Can you break wind around others or do you hold it in!?

[lowdownuphigh]

Oddly, I cannot seem to relax enough to fart when around others but when I leave work I get in my car and suddenly there is loads of trapped air coming out with ease. Is this normal? I'm not purposely holding it in when around others, I genuinely don't feel the need but then when alone I can trump away.

Fart in/on the toilet , or outdoors away from anyone else.
Anywhere else is uncivilised, rude, inconsiderate..... add your own adjectives.

Getting enough wank fodder op?

I struggle to keep it in! I fart with abandon around my family and in public I try to sneak them out.

Yes, I empathise with this.

On non WFH days, I have to watch what I eat at lunchtime, as some foods really do not agree with my Ulcerative Colitis gut. I usually eat a very small lunch and make sure I get outside for a walk every lunchtime, which helps.

I don't fart (purposefully) in front of anyone. Not even DH of 27 years. I'm sure I've done it in my sleep!

I'm very lucky in that I hardly ever fart. Never have done. If I do need to I make a point of leaving the room, going to the loo if possible. I try not to fart in front of others, including family.

I had a ONS with a man who jumped out of bed the next morning and farted really loudly three times, while roaring with laughter. Fuck it gave me the instant ick.

Luckily DH must've picked up on my feelings at the outset. Farting was very low profile in our house. However occasionally one or other of us had to do one of those large farts in the night and we'd wrap the duvet round us and giggle together. Dear man.

We fart with freedom at home but it's perfectly normal to not do it at work. The car fart over work is one of my favourite moments of the day

Let it go, let it goooooo……

I just go big.
I am now working on tunes.
I had a good go at the opening bars to 'The Star Spangled Banner' before disaster struck - bigly! 😳

I was trumping for Britain last week in hospital. We’re talking trumps lasting easily 20 seconds. So embarrassing but also I was laughing like a child because I was bed bound so I had no choice but to trump away (sorry bay mates)

I try not to, as I don’t think it’s particularly pleasant to subject other people to smells if they can be helped.

But if the odd one creeps out, I’m not particularly concerned. It’s just what bodies do.

To quote my then 9 year old: “mummy’s farts are quite loud but they don’t smell at all! Not like daddy …”

DH and I are currently on holiday. The hot weather and unfamiliar food has been playing havoc with our 60-something bowels, and we're sharing a smallish hotel room with zero privacy. We both agree that if we weren't on farting terms after 37 years together, there'd be something wrong. However, normal service of being reasonably discreet will resume when we get home at the weekend.

I recommend the Celia Imrie method (Traitors) as a masterclass in handling such matters. Toot!

This exactly, I don’t get it either.

On chemo here. Farting is a key side effect for me ( sorry all you non farters) 😆

Totally depends. I wouldn’t fart in the office (unless maybe I was in an empty meeting room and I knew no one was coming in). I wouldn’t fart in a shop or a museum or on the tube or a restaurant: anywhere where there’s a high concentration of people and its likely to be unpleasant for them. Outside or in a very large empty space I would if I thought I could get away with it.

I do fart at home. Life is too short to be in a state of frequent discomfort around people who you love and trust to maintain some veneer of “ladylike behaviour”.

I long for the days where my lovely other half was on best behaviour to impress me and would hold it in, or go in another room. Now it's too much for him to even open a window. His backside smells like something crawled up and died there. No joke! I once bought him a mug which said 'My farts hospitalise small children' on it.

Me? I hold it in as much as possible, don't even really feel like farting if in public - 1st thing in the morning is my time!

This!! I don’t hold it in around my family as they rarely smell. DH’s on the other hand are like a badger died in there.

I would hold it in around others, if I could - but sometimes there’s just no holding it back.

Exactly that! 😂

Don't hold it in any mmmmmmore.......

We fart gratuitously at home (I live with teen / preteen boys, so farts are regularly commented on and rated out of ten) but surely everyone holds it in when at work or whatever?

Lol, spot on! Thanks for the laugh :-)

Reminds me also, my grannie who lived with us used to fart with every step, so she'd slap her thighs every step to try and hide the noise. Poor woman!

@purple590

easy. A blow job is sexy, attractive etc. Farting isn’t. It’s literally the stench of someone’s intestines - it’s hard to smell that and still fancy someone.

Because there is nothing sexy or sexual about farting? In fact for me it’s the opposite - it gives me the major ick!

would you say ‘I can’t believe they give their husband oral sex but won’t pick their nose and eat it in front of him’? Sex and bad manners are not the same thing.

Nope. None of my adult kids do. My exH - their father - was very immature and it was embarrassing and turned my stomach - that and other disgusting habits.