Farting anywhere and everywhere

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Not sure if this is a relationship question. But is farting anywhere and everywhere normal? I know you can’t always predict it but surely if you can contain yourself elsewhere, you can do the same at home? Not talking about the odd fart just constant and anywhere even when the family are eating. Or do I have unrealistic expectations?

I’ve been with my DH for 18 years and I have never heard him fart once.

lol haha

Could be the side effects of medication. I'm on ezetemibe for cholesterol control as I don't tolerate statins well.

OMG does it give you flatulence! Embarrassing at times, but a necessary medication, so what can you do?

I genuinely find that so bizarre.

It's a bodily function - nothing to hide?

My dog is defective and doesn't fart. It is very disappointing 😞

@HappiestSleeping have you tried a full on factory reset? 😉

You seriously think he'd be constantly farting at work?

Mind you, he's the size of a blimp now and the concern is he could 'pop' at any moment!

You seriously think he'd be constantly farting at work?

If he had a medical condition, sure, it's not like you can just turn it on and off 🤷‍♀️

Lots of people just aren't embarrassed by farts though - in all honesty it's only through here that I've realised some people genuinely leave the room every time they fart 💨

Then that's very strange.. have you and all the people around you for the whole of your life just let rip round each other?

I have ibs

Medically diagnosed

There's lots of foods that if I eat them I fart a lot.

I can control it sometimes but if I can it's painful.

So if it is a medical issue there may well be nothing the doctors can do. They had nothing to offer me other than a diagnosis.

before I even read the replies -
when my 79 year old but fit and active, Ramblers, walked everywhere
widowered Father moved with my sister & husband into their lovely home

this was what inspired them to request he moved back out.

He walked around their large house ‘machine gunning’ as she put it.

I asked her did he do it when he was at anyone else’s house - No
Did he do it on one of the many occasions when she had a friend round
(he would hover) or when entertaining friends or other family - No

My poor ladylike Mother would have been mortified - both parents had
been so fastidious.
I did think this was deliberate, no idea why.
It is as my Mum would say, ‘uncouth’ and anyone at my dinner table farting
would be required to leave the table, of a ‘visitor’ would not be invited again.

No! you don’t have ‘unreasonable expectations’ at all !

Also !
Friends who are female solicitors,
speaking informally of wives now initiating divorce,
without exception! remark -
at least I won’t have to put up with all that farting

When I invited my now husband to move in, his first words were "there will be so much farting!" And I laughed and said "ok".

I fart more than him I'd say. It's a huge source of hilarity in this house. Now we have a baby, we have a third person to giggle with us.

Farting is normal. So long as you're not doing it in each other's faces or it smells really bad.

This thread has finally convinced me that there are no normal people on mumsnet. Just upper, middle class weirdos.

Dinner parties? Uncouth? Jo average farts all day every day. With a good, balanced diet with plenty of roughage, there's gonna be farting.

You pearl clutching lasses crack on with your no farting rules and having zero fun in life, Jesus.

Oil-pulling doesn't actually work for anything. There is no evidence that it does anything at all. Any effects are likely to be placebo only, or imagined.

I very rarely fart, if I do let one go I immediately go to the toilet. And open a window! I can't remember the last time I farted in public or company (apart from family)
My dad did the worst farts. The noise, the smell. At the dinner table, all around the house. Awful!
There was this disgusting bloke at my work that would come over to my desk to fart, then laugh and walk off. I really wanted to kill him.

Doesn’t bother me.

Oh, sorry this is Mumsnet. Horrible, terrible behaviour. I blame the Tories.

Family and partners, yes.

Not at work (at least not audibly!) or in the company of guests or at the dinner table, but while pottering around the house or watching telly or whatever, yes, it's pretty normal for family to fart.

Don't get me wrong: weaponised, performative, deliberately offensive 'Get a load of that' farting is tedious and irritating. But your average little trump and a chuckled apology is just funny, IMO.

'The mice are having trumpet lessons again' and 'More tea, Vicar?' are standard responses in our house. My nephew, as a toddler, used to cheerfully say 'Oops! Beg your parsnips!' every time he trumped, and this has also endured as a fart apology between me and DP.

Absolutely vile and horrible when DH does it…me, not so much!

Just because you haven't heard it, that doesn't mean he doesn't do it.

You sound like everyone in my house - is that you wife? I do it and get called everything - you do it and it's funny. 😂😂

I closed all the windows, but it didn't do any good 🤣🤣

🙄

Exactly ... No-one does that. People CAN control it. I mean not keep the fart in, but keep it really quiet if they HAVE to do it!