Inspired by this thread (my eyes are still watering…uh, from laughing…):
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=362493
I’m trying to think of a situation when farting would not be funny.
I can not. In fact, the more inappropriate and unfunny a farting situation should be, the funnier it gets.
When you are on an elevator with Marvin Davis (not to speak ill of the dead but he was one great big gasbag) (and frankly, once Mr. Davis was on an elevator, there wasn’t room for a whole lot of other people), and he’s not just your boss’s boss but owns the company, and you have to politely pretend you’re not gagging?
Okay, I take it back. Wasn’t funny then but I can see the humor now.
Pretty much any instance during Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back.
Most kids’ shows and movies. It’s just not really funny when it’s scripted.
It’s also a lot less funny when it seriously embarrasses someone. I have certain friends who would be totally humiliated if they farted at an inappropraite time and would feel even worse if I laughed at them.
Farting is not funny, not ever, unless you are in a farting contest!
It insults the senses of those who have to listen AND smell the event…unless they are the dyspeptic, obliging participants in the extravaganza.
Thus spake kambucktathustra. 
Wait, farting is funny? Can I use this knowledge to impress my parents-in-law?
Maybe if you’re deaf. Cause then its just cruel.
It’s even funnier when your parent-in-laws don’t find it funny.
Thats why its funny.
I never find it funny. Must be a gender or age thing.
I can’t think of a time when it *is *funny. I’m not one for body-function humor. It wasn’t even funny to me when I was a child.
When you are with a loved one in the last few minutes of life and they start to lose body control and shake signalling the end is near. They fart and maybe shit themselves a little costing them dignity even in the last few moments. Then, they suddenly go limp.
Yes, this has really happened to me.
Farts may not always be funny… what am I talking about? They always amuse.
The only time they are funny is when it’s my daughter. Everything she does is funny.
Farting is particularly unfunny when one is cooped up in an airtight container with the farter for 7 hours.
Depends on which side of the rectum you’re on.
I never found farting very funny, either, and still don’t. I find very few situations where it is so…just me I guess.
Farts are always funny. Especially revenge farts, the ones you inflict on your buddies as payback for some of theirs.
Count me with the “never funny” crowd.
Jeuvenile? Yes.
Rude in public? Yes.
Funny? Not ever.
My thinking, if you can’t help yourself and must befoul the public air, you’ve either got intestinal issues that need attenting in a restroom (or maybe medical if chronic) or mental issues because it’s simply a cry for attention.
We’re just different, that’s all. Just raising the topic of farts brings a wry smile to my lips. It’s hard-wired somehow, at least in some of us.
Okay, but other than that…
I may be biased, since I have no sense of smell.
Certainly not when some jackass, who was way out of earshot at the time, took it upon himself to chide me for not excusing myself (which I did) and warn people away from where I was. If the dude is so hung up on encountering natural bodily functions in public, what the hell was he doing out in public?