# Bathroom comments! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 14, 2003, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bathroom-comments/148548 "2003-01-14T17:55:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![stofsky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dfb087/32.png) [@stofsky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stofsky)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2003, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bathroom-comments/148548/41 "2003-01-16T22:38:53Z")
Agree on the courtesy flush as a must. But, dammit, _farts are funny_! When my daughter was about 4, we drove down to Florida to visit my parents. This was also the trip when we found out that she gets carsick. Two puke stops on the way down, plus one stop at the car-wash vacuum. As my mother’s showing us around town the next day, Little Stofskette tells us that we might want to pull the car over. She bends over, begins the technicolor yawn, and at the same moment floats an air biscuit of such duration and auditory volume that all I could do, the man who taught her “pull my finger,” was applaud. ---
**Author:** ![Quasimodem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2003, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bathroom-comments/148548/42 "2003-01-16T22:44:16Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Green Bean \* > \*\*Well, the rules are different with regard to intra-family farts. The other night, I was laughing at something my husband said and I farted, but the fart came out in rhythm with my laughing–BRAP BRAP BRAP BRAP! :eek: So, we both started laughing hysterically at that, but I guess I was really gassy, because I kept farting in time with my laughing. I couldn’t stop laughing and I couldn’t stop farting. I was caught in an endless loop. It was wonderful and horrible all at the same time. \*\* You ain’t gonna believe this **Bean** , but I was laughing so hard at your post, that **I** farted! Right here on screen! 😃 Do we call that synchronicity, or what? If laughter is the best medicine, then anything that makes us laugh must be good for us, right? Makes me wonder who the first person to ever think a fart was funny was? Musta been a kid! I wrote in another thread that anytime my Dad (in his later years) farted at the dinner table, it was very important that me and my brother not make eye-contact. (My father was ex-military and we used to have to dress for dinner). Quasi (who would never scrape his shoe on the floor to disguise a fart - unless I was in a tux, or at a funeral :D) ---
**Author:** ![Quasimodem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2003, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bathroom-comments/148548/43 "2003-01-16T22:50:29Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by stofsky \* > **floats an air biscuit** :D:D:D:D Oh, God! A euphemism for passing gas I’ve never heard before! I don’t get out much. 🙂 Q ---
**Author:** ![SC\_Wolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eb9ed0/32.png) [@SC\_Wolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SC_Wolf)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2003, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bathroom-comments/148548/44 "2003-01-17T03:32:55Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by bluetrust \* > \*\*Sure, it takes some skill, wastes some water too, but it doesn’t stink as much as letting the remnants float for fifteen minutes before deciding that you’re finally done. 🙂 \*\* Sorry, I grew up thouroughly indoctrinated in the concepts of water conservation. The “Courtesy Flush” is just not something I do. ---
**Author:** ![Themis00](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/13edae/32.png) [@Themis00](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Themis00)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2003, 7:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bathroom-comments/148548/45 "2003-01-17T07:31:54Z")
TMI TMI TMI :eek: :eek: :eek: ---
**Author:** ![I\_can\_t\_believe\_that\_s\_butter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/8edcca/32.png) [@I\_can\_t\_believe\_that\_s\_butter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/I_can_t_believe_that_s_butter)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2003, 8:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bathroom-comments/148548/46 "2003-01-17T08:13:48Z")
You haven’t seen **anything** yet. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2003, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bathroom-comments/148548/47 "2003-01-20T05:01:37Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by bluetrust \* > \*\*Public bathrooms are for pooping and the smells that are associated with that shouldn’t be a big deal, but it’s not that hard to hit the flush AS you’re going so it goes right down. Sure, it takes some skill, wastes some water too, but it doesn’t stink as much as letting the remnants float for fifteen minutes before deciding that you’re finally done. 🙂 \*\* But what if your poop lands directly on the porcelain, while the water level is down, and you end up leaving skid marks? I don’t get embarrassed about odors, but I dread leaving visible evidence. I’ll flush six times afterwards to avoid that. (Sometimes a brush is at hand, but I’m damned if I’ll touch that thing…who knows who else has?) **Green Bean** said: > [@](#): > > You ain’t gonna believe this Bean, but I was laughing so hard at your post, that I farted! Right here on screen! **On** the screen? That gives new meaning to the word “splort”! ---
**Author:** ![Dijon\_Warlock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a9a28c/32.png) [@Dijon\_Warlock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dijon_Warlock)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2003, 5:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bathroom-comments/148548/48 "2003-01-20T05:54:07Z")
> [@](#): > > _Originally posted by Suspenderzzz \* > \*\*Meatros – not to appear petty or anything like that (wouldn’t dream of it), but I think you mean fart_er\*, not fart_ee_. The farter would be the one farting. The fartee, OTH, if there is such a word, would be the one _subjected_ to having to smell/hear the fart. \*\* No, no, no…the gas itself is the fartee. If you are subject to its effects, then you are the **fartarget**. Of course, if you enjoy being a fartarget, that makes you a _farteur_. Happy to help. ---
**Author:** ![I\_can\_t\_believe\_that\_s\_butter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/8edcca/32.png) [@I\_can\_t\_believe\_that\_s\_butter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/I_can_t_believe_that_s_butter)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2003, 6:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bathroom-comments/148548/49 "2003-01-20T06:18:32Z")
It’s a bad situation when a ‘bridge’ is made…I’ll let you figure that one out. ---
**Author:** ![Ashkicker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4bbf92/32.png) [@Ashkicker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ashkicker)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2003, 12:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bathroom-comments/148548/50 "2003-01-20T12:45:32Z")
I’ll never forget the time when I was younger and went to the bathroom at church (just #1), there was a little kid in the stall next to me with his mother. His words exactly “Mom there’s someone pissing”. It took all I had not to crack up:D . [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bathroom-comments/148548.md?page=2)