I was homeschooled previously with a small group of other children and we fart in class all the time.

Now I’m in public school for high school and no one is farting. I was very sheltered and public school is like a whole new world for me, so I don’t know what the norms are. I’ve been holding it in but my stomach hurts and it leaks out anyway.

I don’t understand how there are so many more people in high school and yet zero farts…

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Somewhat unrelated, but I do find it funny that farts aren’t considered acceptable, but sneezes and coughs are. Like, farts have an extra barrier in the form of your clothing (assuming you’re not at a nudist colony or bathhouse) and won’t make other people sick. I guess it’s just because they’re stinky.

I vote to normalize farting with an “excuse me”, and saying “bless you” to people when they fart.

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Much easier to not fart than it is not to sneeze, and sneezes don’t smell like shit.

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According to other people in this thread most people’s farts don’t smell…

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That’s just not true.

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Ho ho ho, let me introduce you to my cry inducing military grade poison gas clouds then.

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It’s much easier to suppress farting than the involuntary reflexes of coughing and sneezing.

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Except while sneezing and coughing.

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It’s evolutionary. Farts smell like shits. People and animal avoid shits (or anything emitting H2S) because it’s wired in their brain to do so.

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I know, right! Sneezes even spread diseases and stuff, yet farts get a bad reputation

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See, I vote to say “what the fuck was that?” Or “oh just shut the fuck up” when people sneeze in public.

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