When is it OK to fart around someone? When you're good friends? With someone you're in a relationship with? Is it acceptable to fart in bed with your wife/husband/long-term partner? Is it OK to fart at the dinner table or in the office? Is it necessary to always go to the bathroom to do it? I suppose it varies by culture somewhat. What are the rules here?
The etiquette of breaking wind
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The Great Head.
Stick a cork in it, Nova.
classical_hero
In whom I trust
The louder it is the funnier it is.
Cashie
King
It's OK to fart if the people around you are OK with it.
Or if it's really funny, or you light it.
I don't think it's ever OK to fart in a lift or someone's car (especially if it's moving).
Or if it's really funny, or you light it.
I don't think it's ever OK to fart in a lift or someone's car (especially if it's moving).
Wahnfried
Chieftain
I should not fart against the back of other peeps in the city. My fun is determined. I try to stop fart because the result could be negative for me. To fart is never be good.
warpus
Sommerswerd asked me to change this
It is NEVER acceptable to fart in bed if you are sharing the bed with someone. The fart will get trapped under the sheets and haunt you until the morning. The proper thing to do is lift the sheets and fart to the side.
Wahnfried
Chieftain
Yeah... to fart in bed is unacceptable. Some people are doing it in the direction of their life-partners.
A tip: If you must fart go to the toilet and make your business there.
What is a dutch oven?
A tip: If you must fart go to the toilet and make your business there.
What is a dutch oven?
A dutch oven is when you hold someones head under the covers and fart.
I cant be bothered to get up and go to the bathroom every time I have to fart if Im in bed. My BF was really offended at first because its really taboo to fart in Middle Eastern culture, but eventually he got used to it.
I cant be bothered to get up and go to the bathroom every time I have to fart if Im in bed. My BF was really offended at first because its really taboo to fart in Middle Eastern culture, but eventually he got used to it.
Ingvina Freyr
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aah, yes.. the eternal and universal questions of mankind; What is the meaning of life, is there a god and how to best break wind.
Dreadnought
Deity
Try not to do it in public; if you must, release a little of the pressure at a time, in order to avoid a loud sound. And try to do it whilst walking around, so the fumes get transfered amongst a large area.
Leonel
Breakfast Connoisseur
If you're around people I think only when it's in a rather noisy environment and possibly there's already a wind blowing through to carry and dissipate the smelly wind. Like on a street or out in the countryside. Usually you can just get away with it if your stinky wind is mellow enough that you could break it indoors but only from like several good strides away from people.
But that leads into the unpredictability of people as someone might be coming around the corner and walking right behind you!
But that leads into the unpredictability of people as someone might be coming around the corner and walking right behind you!
Abaddon
Deity
Let it out gently unless with "my boys" and they its almost a competition to be the most disgusting possible, so loud and proud, preferably after downing your pint!
shadowplay
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Let it go in short, multiple bursts:
Like you're playing trombone.
Like you're playing trombone.
Wahnfried
Chieftain
I never heard before about such an atrocity like the dutch oven. I cannot execute it, because I am living alone and can fart 10 times in my bed.
Tani Coyote
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It's funny if it's done long, loud, and wet in a quiet testing room. I once let one rip and everyone looked at me. 
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In practice it's generally disgusting no matter where one does it. I especially hate when people fart on my bed. I like people to excuse themselves if they need to let it rip. We expel fluid and solid in the bathroom, why not air too?
God help us if there was plasma waste.
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Oh also I agree with the sentiment it's fine provided it can't be heard/smelled. Basically it's like it never existed.
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In practice it's generally disgusting no matter where one does it. I especially hate when people fart on my bed. I like people to excuse themselves if they need to let it rip. We expel fluid and solid in the bathroom, why not air too?
God help us if there was plasma waste.
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Oh also I agree with the sentiment it's fine provided it can't be heard/smelled. Basically it's like it never existed.
I'll see your Dutch Oven, and raise you a Shanghai Shroud...
CaptainF
The Professional Poster
Whenever I fart, it's silent, or otherwise covered up by background noise.
I'm frequently the guy who silently lets one rip and watches with amusement as those around me smell it and blame someone else.
Ninja farts FTW!
I'm frequently the guy who silently lets one rip and watches with amusement as those around me smell it and blame someone else.
Ninja farts FTW!
Thoughtful Thug
Deity
Whenever I fart, it's silent, or otherwise covered up by background noise.
I'm frequently the guy who silently lets one rip and watches with amusement as those around me smell it and blame someone else.
Ninja farts FTW!
Or the "dog did it fart." It is easy to blame it on the dog when it's around.
