to be disappointed that the word "fart" seems acceptable for children now?

[Housemum]

DH bought a copy of the Beano for DD2 (age 6) - which had the delightful free gift of a "Fart Bucket" (squidgy putty to make farty noises) on the front and a wordsearch with different words for fart - air biscuit, bottom burp etc. Now I know that kids use this word, and I'm probably an old fogey, but I don't really see it as acceptable in print? I'd prefer good old fashioned trumps, botty burps, blow off, parp etc. I've explained to DD2 that it may be said in the playground, but I don't expect to hear her say it (in the same way that I'm sure teenage DD swears with her mates, but wouldn't in the house or in polite company). Interestingly it doesn't seem acceptable on Corrie, as last night a character said "I havn't got time to f-, er, break wind".

So, bring on the opinions and shoot me down for being an old fart (yeah, and a hypocrite, it's OK if I say it...)

I'm staggered by the number of you that need to discuss it at all - 'whose bottom has gone off' ' who's done a flumper wumper' - 'have you farted, popped, squeaked, trodden on various water birds' - why on earth do you need to know!

In my house it doesn't often get a mention and should a noxious odour be noticed we would simply blame the horse.

merryponymum

I am pg and the wind round here is terrible. Real room clearers (how do the flumpers amongst us feel about that term?!).

We don't have a horse, dog or cat.

Who should I blame?

i used to have to say 'blow off'!!! as a kid, dear me.. we now say PUMP with our 3 yr old son (a word my boyfriend used with his daughter) and i think its cool, dont mind him saying it in public, doesnt sound rude and quite amusing!!

i do however think its rude not to say 'pardon me' after a fart/pump/floating an airbiscuit - a habit i have had to teach my 3 yr old AND my grown up boyfriend.

my MUM is the worst, im always asking my son if he needs a poo when shes around, because there's such a heaving stench in the room, and then my mum pipes up and says it was her!! why let people choke? fess up you stinkers!!

Fart is fine. We also say who's pooted or trumped.

I'd be disappointed if f*ck was deemed acceptable for kids nowadays. Not fart.

My mum always used to say "poop" as in "oh sorry, I've pooped". Fart was NEVER to be said in our house.

And I still don't like it.

Dh has always said "pump" and the dc's have copied him, though they do occasionally say fart. But I still don't like it.

Dh says "gilbert" for bogies? I'd never heard this until I met him. "Did you see him, he had a great big gilbert hanging out his nose!"

I think the correct term is "green Gilbert".

[email protected] we don't all have a horse to blame woman!...

in the past we used to blame the cat!...he was a stinker though..

My dh asks if you've dropped your bat. He also tells me I'm like a fart in a trance when I'm not going fast enough.

When I was younger (boarding school, I'm afraind)we said guff and I still love it. Boff used to mean throw up!

We all laugh at it, I'm afraid - my dd definitely matches the 15th of the month on foxytocin's list!

I'll never forget taking my dh to meet my parents for the first time 10 years ago. He's a keen farter and doesn't tend to mind who's around, so I was highly amused to watch him clenching his buttocks, holding his breath, going red in the face and dealing with stomach cramps to not do it in front of the potential mother-in-law.

It was classed as 'rude' when I was a child and we were taught to use pump - which I can't stand.
I don't like the word though and for some reason want to cringe when my Mum says it - just sounds wrong from her mouth. But then she does talk VERY loudly!
dd says trump and we also use 'is there a duck in here?'

Lol @ "keen farter"

Or "Who's let Polly out of prison then?" as my old grandma used to say.

My mum was WI secretary in our village. She wrote in one report, for the parish council newsletter: "We had a lovely coach trip to Digby but we were all knackered when we got back". To be fair English is her second language but I still laugh about it

'Fart' was considered extremely common when I was growing up. I was in Waterstones yesterday and was reading a book aimed at pre-schoolers to dh I was when I realised that it had that word in it.

I was quite amused to discover that DD (8 years) thinks that the F word = fart.