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  • 14-03-2019 11:10pm
    #1
    [Deleted User]
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    Why are so many people hung-up on farting?

    According to Wikipedia, "The professional farters of medieval Ireland were called braigetoír. They are listed together with other performers and musicians in the 12th century Tech Midchúarda, a diagram of the banqueting hall of Tara. As entertainers, these braigetoir ranked at the lower end of a scale headed by bards, fili, and harpers".

    Farting is no less necessary to life than breathing, sweating, or going to the bathroom. Yet we persist in this odd charade whereby we pretend that nobody does it.

    Does anybody else find it slightly odd that we are now more uptight about our bodies' natural functions than we were in the middle ages?

    For further information, see:
    Ramsey G. 2002. ‘A Breath of Fresh Air: Rectal Music in Gaelic Ireland’ in Archaeology Ireland Vol. 16, No. 1, pp. 22-23


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    whiskeyman
    Registered Users Posts: 12,564 ✭✭✭✭whiskeyman


    That's gas...


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    Kermit.de.frog
    Registered Users Posts: 23,564 ✭✭✭✭Kermit.de.frog


    Maybe you need to test public opinion as to your assertion OP?

    Get in to a lift full of people in your place of employment, do it, and admit it.

    See how they react? Then you'll know.


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    Feisar
    Registered Users Posts: 6,614 ✭✭✭Feisar


    OK, we all break wind but it's not worth a giggle

    First they came for the socialists...



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    mzungu
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    It's an ill wind....

    :pac:


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    One eyed Jack
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    A Tyrant Named Miltiades! wrote: »
    Does anybody else find it slightly odd that we are now more uptight about our bodies' natural functions than we were in the middle ages?


    I think it’s the unpleasant odour makes some people a bit uptight about it. It’s a natural bodily function of course, but society has become more civilised* than we were in medieval times too.



    *Well we have like :D


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    Jim Bob Scratcher
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    Feisar wrote: »
    OK, we all break wind but it's not worth a giggle



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    One eyed Jack
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    mzungu wrote: »
    It's an ill wind....

    :pac:


    Beware the ides of March :D


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    [Deleted User]
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    One eyed Jack wrote: »
    I think it’s the unpleasant odour makes some people a bit uptight about it. It’s a natural bodily function of course, but society has become more civilised* than we were in medieval times too.



    *Well we have like :D
    That's definitely true. But I come into work three days a week stinking from the gym, and have never thought to be embarrassed about it.

    Clearly there's an additional social stigma associated with farts.


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    antodeco
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    Jim Bob Scratcher wrote: »

    I've laughed way harder and longer than I should've at that!


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    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
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    The Yanomami tribe, in south America, fart as a greeting.


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    archer22
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    A Tyrant Named Miltiades! wrote: »
    That's definitely true. But I come into work three days a week stinking from the gym, and have never thought to be embarrassed about it.

    Clearly there's an additional social stigma associated with farts.

    Because you are having the smell of other peoples shyte forced on you...personally I think it's only the extremely ignorant who would do it in public.


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    McMurphy
    Registered Users Posts: 13,365 ✭✭✭✭McMurphy


    A fart is air whistling past shyte.

    Think about that the next time your breathing one in in a crowded space.


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    EmmetSpiceland
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    It’s a sad arse that never rejoices.

    “It is not blood that makes you Irish but a willingness to be part of the Irish nation” - Thomas Davis



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    the_pen_turner
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    better outside killing you than inside killing me


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    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
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    how-to-fart-in-public-girl-code-gif.gif


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    dingdong1234567
    Registered Users Posts: 828 ✭✭✭dingdong1234567


    Whoever smelt it dealt it.......


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    Edgware
    Registered Users Posts: 5,875 ✭✭✭Edgware


    Is olc an ghaoth nach seideann maith do dhuine eigin


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    Sardonicat
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    I'm clearly descended from a long line of braigiteor. I can hold a note like no other.


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    davidk1394
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    Nothing better than leaving off a ripper in a pub or night club especially on the dance floor or the bar


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    Harry Palmr
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    It can actually be a sign of good health.


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    Pauliedragon
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    A Tyrant Named Miltiades! wrote: »
    Why are so many people hung-up on farting?

    According to Wikipedia, "The professional farters of medieval Ireland were called braigetoír. They are listed together with other performers and musicians in the 12th century Tech Midchúarda, a diagram of the banqueting hall of Tara. As entertainers, these braigetoir ranked at the lower end of a scale headed by bards, fili, and harpers".

    Farting is no less necessary to life than breathing, sweating, or going to the bathroom. Yet we persist in this odd charade whereby we pretend that nobody does it.

    Does anybody else find it slightly odd that we are now more uptight about our bodies' natural functions than we were in the middle ages?

    For further information, see:
    Ramsey G. 2002. ‘A Breath of Fresh Air: Rectal Music in Gaelic Ireland’ in Archaeology Ireland Vol. 16, No. 1, pp. 22-23
    The fact you were searching professional farters on wikipedia is a concern op. Have you started paddys day celebrations early or just bored?


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    JohnnyFlash
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    Harry Palmr wrote: »
    It can actually be a sign of good health.

    Jesus, I must be on to live to 120 years old if that’s the case. Had a gallon of porter last night watching the Liverpool game. The choir of arse angels was practising all day, and there was a fent off them that would strip paint from a trawler.


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    EmmetSpiceland
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    md19426113423.jpg

    “It is not blood that makes you Irish but a willingness to be part of the Irish nation” - Thomas Davis



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    rodge68
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    Kylen Fierce Bullfighter wrote: »
    The Yanomami tribe, in south America, fart as a greeting.
    Must be part Yanomani in me....
    Horrendous, running away from myself...


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    antodeco
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    dingdong1234567 wrote: »
    Whoever smelt it dealt it.......

    Whoever did the rhyme did the crime!


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    whisky_galore
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    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Pétomane

    A French 'fartiste'.


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    #28
    Fifty grades of shay.
    Registered Users Posts: 779 ✭✭✭Fifty grades of shay.


    It's a bodily function, but best kept secret, you would hardly have a, s***e or a p**s in front of people or in the workplace or the lift etc, so you should try to have a bit of manners and squeeze it back till you get a bit of privacy.

    Having said that, a, squeezed one gone wrong can be horrid messy. :D


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    #29
    JohnnyFlash
    Registered Users Posts: 7,055 ✭✭✭JohnnyFlash


    Fart jokes are the only jokes where the 'telling', punchline, and response all happen together.


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    RWCNT
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    Fifty grades of shay. wrote: »
    you would hardly have a, s***e or a p**s in front of people or in the workplace or the lift etc

    This is definitely the next social oppression that needs tackling


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    #31
    Tacitus Kilgore
    Registered Users Posts: 2,128 ✭✭✭Tacitus Kilgore


    Farting is the funniest thing in the world to me, genuinely cannot contain the laughter no matter where, when who or what does it..


    I mean how can you not laugh at it - when someone rips a long one that changes tone a couple of times during the chorus and heads off for a high f to finish :D


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