I’m not much of a gambler. I visited Reno, Vegas, and Atlantic City while my wife and I were doing our 50 X 50 thing. But normally I’m just not into it.
But a good friend of mine who I retired with called me last week and told me he and a group of people invested in a thoroughbred horse. He was really excited about it and all, so last night I took $100 and went down to the OTB and placed a couple of bets on it. My bud was stunned to hear that I had done that. My thinking is if he has enough confidence to risk thousands on this horse maybe putting a few bets down myself might be a good plan.
Anyway, after I made my wagers I went into the mens restroom and used the urinal. There were 2 other men at the urinals beside me.
One of the men broke wind while peeing. It wasn’t an unusually loud or long toot, and it didn’t sound like a juicer.
But the other guy starts having a conniption about it. “Man, you can’t go in the stall and do that? We is standing right here. What kind of ape are you. Blah, blah, blah!”
Over half a century on the planet and I’ve never seen anyone get crazy over a guy cracking one off at the pisser.
So, is it rude to fart at the urinal? I say no. What say you?
Oh, and the horse came in third. So while I lost all my other bets I hit a Tri-box. I came out a total of $8.20 ahead. Which isn’t much but is better than being $8.20 down.
I’m not comfortable blasting away with a stranger standing next to me at a urinal, although some of those strangers seem to be quite at ease with farting next to me. It’s the bathroom, so it seems reasonable, but it’s just not in my repertoire.
In North America we call it the restroom, which is a ridiculous euphemism, because you’re’ not going there to rest, you’re going there to dump your urine and feces out. In Asia the signs say “toilet”, which is much more honest, although still euphemistic. What is a more appropriate place else to let a fart? Had someone said that to me, I’d have told them they were in the men’s room, so they should stop acting like a seven year old girl.
If you don’t want to hear someone farting, don’t go into the damn john.
For health reasons, you should also fart while flying, too. So says a Danish article published in the New Zealand Medical Journal. However, just don’t make a flight attendant angry at you. Their revenge is called cropdusting:
Do people really go into stalls just to fart? Or even bathrooms? In all of my many years on this planet, I have yet to see a man walk into a restroom, let one rip, and then walk out again.
“it’s a natural physiological process to release uncomplicated flatus while urinating.”
and
“[when urinating]a fart can often be expected”
really? Not by me.
Also, since I work in an office building and am over 55, I pee at urinal stands with others several times a day. I don’t particualrly notice a lot of farting going on.
What I do notice (here’s the hijack) is that many men spit into the urinal when peeing. I see this a lot, though it never occurred to me to spit while peeing. How about it do you feel the urge to spit while standing at a urinal?
It does seem a little gauche, but that is the place to do it. I think it’s far ruder to make a comment about it and even worse to make a big deal about it!
Everyone makes smells in the bathroom. I have a coworker who goes in there and if it’s stinky in there will come in and make a HUGE deal of it; commenting, wrinkling her nose, complaining. I think that’s a far worse offense than doing the deed in the first place. You have to poo. You do not have to open your mouth and make comments about it. Be a lady and keep silent.
When the bladder contracts via stimulation from the hypogastric and pelvic nerves, there is a reflex relaxing of the pelvic sphincter musculature via triggering of the pudendal nerve. Urethral sphincter opens up to let urine out, rectal sphincter becomes much more easily opened. Many, if not most folks can avoid passing flatus while urinating, but a significant number can’t.
Women who have had children tend to pass flatus more often while urinating than nulliparous women, due to dilated pelvic sling musculatures. That’s another reason (tho not the best one) to do those Kegel exercises after childbirth, ladies.
Take it outside. Preferably to a designated farting area.
I remember the good old days when I’d go into a restaurant and the hostess would ask “Farting or non-farting?” There’s nothing more satisfying after a meal than lighting one up.