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Why isn't anyone farting in school?
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this post was submitted on 27 Dec 2023
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Somewhat unrelated, but I do find it funny that farts aren't considered acceptable, but sneezes and coughs are. Like, farts have an extra barrier in the form of your clothing (assuming you're not at a nudist colony or bathhouse) and won't make other people sick. I guess it's just because they're stinky.
I vote to normalize farting with an "excuse me", and saying "bless you" to people when they fart.
Much easier to not fart than it is not to sneeze, and sneezes don't smell like shit.
According to other people in this thread most people's farts don't smell...
That's just not true.
Well i haven't seen a study but i don't feel like that's wrong. A lot of people fart without it being smelly, little innocent ones.
Of course we remember the smelly, more numerous, ones that we got when having digestive problem or big number 2.
But i feel like the nice one are way more often, and happen to lots of people. There's even some people that let huge ones without smell, that's always funny.
My understanding is that little farts tend to be smellier than big farts because the big farts are often just swallowed air, but the little farts come from the gas released when the microbes in your gut digest something (which is also why certain foods like beans can make you really gassy because you can’t digest some of the fiber in them, but the bacteria can… also a similar situation with sugar alcohols (see the devil gummy bears)).
I didn't think so either.
Ho ho ho, let me introduce you to my cry inducing military grade poison gas clouds then.
It's much easier to suppress farting than the involuntary reflexes of coughing and sneezing.
Except while sneezing and coughing.
It's evolutionary. Farts smell like shits. People and animal avoid shits (or anything emitting H2S) because it's wired in their brain to do so.
I know, right! Sneezes even spread diseases and stuff, yet farts get a bad reputation
See, I vote to say "what the fuck was that?" Or "oh just shut the fuck up" when people sneeze in public.