Is passing gas while using a urinal considered acceptable in your neck of the woods?

In My Humble Opinion
1

We’re not supposed to pass gas in public if we can help it. In Canada I don’t think I would ever have thought to do it when standing with other men at the urinals in a public toilet. However, when I moved to the Czech Republic, I noticed that men are not shy to do this…on the other hand, this is a country where men are known to pee against a shrub in a park in broad daylight (though I haven’t seen anyone do it in awhile; I wonder the practice is not dying out).

So where you live would you consider it socially acceptable to pass gas while using a urinal around others or would this be considered bad form?

2

I’ve never really thought it was acceptable here in California, but I’ve had my doubts since seeing that gag in the first Naked Gun movie.

3

It is a bathroom… of course it ok to fart there. I don’t get these types of questions… the Queen farts, the most glamorous man/woman you can imagine farts… Not positive about Jesus, but I bet he did too.

4

If you’re not supposed to fart in the bathroom, where the hell are you supposed to fart?

5

Not only does everyone pass gas, everyone does it in public. There’s no “if you can help it” about it: It’s going to come out eventually.

6

In the privacy of your own coffin?

7

[2000-year-old man]Did Jesus fart? You bet he did! It’s like he lived on a diet of nothing more than beans and broccoli. And the guy was such a kidder. He’d come right up to you, turn around, let one rip, then turn back to you and say, “Bless you, my Son”[/2000-year-old man]

Yeah, I go in the bathrooms to fart so I’m not doing it in the middle of a dining room, and hope it won’t be one of those farts that are loud and strong enough to measure on the Richter scale.

8

Better to do it in a stall than at the urinal.

9

Depends. If it is some booze bar. It is ok. If it is in some unisex bathroom at tuxedo reception with Queen of England in next stall, then probably not.

10

I see all kinds of etiquette rules for men’s bathrooms, and always think that it’s a single bathroom in some socially awkward dormitory in Rainman’s group home. We fart, shit, try doors, piss, say hello (but not extended conversations), and work it out. Really, the only rule is no extended conversations. Everything else goes. Michigan.

China’s different. Dudes tried to converse with me all the damned time in the work toilets. In China, I was wrong for not participating, but some cultural things are just too damned strong.

11

How is this even a question?! Your dick is out and excreting waste, and some guy in one of the stalls had tacos and beer last night and it’s obvious…why would you wonder if you can fart at the urinal? Not to mention the sphincter confusion that comes from trying to NOT release an urgent fart while taking a piss.

12

"And when thou fartest, thou shalt not be as the hypocrites are: for they love to fart standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be smelt of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.

But thou, when thou fartest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, fart to thy Father which is in secret."

13

I just want to point out that the OP’s name suggests that he may be Canadian. If so, politeness and niceness are bred into him. :smiley:

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By passing gas I meant CONSPICUOUSLY farting.

Yes, I am Canadian and no, I don’t recall anyone letting out a noticeable fart beside me at a urinal there.

15

Yes, farting in bathrooms is allowed, and necessary, and often unavoidable while voiding. Get over it.

16

Although allowed, and perhaps expected, I still find it uncouth. I try not to with all my sphincter.

I understand it. It’s better than letting one rip in the lunch room, of course.

17

Sounds more like the shrubs are dying out.

18

I sat next to the Duchess at tea,
She said, “Young man do you fart when you pee?”
I replied, " Not a bit!
Do you belch when you sh–t?"
Which I felt left the honors with me.

19

The answer, my friend,
Is blowing in the wind…

20

That’s a different type of gas.