# How does farting work?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-does-farting-work/635641>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [September 24, 2012, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-does-farting-work/635641 "2012-09-24T00:55:11Z")\
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**Author:** ![Hyperelastic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Hyperelastic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hyperelastic)\
**Post date:** [September 26, 2012, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-does-farting-work/635641/41 "2012-09-26T01:35:57Z")

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> [@cmyk](#):
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> On top of the fact that fecal matter is shooting out of your anus when you fart, those who smell it, are, in a way, tasting it too; which molecules are absorbed in your olfactory bulb then become a part of _you._

As my old college roommate once said, smelling a fart means that someone’s “shit molecules” are entering your snoot.

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**Author:** ![Reebevoli](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/49beb7/32.png) [@Reebevoli](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reebevoli)\
**Post date:** [September 27, 2012, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-does-farting-work/635641/42 "2012-09-27T19:42:26Z")

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Mrs Reeb read that people fart on average, 30 times a day. Since then her first of the day is announced as ‘one’. After I get home from work, 8 hours later, her very next flatus is followed by ‘two’. It still creases me up.

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