen strolling contemplatively up and down outside the hut, in gale force winds and horizontal snow, until they felt they were safe to come back inside.

If you just laughed and said 'Oops, excuse me!' about it, he probably wouldn't go on about it. It's you being particularly uptight about farting that makes it funnier to him when you do it.

LOL at people who think you need to go into the bathroom every time you need to fart in your own, when the only people around you are your own immediate family. Amazing.

Not mentioning them in our house would mean there was very little conversation. Dh and dd1 are professional farters, Dd2 is only in training while I subscribe to the never trust a fart adage so it's a definite talking point if Mum farts! We often say our house is under a red warning of wind all the time

Tell him he should feel free to not follow you round day and night like a toddler after their mummy then he won't have to suffer your occasional farting.

Seems so very English, to be embarrassed by farts. I suppose some folk are brought up to have “nice” manners. Anything goes in our house!

If you are in our house you would get comments such as fuck me thought we were having an earthquake (loud rumbling fart) or has something crawled up your arse and died (smelly fart) and even bloody hell did you just follow through ( wet sounding fart)

Nobody ever goes to the toilet without coming out and announcing I'd give it 10 mins if I were you.

@ImNotShpanishImEgyptshun

the correct response when someone farts in front of you is one of:

You ripped it, you've bought it

or

A bit more choke and she would have started

or

Confident appeal by the Australians there

Or

"That's fixed the horn, now try the lights"

"Keep shouting sir, we'll find you"

"Speak up caller, you're through"

Why are farts embarrassing?!

I am a liberal farter - there is obviously a time and place, I try not to let rip in front of clients or should I be visiting the Queen, I would not comment if Her Maj let out a ripper..

But farts at home with family or v familiar friends - they're funny, and they're a normal part of life.

I think OH and I take it a bit far at times, we have a rating system, which now (it gets added to!)... includes categories for duration, pitch, volume, pitch change, tunefulness, stench, timing and performance (pre and post).

It may not be to everyones taste but of course neither of us would go around rating other peoples farts publically (we might well rate them later at home..). I still think thats a healthier attitude to take than trying to hold them in to the point of making yourself ill!

It depends where it is- with strangers or professionally I wouldn't but at home, we would definitely laugh!