What is a fart?

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Very funny! Don't tell your husbands!

What is a fart and why does it smell?

Ever pull someone's finger and hear a weird noise come out of his or her butt?

Ever sit in a tub of water and see bubbles come out of your hiney?

This strange noise and vibrating sensation that came from your butt is most likely caused by a fart.

A fart is a combination of gases (nitrogen, carbon dioxide, oxygen, methane, and hydrogen sulfide) that travels from a person's stomach to their anus. When a person swallows too much air or eats foods that the human digestive system cannot digest easily gas becomes trapped in his/her stomach. The only way for this excess gas to exit the body is through the anus.

The gas that makes your farts stink is the hydrogen sulfide gas. This gas contains sulfur which causes farts to have a smelly odor. The more sulfur rich your diet, the more your farts will stink. Some foods that cause really smelly farts include: beans, cabbage, cheese, soda, and eggs.

A scientific name for a fart is flatus or flatulence.

The word fart is just one of many different terms used to describe the release of gasses from the human body. Other popular names for farts or farting include: gassers, stinkers, air biscuits, bombers, barking spiders, rotten eggs, and wet ones. You can pass gas, break wind, blast, beef, poof, rip one, let one fly, step on a duck, and cut the cheese.

Farts can be stinky, wet, loud, or silent but deadly. Pee-eeew!!!

Did you know?
On the average, a healthy person farts 16 times a day.
Hey guys, don't be fooled by girls who tell you that they never fart. Everyone farts, including girls. In fact, females fart just as much as males.
Many animals fart too. Cats, dogs, and cows. Elephants fart the most.
People fart the most in their sleep.
Farts that contain a large amount of methane & hydrogen can be flammable.
 

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My boyfriend takes his showers sitting down, and I think becasue of the shower noise and he closes the door, he thinks I can't hear it when he farts in there. It's so funny though, because sitting down seems to amplify the fart noise. I just crack up because you can hear it all through the house.
 

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Too funny! If cat and dog farts smell as bad as they do, can you even imagine what elephant farts must be like??? PEEE-EEEEWWWW!!!


I was actually on a highpower rifle team that was called The Blue Flames. It was a junior team, ages 14-20, and pretty much all guys. Well, considering the subject of this thread, you can imagine where they got the name!!! (Yes, they do light on fire, and the flame is blue!) We won a team match at the National Championships and you should have seen some of the looks we got when we were called up on the stage for the awards ceremony. Absolutely priceless.
 

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I'm with Melissa on this one....this is just a bit more information than I care to know.
 

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eeeeeeeewwwwwww, I know everybody does it, but it's still gross.
 

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Bathroom humor never fails to make me laugh. :disturbed
 

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YOU DO IT. YOU KNOW YOU DO IT.
:tounge2: My cat romeo used to fart LOUDLY, and turn around as if to say, "hey? what the hell was that?" and look at his bum.... too funny. :tounge2:
 

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Y'see..guys know it's a natural process and own up to our "sounds". We even make a "sport" out of it.


Many women,on the other hand, will do it in a crowded elevator then whack the nearest guy and blame it on him. :lol

Yet these same women will endlessly discuss the gory details of childbirth, etc and become highly insulted if you don't want to listen.
 

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Childbirth is NOT gory!!!!!!!!! Its the miracle of life, a far cry from a fart.
 

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I'd rather talk about farts than childbirth...... I just can't fathom having another human being come out of...ack....don't wanna go there...... Not saying that there is anything wrong with it, but OUCH
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considering some kids these days.


But at least nobody moans about farts for 9 solid months, takes videos, has the family in, screams loudly and curses everybody in the room. Nobody discusses the intimate details of farts for years afterwards. You don't have to change a fart's diapers...well, sometimes I suppose; depends...for 2 years afterwards. And I don't think ANYBODY has put a fart on the internet...yet.:tounge2:

Childbirth is a miracle ladies, but it ain't immaculate. It's a bloody, gory, painful mess in it's proceedings. Why do you think we need to hear about every drop of blood or agonized scream? Those odd looking smiles on your audience are a polite way of saying SHADDUP ALREADY BEFORE I PUKE!!
 

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well, you could take a video of the farts, I suppose.... like a history of your farting adventures, perhaps, or the WILD WILD WORLD of farts Olympics, cuz as you mentioned, it can become competitive (it does in my family anyway):tounge2:

eggnog and brandy + dad + the couch = pretty funny when he's got a buz on....tee...hee....
 

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Boy you guys make child birth out to be some disgusting act.
Maybe its "not clean" but its definitly a better subject than farts!!! By far!!!!!

And KF, until you actually EXPERIENCE it, you'll probably never understand why women want to talk about it. It all boils down to one thing: After an accomplishment like pushing a baby out, you just have to brag a bit!!!
 

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My best friend tried to get pregnant for 4 years. They tried almost every method (medical) under the sun, their last and final option finally worked. I remember her going into a depression every month when she discovered she wasn't pregnant. Through her pregnancy they videotaped every month her progress. The night before she was induced her and her husband videotaped a message to their son, who they would be meeting the next day. In the delivery, they only video taped a bit and always from the side, and cut off at her knees, where her gown covered her. It's was well done and without any gore.

When I went home to visit her I watched the tape. It brought tears to my eyes. I was touched by their excitedment and emotion through out the 9 months, by their messages to their son, and by watching the first moment they got to hold him. All I could think about was how many unwanted kids there are in this world, and how when their son saw this tape, he would be realize just how wanted he was. How excited his parents were, and how much they loved him before he even got here. He may not truelly appreciate it until his has a family of his own, but personally, I think it's the greatest gift they will ever give him, and I felt honored to get to watch it, that they let me in on that very personal and happy time in their life.
 

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Childbirth is an amazing site. Sure there is some blood, but there is NOT any gore. Gore is something that describes something that is gory and disgusting, and childbirth is neither.

Anybody who cannot appreciate the beauty and miracle of birth ( and listening to the moms recap it a thousand times ) is missing a beautiful part of life, and I feel sorry for them.

Very nice post AP, sweet story.
 
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