The humor of flatulence: awesome?

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I'm over 40 and I still find fart *jokes* and fake farts hilarious, but the real thing not so much....ewwww.

~Kate

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I don't fart on someone unless they are mean to
me on purpose.

I wood not contaminate a frend with fart
particles if I cood avoid it.

One thing I do when avoiding contamination
is to use a respirator that you get at
home depot, it traps alot of the bad
air and makes a seal around the face
and only lets exhale leave and no bad
air comes in without being filtered. first.

Farts are as hilarious as they are foul.

I actually agree that real farts are almost always gross, even if they're by a hot chick. But the sound is so sublime in that it exposes our fallibility in a way that's beyond denial or mockery. You can't lie, manipulate, or cheat your way around it -- it's a fart. BORRRRNT. We all heard it. You're not Ass-Pain or B-Lo or whoever the hell you want us to think you are. Deal with it!

Also, the first animal's mouths and anuses were one and the same orifice. I don't think we've come too far since then.

I think fart jokes and fake farts are hysterical. Sometimes I break out in laughter when I hear a really loud fart.

I don't find it in the least bit humorous. I don't necessarily find it disgusting, either, unless someone is trying to force it out. All of that grunting and other noises during that gets really freaking old fast.

I dunno... guess I figure it's just something bodies do naturally, and there is no humor in that.

When people cackle afterward, then it just plain annoys the crap out of me. I don't so much find the fart rude, but the cackling for 10 minutes without apologizing to others when they are disrupting concentration and such, or not bothering to go to another area until their laughing subsides... very very rude.

This thread reminds me of something that happened when I was about 10 years old...it was easter and I was in church with my aunt and two cousins, one was a year younger than me and the other was only 4 years old. We were sitting in a pew behind these two old ladies, and one of them let loose with a rip-roaring, LOUD fart during a silent part of the service. Well, me and my cousin (the one that was 9 at the time) started laughing uncontrollably and her mother was shushing us and trying to get us to be quiet, and all of a sudden the 4 year old loudly says to her mother "But she FARTED! It's FUNNY, mommy!" That was funnier than the fart itself!

~Kate

A person's attitude to farts is a litmus test for deciding how 'uptight' or laidback they are (literally!)

People who respond with anger and extreme annoyance at farts are probably people who are strict, mean, and quasi-fascist in other areas of life too.

Some of the replies here made me LOL. But still, not funny.

In these turbulent economic times, 'tis reasurring to know that our dearest founding father is still the wisest. Here is Mr. Benjamin Franklin’s infamously flatulant essay [edited] written in 1781 while he was living abroad as America's Ambassador to France. All aspiring pols should be paying attention:

"It is universally well known, That in digesting our common Food, there is created or produced in the Bowels of human Creatures, a great Quantity of Wind.

That the permitting of this Air to escape and mix with the Atmosphere is usually offensive to the Company, from the fetid Smell that accompanies it.

That all well-bred People therefore, to avoid giving such Offense, forcibly restrain the Efforts of Nature to discharge that Wind.

That so retained contrary to Nature, it not only gives frequently great present Pain, but occasions future Diseases, such as habitual Cholics, Ruptures, Tympanies, etc., often destructive of the Constitution, & sometimes of Life itself.

Were it not for the odiously offensive Smell accompanying such Escapes, polite People would probably be under no more Restraint in discharging such Wind in Company, than they are in spitting, or in blowing their Noses.

You are welcome to your modern philosophy, although I would detest having to live by it. But you must realize that such a philosophy can only be implemented at the expense of freedom and liberty. In the land of the free and home of the brave, the citizens govern themselves as much as possible. When they are no longer willing to do so, they trade in freedom and liberty for security and comfort. This is the fundamental difference between the American of the past and America of today. And this is why I say you no longer have the freedom even to fart.

In my day, we were not afraid to fart—or talk about it. We were not afraid to take risks, either. We did not envision a country where everyone was protected from every possible harm; quite the opposite, we envisioned a country where everyone had every possible chance to succeed. Somewhere along the way, I guess, we have lost the courage to fart.

My brethren and countrymen, if you cherish freedom and liberty, you are going to have to learn how to fart. You are going to have to get the point where the comforts and securities of life are not longer sufficient exchange for you loss of freedom.

And when you are criticized, as you will be, remind your critics that you have the right to speak your mind. And if they shout you down, as they probably will, then inform them that since they insist on being asses, you will henceforth communicate with them with the appropriate part of your own anatomy. And turning to face them from the posterior, let them know where you stand. Let every fart sound as a peal of thunder for liberty. Let every fart remind the nation of how much it has let pass out of its control.

It is a small gesture, but one that can be very effective—especially in a large crowd. So fart, and if you must, fart often. But always fart without apology.

Fart for freedom, fart for liberty—and fart proudly."