News Flash Everybody Farts!

[hppygr8ful]

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

[Farawyn]

I can't believe someone walked into a conversation to complain. So uncouth!

[Jensmom7, BSN, RN]

I cannot believe that someone started a thread about flatus. So uncouth.

It's called humor. Is everyone going to appreciate the subject? Nope. But those of us who do will have a giggle and feel better for it.

I work with people who are dying. A good laugh after I get home is incredibly therapeutic. Even during work hours there are opportunities. One of my patients farted while being repositioned, and apologized profusely. I said, "Meh, you're in Hospice, you can do whatever you want." Not rolling on the floor funny, but it broke the ice.

I personally find fart jokes hysterical. The baked bean scene in "Blazing Saddles" still makes me laugh until I cry.

If it isn't your cuppa tea, you can always just scroll on by. I also recommend a book called "The Gas We Pass: The Story of Farts". You might find it interesting.

[emtb2rn, BSN, RN, EMT-B]

I cannot believe that someone started a thread about flatus. So uncouth.

"I fart in your general direction!"

[Jensmom7, BSN, RN]

"I fart in your general direction!"

So, was your mother a hamster and did your father smell of elderberries?? [emoji41]

[Farawyn]

So, was your mother a hamster and did your father smell of elderberries?? [emoji41]

Go away or I shall taunt you a second time!!!

[lunchboxRN]

Lots of post-op pts on my ortho floor and it's always a little celebration when that reluctant fart finally escapes. Always funny when you roll a LOL and out comes a toot...unless your behind her doing a skin assessment on the buttocks.

I love fart jokes. My husband says I'm like a 12 year old boy. But, he can count on one hand the number of times he's heard me do it. I was raised in a tightly clenched buttock house :)

[Farawyn]

Lots of post-op pts on my ortho floor and it's always a little celebration when that reluctant fart finally escapes. Always funny when you roll a LOL and out comes a toot...unless your behind her doing a skin assessment on the buttocks.

I love fart jokes. My husband says I'm like a 12 year old boy. But, he can count on one hand the number of times he's heard me do it. I was raised in a tightly clenched buttock house :)

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[Jaykalkyn, BSN, RN]

Immaturity, point blank and the period.

What grade are we in if we can't ignore a fart?

Thats a developmental milestone that should have disappeared in elementary school, maybe 6th grade. After that, your parents should have gotten you checked out for developmental delay.

Now, if someone purposely farts in the company of others, that deserves to be addressed head on, to that person first.

Grow up, people!

[Farawyn]

Immaturity, point blank and the period.

What grade are we in if we can't ignore a fart?

Thats a developmental milestone that should have disappeared in elementary school, maybe 6th grade. After that, your parents should have gotten you checked out for developmental delay.

Now, if someone purposely farts in the company of others, that deserves to be addressed head on, to that person first.

Grow up, people!

Pfffffffftt!!!

[Jensmom7, BSN, RN]

Immaturity, point blank and the period.

Grow up, people!

Why??

Personally, I've reached an age where the disapproval of someone with a stick apparently permanently inserted in an orifice doesn't bother me one. little. bit.

When (not if, when) a patient farts I don't fall on the floor guffawing and clutching my sides while tears stream down my cheeks. THAT would be immature. However, if we make eye contact, I might say something like "Better out than in".

When I'm at home, off the clock and have checked "professionalism" at the door? Bring it on!!

[Farawyn]

Farts is in caps in the OP.

If you come into such a thread wagging your finger we may just pull it... And we know what'll happen then! :)

[Penelope_Pitstop, BSN, RN]

This brings back fond memories of the men in my family going back to my great-grandfather saying "pull my finger" to whatever kid was around. I'm sure the tradition goes back even further and makes me wonder who the first cave man was that made a kid giggle with that fart inducing line.