Loud Long Fart

[WhatTheHelll]

Aibu to be livid over this encounter?

I was shopping today and as I passed a man he let out a very loud and very long fart right as I was level with him in the aisle. There’s no way it was accidental as it sounded very forced.

Makes me think that some men just hate women and do things like this to make them feel uncomfortable.

I was stretching across another customer in Asda last week when I started to cough. And I let go a ripper.
I left.,...

@mutinyonthetwix my 8 year old lad is 😂

Better to fart and feel the shame than hold it in and feel the pain.

I would have come up with something funny to say afterwards... such as 'a bit less choke next time'

I can believe it. I was waiting at a train station one day when a man walked along the platform, stopped directly in front of me, farted then walked on. It was not a long one thankfully. 20 seconds and I might have managed to think of something appropriate to say.

How could you hear a fart, forced or otherwise, in a supermarket with all the other noises going on?

I think you’re mistaken. Loose sphincter muscles could very easily account for an even longer toot than the one you heard today and it wouldn’t be forced at all.

I think age might be a factor here. When I was young I had no trouble holding in a fart. Since menopause hit, I have certain medications I have to take and I'm no longer skinny, I don't have that kind of control. I remember my mother being the kind of woman to pretend farts didn't exist but as she got older they would slip out involuntarily, despite what were presumably heroic efforts at holding it in. Wait until some of these flustered farters get older and the same happens to them. How will they be able to live with themselves?😱

I just can't be bothered with feeling needless shame for doing something none of us can help doing and all do, even if we pretend we don't.

He was clearly attempting to assert dominance. A good long burp is surely the only correct response.

You can definitely tell - there's an effort at the end that changes the pitch, like if a trumpeter starts blowing harder

Op you're right though - it's second nature to some men to force women to acknowledge their presence. I don't think most of them do it to make women uncomfortable as a primary aim - but they don't care that it happens.

See also all the whistling cunts that weren't whistling till a woman walks past.

It's not a "targeted attack" ffs. 🤣🤣

Farts are a natural bodily function, like it or not. Everyone does them. They are hilarious and much better out than in, I say.

I came from a family where farting competitions were not unknown at home. Obviously we didn't walk along the street competing loudly with each other, and controlled ourselves in front of visitors. However, a loud fart from someone else in the supermarket would not have been met with pearl clutching.

I'd have just laughed about it.

I feel on MN women laugh and find their own farts hilarious but then complain if a man dare to fart.

This is a weird post.

How do you force a ‘long loud fart’ out if your body has no need to do it?

How does a fart equate to hating women?

It’s a natural bodily function. It’s not nice to be around admittedly, but it’s natural like a cough ?

Most of us are conscious and will do our best not to do it but some have no concept of it being an unusual thing to do publicly .

My brother used to light his.

😂😅

Did it work? 🤣

Also known as ‘crop dusting’…

I work in a school science department and one teacher explain diffusion by farts being the spread of “poo particles” around the room. Displayed by using an air freshener squirt to prove his point. 😬

rubbish.

You might be able to tell it was forced if he said "oops, almost touched cloth there" otherwise, meh.

Yes. I know. But i used to be in the army. I have heard and seen enough farts to know about these things in detail.

Yanbu and some men do just hate women 😭

I would have laughed and congratulated him on his whopper of a fart.

I'm actually very impressed at a 20 second fart. I'd have cheered him for that alone.

Sounds like you secretly enjoyed it, did you follow him round wanting another?

I am sure It does extend to tragic boyfriends but I think this poster puts it well Op you're right though - it's second nature to some men to force women to acknowledge their presence. it’s like wolf whistling. I’m older now but I remember being groped and harassed many times in my late teens and twenties. I tend to have a radar on for this sort of attention seeking behaviour where it’s possible that a man is seeking to open an unwelcome interaction. I’d try to ignore and move away sharpish. Actually the last
time I experienced something similar was a gang of teens hanging out by a path I needed to walk down. Loud fart timed for when I passed and smirks. So it does and can happen. Ignore. Ignore. Ignore.

Fart stories are never not funny. 😂 I cover my supermarket ones with a loud cough and hope I get away with it.

All I wish to say is that when younger I never farted in public. But now, honestly, I don’t know where they come from, 🙄but come they do! Though I do try to keep them from other peoples personal space if I possibly can.