It's so weird that we are all supposed to be ashamed for burping and farting. I deeply apologize to everyone for keeping my body from literally exploding, so uncouth.
@RickiTarr I've had students who have been so mistreated by previous teachers/schools that they think they need to apologize for needing to use the bathroom.
@RickiTarr Reminds me of hiking up a mountain behind a group of 3 women once. The woman farted, apparently silently, but immediately turned around and said, "watch out, I farted". Her friends seemed bemused, and she said, "Well I warned you, that's the best I can do.".
@RickiTarr I've gone the other way. Farts are celebrated with a triumphant cry (mine or anyone else's), burps are extended as long as possible though I never think to say something with them until it's too late .
Burps, belching and other mild forms of gastric distention, if someone gets miffed about that past a quick "excuse me", they are someone I don't want to break bread with ever again.
Well to quote my late Dad, who always used a Stage Somerset accent* to say it (Amateur Dramatics)
"I like fart because when I farts I laughs,
and when I laughs I knows I's Healthy."
@RickiTarr I find as I get increasingly older I've become more gas than man while at the same time running ever lower on couth. I should be able to power my stove and fireplace without paying Philly Gas Works. Mine works just as well.
@RickiTarr Kids can burp all they want and it's funny. Adults do it and it's rude.
In Turkey (and other ME countries) it's considered rude if you don't burp.
But cats, dogs and other animals do it, and we don't shame them.
If we don't let the gas out one way or another it'll build up and explode somewhere. So fart and burp away. It's being human!
The saying is "even if you try to hold it in, the body will emit it, somehow."
My partner would have bouts of terrible gas, and me, eating the same had-producing foods: Nada -- not a fart, not a burp.
I got diagnosed with Leaky Gut.
After many months of diet/prescription gut supplements, one day I burped for the first time in.....years. Also suddenly farting became a real thing. I would actually experience gas pains!
@run_atalanta@RickiTarr You have gas that has to go somewhere, and it's going to take the easiest exit.
BTW, this also goes for sneezing. My brother once told me, "Don't hold your sneezes in, you can have a heart attack." I thought it was a joke, (and he was wrong) but it is definitely not recommended at all. https://www.healthline.com/health/holding-in-a-sneeze
Lesson: don't hold back your bodily airs and fluids..it's your body saying, "Hey, human here's my opinion of your eating habits!"
@RickiTarr@fmhilton@run_atalanta
I have a milder version where I’ll have to sneeze once, or rarely, twice when I first go out in strong sunlight. And it’s not every time.
@run_atalanta@qurlyjoe@RickiTarr@fmhilton I have a mild form of it too. Sometimes, when I get one of those sneezes that doesn't want to come out and just makes your sinuses throb, I'll go to a window and stick my face in the sun to make myself sneeze and get it over with! 😆
@RickiTarr@run_atalanta I did not realize that I actually had a 'syndrome' until I read about it somewhere and finally discovered why I did all that sneezing all the time. It's expensive, too-I prefer to have special photosensitive lenses in my glasses. They cost a couple of hundred extra on top of the prescription.
@RickiTarr yeah, but it's worth it. It's all right to sneeze while walking, but you do not want to do it while riding a bike or driving a car. Very dangerous.
@niavy@RickiTarr@Fragglemuppet Same at our house. Woman, man, girl kid. We burp and fart and excuse ourselves and go on our merry way -- sometimes with a lot of laughter.
In the classic definition of the word, we are VULGAR. 😆
@RickiTarr When Kev and I were very new in our relationship, he was sleeping over and my stomach became very upset. I lived in a small townhouse with one bathroom that was right by my bedroom and I was terrified of the sounds my body was about to make, so I decided the most LOGICAL solution would be to drive to this 24-hour store by my house to use their restroom so I got dressed and told Kev I was going to Meijer to shop for SNOW BOOTS? (at like 3am) and he was like "Oh, I'll go with you" and I was like "No! You sleep! I'll go ALONE!" so @KevBot , if you're reading this, that's why I didn't come home with any snow boots.
@RickiTarr
With a life-long chronic bowel disease, farting has always been problematic. Sharting is always a risk. It’s interesting how sensitive one can become to internal sensations with years of practice, but one can never be 100% sure. One learns things like, sleep lightly, and if you dream of anything remotely connected to defecation, WAKE UP NOW! or else you’ll be doing laundry in the morning.
@RickiTarr After a nice dinner on my nephew's first date with a woman he really really liked, he suddenly had severe gastric distress while in her tiny apartment with thin walls. He urgently used her bathroom and was in there for a long long time making horrible diarrhea noise, and smelling up the joint. When he emerged he was terribly embarrassed, and she was like "??? You okay???" He thought, "She'll never go out with me, again." He told this story at their wedding reception. They now have two girls.
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