Farting, the sociology of and jokes about

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Back in the day if you farted in class you were the object of ridicule and teasing, possibly throughout your entire secondary school tenure. You were given a nickname like Stinky or Smelly or Fartboy that stuck and you wore it or faced the even worse fate of complete and total shunning and ostracism. Popular culture bears this out as in the Chorus Line character who laments the one little fart that squeaked out.

Things are different now. The boy who sits next to my daughter in class is a notorious public farter, a definite class clown and in no way an unpopular kid. The Nickelodeon Kids Choice Awards, an abomination my wife and I tolerate for the sake of household harmony, has gone from merely having an award for the best on screen farting to having hosts and/or presenters, as reported by my daughter, actually fart live on the show.

I don’t pretend to know whether all this is a good thing, a bad thing, or just one of those things. I have always enjoyed a good fart now and again, but it is something, like certain jokes, that is kept among friends and family. And I suppose that very fact of this thread is indicative of the problem, if there is, in fact, a problem at all.

So with that in mind, and to encourage further discourse I offer this recent runner up for a Bulwer-Lytton Award:

“Throckmorton, a scientist to the core, knew that if he broke wind in the echo chamber, he’d never hear the end of it.”

Right, I should give thanks to Checkernuts for the inspiration to start this thread although I suspect it is much more than he would have bargained for, though perhaps no less than he’d expect from me. :wink:

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Re: Farting, the sociology of and jokes about

no comment.

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Re: Farting, the sociology of and jokes about

runner up?!?
who/what won?

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LOL! I anticipated that and well, frankly, it took all the effort and has all the originality of “where’s your other wheel.” :slight_smile:

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Google my friend, google.

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You know what is going to happen with this, don’t you?

Invariably, someone is going to start a thread for people to post wav. files of their own farts.

And here I am with no microphone.

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Along the lines of “where’s your other wheel,” wouldn’t an old fart be the one most likely to start a thread like this? I am of course a pot calling a kettle black, here.

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“old fart” is such an odd expression I’ve always thought since farts don’t really get a chance to age and each one is always fresh and new.

But that aside, yeah.

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FART!!!

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Farting is fun and farting is funny and holding them in should be against the law, even at the dinner table. It’s funny though that farting in front of your mates is really funny but in front of strangers slightly embarrasing, it gets me wondering though that at which point in the evolution of man did farting become funny, and not just one of those things that they did and not really notice, an interesting subject which we could discuss for days and we havn’t even got on to the subject of lighting them yet.

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Not one to want to put a dampener on a thread about farting jokes after all toilet humour can be quite a relief. But did you know that every time you (or anyone else) farts small particles of faecal matter are expelled at the same time. This has the consequence that anyone in the vicinity of the fart will breathe in and ingest faeces.

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^you take all the fun out of farting.

farts in Unicus’ general direction

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the funniest thing about farts is that they are always funny. I think it comes down to: no matter how pretentious the world becomes you are still powerless to keep from experiencing the nastiest stuff I can produce.

Making a fart is like saying “hey, remember how funny a fart is?”

Making a loud one is like saying “Yeah it was me, and there is nothing you can do.”

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Farts can stay in a closed Tupperware container for a good period of time! I ate a bad burrito at a sketchy mexican place and i was farting something fierce. I wanted to share the love with my friends that were coming over later…so you guessed it.

It was only a few hours, though. Anyone wanna test further?

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oh man that is funny!!! :smiley:

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I feel a fart joke coming on:

There once was an old couple who had been married for thirty years.

Every morning the old boy would wake up and give off an enormous fart, much to his long suffering wife’s annoyance.

“You’ll fart your guts out one of these days,” she always complained.

After a particularly bad week the wife decided to have her revenge and got up early, placing some turkey giblets in the bed next to the old boy’s arse.

While making breakfast downstairs she heard his usual morning fart reverberate through the floorboards followed by a scream.

Twenty minutes later a rather shaken man came downstairs.

“You was right all along Missus,” the old man says, “I finally did fart my guts out, but by the grace of God, and these two fingers, I managed to push 'em back in!”

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Fart Trek

I’m trying to find an old ‘fart maker’ in flash… still looking …

Fart of the day

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create a fart :smiley:

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It’s been a dream of mine since childhood…but I keep forgetting to do it. :slight_smile:

Andrew

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Fart Chart

Trap a fart

Fart facts
(everything you ever wanted to know, even capturing farts for later)

Google is fun :smiley: