Do you pass gas during flights or hold it?
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Anonymous
 really? That seems grosser to me.
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Anonymous
| People over 60 don't have much control over their flatulence. Its not a choice for them to time them.. |
Anonymous
It does but my 80 year mom doesn't have good enough bladder control and is too frail to walk around the plane. I would rather have her wear a diaper than have an accident. Have some compassion for the old. |
Anonymous
| This is such a weirdly yet typical American thing to think of. Let me tell you: no one else is thinking about this or even cares. |
Anonymous
You use your sphincter muscles to release the gas slowly enough that it doesn't make a sound. 99% of my farts are silent. I do appreciate when I'm by myself and can just let one fly. It's a relief. I've also noted that as I get older, my ability to control the sound is declining slightly. But ideally by the time I have no control, I'll be too old to care what people think of my loud farts! |
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Some farts are smellier than others. Most of my farts don't smell enough for me to notice the smell. Doesn't mean that someone standing right behind me when I farted wouldn't smell it, but they clearly aren't potent enough to really stink up a room. When I'm on certain medication (hello, prednisone) or recovering from food poisoning, my farts smell super foul. So I can tell the difference. I do think if all your farts smell really bad, it means something in your diet is making them stink. It's not necessarily bad -- broccoli makes my farts smellier, for instance, and broccoli is great for you. But I do sometimes think to myself "I'm going to skip the broccoli tonight because I will be in a conference room for four hours tomorrow morning with colleagues and I want to bee kind to them." By your 40s you should know all this about your body -- how alcohol and certain foods and medications impact it. You just have to pay attention and have some self-awareness. |
Anonymous
You will both think about it and care if you sit in my row flying across the Atlantic. |
Anonymous
And that is why they have a diminished social life. If you don’t hold it in, you won’t have many friends. |
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An elderly couple is sitting in church during a sermon. The wife leans over to her husband and whispers, "I just let out a silent fart. What should I do?"
The husband whispers back, "Well, for starters, you can put a new battery in your hearing aid". |
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Traveling can lead to constipation for some, resulting in increased farts. If I’m not extra careful with hydration and getting enough fiber, it can get pretty bad. Same thing with RTO and a long commute, it wreaked total havoc no matter what I ate.
Little farts here and there aren’t awful but now that I think about it, I have a 3 hour flight coming up and a little peppermint tea and Gas X ahead of time might be nice |
Anonymous
| I was on a flight once and someone near me had awful gas the entire flight. On the cab ride home I mentioned this and my son (6 or 7) at the time said yeah, that was me. 🤦♀️ |
Anonymous
 Surprised that a kid so young had smelly gas. My gas didn't become bad until my 30s.
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Gas is painful and I’m afraid to fly so only go to bathroom if I really need to, so answer is yes of course.
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Anonymous
Farting is natural. Get over yourself. |
Anonymous
So true. I never recline my seat unless the one behind me is vacant. When people recline their seats, I usually get up and give their seat as big a shove as possible, then say something like. "oh sorry there wasn't much room and I slipped". I usually do the same when I sit back down. Waiting until they are asleep is the best time. |