# I pit people who fart at will in restrooms **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [August 12, 2008, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-people-who-fart-at-will-in-restrooms/459782 "2008-08-12T22:34:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![The\_Weird\_One](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7bcc69/32.png) [@The\_Weird\_One](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Weird_One)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2008, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-people-who-fart-at-will-in-restrooms/459782/101 "2008-08-13T18:15:30Z")
[QUOTE=DudleyGarrett] It doesn’t happen to me, but it seems like every other guy on the planet MUST fart when pissing at a urinal. Is this a territorial thing? [/QUOTE] Yes. It ensures you keep a respectful distance from the family jewels. ---
**Author:** ![TroubleAgain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e480ec/32.png) [@TroubleAgain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TroubleAgain)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2008, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-people-who-fart-at-will-in-restrooms/459782/102 "2008-08-13T19:20:51Z")
Heh. I farted. In my office, even. I’m another “fartin’ in public” female. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![SkeptiJess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea666f/32.png) [@SkeptiJess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SkeptiJess)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2008, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-people-who-fart-at-will-in-restrooms/459782/103 "2008-08-13T20:47:55Z")
[QUOTE=Two and a Half Inches of Fun] Just because are in a restroom, it does not mean that the rules of etiquette are suspended. If you are taking a dump, you should attempt to be as quiet as possible. If you are at the urinal, you need better manners. If you are at the sink, you should be shot. [/QUOTE] You know, I’m kind of an etiquette buff. I love to read etiquette books and I’m about as knowlegeable an amateur in the area as you’re likely to find. And the fact is, normal ‘rules of etiquette’ _are_ suspended in a restroom, at least so far as bodily noises and functions go. A restroom (even a public restroom) is kind of a limbo zone in regards to farts & smells & so on. Such things are _allowed_ in restrooms. And the polite thing to do when you encounter them there is to ignore them. ---
**Author:** ![chowder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/977dab/32.png) [@chowder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chowder)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2008, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-people-who-fart-at-will-in-restrooms/459782/104 "2008-08-13T21:33:48Z")
[QUOTE=Freddy the Pig] This thread is screaming, “Lock me”. The OP is screaming, “Ban me”. With all of this screaming, I can’t even hear myself fart. [/QUOTE] Well I heard you loud and clear…Plaaaarrrrrrrpppppppp!! ---
**Author:** ![mrsspooky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/439d5e/32.png) [@mrsspooky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mrsspooky)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2008, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-people-who-fart-at-will-in-restrooms/459782/105 "2008-08-13T21:35:03Z")
I know I’m immature but for some reason public farting makes me laugh! ---
**Author:** ![Santo\_Rugger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e95f7d/32.png) [@Santo\_Rugger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Santo_Rugger)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2008, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-people-who-fart-at-will-in-restrooms/459782/106 "2008-08-13T22:01:49Z")
_Wishes to take **Zsofia, Hockey Monkey, and TroubleAgain** on a date sometime._ ---
**Author:** ![Q.E.D](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/51bf81/32.png) [@Q.E.D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.E.D)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2008, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-people-who-fart-at-will-in-restrooms/459782/107 "2008-08-13T22:21:37Z")
[QUOTE=Santo Rugger] _Wishes to take **Zsofia, Hockey Monkey, and TroubleAgain** on a date sometime._ [/QUOTE] Bring a gas mask. ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2008, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-people-who-fart-at-will-in-restrooms/459782/108 "2008-08-13T22:21:52Z")
On the subject of flatulent females, Dolly Parton, in her autobiography, makes reference to her own digestive artefacts, and says she’d like to spoof Paul Simon’s _There Goes Rhymin’ Simon_ by releasing an album titled _There Goes Fartin’ Parton_. ---
**Author:** ![gravitycrash](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/977dab/32.png) [@gravitycrash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gravitycrash)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2008, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-people-who-fart-at-will-in-restrooms/459782/109 "2008-08-13T22:28:23Z")
It isn’t the farters I hate so much as the grunters. Jeez, if you are having such a hard time pinching a loaf find somewhere else other than a gas station. Hmphh… grrr… Hmphh… etc. ---
**Author:** ![MsRobyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/90ced4/32.png) [@MsRobyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsRobyn)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2008, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-people-who-fart-at-will-in-restrooms/459782/110 "2008-08-13T22:32:29Z")
I have to watch it when I take my son to school. It seems that crop-dusting kindergartners isn’t cool. Robin ---
**Author:** ![Capcha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/82dd89/32.png) [@Capcha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Capcha)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2008, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-people-who-fart-at-will-in-restrooms/459782/111 "2008-08-13T22:37:16Z")
Nono! what, none of you savages have heard of a muffler? You just screw the tube in… And point the other end under the stall wall… right under 2.5’s thigh. Just try not to melt the skin… See? you won’t hear it as loud. ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2008, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-people-who-fart-at-will-in-restrooms/459782/112 "2008-08-13T23:09:28Z")
[QUOTE=Q.E.D.] Bring a gas mask. [/QUOTE] …and leave the cigarettes home. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2008, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-people-who-fart-at-will-in-restrooms/459782/113 "2008-08-13T23:12:14Z")
[QUOTE=Santo Rugger] _Wishes to take **Zsofia, Hockey Monkey, and TroubleAgain** on a date sometime._ [/QUOTE] _thinks that somewhere in Hollywood, a TV exec is pitching this scenario as a new reality show right now_ ---
**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2008, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-people-who-fart-at-will-in-restrooms/459782/114 "2008-08-13T23:13:29Z")
[QUOTE=MsRobyn] I have to watch it when I take my son to school. It seems that crop-dusting kindergartners isn’t cool. Robin [/QUOTE] God, imagine! The poor things are disadvantaged by nature so as to be at maximum fart-smelling height. It seems unfair, to say the least. By the way, my cat just cut one. As usual, it smells like Cheerios. ---
**Author:** ![Rubystreak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Rubystreak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rubystreak)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2008, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-people-who-fart-at-will-in-restrooms/459782/115 "2008-08-13T23:13:51Z")
Those of you saying this thread is lock-worthy or ban-worthy-- I have to say, it’s been 2.5 pages of fun for me. Fucking HILARIOUS. But I enjoy fart humor in all its forms. Possibly that’s why I have had such success dealing with middle school students. QED, the Churchill was fucking awesome. To fart, or not to fart, that is the question. Whether 'tis nobler in the gut to suffer The cramps and rumbles of outrageous flatulence, Or to take Pepto against a sea of bubbles, And by opposing end them? To fart: to poot; No more; and by a fart to say we end The heart-burn and the thousand natural gasses That flesh is air to, 'tis a flatulation Devoutly to be wish’d. To toot, to fart; To fart: perchance to shit: ay, there’s the rub; For in that breaking wind what turds may come When we have shuffled off this porcelain toilet Must give us pause: there’s the respect That makes calamity of holding it in; … Yeah, I’m sure you would love to read the rest of that, but there does come to a point where even I feel silly. ---
**Author:** ![Santo\_Rugger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e95f7d/32.png) [@Santo\_Rugger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Santo_Rugger)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2008, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-people-who-fart-at-will-in-restrooms/459782/116 "2008-08-13T23:23:18Z")
[QUOTE=Q.E.D.] Bring a gas mask. [/QUOTE] You’re right, they might need it. 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![MadPansy64](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/dc4da7/32.png) [@MadPansy64](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MadPansy64)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2008, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-people-who-fart-at-will-in-restrooms/459782/117 "2008-08-13T23:50:25Z")
[QUOTE=Cervaise] Shut the fuck up… Oh, fuck it. [/QUOTE] No, please, continue. You are half (maybe three quarters) of the reason I ever open any of 2.5’s threads. Speaking of which, 2 days, 117 replies . . . Gee, why hasn’t the little troll wandered in again yet? ---
**Author:** ![FourPaws](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e0b2c6/32.png) [@FourPaws](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FourPaws)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2008, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-people-who-fart-at-will-in-restrooms/459782/118 "2008-08-13T23:52:19Z")
Look, here we go again. 2 1/2" starts a pointless pit, disappears, and we post eighty brazillion responses. Swell. Time to jump the shark, ignore those \>3, and move on. ---
**Author:** ![FourPaws](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e0b2c6/32.png) [@FourPaws](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FourPaws)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2008, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-people-who-fart-at-will-in-restrooms/459782/119 "2008-08-13T23:58:42Z")
[QUOTE=MadPansy64] No, please, continue. You are half (maybe three quarters) of the reason I ever open any of 2.5’s threads. Speaking of which, 2 days, 117 replies . . . Gee, why hasn’t the little troll wandered in again yet? [/QUOTE] You have to be \<3 to get on this ride. ---
**Author:** ![FourPaws](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e0b2c6/32.png) [@FourPaws](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FourPaws)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2008, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-people-who-fart-at-will-in-restrooms/459782/120 "2008-08-13T23:59:56Z")
[QUOTE=FourPaws] You have to be \<3 to get on this ride. [/QUOTE] Or, I guess, have a heart. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-people-who-fart-at-will-in-restrooms/459782.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-people-who-fart-at-will-in-restrooms/459782.md?page=7)