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I was having this discussion at work a few days ago.......being in the Medical Profession i guess we are more tolerant to bodily functions to those who are not. We reckoned that 3 metres was an acceptable distance to fart in front of from someone!

This conversation came up as i had been in the supermarket reaching to get a something when this nasty old man dropped the most massive fart when he was stood right next to me. My first instinct admittedly was to call him a vile dirty bastard but then my sense of humour kicked in and I got the giggles altho I was still repulsed!!

So is it ever acceptable to fart in a room with other people and if so what distance is required between the farter and the closest person? Is it more acceptable to fart in front of friends or strangers?

There are two types of farts.

Intentional and unintentional.

It's only acceptable to fart intentionally when you are around friends or tolerant family members.

Any other kind of fart might seem rude, but cannot be easily impeded by the farter.

As you are in the "Medical Profession", you should realize better than most of us that unintentional farts are not controllable and should be considered to be hilariously unintended expulsions and accepted as such.

Joe Guy wrote:There are two types of farts.

Intentional and Unintentional
Any other kind of fart might seem rude, but cannot be easily impeded by the farter.

I beg to differ there is also the vaginal fart which we call the fanny fart!!

Well, whatever distance you can't smell it at, but that varies according to farter.

A involuntary 'poot', generally doesn't smell bad, but its noticeable sound can cause embarrassment. So, I guess you want to get out of ear-shot for that one.

It's the 'silent but deadlies' that should be as far away as possible.

When I once worked as a bank teller (Did so! I can do lots of things!) For some reason, I'd get gas, and didn't want to stink up my station; so, I'd grab a file folder and walk to the far window to watch the birdies- or some such BS. So doing, I'd wave the file folder just in case and head back to my post. It's not that you farted, but that the odor is offensive, so spare the air, dear!

How do you know its going to smell before you yourself have smelled it?

Well, if you're a serial farter, you can get a jist for just how stinky you are.

There was a co-worker of mine in the fleet, who could disrupt morning muster with his noxious order ...and we held them outdoors! It was concluded something had crawled up his ass and died, so he was permitted to break ranks when he felt the wind building.

The eternal dilemma, the risk of the smell vs the hilarity of the sound.

I have a colleague whose favourite trick is to walk over to somebody's desk on some pretext and whilst talking to them drop an SBD and then move away quickly. He is not allowed within 10 feet of my desk...

Name and shame babes!

At my last job we had a guy that would drop the deadliest of farts he was notorious and proud of them. On day we hired someone who thought he could compete with the man. It wasn't long before every one else in the room forced him to concede defeat.

In my circle of man friends, an accidental fart is known as 'Marking My Territory'.

*PooT* -oh sorry, just 'marking my territory'.

Is this Universal Man Law, or just a local custom?

Come on playing the fart game is just one of lifes little pleasures. A good fart is like a breath of fresh air.

I have to say i am a little surprised at how serious this thread has been taken!

Miles i have to agree with you.....I still think farts are hysterically funny....Pudd has just learnt the "Pull my finger trick" and we crack up!

Farting is acceptable IMHO in front of immediate family and close friends. I want friends to come to my home and be able to "fart and feel comfortable"

3 metre rule stands at work unless your pregnant when all rules and niceties go out the window...i would never have been at my desk if that rule had been enforced when I was up the duff.

Maybe this should be in random thoughts, but I'll put it here;

Why does your home toilet bowl have a lid? A public one doesn't have one; what shouldn't you be allowed to see in private, that can go on in social stalls?

Other than George Micheal's love life...

loCAtek wrote:Maybe this should be in random thoughts, but I'll put it here;

Why does your home toilet bowl have a lid? A public one doesn't have one; what shouldn't you be allowed to see in private, that can go on in social stalls?

Other than George Micheal's love life...

Keeps the pets out of the toilet.

Public ones certainly do have them!

SisterMaryFellatio wrote:

Joe Guy wrote:There are two types of farts.

Intentional and Unintentional
Any other kind of fart might seem rude, but cannot be easily impeded by the farter.

I beg to differ there is also the vaginal fart which we call the fanny fart!!

But the fanny fart would still fall into either the category of intentional or unintentional.

I can't believe I'm having to explain this to a person in the medical profession... :

You must not be a proctologist. Otherwise you'd have learned the above very early on in proctology school.

Gob wrote:Public ones certainly do have them!

Not any I've ever been in here in the states.

Joe Guy wrote:
You must not be a proctologist. Otherwise you'd have learned the above very early on in proctology school.

Pssst Joe, that's gynecologist. A fanny doctor.

"fanny" is the term for the butt as far back as I remember.
must be a european term where "fanny = vagina"