# Is passing gas while using a urinal considered acceptable in your neck of the woods? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [March 6, 2020, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-passing-gas-while-using-a-urinal-considered-acceptable-in-your-neck-of-the-woods/848983 "2020-03-06T00:02:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![The\_Maple\_Leaf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a8b319/32.png) [@The\_Maple\_Leaf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Maple_Leaf)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2020, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-passing-gas-while-using-a-urinal-considered-acceptable-in-your-neck-of-the-woods/848983/1 "2020-03-06T00:02:52Z")
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? ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2020, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-passing-gas-while-using-a-urinal-considered-acceptable-in-your-neck-of-the-woods/848983/2 "2020-03-06T00:15:52Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Spud](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spud/32/347_2.png) [@Spud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spud)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2020, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-passing-gas-while-using-a-urinal-considered-acceptable-in-your-neck-of-the-woods/848983/3 "2020-03-06T00:19:44Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![iamthewalrus\_3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/258eb7/32.png) [@iamthewalrus\_3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iamthewalrus_3)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2020, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-passing-gas-while-using-a-urinal-considered-acceptable-in-your-neck-of-the-woods/848983/4 "2020-03-06T00:29:57Z")
If you’re not supposed to fart in the bathroom, where the hell are you supposed to fart? ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2020, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-passing-gas-while-using-a-urinal-considered-acceptable-in-your-neck-of-the-woods/848983/5 "2020-03-06T00:38:23Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2020, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-passing-gas-while-using-a-urinal-considered-acceptable-in-your-neck-of-the-woods/848983/6 "2020-03-06T00:57:43Z")
> [@iamthewalrus\_3](#): > > If you’re not supposed to fart in the bathroom, where the hell are you supposed to fart? In the privacy of your own coffin? ---
**Author:** ![D\_Odds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/d_odds/32/2882_2.png) [@D\_Odds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D_Odds)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2020, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-passing-gas-while-using-a-urinal-considered-acceptable-in-your-neck-of-the-woods/848983/7 "2020-03-06T01:14:09Z")
> [@Spud](#): > > 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. [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. ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2020, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-passing-gas-while-using-a-urinal-considered-acceptable-in-your-neck-of-the-woods/848983/8 "2020-03-06T01:25:00Z")
Better to do it in a stall than at the urinal. ---
**Author:** ![yo\_han\_go](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yo_han_go/32/130_2.png) [@yo\_han\_go](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yo_han_go)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2020, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-passing-gas-while-using-a-urinal-considered-acceptable-in-your-neck-of-the-woods/848983/9 "2020-03-06T01:28:33Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Balthisar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/balthisar/32/2825_2.png) [@Balthisar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balthisar)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2020, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-passing-gas-while-using-a-urinal-considered-acceptable-in-your-neck-of-the-woods/848983/10 "2020-03-06T01:31:00Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Sicks\_Ate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/258eb7/32.png) [@Sicks\_Ate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sicks_Ate)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2020, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-passing-gas-while-using-a-urinal-considered-acceptable-in-your-neck-of-the-woods/848983/11 "2020-03-06T01:33:35Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2020, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-passing-gas-while-using-a-urinal-considered-acceptable-in-your-neck-of-the-woods/848983/12 "2020-03-06T01:34:31Z")
> [@Spud](#): > > Not positive about Jesus, but I bet he did too. "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." ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2020, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-passing-gas-while-using-a-urinal-considered-acceptable-in-your-neck-of-the-woods/848983/13 "2020-03-06T01:35:58Z")
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. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![The\_Maple\_Leaf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a8b319/32.png) [@The\_Maple\_Leaf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Maple_Leaf)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2020, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-passing-gas-while-using-a-urinal-considered-acceptable-in-your-neck-of-the-woods/848983/14 "2020-03-06T01:49:09Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2020, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-passing-gas-while-using-a-urinal-considered-acceptable-in-your-neck-of-the-woods/848983/15 "2020-03-06T01:55:14Z")
Yes, farting in bathrooms is allowed, and necessary, and often unavoidable while voiding. Get over it. ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2020, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-passing-gas-while-using-a-urinal-considered-acceptable-in-your-neck-of-the-woods/848983/16 "2020-03-06T02:18:57Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2020, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-passing-gas-while-using-a-urinal-considered-acceptable-in-your-neck-of-the-woods/848983/17 "2020-03-06T02:44:50Z")
> [@The\_Maple\_Leaf](#): > > 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). Sounds more like the shrubs are dying out. ---
**Author:** ![Tatterdemalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/43a26b/32.png) [@Tatterdemalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tatterdemalion)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2020, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-passing-gas-while-using-a-urinal-considered-acceptable-in-your-neck-of-the-woods/848983/18 "2020-03-06T02:55:37Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![RioRico](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f04885/32.png) [@RioRico](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RioRico)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2020, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-passing-gas-while-using-a-urinal-considered-acceptable-in-your-neck-of-the-woods/848983/19 "2020-03-06T02:59:09Z")
The answer, my friend, Is blowing in the wind… ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2020, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-passing-gas-while-using-a-urinal-considered-acceptable-in-your-neck-of-the-woods/848983/20 "2020-03-06T03:02:10Z")
> [@Ike\_Witt](#): > > In the privacy of your own coffin? That’s a different type of gas. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-passing-gas-while-using-a-urinal-considered-acceptable-in-your-neck-of-the-woods/848983.md?page=2)