It’s not just you. I don’t care for bodily function humor. My daughter (age 10) laughs when she farts, and sometimes that is amusing, but as a whole I’d say farting isn’t that funny.
I’m always surprised to read these threads where people are just going around shitting their pants for giggles. I must not be very gassy because there’s nary a situation where I have to let one fly amongst others. And even then I can do it completely silently because I know how to squeeze them out.
I can’t believe I just said that. Ok, it’s kind of funny.
I’m less embarassed than I perhaps should be to admit that I am one of those people for whom farting is never not funny. I’ve been wracking my brain to think of the most dignified scenario possible where it would be so inappropriate to laugh at a fart, and I’m coming up blank. It is just always funny to me. It will always be funny to me. Thank god I married someone exactly like me and we’re not reproducing.
No shit?
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I think Shagnasty nailed it. Except with my luck, I will be so overwrought with emotion in such a situation that I’d hear it and bust out laughing inappropriately. I mean, really, it’s not a funny situation. But it just might cut the tension.
I hope I never have to put myself to that particular test. Yikes.
Also funny is if you are in a quiet place, say, like a library, and you hear/smell something disagreeable, and turn to the person next to you with this shocked/incredulous expression. Its amazing how readily someone will implicate themselves in an over-defensive manner, i.e. “WHY ARE YOU LOOKING AT ME LIKE THAT?! I DID NOT FART IN THE ELEVATOR!”
I’m in the “farts are hardly ever funny” camp. And belches are categorically “never funny.”
I have a great sense of humor, but I generally just feel embarrassed for the person who farts. I don’t know if a particular person is going to be amused or embarrassed, so I would rather just avoid the awkwardness and ignore the fart. And that prevents me from finding it funny, I guess.
The only kind I find not funny are those accompanied by a bit of seepage. Then you have to do the goofy walk to the rest room. Wasting a good SBD while alone can be disappointing too.
It is precisely because half the population agrees with you that the other half finds farts (and just about anything juvenile and rude) so hilarious. Just our way of stickin’ it to the Man.
Back before he let his domain lapse www.randym!bought by porn squatters!thoughts had a brilliant farside style cartoon. The art depicted a scientist at lecture, finishing a proof that farts cure cancer. The punchline:
This is what I was going to say! A friend of mine had a girl do that to him and he was squicked out for years afterwards, seriously, bigtime.
However, I still think most farts are funny. I have a student that can very nearly fart on command, and then he laughs hysterically. Of course, then the entire class cracks up, including me. The farts in question are loud but not really smelly, which makes it less gross. But even if they smelled, I’m sure I’d still laugh.
My dad always made jokes when he’d fart, so maybe that’s why I think it’s amusing. As Eddie Murphy said, “it’s the fart game, son. Someday you’ll play too.”
