News Flash Everybody Farts!

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I have read a couple of posts lately where people are complaining about people farting breaking wind, passing gas etc...

What exactly is the big deal? The average person farts 14 to 20 times a day and if you say you don't fart you're either lying or you are an alien species.

Yes it can be gross and smell bad but it's like poop it just happens sometimes.

Hppy

Specializes in LTC, CPR instructor, First aid instructor..
It's not about having a "sensitive nose." Gas is unpleasant for anyone. Why should others have to be inconvenienced when you're the one afflicting others with your odor? That is why older people fill their pockets with potpourri. It's basic common courtesy. It's also the reason that we as a society consider farting in the workplace to be unprofessional and tasteless.
What if they can't help it?
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Specializes in LTC, CPR instructor, First aid instructor..
attachment.php?attachmentid=21037&stc=1Oh no, there it goes again.:nailbiting:
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Specializes in Hospice.
attachment.php?attachmentid=21037&stc=1Oh no, there it goes again.:nailbiting:

Bwahahaha thank you, I'm having a craptastic ending to a craptastic day, and you made me laugh. [emoji8][emoji23]

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Specializes in Critical Care, Float Pool Nursing.
What if they can't help it?

Why would someone not be able to help it? Are they incontinent or something? Having an accident every once in a while is excusable, but why would someone routinely not be able to control expelling bowel contents?

Do they have some kind of bowel-related variant of restless leg syndrome, maybe "restless colon syndrome?" Where you spontaneously crap your pants in public? Is that what's going on?

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Why would someone not be able to help it? Are they incontinent or something? Having an accident every once in a while is excusable, but why would someone routinely not be able to control expelling bowel contents?

Do they have some kind of bowel-related variant of restless leg syndrome, maybe "restless colon syndrome?" Where you spontaneously crap your pants in public? Is that what's going on?

Maybe they are tooting at you to get rid of you.

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Specializes in Med/Surg, Ortho, ASC.
Why would someone not be able to help it? Are they incontinent or something? Having an accident every once in a while is excusable, but why would someone routinely not be able to control expelling bowel contents?

Do they have some kind of bowel-related variant of restless leg syndrome, maybe "restless colon syndrome?" Where you spontaneously crap your pants in public? Is that what's going on?

Clearly, you have little to none life experience.

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Specializes in Medsurg/ICU, Mental Health, Home Health.
Why would someone not be able to help it? Are they incontinent or something? Having an accident every once in a while is excusable, but why would someone routinely not be able to control expelling bowel contents?

Do they have some kind of bowel-related variant of restless leg syndrome, maybe "restless colon syndrome?" Where you spontaneously crap your pants in public? Is that what's going on?

Is this cat for real?

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Is this cat for real?

He IS!!!

:woot:

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Specializes in LTC, CPR instructor, First aid instructor..

good grief!

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Specializes in ED.
I hate to be contrary, but I get very annoyed when someone passes gas. It's a really gross feeling to walk into a room or area and smell the contents of someone's intestines. It can cause people to lose their lunch, lose their temper, or just ruin an already bad day. More than that, it's just tasteless.

Also, there is no reason to talk about it openly. I once worked with a girl who said she didn't like to have BMs at work because the bathroom was scary, so she'd spent her whole drive home from work farting in her corificeat nonstop. I don't understand why people think its prudent to share these things at work.

EXACTLY!! Why is this ok? Keep your anal vapor to yourself please!

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EXACTLY!! Why is this ok? Keep your anal vapor to yourself please!

That would cause implosion.

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Next time I need to fart I'm standing next to the guys with potpourri in their pockets. Unfortunately, I like the way mine smell and they're funny. Always have been. I read it on the Internet. My mom was a nurse and she tooted. She was a really good nurse. So I figured I needed to be more like me mum. I always thought to be a good nurse one had to.

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