to think a huge family row about farts is ott?

[Mallenstreak]

Went round in-laws last week. After lunch SIL turned up and had a few drinks. Our ds then farted and sil was outraged saying it was absolutely disgusting and why didn't we sort our son out! Dh said that it was only a natural bodily function and not to get so het up about it but she was having none of it. She said that it was terrible when people did this and that if her partner (who is also her boss) did it she would ditch him. I thought she must be kidding and asked her what if he let one slip by accident - she said she would still dump him! Dh said that she was being ridiculous and a huge row ensued with FIL joining in and getting almost apoplectic with rage as sil can do no wrong in his eyes. Ds was very upset so we left and have not heard from anyone since. I know ds should not have farted in the first place but can't believe all the kerfuffle about this.

We were brought up to think that it was very rude to refer to farting. So if you farted, you ignored it completely.

I now find it disgusting that dad will burp/fart without ever saying pardon - it's really unpleasant. I think that however natural it is, you should accept that some people will really feel it puts them off their food.

Im sorry but while she went OTT darting at dinner table is v rude

Hopefully the intervening five years between this being posted and you offering your thoughts have given them all a chance to get over it...

Well obviously she's had a sense of humour bypass and she has never farted, well we better all watch out because when she does it will be a cracker
YNBU.

Oh it's a zombie.
Why has someone resurrected a thread about farting

SIL is a fuckwit.

Teach the boy manners about farting if need be (for when he's not with family), but she is BU, and is behaving very oddly around DS given that he is with his family and is SN.

She should probably also be careful being angrily outraged by farts around 10+ yr old boys frankly, my brothers and I would probably have had a field day eg: waited a bit, then started a campaign of farting silently and quietly implying it was her, farting on her seat just as she was arriving and covering it with a cushion so the smell escaped when she went to sit down, whoopie cushions, farting in the biscuit tin, popping the lid on to preserve the smell then offering her a biscuit etc

Obviously not all things we really did to an uptight relative...

BlueBerryPye why on earth did you search for - and decide to resurrect - a 5½ year old thread about farting?

How odd to search out this thread. It did make me laugh.

The little guy must be 15/16 now. I wonder if the family ever spoke again.

Blimey! 5 years?!

I wonder if SIL is over it now? Or whether OPs DS has learned the rules of social farting?

Maybe SIL saw the light and is now a rampant and noisy farter at all family occasions?

I need to know!! clearly way too invested in the outcome

I wouldn't flame a child for letting one go, but I would expect a 'pardon/excuse me' if they were able to understand. To fall out over it is bloody ridiculous though.

In another vein, my DH and IL's think it is totally acceptable to burp around the dinner table, mid-roast, without covering their mouths, or saying pardon me. Just hell for leather 'BUUUUUUUUUUUURRRRRP'. Even the younger ones from ILs family do it. It makes me feel ill, but is good for my weight as it totally puts me off my food.

Oh. 5 year old thread - I didn't even notice

So, a 5 year old thread about 5 year old farts.

Why not? So what if it is a zombie one! It is funny.

Perhaps the OP is still a member. Perhaps she will come back and tell us whether or not this divided the family, and whether or not SIL actually needed therapy because of her DS's infamous fart.

There's nowt wrong with a good old fart, but people's reactions to it never cease to amaze me.

Farting was nothing to be ashamed of when I was growing up house, provided you observed a few common sense rules about "time and place" etc. We would compete to see who could come up with the longest and the loudest.

In DH's house though, you didn't even mention it, much less do it. You virtually had to pretend you didn't even have an arse.

*growing up in my parents' house!!