What is a fart?

Not for nothing, yes, childbirth is a "beautiful" experience but NO, I would not want to experience it and YES I am a WOMAN and for the love of God, this thread is about FARTS. ITS FUNNY. I just can't believe that you would take him seriously. He's joking. He's a nice guy. Damn I'm mad. Why does everyone insist on being so LITERAL here? It's supposed to be fun. let's keep it that way. I in no way saw him bashing women in his posts. He's TRYING LIKE HECK to keep it fun and light - let's just lighten up here....sheesh

Well, I've been holding off posting on this thread until I could figure out exactly what I wanted to say and here it goes:

I have no problem with anything that has to do with NATURAL functions of the human body (i.e. farting, giving birth, burping, throw up). There is a purpose for all functions and responses in the human body. I never really knew the purpose of farting, now I do.

Now some people find farting and burping as gross and some find it humurous. Some see the process of child birth as gross and some spectacular. How do you think we all came up with these "opinions" of these natural things that are bodies do? Friends and family. If you think about it really hard you can probably find someone you were really close to, or maybe not close to but who was a large part of your life, that has the same opinion. There are so many family and cultural aspects that can play into these "mind-sets." In other words, it's all a part of sociology.

I'm not saying that it's wrong to think one way or the other about the functions of the human body. There are factors that influence how we see them that sometimes we can't control. Sometimes we can see these influences as irrelevant and branch out from what our family or social group "feels." So, to each his own.

Oh, on a lighter note - I think farting can be a very funny topic and I have some very funny family stories on the subject!

Another thing, no one really knows why Alicia posted this. Maybe she found some of the facts very interesting with a little bit of humor thrown in. I know I found some of those facts to be interesting, educational, and funny.

I just want to clarify that the ONLY reason I posted what I posted was because of KF's post about the blood and gore of childbirth. I felt it was a direct insult at all the mom's here at TCS ( and there are alot of us ), ridiculing that we talk about it too much, yadda yadda yadda. I believe that child birth is a miracle of life and a beautiful event, including the 'blood'. And until you actually experience it, it is not fair to make any judgements. You just don't know or understand it.

So gals, Lets not let KF get his way and start some sort of big bashing thing. He wants to get all of us riled up so he can go back to the Cat Arena and brag how SusieQ and Dtolle are freaking out!! He loves to come here and start trouble with a controversial post, and then sit back and watch and report back to the CA....fine by me....lets not give him any satisfaction though.

Last word: SusieQ, you rock girl!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

YOU HAVE LOST YOUR MIND. I can't even believe you are posting this. ARE YOU FOR REAL?!?!? this was ABOUT FARTS NOT YOU AND CHILDREN AND CHILDBIRTH! for crhissakes GET OVER YOURSELVES - HE'S NOT BASHING YOU HE'S TRYING TO HAVE FUN AND IF YOU CAN'T SEE THAT THAN YOU NEED GLASSES!!!


WHOS CAUSING THE TROUBLE NOW?!?!?!?!/ WOW - I liked you, too......

you should be embarrassed and ashamed - you turning a FART THREAD INTO A WAR. KF DID NOTHING WRONG. Why, why, why, can't we just have FUN WITH THIS PLACE?!?!? Why do you take things SO PERSONALLY? It's rediculous! STOP!

The thing of it is, for me anyways, is that while all of us giggle in the presence of a fart (when we're not scrambling to open a window ) its kinda gross to know the actual scientific reasons for the act.

My hubby is one of many guys who thinks farts are hilarious, so I've learned to live with it. That doesn't mean I want to know about the combinations of gases at work in his body that helped create them :laughing:

As far as chilbirth being gory- well, its an amazing experience and while theres some blood and such involved I don't consider it gory. My definition of 'gory' is what occurs in a slasher film or the stuff you see on rotten.com.

A lot of us moms take offense when people reduce childbirth to a gross experience, especially those who've never been through it. It gets old to hear the cliches repeated over and over. I didn't smack my husband nor scream in agony. Childbirth isn't what you see on a TV sitcom, Its a very miraculous and spiritual time in a womans life. And to compare it to a fart, even jokingly, is at best, insulting.

And there you have my two cents

do you really think a man would understand this? Many don't - I'm sure KF does and this has gotten outa hand. Sure childbirth is a beautiful thing - we ALL KNOW THAT FOR CRISSAKES. And good FOR ALL OF YOU MOMS OUT THERE BUT SHEESH, Everyone here needs to just CALM DOWN and not take it so TO HEART! I just am here to have fun - I like cats, I like to post, but not when it gets ugly and people start this crap. It's stupid and a waste of time.

Jakenjinx,

I tried to respond to your beautiful PM....but your box is full. So I'll just say what I have to here. If it gets deleted, then so be it.

First off, if you are going to PM me with every other word being the F word, then don't even click send. I don't need to read it, thats more along the lines of CA not here.

Second, you don't need to defend KF to me. I didn't say or refer anything to YOU, I was insulted at his post about childbirth being gory. And I posted in response to THAT. If you must get involved, then at least approach me in a respectable way. You Pm'd me the first time saying that SusieQ went overboard, and that your post was not directed at me. Fine and dandy, but I think KF came here to stir up the pot. And if you are going to defend him, then that is fine. But then I will tell you like I told him. I think he is comparing a FART to giving birth to a BABY! Am I the only one here who does not see the correlation?????????????????????

Hey, who said I was freaking out? The thread turned to the subject of chilbirth and I weighed in on it. I'm not upset at all..I just thought I'd express how I felt about the whole thing. I AM allowed to do that, aren't I :confused3:

You say to calm down- it seems you're the one whos the most upset here to me.

Susiq that you deleted your RESPONSE ABOUT KF BASHING WOMEN.....HUH.... NO BALLS.:tounge2:

you came in AFTER SUSIEQ DELETED her response - I'm not sayin this to you - to susieq who can't leave what she wrote in the first place. Have some nuts and re-post it. Of course, now they are making me look like I STARTED IT - HUH - THAT HAPPENS ALOT HERE.

I DID pm you and say susieq went overboard cuz she did AND NOW HER RESPONSE IS GONE. HUH, INTERESTING. why don't you just post what I pm'd you?!?!/ I don't really care - this is silly and I'm laughing so hard I think I MIGHT FART.:tounge2:

Hey Janet...just don't have a bab...er I mean Cow! :lol

Oh hi Cleo!!!!!!!!! Welcome aboard!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Haven't seen you here at TCS in a long time!!!!! !Where ya been hiding at????????

Maybe you should ask the modirator to put it back. Why would they delete your thread?

I've been "lurking", just haven't seen anything I felt like posting to...kinda bored in general....life's like that sometimes.

Oh its good to see you around again Cleo. I read your post at CatArena on how I sent Catarina "100 nasty emails", and that is a direct quote from your post...........just thought I'd take a moment to say it was only about 15 and they were all in response to ones she sent me. Just wanted to be sure you were up to snuff on the latest news. Glad to see you posting again!!!

Janet - since the other thread seems to be gone - try clearing your pm sent box. Click on back to the beginning.

Ady woman - my pm is empty but I can't get any mail - go figure - I dunno - um..... lemme go check again...

since we've exhausted the subjects of farts and this can go nowhere good, I'm closing down shop.


move on, there's nothing to see here