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‘D’ P farting while he’s prepping food

161 replies

Easipeelerie · 26/12/2024 20:00

He’s in the kitchen chopping meat and just let out 2 enormous farts (and quite deliberately, not like there was nothing he do about it)- doesn’t care and doesn’t think it’s a big deal. He’s in the kitchen prepping food,
Am I being unreasonable to not want to eat with him now. I find when he does this sort of thing that it’s so disrespectful and just unpleasant.

OP posts:
JollyGreenSleeves · 27/12/2024 02:39

pennyHD · 26/12/2024 23:43

It's preparing. Not 'prepping'

Oxford dictionary definition of ‘prepping’-
the action or process of preparing something, or preparing for something.
"after hours of prepping and cooking and stressing and a few near-breakdowns, Thanksgiving was wonderful"

Mrsttcno1 · 27/12/2024 07:29

mathanxiety · 27/12/2024 02:36

Lol. Wait til your colleague pushes out their first baby.

That’s what I was thinking, I’m 8 months postpartum and believe me after 9 months of pregnancy, childbirth etc any sense of privacy is well and truly gone😂

TitaniasAss · 27/12/2024 08:09

BettyBardMacDonald · 26/12/2024 21:52

It's called "outdoors."

Honestly I am 61 and have never heard any of my lovers do that, in 40-plus years. Nor they, me. Never in my family growing up, either. My parents weren't that type.

Is it really so difficult to be couth?

@BettyBardMacDonald honestly, I was just messing around, I wouldn't take my post so seriously.

Ladybyrd · 27/12/2024 08:10

daisychain01 · 26/12/2024 20:02

Presumably he isn't pointing his bum directly at the food?

Squatting over it.

doodleschnoodle · 27/12/2024 08:17

It makes me laugh thinking of all the too-prim-to-farters. What do you think happens when you're asleep? You'll be letting them rip, probably quite noisily Grin DH is very repressed about bodily functions, would never fart in front of someone, but when he's asleep they come out because you can't control that. Pretty sure everyone parps in their sleep! So you can rush off to the loo every time you need a fart during the day, but your 'lover' will be regaled with the odd noisy parp overnight regardless.

GETTINGLIKEMYMOTHER · 27/12/2024 08:19

At least the OP calls them farts, and not botty-burps, or windy-pops, or any of the other appallingly twee names some people use.

She’s still being U to object to kitchen farts from a dh who’s prepping food, though. If he was just helping himself to a beer from the fridge while she was slaving away, IMO that’d be a different matter.

Ladybyrd · 27/12/2024 08:21

doodleschnoodle · 27/12/2024 08:17

It makes me laugh thinking of all the too-prim-to-farters. What do you think happens when you're asleep? You'll be letting them rip, probably quite noisily Grin DH is very repressed about bodily functions, would never fart in front of someone, but when he's asleep they come out because you can't control that. Pretty sure everyone parps in their sleep! So you can rush off to the loo every time you need a fart during the day, but your 'lover' will be regaled with the odd noisy parp overnight regardless.

The too prim farters fart proudly when alone, I'll put money on it. I am one of them. It's pretty embarrassing when you get caught out.

earwiggoagain · 27/12/2024 08:26

I wish I would be around in 30 years time when all these 'I don't fart/go into the bathroom/hold it in' people get old. The sphincter is a muscle and like all muscles they decline with age. And you fart - and no you really can't help it.

Christ knows how you all will cope!

LakieLady · 27/12/2024 08:42

Newshed67 · 26/12/2024 23:59

I would find this disgusting and it's so rude and inconsiderate especially doing that around food. YANBU, I would feel like the food is contaminated now and wouldn't want to eat it

Just think of all the people who might have let out sneaky farts in the supermarket, near the food that you bought....

Ladybyrd · 27/12/2024 09:10

Just think of all the people who might have let out sneaky farts in the supermarket, near the food that you bought....

If you need to sneak on out, you can guarantee that's the one that smells like roadkill and can be detected from 50 paces away.

BashfulClam · 27/12/2024 10:51

Growlybear83 · 27/12/2024 01:00

I remember my husband telling me about three months after we had first met that he had never heard me fart. Being in a new relationship I had tried so hard to be demure and let them out quietly, but I realised then that he wouldn't be shocked if I let rip. 50 years later, I think he regrets saying that 😆😆😆

Ha ha i did the same at the start but I have IBS and accidentally let one go maybe 1-2 months in. He fell about laughing. I was mortified it now it’s just a normal thing. He once texted he at work whilst he was off saying ‘I’m on your side of the bed farting!’

BashfulClam · 27/12/2024 10:55

My dad’s favourite trick actually was to drop a silent but deadly in Asda right next to the meat aisle. He stand for a minute to let it out and then leg it. He said ‘they’ll spend ages looking for what’s gone off!’ My mum worked there and they’d been dicks to her once so that was his petty revenge.

BettyBardMacDonald · 27/12/2024 11:08

BashfulClam · 27/12/2024 10:55

My dad’s favourite trick actually was to drop a silent but deadly in Asda right next to the meat aisle. He stand for a minute to let it out and then leg it. He said ‘they’ll spend ages looking for what’s gone off!’ My mum worked there and they’d been dicks to her once so that was his petty revenge.

Classy.

Lavenderblossoms · 27/12/2024 11:10

.... the farts won't contaminate your food. Grow up. It's a bodily function.

HaddyAbrams · 27/12/2024 11:29

FizzyBisto · 27/12/2024 02:23

The very act of getting up off the sofa is what would make me push it out - not sure whether it's just the angling of my body or nature's little turbo boost towards the energy used in being upstanding.

Oh... that's just reminded me of a woman who was resident in a care home I worked in. She used a stand aid to help he stand up from her armchair, but always farted as she stood up. She said the little blast of wind propelled her up. She was mega posh and very 'proper' so it caught me totally unawares the first time. She was brilliant.

ChristmasKelpie · 27/12/2024 11:39

OP i hope you never eat out or have takeaway.

BashfulClam · 27/12/2024 12:33

BettyBardMacDonald · 27/12/2024 11:08

Classy.

He never claimed to be.

Growlybear83 · 27/12/2024 12:45

BashfulClam · 27/12/2024 10:55

My dad’s favourite trick actually was to drop a silent but deadly in Asda right next to the meat aisle. He stand for a minute to let it out and then leg it. He said ‘they’ll spend ages looking for what’s gone off!’ My mum worked there and they’d been dicks to her once so that was his petty revenge.

😆😆😆I must admit I've been known to do this as I get out of a lift 😆

FizzyBisto · 27/12/2024 12:58

GETTINGLIKEMYMOTHER · 27/12/2024 08:19

At least the OP calls them farts, and not botty-burps, or windy-pops, or any of the other appallingly twee names some people use.

She’s still being U to object to kitchen farts from a dh who’s prepping food, though. If he was just helping himself to a beer from the fridge while she was slaving away, IMO that’d be a different matter.

We always used to call them trumps when I was growing up - maybe a regional thing. Makes sense as it is basically a trumpeting-like sound, which archaically used to be contracted to just 'trump'.

I remember my surprise when I first heard folk from the north west talking about 'having a brew' and asking others if they would like one - I was both relieved and a bit disappointed when I realised that they were just talking about a cup of tea!

FizzyBisto · 27/12/2024 13:07

That's wrong of you on so many levels.

FizzyBisto · 27/12/2024 14:36

FizzyBisto · 27/12/2024 13:07

That's wrong of you on so many levels.

That was meant to quote this:

😆😆😆I must admit I've been known to do this as I get out of a lift 😆

Kind of spoiled the attempted joke without it Grin

Freshflower · 27/12/2024 14:51

Nothing wrong with good wet fart , we find them funny in our house but I do get doing it while preparing food , I'd be a bit put off too. Every fork full I'd be thinking of the rancid smell of the fart

sweeneytoddsrazor · 27/12/2024 15:11

I bet loads of the blokes that fart will have watched their partner shit themselves whilst giving birth.
Farting is a natural bodily function same as sneezing or coughing.

Bfmamma · 27/12/2024 15:29

You wouldn't survive 5 minutes in our house 🤣💨

Caswallonthefox · 27/12/2024 15:31

I could understand all the negativity to farting if he was cooking naked because obviously, the particles are free flying.
But if he's wearing clothes, then there's at least 2 layers between said fart and the outside world. Therefore particles are filtered. And he's facing away from the food so no contamination.
can you tell I'm bored.

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