Farting on an Airplane

I've had debates over the years about this, and there are people who think farts and fart jokes are generally funny and those that don't. I've watched people rolling over in laughter during the campfire scene of Blazing Saddles while I was mostly trying to figure out why others found that scene so hilarious. It's like a Rorschach Test of sorts, lol. (I'm obviously in the latter group).

 

My boys are gonna enjoy this (especially the 11 y/o). Ty.

 

I don't find it funny either. Something we all pretty much do on a daily basis. It lacks originality.

 

It is low humor for sure. Any appeal the fart soundboard carries for me comes from observing the amazement on the faces of young children while they are squealing with silly laughter. It has its place and time.

Nor do I think people who "just pathed gath," as one of my children used to say on gassy occasion, should be shamed or embarrassed for a normal bodily function.

 

I find humor in most fart scenarios but worry about others’ finding either humor or judgement at my expense, especially as I age. I remember suppressing laughter a few years ago when an elderly cousin pooted with each step as she walked across the room.

I chuckled when my daughter told a story about her grandmother ripping what she thought was silent but her bad hearing betrayed her. When my daughter said, “Grandma?!”, Granny replied, “You heard that?”

And then just a few days ago I strained just a tad when standing up out of my chair at work and accidentally ripped off a short sport. Luckily, no one was in or near my office to have to pretend that they didn’t hear it.

 

Years ago I worked with a crew of guys remodeling one of the upper floors of an office building. Every morning we would meet in the parking lot and take the elevator up to the 12th floor.
This one joker would drink beer and eat hard boiled eggs every night so when the crew got into the elevator and the door closed he could let a stinky one. Eventually we figured out he was holding his farts until that door closed.

 

Our granddaughter thinks they are funny and doesn’t hold back. Eventually my wife got her to say quack, quack rather than fart. My wife was in the kitchen and let one go. The granddaughter runs from her bedroom into the kitchen and starts yelling,,, “grammy, you boo booed in your panties”. My wife says no I didn’t. They went back and forth with “yes you did” and “no I didn’t” numerous times. When things finally settled down and my granddaughter went back to her bedroom, my wife says “damn that girls got good hearing”.

 

Once the doors fall off, bad gas will be the last thing you worry about.

 

Don’t we all have that same friend? Good anecdote but I agree with O&B. Shoulda used “rank”, or maybe “rancid”, or as a last resort “foul”. One demerit for “stinky”.